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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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CDNLive Taiwan Automotive Panel

At CDNLive in Taiwan in August, there was a record number of attendees, with about…

• 8 min read
Automotive , hsinchu , CDNLive , TSMC , Renesas , cdnlive taiwan , phison , ADAS , Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview October 9th to 13th 2017

https://youtu.be/SVVE2vM4L6U Coming from Alum Rock Park (camera Carey Guo)…

• less than a min read
conformal , China , Chris Rowen , LEC , linley group , semi , grace hopper , vision

Scaling Embedded Inference Performance for Deep Learning

Tomorrow it is the Linley Microprocessor Conference and Pulin Desai of Cadence is…

• 6 min read
Vision P5 , deep learning , deeplearningmachinelearning , inference , convolutional neural network , training , Tensilica , CNN , neural network , Breakfast Bytes

AMD's Early Experience with Portable Stimulus

PSS is the Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard. Or I should say proposed standard…

• 4 min read
ryzen , AMD , Perspec , pss , portable stimulus , Breakfast Bytes

Building a Business Model

You know how you sometimes say "the other day" as if it was last week, or maybe the…

• 8 min read
business model , pitch deck , garage ventures , reichert , Breakfast Bytes , venture capital

SJSU School of Cognitive Science

Jim Hogan is a graduate of San Jose State University. Despite the prestige of Stanford…

• 7 min read
san jose state university , san jose state , cognitive science , cognitive era , sjsu , Breakfast Bytes

Machine Learning for Higher Performance Machine Learning

The second day keynote at the recent (well, over a month ago, there's been lots to…

• 6 min read
tpu , Jeff Dean , google , hotchips , TensorFlow , machine learning , NAE goals , machinelearningdeeplearning , Tensor Processing Unit , Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview October 2nd to 6th 2017

https://youtu.be/uT2vXsXHV6s Coming from my car (camera Sean) Monday: AMD…

• less than a min read
deep learning , tensiilica , formal , EDPS , sjsu , portabe stimulus standard , Jim Hogan , pss , Formal verification

SEMI Strategic Materials Conference

Yesterday I wrote about EDPS, which takes place at SEMI. Today, I'm writing about…

• 6 min read
China , semiconductor equipment , AMD , semi , moore's law , ARM , Breakfast Bytes

Solving the Design to Manufacturing Problems in Milpitas

HOT NEWS: In case you missed it, right at the end of last week, British GPU and CPU…

• 8 min read
Cisco , hvm , manufacturing , synopsys , data-centric computer architecture

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview September 25th to 29th 2017

https://youtu.be/Uubpn09k83U Coming from Testarossa Winery, Los Gatos (camera…

• less than a min read
semi , business models , EDPS , sjsu , Jim Hogan , neural nets , smc

Show Me the Money

I have put out some posts about generic business models and startups. However, if…

• 7 min read
investors , EDA , startups , Breakfast Bytes

Coincidence and Another Record

Record 1 I recently reached a sort of record that I detailed in my post The 500th…

• 6 min read
SIA , hock tan , gsa , Breakfast Bytes

India, Singapore, Hong Kong

What do India, Singapore, and Hong Kong have in common? Well, I visited them all…

• 8 min read
CDNLive , lee kuan yew , hong kong , sir john cowperthwaite , bangalore , Breakfast Bytes , India , Singapore

CDNLive India 2017 Trip Report

I went to Bangalore to CDNLive India. It has a different structure from the other…

• 6 min read
ml , CDNLive India , dl , CDNLive , machinelearningdeeplearning , AI , Breakfast Bytes

Legato: Smooth Memory Design

At CDNLive in Bengaluru (fka Bangalore), Cadence announced the Legato solution for…

• 4 min read

TSMC Process Roadmap Update

This Wednesday was TSMC's OIP Ecosystem Forum, one of two major events that TSMC…

• 5 min read
22_ULP , 22_ULL , 7nm+ , 12FFC , TSMC , 16FFC , 28HPC+ , 7nm , Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview September 18th to 22nd 2017

https://youtu.be/mrUIXwMuNy8 Coming from TSMC OIP Symposium, Santa Clara (camera…

• less than a min read
legato , CDNLive , hong kong , neural nets , India , Singapore

Why Are Design Tools So Bad? Or Are They?

In a recent feature article at Electronic Engineering Journal, Kevin Morris asks…

• 6 min read
electronic engineering journal , bugs , EDA , design tools

New Cadence Support of TSMC 7nm, 7nm+, and 12FFC

A quick guide to TSMC processes. There is a 10nm process but very little development…

• 4 min read
OIP , 7nm+ , 12FFC , TSMC , DDR , 7nm , Breakfast Bytes

Automotive IP Family for TSMC 16FFC

At the semiconductor level, automotive poses huge challenges due to an experience…

• 3 min read
OIP , tsmc 9000A , TSMC , renasas , Ethernet , PCIe , semiconductor IP , DDR , Breakfast Bytes

Xilinx/Arm/Cadence/TSMC Announce World's First 7nm CCIX Silicon Demonstrator; and…

"It takes a village to raise a child," as the African proverb says. It seems to take…

• 3 min read
ARM Techcon , cadence , ccix , TSMC , accelerator , xilinx , 7nm , Breakfast Bytes , FPGA

CDNLive Boston Keynotes

There were three keynotes to kick off CDNLive Boston. Tom Beckley gave the Cadence…

• 8 min read
Automotive , Tom Beckley , Protium , Palladium , silicon photonics , ADAS , Medtronic , Breakfast Bytes

Neural Engineering System Design

At HOTCHIPS 2017, we had a special break so we could watch the eclipse. Of course…

• 4 min read
brain encoding , neuron , hotchips , Breakfast Bytes , cortical modem

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview September 11th to 15th 2017

https://youtu.be/ljGLKZ0gz8c Coming from Singapore Botanic Garden (camera Page…

• less than a min read
OIP , ccix , TSMC

Quantus FS Field Solver for the FinFET Era

For any parasitic extraction tool, there is always a tradeoff between performance…

• 4 min read
Extraction , netlist , field solver , quantus fs , Breakfast Bytes , foundry

Naveed Sherwani Takes the Reins at SiFive

A couple of weeks ago, I talked to Naveed Sherwani, the new CEO of SiFive. For more…

• 5 min read
ASIC , risc-v , naveed sherwani , Breakfast Bytes , sifive

Four Early Computers, 3 and 4

This is a continuation of Four Early Computers: 1 and 2 . The story opens as our…

• 7 min read
ibm 1130 , ibm 370 , computer history museum , icl , ibm 360 , vax 11/780 , Breakfast Bytes , data general nova
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