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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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Photonics Summit and Workshop 2019

Once again Cadence and Lumerical are hosting the two-day Photonics Summit and Workshop…

• 2 min read
curvycore , Lumerical , silicon photonics , Virtuoso , photonics

Level-4 Autonomous Trucks Are on the Road Already

I already wrote two posts about the recent automotive day at the Computer History…

• 4 min read
Automotive , trucks , dmv , autonomous vehicles

The California DMV on Autonomous Cars

Earlier in the week I gave an overview of Silicon Valley Reinvents the Wheel . That…

• 4 min read
Automotive , dmv , ADAS

40 Years Ago, "Spreadsheet" Didn't Mean Excel, It Meant VisiCalc

I like to find specific events that change the trajectory of the semiconductor industry…

• 5 min read
Apple , visicalc

Silicon Valley Reinvents the Wheel

Recently the Western Automotive Journalists, or WAJ (I had no idea that was a thing…

• 8 min read
Automotive , lidar , radar , ADAS , autonomous vehicles

Arm TechCon: A Look at 2020 and 2030

The last day of Arm TechCon opened with the return to the event of Charlie Miller…

• 5 min read
Automotive , greg yeric , ARM Techcon , matterhorn , HPC , mobile , ARM

EDPS 2019: Efficient Design and Manufacturing

EDPS, the Electronic Design Process Symposium, took place on October 3 and 4 at SEMI…

• 5 min read
electronic design process symposium , EDPS , ARM

Book: VLSI Design Methodology Development

There are lots of books on EDA, but many of them are academic texts about the algorithms…

• 4 min read
tom dillinger , book

Samsung: In SAFE Hands

Today is Samsung's SAFE Forum 2019 at their Samsung@First building on San Jose's…

• 2 min read
samsung foundry , samsung foundry safe , 5lpe , 5nm , safe

Charlie Miller: Stopping Cars Being Hacked Instead of Hacking Them

The last day of Arm TechCon opened with Charlie Miller talking about Experiences…

• 5 min read
security , Automotive , ARM Techcon

Machine Learning in JasperGold

When I was in Tel Aviv for CDNLive Israel, I sat down with Ziyad Hanna to discuss…

• 4 min read
Jasper User Group , Jasper

Arm TechCon: The Keynotes

Simon Segars opened Arm TechCon with a new look, having discovered that real men…

• 6 min read
Automotive , ARM Techcon , Simon Segars , cloud , mobile , ARM

Sunday Brunch Video for 13th October 2019

https://youtu.be/8BM28qwHyUk Made at Arm TechCon (camera Randy Smith) Monday: What…

• less than a min read
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Sensor Fusion and ADAS in TSMC Automotive Processes

At the recent TSMC OIP Symposium, Cadence's Tom Wong presented Sensor Fusion and…

• 4 min read
OIP , Automotive , sensor fusion , TSMC , lidar , radar , Tensilica , vision , camera , ADAS

The Economist on RISC-V and Indian Semiconductors

Our industry is difficult to understand. Most of us resort to imperfect analogies…

• 8 min read
risc-v , The Economist , CDNLive India , India

The First Woman to Receive the Kaufman Award

Mary Jane Irwin just got back from a cruise around the Greek islands with her husband…

• 5 min read
Kaufman Award

It's Ada Lovelace Day Today

The second Tuesday in October is Ada Lovelace Day (ALD). This is not just a day to…

• 6 min read
analytical engine , ada , ada lovelace , Babbage

What Is Quantum Supremacy?

There are rumors that Google has achieved quantum supremacy. According to Scott Aaronson…

• 4 min read
quantum computing , IBM , quantum supremacy , google

Sunday Brunch Video for 6th October 2019

https://youtu.be/zEmNTM72GYE Made at Sawyer Camp Trail (camera Carey Guo) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

EDA in the Cloud: Astera Labs, AWS, Arm, and Cadence Report

Earlier this week I wrote a post covering the AWS presentation from HOT CHIPS about…

• 6 min read
cloud , aws , cadence cloud , Liberate , Amazon

GLOBALFOUNDRIES Technology Conference 2019

This week was the GLOBALFOUNDRIES Technology Conference, GTC 2019, in Santa Clara…

• 5 min read
GTC , GlobalFoundries , FD-SOI

HOT CHIPS: The AWS Nitro Project

In 2016, Amazon acquired the Israeli company Annapurna Labs. Since they were in stealth…

• 6 min read
ec2 , nitro , cloud , annapurna , aws , Amazon

The 2019 Kaufman Award Goes to Mary Jane Irwin

This year's Kaufman Award recipient is Dr. Mary Jane (Janie) Irwin of Pennsylvania…

• 3 min read
Kaufman Award

TSMC OIP: Process Status

Last week was TSMC's Open Innovation Platform Innovation Forum (aka OIP). Dave Keller…

• 7 min read
OIP , TSMC

Sunday Brunch Video for 29th September 2019

https://youtu.be/zU_y5sQBlGA Made at TSMC OIP Symposium (camera Tom Hackett) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Building Neural Networks with High-Level Synthesis

Earlier this week, Dave Apte presented a webinar on AI Accelerator Design with Stratus…

• 4 min read
deep learning , TensorFlow , Stratus , high level synthesis , HLS

TSMC OIP: 6nm and 5nm

Today it is TSMC's Open Innovation Platform Ecosystem Forum, or OIP for short. This…

• 1 min read
OIP , n5 , n5p , TSMC , photonics , n7 , n6

Embedded Development: Specialized Processing

Yesterday, in Running the Program for an Embedded System , I wrote about using emulation…

• 6 min read
domain specific computing , caffe , TensorFlow , Green Hills , C++ , Matlab
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