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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 2020: Chips in 2030

In 2015, soon after I rejoined Cadence, I went to IEDM, the International Electron…

• 6 min read
57dac , DAC , Design Automation Conference

Sunday Brunch Video for 2nd August 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made in "Indonesia" (camera me) Monday: Open Source Hardware…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

DAC 2020: TSMC Keynote

The opening keynote at DAC was TSMC's Chief Scientist Philip Wong. That's clearly…

• 6 min read
57dac , DAC , TSMC , Design Automation Conference

Recruiting and Onboarding During WFH

My son has just been recruited into a new job in New York. He told me that it is…

• 6 min read
onboarding , wfh , recruiting

DAC 2020: Open-Source EDA

The Department of Defense (and actually much of aerospace in general) is in an especially…

• 6 min read
57dac , DAC , dac2020 , open source eda , openroad , posh , darpa

DAC 2020: The State of the Industry

Monday was the first day of DAC, the Design Automation Conference. Of course, like…

• 3 min read
57dac , Design Automation Conference

Open Source Hardware

Open-source software has revolutionized many aspects of software development. But…

• 5 min read
risc-v , open source hardware , OSS , open source software , open source

Celsius and Voltus: 2+2=5

I recently attended a webinar presented by Rajat Chaudhry, who is a Product Engineering…

• 6 min read
celsius , Voltus , thermal

Clarity, Sigrity, EMX, and AWR: So Many EM Solvers to Choose From…

Cadence has multiple electromagnetic (EM) technologies within its product portfolio…

• 6 min read
RF , AXIEM , Virtuoso RF , EMX , Sigrity , EM , clarity

Analyzing On-Chip RF Passives

RF stands for radio-frequency. Obviously, this covers radios of all types, but as…

• 7 min read
RF , EMX , RF design , radio

Zhuo Li, DAC Chair, Plus Cadence@DAC

Yesterday was my DAC Preview post. As it happens, Cadence's Zhuo Li is this year…

• 4 min read
57dac , DAC , Accellera , Design Automation Conference

DAC Preview 2020

It is the 57th Design Automation Conference later this month from July 20 to 24.…

• 6 min read
57dac , DAC , Design Automation Conference

Sunday Brunch Video for 12th July 2020

https://youtu.be/kA0y55I9zMA Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Cadence…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

There Is a Statue of Nikola Tesla in Palo Alto...with Free WiFi

Tesla is most famous these days as the name of a car company. But Nikola Tesla was…

• 6 min read
anniversary , Nikola Tesla , tesla

Photography with Computers

Yesterday, in my post Photography of Computers , I wrote about photographing computers…

• 5 min read
video , photography , mobile , Smartphone

Photography of Computers

In the early days of computers, I think computers were generally just called "computers…

• 7 min read
fugaku , summit , home computers , photography

How Do You Run One Architecture on Another?

You probably already heard that going forward some Macs are going to be running on…

• 5 min read
Intel , Apple , dynamic translation , jit

Sunday Brunch Video for 5th July 2020

https://youtu.be/qimXaFAFh6w Made for July 4th (camera me) Monday: Yesterday Was…

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sunday brunch

July 4th: The Glorious Revolution

The Fourth of July is coming up. Cadence is closed for a four-day weekend, so this…

• 8 min read
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Japanese Arm-Powered Supercomputer Takes the TOP500 Crown

Twice a year, around the middle of the year (that would be now) and around the end…

• 4 min read
fugaku , top500 , ARM , supercomputer

Alessandra Nardi Receives Marie Pistilli Award for Women in EDA

Cadence's Alessandra Nardi, software engineering group director, is the 2020 recipient…

• 6 min read
Automotive , DAC , functional safety , alessandra nardi , marie pistilli award

Yesterday Was Tau Day

You probably know that 3/14 is Pi Day, since pi (π) starts 3.14 and so matches the…

• 5 min read
PI , tau day , tau

Sunday Brunch Video for 28th June 2020

https://youtu.be/va13w0mgAco Made "under the sea" (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Make…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Cornami and Trusted Data

Recently, I wrote about Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE from now on) which I think…

• 7 min read
fhe , Wally Rhines , fully homomorphic encryption , cornami

Under the Hood of Genus

From time to time people ask how EDA tools work under the hood. I think the question…

• 8 min read
Genus , featured , computational software , Synthesis , Placement

Computational Digital Software

Cadence has been using the term "computational software" to unify many of the algorithms…

• 6 min read
Genus , ml , Tempus , computational software , machine learning , Innovus , digital full flow

vManager: One Manager to Rule Them All

Here's a high-level view of verification: If everyone properly plans their verification…

• 5 min read
featured , formal , Protium , Palladium , xcelium , JasperGold , simulation , vManager

Make a DATE for the Alps Next Ski Season

It's the Summer Solstice. To be precise, that was on Saturday, the longest day of…

• 5 min read
DATE , Grenoble , Europe , design and test europe , date21
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