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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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Circuits and Systems for Security and Privacy

One of the perks of writing this blog is that I get offered review copies of interesting…

• 6 min read
security , side channel attacks , encryption , puf , crc press , random number , physically unclonable functions

Tom Quan on TSMC's Automotive Strategy

Tom Quan recently came to Cadence to talk about TSMC's automotive strategy. Tom and…

• 4 min read
Automotive , tom quan , TSMC , 7ff , 16FFC , ISO 26262 , ADAS , 7nm , Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview February 13th to 17th 2017

https://youtu.be/HL0GFG9tNP4 Coming from Cadence security camera Monday…

• less than a min read
deep learning , machine learning , convolutional neural networks , moore's law , embedded neural networks , neural networks , machine vision

He Who Goes First Loses, EDA Edition

Yesterday I wrote a post He Who Goes First...Loses about how being first isn't always…

• 4 min read
point tools , hunters , EDA , ambit , farmers

He Who Goes First...Loses

There is a saying, of course, that he who goes first wins. And sometimes, and in…

• 5 min read
apple pay , credit cards , m-pesa , tube , london tube

Handling Variability in the Modern Design Cycle

Igor Keller gave an internal presentation on Handling Variability in the Modern Design…

• 6 min read
on chip variation , AOCV , STA , OCV , variability , voltage droop , static timing , layout dependent effects , miller capacitance , SOCV , crosstalk , slew , SSTA

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview February 6th to 10th 2017

https://youtu.be/XOS4sfILahc Coming from Design Con 2017 Monday: He Who…

• less than a min read
security , Automotive , Routing , TSMC , business strategy , Innovus , privacy

The ASML Standard Node

One of the first posts I wrote here at Breakfast Bytes was Where Does 5 Really Mean…

• 3 min read
mmhp , cphp , standard node , EUV

The Book for Practicing Formal Verification Engineers

At the no-longer-so-recent Jasper User Group JUG last year, the keynote was by Erik…

• 3 min read
formal verification book , Formal verification

ENIAC, EDSAC and Colossus... and the Difference Engine

There are lots of claims to be the first computer, depending on your definition of…

• 5 min read
edsac , analytical engine , mercury delay line , difference engine , first stored program computer , eniac

Andrzej Strojwas Receives the 2016 Kaufman Award

Last night was the annual Kaufman Award dinner to present the award to this year…

• 6 min read
Kaufman Award , kaufman award dinner , andrzej strojwas , pdf solutions

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 30th to February 3rd 2017

https://youtu.be/NxgrCMJYRew Coming from Kaufman Award Dinner Monday: The…

• less than a min read
asml standard node , formal , Kaufman Award , STA , andrzej strojwas , variability , standard node , Formal verification

SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference

SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, with the purpose of …

• 4 min read
lithography , imec.spie advanced lithography , SPIE

Frank Chen of a16z on 16 Things About Autonomous Vehicles

In a recent a16z presentation, Frank Chen, a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz, says…

• 6 min read
autonomous cars , self-driving cars , a16z , autonomous vehicles

ENNS 2017: Deep Learning, the New Moore's Law

One of the hottest areas in systems right now is deep learning: neural networks,…

• 3 min read
CVPR , deep learning , enns 2017 , CNN

Nibbles: Breakfast Bytes Predictions 2017

It's that time of year when pundits try and predict major changes that will happen…

• 3 min read
2016 predictions , 2017 predictions

RISC-V "The thing that you learn and the thing that you use are the same"

The Electronic System Design Alliance (fka EDAC) has been organizing evening meetings…

• 7 min read
risc-v , cadence , isa , Jim Hogan , instruction set architecture , sifive , esd alliance

Automotive at CES

Automotive was huge at CES. A lot of it went for the glamour without really having…

• 3 min read
Automotive , NVIDIA , Qualcomm

Security in 2016 and 2017

It's the start of the year, plus the Consumer Electronics Show is over. I've already…

• 3 min read
security , botnets , mirai , drones , Singapore

5G is Coming. Qualcomm Keynote at CES

Steve Mollenkopf, the CEO of Qualcomm, gave one of the keynotes at the Consumer Electronics…

• 4 min read
5G , Automotive , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , IoT , Qualcomm , mobile

Bluetooth 5, 4.2, Bluetooth Classic, and Bluetooth LE...Confused Yet?

What is Bluetooth 5? 4.2? Bluetooth Classic? Bluetooth Smart? Low Energy? The naming…

• 6 min read
BLE , bluetooth , bluetooth 4.2 , Bluetooth 5.0 , Breakfast Bytes

Security the Google Way

The latest RISC-V workshop was held at Google. In the middle of the day, there was…

• 3 min read
security , risc-v , nsa , google , bios lockdown , rowhammer , Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 16th to 20th 2017

https://youtu.be/ympju1edOh8 Coming from my office at Cadence Monday: Review…

• less than a min read
security , Automotive , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , Qualcomm , ADAS , privacy , esd alliance

RISCy Business: Next Hogan Evening at ESD Alliance Is RISC-V

The ESD Alliance Emerging Companies have been organizing a series of evening events…

• 2 min read
risc-v , Cadence Academic Network , ESDA , risc-v foundation , Hogan , Jim Hogan , esd allliance , Breakfast Bytes , sifive

CES Highlights

Happy New Year, and the first week of January means it is the Consumer Electronics…

• 4 min read
Consumer Electronics Show , CES , autonomous , virtual reality , drone , ADAS , augmented reality , Breakfast Bytes

ACE Awards: Palladium Z1 Team Is Design Team of the Year

Every year, UBM, the parent company of EE TImes and EDN (and the organizer of several…

• 6 min read
design team of the year , palladium z1 , Palladium , ace awards , Emulation , Breakfast Bytes , ubm

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

https://youtu.be/33fiVk2BoKo Coming from Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas at during…

• less than a min read
security , risc-v , ACE award , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , Palladium , encryption , privacy , esd alliance

MediaTek's Experience with Perspec

At CDNLive in Taiwan last year, MediaTek presented their experiences with Perspec…

• 3 min read
CDNLive , Perspec , cdnlive taiwan , mediatek , System Verifier , Breakfast Bytes
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