Breakfast Bytes Blogs

https://youtu.be/YWpcaIEkw7M Made at Lake Tahoe (camera Carey) Monday: 75 Years of Indian Independence Tuesday: PK: A Museum for the Biggest Telecommunication Hub in the World Wednesday: UCIe PHY and Controller—To Die Fo r Thursday: Whatever Hap...

Cadence has a lot of interns! 357 to be precise. Most of them are in our offices in India and the US, but there are interns in many of our other offices around the world. Our intern program goes under the name CHIP, for College Hire and Internship P...

When I started at VLSI Technology in the early 1980s, our fab used 5" wafers (150mm, also called 6" sometimes). At some point, VLSI converted to 8" (200mm) wafers. This is not easy to do without taking the fab down completely since you...

UCIe is the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express, a type of die-to-die (d2d) serial interconnect. This was announced in March, earlier this year, and I wrote about it at the time in my post Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) . I happened ...

In 1920, the little building below was the biggest telecommunication hub in the world. It was the telegraph, rather than the telephone, but 14 cables that circled the globe terminated here at Porthcurno, in Cornwall at the end of that long ...

Today is Independence Day in India. But more than that, today, in 2022, it is the 75th anniversary of India's independence from Britain in 1947. For those of you whose knowledge of Indian history is even less than mine, one important aspect of indepe...

https://youtu.be/8_-4j3lnjZI Made in Stevens Creek County Park Monday: Metaverse for Semiconductor Design: What to Expect? Tuesday: Commercial Air Travel at Mach 1.7 Wednesday: Electronics and Its Role in Climate Change Thursday: Convergenc...

Someone once said, “Mechanical engineers design the automotive machine, electrical engineers design the navigation brains, and civil engineers design the roadways.” Implied here could be the idea that these engineering disciplines work s...

Sustainability has become a “scorching topic” (pun intended) in discussions I have with customers and ecosystem partners. It is now vital to many corporations as part of what many they report on “Environmental, Social, and Governanc...

Commercial air travel at twice the speed of sound is possible with the latest Overture aircraft, a successor of the Concorde airplane.

Semiconductor is very crucial for metaverse design and now metaverse is helping semiconductors. Learn how metaverse can help to accelerate the semiconductor innovations !

Ian McLellan, 1928-2022 I will be away all next week in England. As you might guess from the subtitle above, I'm attending my father's funeral. He passed away recently at the age of 93. Normally, when I'm away, Breakfast Bytes g...

Every year at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), John Cooley organizes what he calls the DAC Troublemakers' Panel. It used to be called the CEO Panel since the participants were CEOs. Early on, Joe Costello (Cadence's then-CEO) and Gerry...

It's great that you're here. That means you read Breakfast Bytes, at least sometimes. But I am a generalist. There are lots of areas of the semiconductor ecosystem that I only cover superficially or don't cover at all. So who else should ...

Today's post is about the life-science and EDA panel that took place at the recent Design Automation Conference. For my daily takes written during the conference, see my posts: DAC 2022: Day 1 DAC 2022: Day 2 DAC 2022: Day 3 I originally wrote ...

I've written a lot about Arm over the years. My most recent post was simply Cadence and Arm . But I go all the way back to 2015, which was Arm's (or actually ARM's, since they used to capitalize it) 25th anniversary when I wrote Happy 25th Birthday, A...

https://youtu.be/bym7Az0BZdY Made in my Mini Monday: Cadence Expands into Molecular Simulation with Acquisition of OpenEye Scientific Tuesday: Automobil Elektronik Kongress 2022 Wednesday: AEK: Semiconductors: The Base for the Software-Defined C...

Finally, a monthly update which appears in its advertised slot on the last Friday of the month. ST and GF in Crolles When planar transistors ran out of steam due to leakage, the reason was that too much of the channel was far from the gate and s...

I wrote my first post about Automobil Elektronik Kongress 2022 earlier this week. That was largely about the first day of the conference. Normally, the first day goes to all the big names in German automotive, such as Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Bosch,...

At this year's Automobil Elektronik Kongress, there was a panel session titled Semiconductors: The Base for the Software-Defined Car. Given the troubles of the automotive industry over the last couple of years with semiconductor shortages, maybe ...

For me, the must-attend event to understand what is going on in the automobile industry is Automobil Elektronik Kongress (AEK), held each year in the small town of Ludwigsburg just outside Stuttgart. Stuttgart is the home of both Mercedes-Benz and Po...

This morning, Cadence announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held OpenEye Scientific Software Inc, a leading provider of computational molecular modeling and simulation software being increasingly used by ...

At CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley, Ahmed Elzeftawi of AWS and Dibyendu Goswami of Cadence presented Pegasus TrueCloud for Gigascale Physical Verification using Hybrid Cloud on AWS. Amed is a Senior Partner Solutions Architect for Semiconductors and EDA, ...

The afternoon of the Monday of SEMICON West is always the Imec Technology Forum (ITF) USA, held in the Marriott. Now that DAC is co-located with SEMICON West, this doesn't work so well since there are presentations at both events that overlap. Howeve...

I was talking to someone at Cadence recently and I was surprised that he didn't know what CMP is. To me, it is one of the most unlikely steps in the manufacture of integrated circuits. CMP stands for chemical-mechanical-polishing or chemical-mech...