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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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IEDM: Coventor Panel on BEOL Challenges

At the recent IEDM in San Francisco, Coventor organized a panel titled BEOL Barricades…

• 6 min read
tokyo electron , cobalt , copper , Samsung , Lam Research , Coventor , GlobalFoundries , beol , umc , rubidium , Breakfast Bytes , liner

Dolby Atmos and Tensilica

Dolby Laboratories was founded by Ray Dolby. I always thought he was English, but…

• 3 min read
Consumer Electronics Show , CES , audio dsp , atmos , HiFi , Dolby , Tensilica , television , Breakfast Bytes

Alexa: Is VUI the New GUI?

Just before the holidays I gave in and purchased an Amazon Echo, the small hockey…

• 4 min read
alexa , echo dot , voice , Siri , Amazon , Breakfast Bytes , echo

Pat Pistilli: the First Cell Library, the First DRC File, the First Computer-Printed…

You probably know that DAC is run by a company called MP Associates. It was started…

• 6 min read
DAC , cell library , drc file , wire-wrap , pat pistil , Bell Labs , label , avery , Breakfast Bytes

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

https://youtu.be/bGsKR-RG0fY Coming from Mission San Juan Bautista, California…

• less than a min read
DAC , alexa , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , Perspec , EDA , vui , cdnlive boston , pat pistilli , Tensilica , Coventor , Amazon , mediatek , Design Automation Conference , beol , IEDM

Silicon Photonics

You probably already know that much of the traffic inside the data center, and indeed…

• 9 min read
mach zehnder interferometer , waveguide , fiber optic , ring coupler , light , silicon photonics , mode , Breakfast Bytes

Branko's Elephant Chart

There are several areas where semiconductor technology and society come together…

• 5 min read
branko's elephant chart , world bank , global income distribution , Breakfast Bytes

RISC-V: Codasip, BaySand, and More

Recently the RISC-V Fifth Workshop took place at Google in Mountain View. As always…

• 3 min read
UltraSoC , risc-v , codasip , BaySand , Codeplay , Breakfast Bytes

Lip-Bu Tan Receives the Exemplary Leadership Award from GSA

Last week, Lip-Bu Tan, the CEO of Cadence, received the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary…

• 5 min read
gas , cadence , fsa , fabless , TSMC , Lip-Bu Tan , morris change exemplary leadership award , Morris Chang , Breakfast Bytes

IEDM: 7nm from TSMC and IBM/GLOBALFOUNDRIES/Samsung

At IEDM last week, there were papers in eight parallel tracks for three days. At…

• 3 min read
IBM , Samsung , TSMC , 193i , FinFET , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , EUV , Breakfast Bytes

Tensilica at CES: Hololens Will Be There, Will You?

It's a new year soon. And that means New Year Resolutions. I will go to the gym.…

• 3 min read
hololens , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , vision processing , ADAS , autonomous vehicles , Breakfast Bytes , HiFi Audio

Can Computers Think? Or Understand Chinese?

I have been working with computers for a long time. I first learned to program in…

• 5 min read
searle , artificial intelligence , Chinese room , Turing test , neural nets , Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview December 12th to 16th

https://youtu.be/wtOOIg32ma8 Monday: Lip-Bu Tan is honored by GSA with the Maurice…

• less than a min read
risc-v , codasip , IBM , branko's elephant chart , Samsung , TSMC , gf , Lip-Bu Tan , silicon photonics , photonics , gsa , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , IEDM , maurice chang

IEDM: The Big Decisions for 5nm

The Sunday of IEDM there were two all-day short courses . The one I attended was…

• 6 min read
SADP , gas , contact liner , horizontal nanowire , lelele , lex , 193i lithography , cobalt , copper , contact , LELE , FinFET , 5nm , le2 , nanowire , vertical nanowire , le3 , EUV , IEDM , gate all around , Breakfast Bytes

RISC-V Available in Silicon

One of the announcements at the recent RISC-V workshop was by SiFive . This is the…

• 4 min read
risc-v , freedom everywhere 310 , hifive1 , open source hardware , fe310 , open source , Arduino , Breakfast Bytes , sifive

James Adams Talks About How Raspberry Pi Was Designed

I wrote recently about Eben Upton's presentation about the genesis of business-card…

• 4 min read
ARM Techcon , Raspberry Pi , raspberry pi foundation , raspberry pi 3 , OrCAD , Sigrity , Breakfast Bytes , Allegro

RISC-V 5th Workshop Highlights

The fifth (V th ?) RISC-V workshop took place this week at Google in Mountain View…

• 5 min read
risc-v , codasip , risc-v foundation , isa , Breakfast Bytes , sifive

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview December 5th to 9th

https://youtu.be/IAPCDXodsno Monday: James Adams of the Raspberry Pi foundation…

• less than a min read
risc-v , Raspberry Pi , hifive1 , 5 nanometer , Chinese room , OrCAD , 5nm , computer consciousness , IEDM , sifive , computer thought , Allegro

The Internet of Space

At EDPS back in May (yes, I know I'm behind), Andrew Filo talked about Building the…

• 3 min read
kicksat-2 , EDPS , femto-satellite , space , NASA , internet of space , Breakfast Bytes

Protium: FPGA Prototyping the Cadence Way

I attended a recent workshop on Protium titled Accelerating Embedded Software Development…

• 4 min read
TTP , Protium , FPGA prototyping , time to prototype , Breakfast Bytes , FPGA , verification

Portable Stimulus Standard

There is an Accellera working group that is developing a portable stimulus standard…

• 7 min read
54dac , DVcon , Accellera , pss , Breakfast Bytes , portable stimulus standard

IEDM in December—7nm Announcements

Soon it is the International Electron Devices Meeting. It takes place in San Francisco…

• 4 min read
extreme ultra violet , iedm 2016 , IBM , Samsung , TSMC , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , EUV , IEDM

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview November 28th to December 2nd

https://youtu.be/CUGTiPJQjuI Monday: My preview of IEDM which includes 7nm…

• less than a min read
risc-v , IBM , 7 nanometer , Perspec , Protium , Samsung , TSMC , gf , risc-v workshop , iOS , FPGA prototyping , femto-satellite , GlobalFoundries , pss , internet of space , IEDM , portable stimulus standard

Happy Thanksgiving. Do You Have Toenailitis?

It’s Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving if you are reading this on the day. Cadence…

• 3 min read
bayes' theorem , physicians' knowledge of statistics , statistical literacy , false positive , false negative , turkey , Breakfast Bytes

Future of EDA: The Q & A

There was a recent panel discussion at Cadence on the future of EDA. The panelists…

• 4 min read
Cadence Academic Network , Stanford , future of eda , Berkeley , Breakfast Bytes

Future of EDA: Industry...Well, Cadence...Weighs In

There was a recent panel discussion at Cadence on the future of EDA. If you didn…

• 3 min read
Cadence Academic Network , Stanford , future of eda , Berkeley , Breakfast Bytes

The Future of EDA: The View from Academia

There was a recent panel discussion at Cadence on the future of EDA. Of course the…

• 6 min read
Cadence Academic Network , Stanford , future of eda , Berkeley , Breakfast Bytes

RISC-V 5th Workshop Preview

The 5th RISC-V workshop is coming up on November 29 and 30 on the Google Quad campus…

• 3 min read
risc-v , risc-v foundation , google , risc-v workshop , Breakfast Bytes
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