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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 27th June 2021

https://youtu.be/nD_AYa2AbfU Made in my car (camera: my car's phone mount) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

June Update: PCIe 6.0, Ransomware, Mars, Turing Award...and CadenceLIVE

I have decided to put these "Update" posts that I do from time to time on a more…

• 4 min read
ransomware , turing award , pcie 6 , PCIe , turing , Mars

Quantum Computing with Spectre's Ultra-Low Temperature Models

Equal1 has just announced a breakthrough in quantum computing with a fully integrated…

• 6 min read
quantum computing , 22fdx , gf , GlobalFoundries , FD-SOI

New Banknote with Alan Turing: "This Is a Foretaste of What Is to Come, and the Shadow…

Today is Alan Turing's birthday. More to the point, today the first £50 banknotes…

• 5 min read
bank of england , bletchley park , computer science , turing

Jim Hogan and Ed McCluskey Named Honorees of the Phil Kaufman Hall of Fame

In February of this year, the ESD Alliance and IEEE CEDA announced the creation of…

• 4 min read
ieee ceda , Jim Hogan , jed mccluskey , esd alliance

The EVS Codec: The Movie

I have written before about standards in general (including one that is 2000 years…

• 2 min read

Dr C.C. Wei's Keynote at TSMC Symposium

At the recent TSMC 2021 Online Technology Symposium, the keynote to open the show…

• 9 min read
TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium

RSAC: The Cryptographers' Panel

The Cryptographers' Panel was moderated by RSA's Zulfikar Ramzan, and featured Ron…

• 10 min read
rsa , rsac , rsac2021 , the cryptographers' panel

Sunday Brunch Video for 13th June 2021

https://youtu.be/T9V_61_3ZVA Made in San Francisco Botanical Garden (camera Carey…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

What Is a System? It's Turtles All the Way Down...or Fleas

According to Steven Hawking, in his book A Brief History of Time, Bertrand Russell…

• 5 min read
system level , system

RSAC: Hacking a Solar Power Controller—And Pretending to Generate a Gigawatt

At the recent RSAC, there was a great presentation by Waylon Grange on hacking the…

• 7 min read
rsac 2021 , security , rsa conference , rsa , embedded security , rsac , cybersecurity

Allegro X, the Design Platform for the Next Generation of Intelligent System Des…

allegro x system design and pcb design with machine learning and unparalleled pr…

• 2 min read
PCB , machine learning , PCB design , pcb machine learning , allegro x

TSMC's 3DFabric

I already wrote about TSMC's advanced-node roadmap in my post TSMC: Advanced Technology…

• 3 min read
CoWoS , packaging , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , InFO , 3dfabric

Hardware Hacking Party Tricks

Toward the end of April, Black Hat ran a webinar Hacking Party Tricks: Techniques…

• 6 min read
security , glitching , blackhat , JTAG

Sunday Brunch Video for 6th June 2021

https://youtu.be/sqEzhpQZmbo Made on my dining table (camera me) Monday: Memorial…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

A Year of Breakfasts 2021

This year's Breakfast Bytes annual is out. It is titled A Year of Breakfasts 2021…

• 1 min read
a year of breakfasts 2021 , breakfast bytes book , Breakfast Bytes

TSMC: Advanced Technology for Smartphone and HPC Platforms

Yujun Li, TSMC's director of business development for high-performance computing…

• 3 min read
5G , n5 , n5hpc , n3 , TSMC , HPC , n7 , n7hpc

CEO Outlook: "Let's Take Advantage of Our Industry Being in the Spotlight"

The Electronic System Design Alliance CEO Outlook took place on May 16. Bob Smith…

• 13 min read
ESDA , semi , ceo outlook , esd alliance

Countdown to TSMC Technology Symposium: 7nm, 5nm, 3nm, June 1

Today it is the TSMC 2021 Online North America Technology Symposium (tomorrow for…

• 3 min read
n4 , n3 , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , custom/analog flow , digital full flow

Offtopic: "Pole Pole" to the Top of Kilimanjaro

Today is the last blogging day before Memorial Day on Monday, so as is now traditional…

• 8 min read
offtopic

Why Attend CadenceLIVE Americas 2021 on June 8 and 9?

Once again this year, CadenceLIVE Americas is coming up soon and it will be completely…

• 6 min read
cadencelive americas , cadencelive

Bringing Clarity to the Cloud

Cadence announced Clarity 3D Solver Cloud as part of Cadence Hybrid Cloud, providing…

• 5 min read
Analog Design Environment , system analysis , ADE , clarity cx , Spectre , cadence cloud , hybrid cloud , Clarity 3D Solver , clarity

Rapid Adoption Kits for Arm's Premium Mobile Platforms

Today, Arm announced its new lineup of processors for mobile. These are the first…

• 4 min read
Rapid Adoption Kit , RAK , digital full flow , mobile , verification full flow , ARM

PCIe 5.0 and 112G-LR IP in TSMC N5

Well, that's a lot of tech gobbledegook in the title of this post. Here's what it…

• 3 min read
pcie version 5 , 112G-LR , PCIe , 112g , SerDes , PCI , PCI Express

Linley: Habana and Cerebras

In the recent Linley Spring Processor Conference, there were many processors for…

• 4 min read
linley processor conference , cerebras , Linley , aws , gaudi , AI , habana

Spectre FX: F Is for Fast, Really Fast

Today, Cadence announced the Spectre FX Simulator, a next-generation FastSPICE circuit…

• 5 min read
Circuit simulation , FastSPICE , Spectre , spectre fx , SPICE

RSAC: Opening Keynote and a Whitrospective

The RSA Conference on cybersecurity took place in the middle of May. This year, the…

• 5 min read
rsac 2021 , diffie , rsa conference , rsa , rsac

Vietnamese Orphanages and Smartphone Apps

Kids in orphanages have a hard life. You only have to read Oliver Twist to get some…

• 6 min read
technovation , team4tech , kidspire vietnam
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