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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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Sunday Brunch Video for 21st June 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made in "cherry blossoms" (camera Carey Guo) Monday: IEEE…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

On Writing

Tomorrow is Juneteenth, which commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States…

• 9 min read
writing , strunk & white , orwell , gowers , stephen king

Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Do you know what Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is? When I first heard about…

• 7 min read
security , fhe , cryptography , fully homomorphic encryption

Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI

Today's post is somewhat off-topic, despite having AI in the title. Uncanny Valley…

• 5 min read
artificial intelligence , de young museum , AI

IEEE 1838: Taking Test into the Third Dimension

I've written quite a bit recently about advanced packaging and More than Moore technologies…

• 9 min read
ieee 1838 , SiP , chiplets , advanced packaging , 3DIC , Test

Sunday Brunch Video for 14th June 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made in Hakone Japanese Garden, Saratoga (camera Carey Guo…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Custom Instructions in Tensilica: Wearing a TIE Makes You Smarter

Tensilica has a number of different product families targeted at different applications…

• 5 min read
featured , tie , Tensilica , Xtensa

Sophie Wilson: The 2020 Wheeler Lecture (Multicore to Today)

This is the second post continuing from yesterday's post Sophie Wilson: The 2020…

• 7 min read
processor , moore's law , amdahl's law , ARM , microprocessor , ARM1

Sophie Wilson: The 2020 Wheeler Lecture (The 6502 to Multicore)

Since I was an undergraduate studying computer science at what was then called the…

• 7 min read
wheeler , Cambridge , moore's law , amdahl's law , sophie wilson , ARM , ARM1

Take a Cadence Masterclass and Get a Badge

Many of us are locked down, working from home, or at the very least not going to…

• 4 min read
digital badge , blended training , training

ETS2020: Functional Safety

One of the keynotes for the European Test Symposium 2020 (ETS2020) was by Cadence…

• 6 min read
Automotive , functional safety , ets2020 , Test , european test conference , fusa

Sunday Brunch Video for 7th June 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: The Five Waves…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Modeling with Water

A couple of years ago I wrote a post using the famous quote by statistician George…

• 6 min read
Models , bay model

Four More Waves: 5G, Cars, Clouds, IoT

Earlier in the week, I did a sort of bait and switch, introducing the five waves…

• 5 min read
5G , Automotive , featured , IoT , industrial , cloud , cadence cloud

Artificial Intelligence...and Artificial Performance

Do you know what this is? It's a benchmark. The Ordnance Survey (OS) of Britain created…

• 9 min read
deep learning , tops , gflops , neural net , Tensilica , dna150 , tops/mm2 , dna100 , tops/w , neural network

TSMC: N7, N6, N5

TSMC has such a large market-share of the foundry business that their roadmap is…

• 8 min read
n5 , 3nm , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , TSMC OIP , n7 , n6 , 6nm , 5nm , 7nm , EUV

The Five Waves: AI, 5G, Cars, Clouds, IoT

In Cadence's recent earnings call, Lip-Bu Tan, our CEO, talked about the five waves…

• 5 min read
5G , Automotive , hyperscale datacenter , featured , industrial , cloud , cloud datacenter

Sunday Brunch Video for 31st May 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made in "Paris" (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Memorial Day Tuesday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

First US Manned Launch Since 2011...Not Yet

On Wednesday, SpaceX and NASA planned the first launch from the USA of a manned spacecraft…

• 6 min read
spacex , space , NASA

5G: Connecting All the Things

Over the last few weeks, each Thursday has been Telecom Thursday (like Taco Tuesday…

• 8 min read
5G , RF , featured , IoT , mobile

Automotive Ethernet

Automotive networking is perhaps the latest application area for Ethernet. But Ethernet…

• 6 min read
Automotive , Design IP , Ethernet

Simon Butler's Fireside Chat with Jim Hogan

Way back in what now seems like the distant past, but was early March, I wrote a…

• 8 min read
Design IP , Simon Butler , Methodics , Jim Hogan , esd alliance

Sunday Brunch Video for 24th May 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made in "Hawaii" (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Which Passwords…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Memorial Day: Conway and Collatz

Do you know what the Collatz Conjecture is? John Horton Conway died recently, as…

• 6 min read
offtopic

It's the Second Mouse That Gets the Cheese

I love short phrases that make you think, "Wait...what?" and then you think about…

• 7 min read
late to market , moat , early to market , barriers to entry , startup

A History of Neural Networks

Research on biological neurons started back in the 1940s, before computers, and long…

• 8 min read
featured , neural networks , AI , neural nets

Which Passwords Should You Change?

I was talking to someone who consults to Cadence on various aspects of security.…

• 9 min read
security , tfa , password , two-factor authentication

Sunday Brunch Video for 17th May 2020

https://youtu.be/We9eDDOn-Cg Made in "Instanbul" (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Why…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch
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