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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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International Women's Day and Mentoring Women at Cadence

March 8 is International Women's Day, this year falling on a Sunday. When you read…

• 5 min read
International Women's Day , mentoring

Sunday Brunch Video for 8th March 2020

https://youtu.be/oAtYdiwqPIw Made in front of my TV (camera Carey Guo) Monday: FCC…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Razor Blades, Banking, and Antitrust

One person whose opinions I value is Ben Thompson of Stratechery. He produces a daily…

• 11 min read
ftc , stratechery , antitrust

RSAC: Motherhood and Apple Pie...and Breaking into a Prison

There is always an interesting sounding presentation at RSA that looks like it might…

• 6 min read
security , rsa conference , rsa

From Bootstrapped Startup to Profitability—with Lunch

Before I rejoined Cadence, I did a fair bit of writing for SemiWiki. One of the sponsoring…

• 5 min read
Jim Hogan , esd alliance

FCC Moves to Clear C-Band for 5G

Last week the FCC approved $9.7B to quickly clear the C-band for 5G. This could be…

• 7 min read
5G , fcc , mobile

Designing Radios: Integrand

Yesterday, in my post Designing Radios and Radar: AWR , I discussed the acquisition…

• 3 min read
5G , RF , integrand , awr , Virtuoso RF

Designing Radios and Radar: AWR

As you probably know already, Cadence recently acquired AWR from National Instruments…

• 4 min read
microwave , integrand , AXIEM , awr design environemnt , visual system simulator , awr , RF design , microwave office

UMC Test Chip for Cadence Interface IP Is Working

Who was Taiwan's first semiconductor company? Who was Taiwan's first foundry? If…

• 5 min read
DDR4 , LPDDR4 , pcie 3 , PCIe , test chip , umc , DDR3 , LPDDR3

Colossus: the First Programmable Digital Electronic Computer

Today is the first day of the RSA security conference in San Francisco. I will be…

• 7 min read
colossus , national museum of computing , bletchley park , museum

DesignCon: The Future of Fiber Optic Communications

At the recent DesignCon, Chris Cole gave the keynote The Future of Fiber Optic Communications…

• 8 min read
Ethernet , silicon photonics , photonics , datacenter , networking

Sunday Brunch Video for 23rd February 2020

https://youtu.be/CPNy6CjnvEs Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: President…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

DesignCon: Design for Security

At DesignCon, one of the keynotes was by Warren Savage titled Design for Security…

• 6 min read

Getting on to the Internet in 1993

I recently listened to an a16z podcast about crypto. It was an interview by Katie…

• 7 min read
Internet , a16z , history

What If It's Not 5G, But Satellites?

What if the answer to next-generation communication is not 5G but space? Elon Musk…

• 5 min read
5G , Automotive , mobile , space

DVCon 2020 Preview

Coming up to the big conferences like DAC, I like to do one or more preview posts…

• 7 min read
DVcon , Accellera , pss

Sunday Brunch Video for 16th February 2020

https://youtu.be/uc_vrZsq-2I Made in Cadence parking lot (camera Steve Brown) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Quines on Valentine's

Monday is President's Day and Cadence is off so, as has become traditional, I write…

• 5 min read
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Under the Hood of Clarity and Celsius Solvers

Yesterday, in my post System Analysis: Computational Software at Scale, I talked…

• 4 min read
celsius , computational software , clarity

System Analysis: Computational Software at Scale

In about 2000, when I was the VP of Strategic Marketing for Cadence, I got a strange…

• 8 min read
celsius , Matrix , intelligent system design , clarity

Benedict Evans 2020: Regulating the Giants

This is the second post about Benedict Evans' annual big presentation about the internet…

• 5 min read
benedict evans , mobile , regulation

Benedict Evans 2020: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

For the last five or six years, Benedict Evans worked at Andreesen-Horowitz (a16z…

• 5 min read
benedict evans , Internet , mobile

Sunday Brunch Video for 9th February 2020

https://youtu.be/CVbxaO8cVoM Made in Steve's office (camera Steve Brown) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

How Is the C Compiler Written in C?

Often compilers for computer programming languages are written in their own language…

• 7 min read
llvm , compiler , C++

Exadata: An Epic Journey at Oracle with Persistent Memory

A couple of weeks ago was the Persistent Memory Summit 2020. See my post Persistent…

• 5 min read
persistent memory summit , exadata , Oracle , optane , persistent memory

The Signal Integrity Story

Yesterday, I started to talk about how new technologies find their way over time…

• 5 min read
celsius , CadMOS , Signal Integrity , Sigrity , clarity

How Technologies Get into EDA

When I was last at Cadence around 2000, I ran what was then Custom IC. It was a different…

• 6 min read
sales , startups , ambit , Signal Integrity , salesforce

Persistent Memory at Twitter

A couple of weeks ago was the Persistent Memory Summit 2020. See my post Persistent…

• 3 min read
persistent memory summit , Oracle , optane , Twitter , persistent memory
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