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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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DAC: Straight Talk with Lip-Bu Tan

For the last few DACs, every lunchtime the DAC Pavilion has an interview by Ed Sperling…

• 7 min read
Ed Sperling , Automotive , 3nm , Lip-Bu Tan , 55DAC , 5nm , 7nm , Design Automation Conference

ESD Alliance Workshop on Digital Marketing

I gave a teaser introduction to the Digital Marketing Workshop that the ESD Alliance…

• 4 min read
digital marketing , onespin , esd alliance

Liberate Trio: Characterization Suite in the Cloud

Years ago, library characterization used to be fairly straightforward. The library…

• 3 min read
characterization , liberate trio , cloud , cadence cloud , ARM

Overcoming Bias in Computer Vision

At the recent Embedded Vision Summit, Will Byrne gave a presentation Overcoming Bias…

• 6 min read
stereotype , embedded vision , bias

Want to Go on a Second Date?

Yesterday I told you about the Doomsday algorithm in my post Doomsday in 1900 Was…

• 6 min read
offtopic , DATE , microsoft

Doomsday in 1900 Was a Wednesday

Cadence is off today, so time for an off-topic post. In my post Short Papers last…

• 6 min read
offtopic , DATE , john conway

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 9th to 13th 2018

https://youtu.be/d04TXTJKx5o Coming from Cadence EBC (camera Lan Ly) Monday: ESD…

• less than a min read
semicon , imec , 55DAC , esd alliance , palladium cloud

/* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */

The title of this post, you are not expected to understand this, is one of the most…

• 7 min read
ken thompson , unix , bug , john lyons , dennis ritchie

A History of PSS

In a remark attributed to Otto von Bismarck (or perhaps misattributed), it is said…

• 6 min read
Perspec , pss , portable stimulus standard , verification

DAC Wednesday: Denali, Patterson on Architecture, Rowen on Deep Learning, Analog…

Tuesday evening finished with the Denali Party. Since it's 8 years since Cadence…

• 13 min read
Analog artist , analog , isa , reliability

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 2nd to 6th 2018

https://youtu.be/QoFQImb0xk4 Coming from DAC (camera Sean) Monday: /* You are…

• less than a min read
liberate trio , doomsday , john conway , embedded vision , cloud , cadence cloud

DAC Tuesday: IBM's AI, Jay's Wall Street View, Lip-Bu's Chat, Monster Chips

The second day of DAC needed several clones of me at lunchtime. Lip-Bu Tan's turn…

• 14 min read

DAC Monday: Amazon's Things, Handel's Megadesign, Cooley's Troublemakers

Another year, and another DAC. As usual, the proceedings kicked off on Sunday night…

• 14 min read
dac55 , DAC , handel jones , Cooley , ibs , verification

Cadence Cloud

Today Cadence announced Cadence Cloud. This is the beginning of a major change in…

• 7 min read
passport , cloud , cadence cloud , Hosted Design Solutions

Remember Virtual CAD? DesignSphere Access? What an ASP Was?

Last time I worked for Cadence in the early 2000s, Adriaan Ligtenberg ran methodology…

• 4 min read
asp , cloud , cadence cloud , esd alliance

Automobil Elektronik Kongress 2018

Once a year for 22 years the electronic divisions of the European automotive industry…

• 6 min read
Automotive , ADAS , autonomous vehicles

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview June 25th to 29th 2018

https://youtu.be/-fwwmFE6yUs Coming from Automotiv Elektronik Kongress (camera…

• less than a min read
dac55 , DAC

Movie Theater Sound in Your Phone

Dolby Atmos is immersive sound. As Dolby puts it: Dolby transports you into the…

• 3 min read
hifi3 , atmos , Dolby , mwc china , Tensilica , Huawei

RSA Wrapup: Song, Darling, Thrun

The closing session of the RSA conference was a sort of chat-show hosted by Hugh…

• 5 min read
sebastian thrun , security , artificial intelligence , rsa conference , rsa , kate darling , dawn song

Why Millennial Engineers Should Work for Cadence

Many years ago, when Nokia was at the top of its game—one in every three phones shipped…

• 5 min read
andy kessler , EDA

The Design Infrastructure Alley

One of the new things at DAC this year is the Design Infrastructure Alley. The Alley…

• 4 min read
dac55 , DAC , infrastructure alley

Pie and Chips at DAC: ChipEstimate.com and the First Annual Pi Contest

In Scotland, there is a traditional dish of pie and chips. But the pie is not a sweet…

• 3 min read
DAC , ChipEstimate.com , Perspec , pss

"I Couldn't Imagine Being Too Poor for Servants, or Rich Enough for a Car"

Agatha Christie, looking back on her early life, remarked that she: I couldn’t imagine…

• 5 min read
exponential , moore's law , baumol's cost disease

Imec on EUV. Are We There Yet?

I already gave an introduction to my first visit to imec in my life in my post If…

• 7 min read
imec , stochastics , EUV

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview June 18th to 22nd 2018

https://youtu.be/puYFl7m50tM Coming from Dilijian Armenia (camera Gary Bengier…

• less than a min read
rsa conference , rsa , Dolby , millennial , virtual cad , Tensilica , ludwigsburg , dap light

FD-SOI vs FinFET: Dan Hutcheson Re-Runs His Survey

Recently, the SOI Consortium held its annual Silicon Valley Symposium. I was only…

• 3 min read
FinFET , FD-SOI

Why Did EDA Have a Hardware Business Model?

Business models are really important. Just ask any internet startup company that…

• 7 min read
term license , hardware , EDA , cadence cloud

Imec Roadmap

I recently visited imec. For an overview of my day, see my earlier post If It's Tuesday…

• 7 min read
nanosheet , stco , 3nm , imec , gaa , FinFET , DTCO
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