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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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Sunday Brunch Video for 21st July 2019

https://youtu.be/JHWXXezFMU8 Made at Krakow, Poland (camera Gary Bengier) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

The First Computer on the Moon

I am sure you can't fail to have noticed that tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of…

• 7 min read
moon landing , NASA

Orchestras, Degrees, and Choice

Did you read about how orchestras started to do blind auditions where the players…

• 6 min read
STEM , gender

Intelligent System Design for Automobiles of the Future

There's a lot going on in the automotive market. The three big things are electric…

• 4 min read
Automotive , ADAS

GLOBALFOUNDRIES After the Pivot

At SEMICON West I sat down with Gary Patton, CTO of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, to get an update…

• 4 min read
globalfound , semicon , 22fdx , 12fdx , FD-SOI

Will American Scooters Follow Chinese Bikes?

I spent the July 4 weekend in San Diego. My public service announcement is that if…

• 5 min read
Automotive , scooter , app , smarphone , bike

Sunday Brunch Video for 14th July 2019

https://youtu.be/HO3cViPU6Mw Made at Slovensky Raj, Slovakia (camera Gary Bengier…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

The Mercedes Benz Museum and the Invention of the Automobile

Recently, I was in Stuggart, Germany. This is the home to the headquarters of both…

• 5 min read
Automotive , mercedes benz

NXP: Can Silicon Valley Really Crack the Automakers' Code?

The second panel at the recent NXPConnect was about Silicon Valley versus traditional…

• 7 min read
Automotive , NXP , ADAS

Carry: Electronics

The last two days I have written about carry in mechanical calculating devices. See…

• 7 min read
carry , adder

Carry: Babbage's Engines

Yesterday's post Carry: From Logarithms to Mechanical Calculators talked about how…

• 4 min read
carry , analytical engine , difference engine , Babbage

Carry: From Logarithms to Mechanical Calculators

I hope you had a great July 4th long weekend if you are in the US...and if you were…

• 6 min read
carry , ripple carry

Sunday Brunch Video for 7th July 2019

https://youtu.be/re7U6Rg0MHA Made at Cadence charge station (camera Sean) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Off-topic: Geography

It's the day before a holiday so Breakfast Bytes goes completely off-topic as usual…

• 4 min read
offtopic

It's Beyond HOT at ES Design West Next Week

There are two famous parties in the EDA world. The Denali Party by Cadence, of course…

• 4 min read
semicon west , semi , HOT , hot party , es design west

NXP: Self-Driving Cars: What's the Payoff for Carmakers?

I recently attended NXP's Silicon Valley event called NXPConnect. Kurt Sievers, the…

• 9 min read
Automotive , autonomous driving , ADAS

Sunday Brunch Video for 30th June 2019

https://youtu.be/WhHvvmwE9Tw Made at Tsukuda Fruit Stand opposite building 9 (camera…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Aerospace: the View from Paris

I was recently at the Paris Air Show. Despite it sounding like the sort of event…

• 4 min read

DAC: Digital Lunch Does Not Mean Finger Food

The Cadence lunch on Tuesday was the turn of digital with the panel set to consider…

• 6 min read
digital design , artificial intelligence , ml , deep learning , dl , machine learning , AI

DAC: Opening Lunchboxes and Closing Mixed-Signal Verification

The analog/mixed-signal lunch at DAC got moved to Monday this year, since we had…

• 7 min read
DAC , analog , mixed signal , 56dac , spectre x

12% Is Not Enough: Women in Engineering

At CDNLive EMEA, there was a Women's track and the first presentation was by Elizabeth…

• 4 min read
women's engineering society , STEM , CDNLive , CDNLive EMEA

Intel and PSS...and Simics, a Blast from My Past

One of the newest standards in verification is PSS, the Portable Stimulus Standard…

• 4 min read
Intel , DAC , Perspec , pss , portable stimulus standard

Sunday Brunch Video for 23rd June 2019

https://youtu.be/6GUoDQkSoLY Made at Paris Air Show (camera Simon Fielding) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Why Is 5G Such a Big Deal?

Yesterday was my post What Is 5G? which is the first half of my introductory look…

• 7 min read
5G , mmwave , mobile

What Is 5G?

At the DAC theater, Cadence's Ian Dennison talked about 5G Intelligent System Design…

• 7 min read
5G , mmwave , IoT , mobile

Assessing Bias in Computer Vision Systems

I came across a fascinating document from Facebook on methods to assess bias in computer…

• 5 min read
imagenet , Computer Vision , Facebook , convolutional neural networks , neural networks , bias

DAC: The View from Wall Street

Jay Vleeschhouwer did his annual...well, he did it last year, too...View from Wall…

• 4 min read
DAC , wall street , vleeschhouweer

Designing a Wi-Fi HaLow Baseband in Less than Six Months

At CDNLive EMEA last month, Stefan Stanic of Methods2Business (M2B) presented The…

• 2 min read
CDNLive , CDNLive EMEA , Stratus , high level synthesis
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