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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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Persistent Memory: We Have Cleared the Tower

Last week it was the Persistent Memory Summit 2020, which has been running annually…

• 7 min read
persistent memory summit , persistent memory , 3dxpoint

Quarry Bank Mill: A Technology Museum from the Industrial Revolution

A couple of years ago (and from time to time since) I wrote a series of blog posts…

• 5 min read
industrial revolution , museum

Sigrity Aurora: In-Design Analysis

Cadence's new Sigrity Aurora puts all the power of the Sigrity engines under the…

• 3 min read
Sigrity Aurora , Signal Integrity , Sigrity

IEDM: Novel Interconnect Techniques Beyond 3nm

During the short course on the Sunday before IEDM, Chris Wilson of imec presented…

• 4 min read
interconnect , imec , IEDM

RIP Clayton Christensen

Clayton Christensen died last Thursday, at the relatively young age of 67. He was…

• 6 min read
clayton christensen , innovator's dilemma

IEDM: TSMC on 3nm Device Options

At IEDM in December, Jin Cai of TSMC presented Device Technology for 3nm Node and…

• 4 min read
TSMC , IEDM

DesignCon 2020: SI, PCB, Packaging, Photonics

Next Tuesday through Thursday, January 28 to 30, DesignCon 2020 takes place in the…

• 3 min read
PCB , DesignCon , Signal Integrity , OrCAD , Sigrity , Allegro

IEDM: Automating DTCO for 3nm

At IEDM in December, Lars Liebmann of TEL presented Design Technology Co-Optimization…

• 4 min read
3nm , IEDM , DTCO

A Big Problem with Big Data

I happened to read a blog post that referred to a 2018 paper in The Annals of Applied…

• 5 min read
deep learning , big data

Sunday Brunch Video for 19th January 2020

https://youtu.be/O90mUZyWIeE Made at Lick Observatory (camera Carey Guo) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Off-Topic: Picas, Points, and Printing

Monday is Martin Luther King, Jr Day, and Cadence will be off. Breakfast Bytes will…

• 7 min read
offtopic , printing

Emerging Memory

SNIA, the Storage Networking Industry Association, organized a webinar recently with…

• 5 min read
Memory , optane , MRAM , persistent memory , 3dxpoint

5G in 2020

There is a famous quote, attributed to Mark Twain but more likely said by his friend…

• 6 min read
5G , CES , ces2020

Mark Cuban on Media and AI

At CES there was a session in which Mark Cuban was interviewed. As he pointed out…

• 4 min read
CES , ces2020 , AI

Details of TSMC's IEDM Presentation on N5

At IEDM in December, one of the papers in the very last session (a sneaky trick to…

• 5 min read
n5 , TSMC , 5nm , IEDM

Sunday Brunch Video for 12th January 2020

https://youtu.be/y62D4tVK-_k Made at CES 2020 (camera Gerard Andrews) Last Thursday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

The Rosetta Stone and the British Museum

In the first week of January, I wrote about Lars Liebmann's Rosetta Stone of Lithography…

• 4 min read
british museum , sir john soane's museum , rosetta stone , museums

What's New in Consumer Electronics? CES 2020

I come to Las Vegas in the first week of January each year to attend what used to…

• 5 min read
5G , Automotive , CES , ces2020 , robotics , drones , AI

The 40th Anniversary of LAMBDA Magazine

Forty years ago today, January 8, 1980, the first issue of LAMBDA magazine was published…

• 8 min read
vlsi technology , lambda magazine , mead and conway

Open Source in 2020

I recently wrote a couple of posts about open-source EDA tools, OpenROAD: Open-Source…

• 9 min read
open source eda , open source

Protium and Palladium 1st=

We just finished 2019, of course, so it is time for annual "Best of 2019" lists.…

• 5 min read
Protium , Palladium , embedded software , Emulation

The History of Lithography, Part 2: From Double-Patterning to EUV

This is a continuation of yesterday's post The History of Lithography, Part 1: From…

• 8 min read
asml , lithography , Double Patterning , multi-patterning , EUV

The History of Lithography, Part 1: From Stones to Lasers

Lithography was originally a way of printing using a flat stone. Lithos (or λίθος…

• 7 min read
lithography , 193i , RET

Sunday Brunch Video for 22nd December 2019

https://youtu.be/iEuzyt_6O_A Made in my living room (camera Carey Guo) Monday: The…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Off-Topic: 2019 TV Anniversaries

It's the day before a holiday. Or in this case, ten days when Cadence will be shut…

• 6 min read
off-topic

IEDM 2019: An Overview...Plus the Future of EUV

IEDM, the International Electron Devices Meeting, took place last week. It was also…

• 6 min read
EUV , IEDM

System in Package? How to Plan and Build It

This is a follow on to my previous two pieces about system-in-package (SiP) designs…

• 3 min read
system in package , chiplet , 3DIC , OrbitIO

What's Happening in RISC-V Land?

Last week was IEDM, the International Electronic Devices Meeting. I will write about…

• 5 min read
Western Digital , risc-v , NVIDIA , risc-v summit , Samsung , Qualcomm
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