I've not been to Bengaluru for about 20 years, when I ran engineering at Compass and we were considering setting up an engineering group in India. I came out with an Indian business development guy and we looked at potential sites in Bangalore (as Bengaluru was then called), in Hyderabad, and in Noida. Cadence has a big operation here. In fact, apparently this ties for third place of all Cadence sites. San Jose is the largest. Noida, in Northern India outside Delhi, is the second largest, and then it is a tie between Shanghai and Bengaluru. India is almost literally halfway around the world from California. Presumably, so that India can all be on a single time zone, the time difference is not 12 but 12½ hours apart. It is close enough to exactly halfway that you can get here either via Europe or via Asia. I chose to come via Frankfurt, like most people seem to. A 10-hour flight from San Francisco, a 3-hour layover in Germany, then a 9-hour flight to India. You arrive in the middle of the night at about 1am, although due to flight delays it was 2am by the time we arrived. After clearing immigration, an hour's ride in a car to the hotel, and checking in, then you are lucky to be in your room much before 4am. Not the easiest of journeys. Going home, my flight leaves at 3. Yup, 3am, not 3pm. Having been a student in the UK, I am very familiar with Indian food. It is what we lived on when we had no money. Plus, over the years, it has become more popular than fish and chips. Neil Kinnock, a politician, is famous for calling Chicken Tikka Masala Britain's national dish (and one that doesn't even exist in India). The standard of Indian food in the UK has improved immeasurably (not to mention how much I can afford to pay for it). I had lunch in the lunch buffet here yesterday and I was happy that I knew what daal, biryani, pakora, idli and so on are without needing to open the lids. I did learn something as a student! I even had masala dosa for breakfast. CDNLive Bengaluru opens today. Due to an overwhelming response, registration had to be closed early. Even the registration area alone looks impressive, waiting patiently the night before for the invasion that will begin this morning. The meeting is opened by Jaswinder Ahuja, who was already running Cadence India back when I was last at Cadence 15 years ago. Then there will be two keynotes. I will cover one or both of them in tomorrow's Breakfast Bytes. There always seems to be a major sporting event during CDNLive. In Munich it was the European Championship and we even had Bayern München in the same hotel. This time it is the Olympics. Except for cricket, I don't think of India as being a major sporting nation, although they seem to be a force in hockey too. That would be the sort that does not involve ice. But the British just knocked the women into 4th place, and Germany scored against the men with three seconds left to go and so eliminated them. CDNLive here is also the first outing of the new Cadence Breakfast Bytes shirt. If you are here, then keep an eye out for me and introduce yourself. I'll be the only person in a shirt like this. My preview of CDNLive India is at CDNLive India . Full details on the Cadence web page for the event. You can also access Breakfast Bytes from breakfastbytes.com as well as from the front page of the new Cadence website. Watch for new ways to preview "What's for Breakfast?" Previous: A Raven Has Landed: RISC-V and Chisel![]()
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