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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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Spectre/Meltdown & What It Means for Future Design 1

At HOT CHIPS, one of the "keynotes" was actually a panel of what I'll call industry…

• 8 min read
Intel , meltdown , processor , Spectre , cache , ARM , speculative execution , foreshadow

CDNLive India

CDNLive India took place last week. As usual, I made the long trip from California…

• 5 min read

PCAST: The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

In January 2017, a report Ensuring Long-Term U.S.Leadership in Semiconductors was…

• 6 min read
electronics resurgence initiative , Hennessy , magestic , pcast , eri , darpa

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview September 10th to 14th 2018

https://youtu.be/iv9wdAVB6vg Coming from CDNLive India (camera Seena Shankar) Monday…

• less than a min read
meltdown , CDNLive India , CDNLive , Spectre , hot chips

Numbers Everyone Should Know

At the recent HOT CHIPS, Paul Turner of Google Project Zero talked about numbers…

• 5 min read
cpu speed , cache , networking

GLOBALFOUNDRIES Drops 7nm to Focus on Other Geometries

GF put out a press release last week with the title GF Reshapes Technology Portfolio…

• 4 min read
Intel , AMD , Samsung , TSMC , 5nm , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , EUV

Ambit Design Systems

Twenty years ago today, Cadence announced it was acquiring Ambit Design Systems.…

• 5 min read
ambit , Synthesis , buildgates

Labor Day Off-Topic: Almost Everyone Has More Than the Average Number of Legs

It's Labor Day. Cadence is closed in the US. Unfortunately, I'm in India and it's…

• 5 min read
math , off-topic , mathematics

HOT CHIPS Tutorial: On-Device Inference

The Sunday of the annual HOT CHIPS (the 30th!) conference is tutorial day. In the…

• 5 min read
deep learning , inference , Tensilica , hot chips , inferene , neural networks

Breakfast Buffet for August

https://youtu.be/elQgyXvkcjU The three highlighted posts for August were: Two…

• less than a min read
shockley , jobs , eri , darpa

Google's Titan: How They Stop You Slipping a Bogus Server into Their Datacenter

At the recent HOT CHIPS conference, Scott Johnson of Google talked about some challenges…

• 6 min read
security , titan , google , supply chain , secure boot

Carbon Nanotube Memory: Too Good to Be True?

One of the sessions at HOT CHIPS is on new technologies, and one of those presentations…

• 5 min read
Memory , cnt , carbon nanotube , DRAM , hot chips , nram

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview September 3rd to 7th 2018

https://youtu.be/ipUI2OaAWX4 \ Coming from the old Ambit Design Systems office on…

• less than a min read
chiplets , ambit , buildgates , pcast , eri , darpa , chips

ImageNet: The Benchmark that Changed Everything

I like to date technical transitions from specific events, even though realistically…

• 6 min read
imagenet , gtsdb , Tensilica , CNN , neural network

Sanjay Goes to Europe via Texas

While I was in Germany recently, I sat down with the head of Cadence EMEA (Europe…

• 5 min read
Automotive , cadence europe , cadence emea

Crossing the Chasm: Hogan Interviews Amit Gupta

The ESD Alliance will host another of its startup evenings with Jim Hogan, entitled…

• 7 min read
semi , amit gupta , Jim Hogan , esd alliance , solido

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 27th to 31st 2018

https://youtu.be/hxqDm1EAS7M \ Coming from the flagpoles in front of building 5…

• less than a min read
chiplets , openroad , eri , darpa , chips

Preview of Electronic Design Process Symposium 2018

It is nearly EDPS time again when the dolphin logo comes out, somewhat incongruously…

• 3 min read
semi , EDPS

Jobs: Fortran Programmer

Finally, the jobs theme gets technical. I had various programming jobs before I moved…

• 7 min read
jobs , CAD

Jobs: Printer, Baker, Chocolatier, Caver

Yesterday I covered my first job, as a farm-hand . Today I'll cover some other jobs…

• 8 min read
jobs

Jobs: Farmer

Last summer, I took Fridays to write about technology museums. I planned to do a…

• 7 min read
farmer , jobs

The Brief but Spectacular History of Shockley Labs

If you read my post Who Put the Silicon in Silicon Valley? then you know my conclusion…

• 9 min read
Stanford , shockley , fairchildren , Fairchild

SEMICON 5nm: 7nm Is Just a Dress-Rehearsal

Usually I don't go to the last day of SEMICON West since not much happens that day…

• 5 min read
asml , 5nm , stochastics , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , EUV

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 20th to 24th 2018

https://youtu.be/6a0znbVfFJk \ Coming from the Cadence parking lot (camera Sean…

• less than a min read
management , jobs

CDNDrive Automotive Solutions: the Rear Wheels

Yesterday was the first of two posts about Cadence Automotive Solutions. Today we…

• 4 min read
Automotive , legato , functional safety , ISO 26262 , reliability

CDNDrive Automotive Solutions: the Front Wheels

Harold Wilson, then Britain's Prime-minister, once said, "A week is a long time in…

• 4 min read
Automotive , legato , functional safety , Tensilica , ISO 26262 , FITS

The Birthplace of Silicon Valley: 391 South San Antonio Road

The birthplace of Silicon Valley really does have an address, 391 South San Antonio…

• 4 min read
fairchild semiconductor , computer history museum , shockley laboratory

Deep Learning and the Cloud

It is an exaggeration to say that deep learning requires the cloud, but the standard…

• 6 min read
summit supercomputer , magestic , cadence cloud
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