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What Is Zonal Architecture? And Why Is it Upending the Automotive Supply Chain?

Earlier this week I wrote about the electric vehicle (EV) transition, how it is happening…

Paul McLellan
• 7 min read
ota , Automotive , tier-1 , featured , zonal architecture

The Automotive Electric Vehicle Transition

The only really interesting part of the automotive industry is the electric vehicle…

Paul McLellan
• 8 min read
Automotive , Electrification , featured , ev , nev

Richard Goering, 1952-2023

I have some sad news to report. Richard Goering passed away last month at the age…

Paul McLellan
• 3 min read
featured , Richard Goering , EETimes
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MWC Barcelona

Last week it was MWC Barcelona. As seems to be the fashion, like with CES, MWC just…

• 7 min read
5G , gsma , MWC , mobile , vodaphone

Sunday Brunch Video for 4th March 2019

https://youtu.be/wjX4hOvb9-I Made at MWC19 Barcelona (camera JD Estella) Monday…

• less than a min read
Automotive , connx b20 , lidar , mwc19 , radar , MWC , 112g , v2x , SerDes , mobile , bitcoin , Sigrity , ARM , Breakfast Bytes , blockchain

Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Nobody knows. Really. Here's what is known. He (or maybe it's she or they) is the…

• 8 min read
satoshi nakamoto , cyptography , bitcoin , blockchain

Signal Integrity for 112G

At DesignCon at the end of January, a team from Cadence presented to a standing-room…

• 5 min read
AMI , pam4 , 112Gbps , 112g , SerDes , Sigrity , SystemSI

DesignCon: 5G for V2X Communication

One of the keynotes at the recent DesignCon was by Robert Heath of UT Austin titled…

• 5 min read
5G , Automotive , DesignCon

Tensilica ConnX B20 for 5G, and Automotive Radar/Lidar

I'm sure you've noticed that there is a lot of talk about 5G in the air. Well, "in…

• 6 min read
5G , connx b20 , lidar , radar , Tensilica

OFC: The Optical Fiber Communication Conference

OFC is the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (yes, some initials…

• 3 min read
optical fiber , photonics

Sunday Brunch Video for 24th February 2019

https://youtu.be/uUWiysEM4jM Made on the top of building 10 (camera Sean) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch , video

Badges—Not Just for Scouts Anymore

Were you a Boy Scout? Or a Girl Guide or Girl Scout? What badges did you earn? Not…

• 3 min read
digital badge , training , training bytes

Who Is Green Hills?

Cadence announced during their recent quarterly earnings announcement and call that…

• 5 min read
vast systems technology , Integrity , embedded software , Green Hills , Virtutech

Ronto and Quecto Are Not Cheeses

The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (its initials are BIPM because it…

• 5 min read
ronna , ronto , quecca , quecto , bipm

Breakfast Buffet for January 2019

https://youtu.be/4N5bx3eR_9U The three highlighted posts for January were: Breakfast…

• less than a min read
predictions , deep learning , alphazero , persistent memory

All the Ps: the Photonics PDK Panel

At DesignCon at the end of January, there was a panel on photonics. The title was…

• 7 min read
Lumerical , silicon photonics , photonics

Sunday Brunch Video for 17th February 2019

https://youtu.be/ZuoAfBXsbGw Made in front of the green screen (camera Sean) Monday…

• less than a min read
MWC , mwc barcelona , DVcon , SPIE , Embedded World , embeddedworld

Presidents' Day Off-Topic: Why You Can't Say "Red Little Riding Hood"

Monday is Presidents' Day, and Cadence (in the US) will be off for the day. Breakfast…

• 6 min read
spelling , off topic , language

Embedded in Nuremberg

The last week of February is Embedded World (or, in fact, embeddedworld since they…

• 3 min read
Automotive , Nuremberg , Embedded World

MWC Barcelona: 5G in Catalonia

The last week of February is MWC Barcelona, formerly known as Mobile World Congress…

• 4 min read
5G , Mobile World Congress , MWC , mwc barcelona , mobile

DVCon Preview: The Year of PSS

The biggest conference on verification is DVCon, which takes place in the San Jose…

• 3 min read
Perspec , formal , Protium , Palladium , Emulation , DVcon , data-driven verification , xcelium , pss , JasperGold , verification

SPIE 2019: Light Entertainment

SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, with the purpose of …

• 4 min read
lithography , SPIE , EUV

Sunday Brunch Video for 10th February 2019

https://youtu.be/evsNzak23b4 Made at Cadence basketball court (camera Sean) Monday…

• less than a min read
crypto , DesignCon , persistent memories , emerging memories , darpa

Will Crypto Change the World?

Do you remember when you had to pay for ringtones? In 2005, analysts were predicting…

• 12 min read
crypto , Internet , mobile , blockchain

60 Years of DARPA—61 Actually

On 4th August 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik…

• 5 min read
Aerospace , magestic , arpa , space , eri , darpa , chips

DesignCon 2019

It doesn't seem to matter what a show is ostensibly about at the moment. Every show…

• 4 min read
uber , DesignCon , AMI , IBIS , 112g , photonics

Emerging Memories Poised to Explode

A couple of weeks ago was the Persistent Memory Summit. (For more details, see my…

• 5 min read
fram , ReRAM , flash , xpoint , 3D NAND , NAND flash , emerging memories , DRAM , nor flash , MRAM , PCRAM

DesignCon: Cadence Teaches AMI and IBIS

At the recent DesignCon, Cadence and customer IBM presented a tutorial on Advanced…

• 9 min read
DesignCon , AMI , IBIS , SerDes

Sunday Brunch Video for 3rd February 2019

https://youtu.be/CXTltDRjb-M Made at DesignCon 2019 (camera Sean) Monday: IEDM:…

• less than a min read
5G , DFT , Memory , CES , modus , mobile , persistent memory , IEDM

Programming Persistent Memory

I talked earlier this week about the recent persistent memory summit (see my post…

• 5 min read
programming model , persistent memory

What Next for Modus DFT?

I sometimes say that test is the red-headed stepchild of EDA, that doesn't get the…

• 3 min read
modus , Test , scantest
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