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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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There Is Not Enough Power

In almost every episode of Star Trek (the original series), Captain Kirk would have…

• 9 min read
featured , power grid , renewable , thermal , power

Preview of Jasper User Group 2022

This year's Jasper User Group is coming up later this month on October 19th and 20th…

• 3 min read
Jasper User Group , JUG , formal , Jasper

The IBM 801, the RISC You've Never Heard of

In a recent post, RISC-V Tutorial , I wrote about the history of RISC-V. The "V"…

• 6 min read
risc-v , featured , ibm 801 , RISC

30th Anniversary of Glengarry Glen Ross

Yesterday is the 30th anniversary of the release of the movie Glengarry Glen Ross…

• 3 min read
abc , always be closing , steak knives , glengarry glen ross

Sunday Brunch Video for 2nd October 2022

https://youtu.be/K4c92qNBoa0 Made on my balcony (camera Carey) Monday: CadenceLIVE…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

September Update: Cruise, CHIPS, FP8, and McLaren

Wow, September has flown by. It's already the last Friday of the month, the last…

• 4 min read
security , Automotive , update , mclaren , AI , chips act

When AI Rules the World, by Handel Jones

I first met Handel Jones in the early 1980s, I think. I was at VLSI Technology, and…

• 5 min read
artificial intelligence , China , featured , handel jones , AI

Bluetoooth LE Audio, Hearing Aids, and Mindtree

You might think that hearing aids are a bit of a sleepy backwater. Indeed, the only…

• 6 min read
hifi 5 , Mindtree , hearing aid , bluetooth audio , bluetooth , Tensilica , auracast

RISC-V Tutorial

I keep reading accounts in the media and in the technical press (and YouTube) that…

• 5 min read
risc-v , featured , risc-v foundation , isa , risc-v international , instruction set architecture

CadenceLIVE Boston: The Current State of EDA Education

On the academic track at CadenceLIVE Boston, Matthew Morrison of the University of…

• 3 min read
Cadence Academic Network , education , matthew morrison , chips

Dhiraj on Building the Dynamic Duo

When I rejoined Cadence in 2015, we had not yet announced Palladium Z1. But it was…

• 2 min read
dynamic duo , Protium , Palladium

HOT CHIPS: Beyond Compute – Enabling AI Through System Integration

The keynote for the second day of HOT CHIPS this year was a presentation by Ganesh…

• 3 min read
dojo , tesla , hot chips , AI

Museums: Technology around the World

August is often a quiet time at Breakfast Bytes, with lots of people on vacation…

• 4 min read
featured , museum

CadenceLIVE Boston: Technology and Clam Chowder

Last week it was CadenceLIVE Boston, back after a hiatus of a couple of years since…

• 4 min read

Old Slater Mill, RI. Made in England

The day after I attended CadenceLIVE Boston, I visited Slater Mill, or Old Slater…

• 4 min read
museum , slater mill

Enterprise Datacenters Only Use 56% of Their Capacity

I wrote about Future Facilities on the day we acquired them. See my post Cadence…

• 7 min read
CFD , featured , Computational Fluid Dynamics , 6SigmaDCX , hyperscaler , thermal , datacenter

Quantum Physics for Babies

About five years ago, I was asked to give a presentation as part of our distinguished…

• 3 min read
chris ferrie , for babies , book

Verisium AI-Driven Verification Platform

Ever since Tim O'Reilly popularized the term Web 2.0 by starting the Web 2.0 Conference…

• 3 min read
cadence.ai , verisium , eda2.0 , verification

HOT CHIPS Day 2: AI...and More Hot Chiplets

My post about the first day of HOT CHIPS appeared yesterday. See HOT CHIPS Day 1…

• 7 min read
chiplets , hot chips , AI , hotchips2022

The AI Hardware Summit 2022

This year's AI Hardware Summit is coming up next week from 13th to 15th September…

• 2 min read
Tensilica , ai hardware summit , AI

Semiconductor 101: New Video

For several years now, I have given a presentation that started off under the name…

• 1 min read
eda 101 , semiconductor 101

Books: Hyperscale and Automotive

I wrote a book! To be more precise, I worked with co-authors to write two books.…

• 3 min read
Automotive , featured , hyperscale , book

HOT CHIPS Day 1: Hot Chiplets

I've said before that HOT CHIPS is one of the best places to absorb the zeitgeist…

• 4 min read
chiplet , 3DIC , 2.5D IC , hot chips , interposer , hotchips2022

Offtopic: Austria for Canoes and Mask Writing

It's Labor Day on Monday here in the US, a day that traditionally marks the end of…

• 8 min read
semianalysis , offtopic , austria , Olympics

Space Debris and the Kessler Syndrome

One of the YouTube channels that I am subscribed to is SpaceX. But it's gotten very…

• 6 min read
spacex , space , satellite

HOT CHIPS: CXL Tutorial

Recently, it was HOT CHIPS 2022. The event was virtual again since when they had…

• 4 min read
CXL , hot chips , hotchips2022

CadenceLIVE: Dassault and Cadence

In February, Cadence announced an agreement with the French company Dassault Systèmes…

• 3 min read
cadencelive 2022 , dassault systèmes , virtual twin , cadencelive , dassault

Sunday Brunch Video for 28th August 2022

https://youtu.be/3XCQusdK4to Made in "Hawaii" (camera me) Monday: CadenceLIVE: Using…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch
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