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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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Update: Achronix, SolarWinds, Wikipedia, US Fabs

This is another of my occasional update posts, where I revisit some older posts and…

• 10 min read
solarwinds , achronix , open source , darpa

Cadence/Arm Event on Optimizing High-End Arm Processors in Advanced Nodes

On January 21 from 8:00am to 11:00am (PST), Cadence and Arm are presenting a joint…

• 3 min read
Genus , cortex-a78 , neoverse , Innovus , digital full flow , cortex-x1 , ARM

IEDM Opening Keynote

At IEDM in December, the opening keynote (technically "Plenary 1") was by Sri Samevadam…

• 4 min read

Young People Program at DATE 2021

Are you a young person? Are you doing a PhD? Then you should know that Cadence is…

• 6 min read
DATE , Cadence Academic Network , young persons programme , date 2021 , ypp

Sunday Brunch Video for 10th January 2021

https://youtu.be/gt4GiLtoJ4M Made at Castle Rock Park (camera Ziyue Zhang) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Breakfast Nibbles 2021: Predictions for the Year, part 3

The first part of my predictions for 2021 was two days ago, and the second part was…

• 7 min read
predictions , chiplet , 3nm , more than Moore , 5nm

Breakfast Nibbles 2021: Predictions for the Year, part 2

The first half of my predictions for 2021 was yesterday. You should probably start…

• 4 min read
2021 , predictions

Breakfast Nibbles 2021: Predictions for the Year, part 1

It's 2021 finally. Although 2020 was actually a good year for the semiconductor industry…

• 5 min read
5G , predictions , deep learning , hyperscalar datacenters , mobile , AI

The Biggest Security Breach Ever

Over the Christmas break, the biggest security breach ever came to light. It is assumed…

• 4 min read
security , solarwinds , backdoor

DATE 2021: A Virtual Event in the First Week of February

Design and Test Europe, normally known as just DATE, is coming up in the first week…

• 4 min read
DATE , design and test europe , date 2021

Off Topic: "Beam Me Up, Scotty" and Other Things Nobody Said

T his is my end-of-year off-topic holiday post, traditional before a break or a holiday…

• 6 min read
offtopic

Breakfast Nibbles: How Did My 2020 Predictions Turn Out?

Every year I make a few predictions about trends for the coming year. I will be doing…

• 5 min read
5G , Automotive , predictions , cloud , more than Moore , cadence cloud , autonomous vehicles

RISC-V: The Next Ten Years

The annual RISC-V Summit (virtual, of course) was in early December. You can read…

• 10 min read
risc-v

Instruction Decoders: RISC vs CISC

In my post The Start of the Arm Era I said that it feels like something significant…

• 9 min read
Intel , ARM

Avoiding PCB Respins with Better Computational Software

When I first came to the US, I started at VLSI Technology supporting a project called…

• 5 min read
Celsius Thermal Solver , celsius , Clarity 3D Transient Solver , Clarity 3D Solver , clarity

Sunday Brunch Video for 13th December 2020

https://youtu.be/ZcYIbkrHSv4 Made by my Christmas tree (camera Carey Guo) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

HBI, a New Standard to Connect Your Chiplets

It is not very well-known how involved Cadence is in establishing standards. Recently…

• 4 min read
hbi , highbandwidth interconnect , 3DIC , more than Moore , d2d , openhbi

The 2020 RISC-V Summit

The second week of December was RISC-V week, the three-day RISC-V summit (or four…

• 5 min read
risc-v

Photonics: How Do You Attach Fiber to the Chip?

Recently, Cadence held its fifth photonics summit, CadenceCONNECT: Photonics Contribution…

• 6 min read
silicon photonics , photonics

How to Design Photonics If You Don't Have a PhD: iPronics and Ayar Labs

Last week was the virtual event CadenceCONNECT: Photonics Contribution to High-Performance…

• 3 min read
ayar labs , silicon photonics , photonics , ipronics

CadenceCONNECT: Mission Critical - Tom Beckley's Keynote

In October, we held the CadenceCONNECT: Mission Critical event, focused on aerospace…

• 5 min read
computational software , cadenceconnect , intelligent system design

Sunday Brunch Video for 6th December 2020

https://youtu.be/r7utPfsdcKk Made in front of my living room fire Monday: What Is…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Innovus for Digital 3D-IC Designs

A few weeks ago, there was a webinar about designing 3D-ICs with Innovus Implementation…

• 5 min read
3DIC , OrbitIO , Innovus , interposer , 2.5D

Google's DeepMind's AlphaFold Solves Protein Folding

Solving protein folding has been a challenge for at least 50 years. You probably…

• 3 min read
alphafold , google , deepmind

Photonic Integration — From Switching to Computing

Last Tuesday was the first day of the virtual event CadenceCONNECT: Photonics Contribution…

• 4 min read
photonic computation , silicon photonics , photonics

Cadence and Standards...and a New Codec for Your Phone

A lot of EDA and IP is increasingly based around standards. As a result, Cadence…

• 6 min read
Standards , vocoder , Tensilica , evs

What Is a Capability? CAP, CHERI, and Morello

At the recent Arm DevSummit, one of the presentations mentioned CHERI and the Arm…

• 6 min read
cap computer , morello , cap , ARM , cheri , capability

Thanksgiving Off-Topic: Edelweiss

It's Thanksgiving next week in the U.S. I am taking the whole week off and Breakfast…

• 6 min read
offtopic
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