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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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Liberate Trio on AWS/Graviton2 Instances

This is a sort of continuation of yesterday's post JAWS: JasperGold in the AWS Cloud…

• 3 min read
liberate trio , aws , ARM

JAWS: JasperGold in the AWS Cloud

At the CadenceCONNECT Jasper User Group meeting in December, one of the presentations…

• 2 min read
liberate trio , formal , Jasper , aws , ARM , JasperGold

The OpenAccess Story

When I worked for Cadence back in the early oughts, we developed a layout database…

• 5 min read
OpenAccess

The Death of Distance

You may have seen the news that if you read an interesting article in the Australian…

• 8 min read
news , distance , australia

Arm/Cadence on Implementing Advanced Microprocessors in Advanced Processes

Late in January, Cadence and Arm ran a joint webinar on implementing advanced microprocessors…

• 2 min read
graviton , neoverse , digital full flow , ARM

Offtopic: All the Days

It's a weird confluence of days this weekend. It is the Chinese New Year on the 12th…

• 1 min read
offtopic

DATE: Making Fabs Smarter

One of the keynotes at the recent DATE 2021 was local. Or would have been local if…

• 7 min read
DATE , ST , smart industry , date 2021 , ST Microelectronics

Kneron's Experience Reducing Edge AI Processor Development Schedules with Tensilica…

As late as 2010, the received wisdom among computer scientists was that neural networks…

• 5 min read
Vision P6 , inference at the edge , Tensilica , Xtensa , neural network , kneron

DATE: What Is Single Pilot Operation? Airbus Q&A

Yesterday's post DATE: What Is Single Pilot Operation? Airbus Explains was the first…

• 6 min read
DATE , Aerospace , date 2021 , airbus

DATE: What Is Single Pilot Operation? Airbus Explains

The final keynote at this year's DATE was by Pascal Traverse of Airbus, titled Autonomy…

• 5 min read
DATE , date 2021 , airbus

Sunday Brunch Video for 7th February 2021

https://youtu.be/WUEvcW8Isxc Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: It's…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

A History of the Mouse

I was idly watching YouTube over the break when "the algorithm" recommended that…

• 7 min read
mouse , alto , mice , optical mouse

A History of Semiconductor IP

I like to claim that I was in the IP Business before the name IP was used for semiconductor…

• 7 min read
Verification IP , IP , system IP , VIP , interface IP , semiconductor IP , ARM , system level ip

SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium: The Technology

At the recent SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium, the second day had a section devoted…

• 7 min read
semi , iss , industry strategy symposium

SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium: The Outlook

In mid-January, SEMI organizes the two-day Industry Strategy Symposium. Normally…

• 6 min read
semi , semiconductor outlook , semi iss

It's Mars Month

Last July, in the midst of the global pandemic, three spacecraft were launched to…

• 5 min read
mars hope , Mars , space

Update: DATE, Achronix, SolarWinds, Batteries, Economist

It's only a couple of weeks since I've done one of my update posts, a collection…

• 8 min read
security , solar winds , DATE , The Economist , achronix , toyota , design and test europe , batteries , economist

CadenceLIVE 2021: Save the Dates

It's another year, so another season of CadenceLIVE events across the world. The…

• 3 min read
cadencelive americas , cadencelive

DVCon 2021 Preview

DVCon 2021 is coming up March 1 - 4. It is virtual, of course. I said last year that…

• 4 min read
dvcon 2021 , DVcon , verification

Early Firmware Development at Kioxia America

At CadenceLIVE, Kioxia's Ravi Tangirala presented System-Level Emulation and Prototyping…

• 4 min read
Protium , Palladium , Toshiba , firmware , kioxia

The Best of CES 2021

There is a whole portfolio of official "best of CES" awards, 14 of them this year…

• 5 min read
Consumer Electronics Show , CES , AMD

Sunday Brunch Video for 24th January 2021

https://youtu.be/WeiohMmcwzc Made at "some waterfalls" Monday: MLK Day Tuesday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

CES 2021: AMD, NVIDIA, and Mercedes

This is my second post about this year's CES. The first was Consumer Electronics…

• 7 min read
Consumer Electronics Show , CES , AMD , NVIDIA , Samsung , mercedes-benz

Modus DFT Has Been ISO 26262 Certified by TÜV-SÜD

At the end of last year, Cadence's Modus DFT Software Solution was ISO 26262 certified…

• 5 min read
DFT , modus , tüv-süd , Test , ISO 26262 , certification

Cadence to Acquire Computational Fluid Dynamics Company NUMECA

This morning, Cadence announced that it was acquiring NUMECA International to expand…

• 2 min read
CFD , featured post , Computational Fluid Dynamics , NUMECA , Omnis

Consumer Electronics Show 2021: GM, Intel

Normally, at this time of year I would be in Las Vegas, as I have been in January…

• 5 min read
Intel , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , general motors

Sunday Brunch Video for 17th January 2021

https://youtu.be/mKoW8ji9_g8 Made in my kitchen (camera Ziyue Zhang) Monday: Young…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Offtopic: How to Make Spatchcock Chicken Under a Brick

It's Martin Luther King Day on Monday. Cadence is off. Breakfast Bytes will not appear…

• 3 min read
offtopic
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