Breakfast Bytes Blogs

Cadence has a long history of involvement with academia, going all the way back to the founding of SDA and the involvement of Alberto. In EDA, he's like Madonna and only needs a first name, partially because his real name is so long and his title...

I'm sure you've heard that there are lots of supply chain issues. Container ships stacked up outside Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. A shortage of truck drivers. Empty containers all on the wrong side of the Pacific. But generally speaking,...

https://youtu.be/MPbxTioQ2EI Made in Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserver (camera Carey) Monday: Webinar: Signoff Billion Gates Designs in the Cloud with Cadence, TSMC, and Microsoft Tuesday: 6th Annual Photonics Summit Coming in December Wed...

The annual Design Automation Conference (DAC) is coming up December 5th to 9th, next week. It is in-person in San Francisco's Moscone Center West. It will be available virtually from December 13th until January 1st. To attend in person, you must be f...

Because of the Thanksgiving break (and me taking the whole week off), I skipped the regular November Update post, but suddenly there is so much semiconductor news that I'm doing it out of band today even though it is already December. Samsung Fab The...

Today is the 40th anniversary of the release of the BBC Micro. It was released on 1st December 1981. It was designed and manufactured by Acorn Computer in Cambridge. The BBC is the British Broadcasting Corporation, which launched a computer literacy ...

I was planning to publish this post on Diwali, the annual Indian festival of lights, but that was a bit too cute and it never happened. The 6th annual Photonics Summit is on December 7 and 8. It will be virtual, and like last year it will be run...

Cadence, TSMC, and Microsoft are presenting a joint webinar on December 2 (in a couple of days' time). The title is Beat Your Signoff Schedule! How to Sign Off a 10 Billion+ Transistor Design in the Cloud, and the presenters are: Vivian Jang, T...

https://youtu.be/c-6FEIsz1Qk Made in Sam's Chowder House, HMB (camera Ziyue Zhang) Monday: Cadence and Intel Demonstrate CXL 1.1/2.0 Interoperability Tuesday: KT Moore on More than Moore at iMAPS Wednesday: Samsung Foundry Fab Road...

We are coming up to Thanksgiving and so a break. Thanksgiving is built around food, so I thought my offtopic post before I go away until the Monday after the holiday should be about food. If you are thirty or forty maybe food doesn't seem mu...

Last week was the Jasper User Group where we announced the Jasper C2RTL App. It was actually announced during Ziyad Hanna's presentation which opened the meeting. Ziyad wrote about the big picture state of formal verification. At the end of the m...

At the recent Samsung Foundry Forum, GH Choi presented Manufacturing Excellence: The Best Gift Ever. He is the Head of Manufacturing Technology Center at Samsung Foundry. His presentation took a look at the fab construction roadmap. As he o...

San Diego recently hosted the 54th International Symposium on Microelectronics. That's a very generic title, so you should know that it is run by iMAPS, the International Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging Society. Generally, the conference ...

This weekend, timed to coincide with SC21, Cadence and Intel published a white paper on CXL interoperability (interop) testing titled Interop Shift Left: Using Pre-Silicon Simulation for Emerging Standards. The SC in SC21 stands for SuperComputing, ...

Earlier this week, Cadence announced the Jasper C2RTL App, which I covered in my post Announcing Jasper C2RTL App: Formal for Algorithmic Designs . At the Jasper User Group, Disha Puri presented Datapath Formal Verification 101: Technology + Tech...

Today is the 10th anniversary of ISO 26262. It was first published on 11th November 2011. ISO 26262, titled Road vehicles – Functional safety is...err...about the functional safety of road vehicles. Cadence recently announced our own ...

Today is the first day of the Jasper User Group (unofficially known as JUG to attendees). All being well, Ziyad should be on stage (well, on the video stream) opening the meeting and he will introduce the Jasper C2RTL App. You can read my preview of ...

I was reminded recently of a video/transcript that I remember coming across when it was fresh, five or six years ago. This was one lecture at Sam Altman's Stanford Startup Class where Peter Thiel was the guest lecturer. His central thesis was tha...

Despite all the recent noise about the Metaverse (and Facebook changing its company name to Meta), I remain convinced that augmented reality (AR) is going to be more important than virtual reality (VR), at least in the medium term. For one thing, vir...

https://youtu.be/rfVN6CA6LjQ Made in Pacifica (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Designing Planet-Scale Video Chips on Google Cloud Tuesday: Jasper User Group Preview Wednesday: Palladium Z2 Wins an ACE Award Thursday: Semiconductor Numbers Everyone Should K...

The big event for semiconductor process news is IEDM, the International Electron Devices Meeting. This year it will take place from December 11 to 15 at its usual location, the San Francisco Hilton Hotel as an in-person event. Then on-demand access t...

I wrote a post a couple of years ago Numbers Everyone Should Know . It was about timing of things in microprocessor-based systems, in particular the huge disparity between the cycle-time of a modern processor and the time required to access DRAM, let ...

A few years ago, the Palladium Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform won an ACE award. Technically, it was the design team that won "Design Team of the Year". You can read what I wrote about it back then in my post ACE Awards: Palladium Z1 Team Is Design ...

I have been going to the Jasper User Group for years. Before Cadence acquired Jasper, I worked for Semiwiki and Jasper was one of the accounts I covered. So I would make the annual trek to Cupertino, before it moved to the Cadence auditorium, before ...

In the last couple of months, I have attended two presentations about Google's video-encoder chip for YouTube videos. The motivation for Google to create this chip is easy to understand. Approximately a zillion videos per minute are uploaded to Y...