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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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Bob Smith on ESD Alliance, ES Design West...with Wine

I talked to Bob Smith recently about what's coming up in the world of the ESD Alliance…

• 4 min read
semicon , semi , es design west , esd alliance

Sunday Brunch Video for 12th May 2019

https://youtu.be/E61e34IbaRE Made at CDNLuve EMEA (camera Andrea Huse) Monday: Statistical…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad

150 years ago, technology meant railroads, not semiconductors. I mean, precisely…

• 4 min read
railroad

Intel at Linley

At the recent Linley Spring Microprocessor Conference, there were two presentations…

• 4 min read
Intel , Linley

How Do Out-of-Order Processors Work Anyway?

I've been meaning to write a post on how out-of-order processors work, but one challenge…

• 8 min read
processor , Linley , red hat , instruction set architecture

JasperGold: the Next Generation

Formal verification has gone through a number of eras. In the early 1990s, it was…

• 3 min read
formal , machine learning , JasperGold , Formal verification , verification

Statistical Power...or Why You Shouldn't Be Allowed to Turn Right on Red

I wrote last Friday in my post TSMC: Zero Excursion, Zero Defect about the statistical…

• 6 min read
statistical power

Sunday Brunch Video for 5th May 2019

https://youtu.be/ICpG3ouDIyQ Made at Nathan's Tesla (camera Sean) Monday: Andy Bechtolsheim…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

TSMC: Zero Excursion, Zero Defect

At the recent TSMC Technology Symposium, JK Wang, the SVP of fab operations, talked…

• 3 min read
TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium

TSMC: Specialty Technologies

What is a "specialty technology"? Kevin Zhang, the VP of business development, told…

• 5 min read
TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium

Linley Gwennap's Deep Dive into Deep Learning

At the recent Linley Spring Microprocessor Conference, Linley Gwennap kicked off…

• 4 min read
deep learning , Linley

Tesla Drives into Chip Design

I've said for a couple of years that high-end automotive companies are going to have…

• 4 min read
Automotive , tesla

Andy Bechtolsheim: 85 Slides in 25 Minutes, Even the Keynote Went at 400Gbps

Andy Bechtolsheim likes to go fast. He famously had to rush off to a meeting but…

• 5 min read
CDNLive , CDNLive Silicon Valley

TSMC Technology Roadmap

Earlier this week it was the TSMC Technology Symposium. Here's my first post, summarizing…

• 4 min read
TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium

8 Things to Know about CDNLive EMEA

It's CDNLive EMEA! Well, not today, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, May 6 to 8 at…

• 3 min read
CDNLive , CDNLive EMEA

ESD Alliance Evening with Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham was interviewed by Jim Hogan at the latest ESD Alliance "fireside…

• 8 min read
semi , Jim Hogan , esd alliance , verification

Cadence Memory IP for LPDDR4 Certified in TSMC 16FFC

Last week, Cadence announced the certification of its LPDDR4 IP in TSMC's 16nm automotive…

• 3 min read
Automotive , 16FFC , ISO 26262

Online Regulations in England and Australia

Everyone in technology, even as far down the value chain as EDA and semiconductors…

• 5 min read
free speech , gdpr , european union

SEMICON China: 100,000 Visitors

China is hugely important for electronics in general and semiconductor in particular…

• 7 min read
semicon china , semi

Genus and Innovus: Compus and iSpatial

Yesterday I covered the first part of Chuck Alpert's presentation on the upcoming…

• 5 min read
Genus , CDNLive , Innovus , Synthesis

Genus and Innovus: Together at Last

Yesterday I wrote about a presentation at CDNLive Silicon Valley Qualcomm: Bring…

• 5 min read
Genus , CDNLive , Synthesis , CDNLive Silicon Valley

Qualcomm: Bring Me My Snapdragons

I'm writing this before the Game of Thrones season opener last night. But since last…

• 5 min read
Genus , CDNLive , Qualcomm , Innovus , Synthesis , CDNLive Silicon Valley

Sunday Brunch Video for 14th April 2019

https://youtu.be/ml397HeOHcc Made at Steve Brown's Tesla in Cadence parking lot…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Brad Brim and the History of Signal Integrity

I sat down with Brad Brim recently. He was retiring from Cadence literally the following…

• 6 min read
system analysis , Signal Integrity , Sigrity , clarity

Superhuman Photonic Design

I recently came across an article titled Generative Design Could Radically Transform…

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

TI's Experience Taping out with Pegasus

At the recent CDNLive Silicon Valley, Kyle Peavy of Texas Instruments (TI) presented…

• 5 min read
CDNLive , pegasus , DRC , design rule check , CDNLive Silicon Valley

Barefoot in a CloudBurst: Tempus on 2000+ CPUs

Barefoot Networks gave a couple of presentations at the recent CDNLive Silicon Valley…

• 5 min read
CDNLive , barefoot networks , cloudburst , cadence cloud , CDNLive Silicon Valley

Driving Dangerously

I've written a few times before about the fragility of neural networks, for example…

• 5 min read
Automotive , deep learning , tesla , ADAS , neural networks
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