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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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Heinz Nixdorf's Legacy in Paderborn

I read somewhere that the largest computer museum in the world is the Heinz Nixdorf…

• 6 min read
paderborn , museum , heinz nixdorf museumsforum , nixdorf

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview June 11th to 15th 2018

https://youtu.be/IYm-CauwKTo Coming from Yerevan Armenia (camera Jack Darrow)…

• less than a min read
dac55 , chipestimate , Raspberry Pi , cloud , baumol's cost disease , FinFET , EUV , FD-SOI

A Computer Scientist Takes a Look at Mechanical Security

I wrote recently about visiting The Tech in San Jose. One of the exhibits showed…

• 8 min read
security , master key

TI Flies Pegasus in the Clouds

Kyle Peavy of Texas Instruments reported on their experience with Pegasus, Cadence…

• 5 min read
Physical verification , CDNLive , pegasus , cloud , Texas Instruments

Samsung Foundry Forum: 10, 8, 7, EUV, 5, 4, GAA, 3...

Last week was the Samsung Foundry Forum. Almost exactly a year ago, Samsung reorganized…

• 13 min read
3nm , Samsung , gaa , samsung foundry forum , sff , 5nm , 7nm , EUV

It'll be HOT on Sunday Evening at DAC

For several DACs now, Heart of Technology (HOT) has run a party on Monday night.…

• 2 min read
DAC , HOT , Heart of Technology , Gary Smith , sjsu

7 Ways to Get the Most out of DAC

DAC, the Design Automation Conference, is coming up. It's Sunday June 24th to Thursday…

• 7 min read
DAC , dac2018 , 55DAC

If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium. My First Visit to imec

Outside of semiconductor, Belgium is famous for three things: beer, chocolate, and…

• 6 min read
Memory , 3D NAND , imec , DRAM , RRAM , belgium , MRAM , EUV , DTCO

Aren't All Crosswords Cryptic?

It's Memorial Day, so Breakfast Bytes is off today. Well, obviously not completely…

• 3 min read
off-topic , crossword

GDPR Starts Today

You are probably subscribed to a number of email newsletters. No doubt you have been…

• 6 min read
Facebook , gdpr

Embedded Vision: Seeing 20,000X Improvement

This week it is the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara. Over the last few years…

• 6 min read
Embedded Vision Summit , Tensilica , neural network

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 28th to June 1st 2018

https://youtu.be/UEAZjA-_xrE Coming from Embedded Vision Summit (camera Sean)…

• less than a min read
DAC , pegasus , HOT , Heart of Technology , imec , 55DAC

MEMS Design Competition: The Envelope Please...

The Cadence Academic Network sponsored a MEMS design contest over the last couple…

• 3 min read
Cadence Academic Network , CDNLive , MEMS

Accelerating AI: ...Present and Future

Yesterday I wrote about the first part of Krste Asanović's presentation Accelerating…

• 5 min read
artificial intelligence , risc-v , Krste Asanović , sifive

Accelerating AI: Past...

SiFive does a quarterly series of tech talks, not necessarily directly to do with…

• 9 min read
artificial intelligence , risc-v , neural networks , Krste Asanović , sifive

CGTN China 24 Interview

https://youtu.be/O1r7cqyVm90 I was on China24 on CGTNAmerica earlier this week…

• less than a min read
China , china24 , cgtn

Achronix Grew 700% Last Year...eFPGA is a Thing

I don't normally write about the FPGA market. There are three reasons for this. First…

• 6 min read
Intel , embedded fpga , achronix , intel custom foundry , FPGA

CDNDrive: ISO 26262...Chapter 11

At CDNLive EMEA Robert Schweiger laid out his perspective on the automotive market…

• 5 min read
Automotive , functional safety , CDNLive , CDNLive EMEA , Tensilica , ISO 26262

TSMC: Mobile, HPC, IoT, Automotive...and Packaging

This is the third post about the TSMC Technology Symposium that was held on May 1st…

• 11 min read
Automotive , IoT , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , mobile

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 21st to 25th 2018

https://youtu.be/AmlYRYzIHtY Coming from my office (camera Sean, guest star Alexa…

• less than a min read
accelerating AI , CDNLive , embedded vision , Tensilica , gdpr , MEMS

CDNLive: Testing Times in Munich

Test is the red headed step child of EDA. FinFETs, self-aligned quadruple patterning…

• 9 min read
modus test , CDNLive , Scan test , modus , imec , Test

Agile Development of Custom Hardware

It was back in 2016 that I first heard about RISC-V, and the Raven implementation…

• 5 min read
bag , chisel , agile software development , waterfall , raven , agile hardware development , UC Berkeley , Agile

Compromising a Fortune 500 Company...Without Hacking a Thing

Rachel Tobac and Joe Gray opened their talk at RSA by highlighting how important…

• 6 min read
security , rsa conference , rsa , social engineering

CDNLive EMEA, Driving to the Future

This week it has been the 13th European CDNLive, held in Unertschleißheim in the…

• 7 min read
Automotive , legato , CDNLive , CDNLive EMEA , AI

Digital Marketing in EDA...with No Hands on the Wheel

Years (decades) ago, Robert Townsend, the CEO of Avis, faced a problem. Hertz was…

• 5 min read
google , YouTube , digital marketing , Twitter , adwords , onespin , esd alliance

Legato: Smooth Reliability for Automobiles

In his keynote at ICCAD in 2014, Bosch's VP engineering Peter van Staa said that…

• 4 min read
legato , CDNLive , CDNLive EMEA , reliability

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 14th to 18th 2018

https://youtu.be/T4Pu_l6upso Coming from Englischergarten Munich (camera Andy…

• less than a min read
bag , CDNLive , efpga , chisel , CDNLive EMEA , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , FPGA

TSMC's Fab Plans, and More

The TSMC Technology Symposium took place recently. I grouped all the process and…

• 5 min read
gigafab , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium
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