Google TPU Software
In yesterday's post I gave the details of the TPU hardware from Cliff Young's keynote on the second day of the recent Linley Processor Conference. Today, I'll look at what Cliff said about software and...
View ArticleThe Fermi Paradox
It's the day before Thanksgiving. Breakfast Bytes will be dark Thursday and Friday. But today, the day before a break, I write about something that has little (okay, no) connection to semiconductors...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 25th November 2018
https://youtu.be/yroiWVJA8vs Made on top of Haleakala, Maui (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Inside Google's TPU Tuesday: Google TPU Software Wednesday: The Fermi Paradox Thursday: No post Friday: No... [[...
View ArticleNeural Nets Hit the Roofline—Memory for AI
At the recent Linley Processor Conference, there were two interesting presentations on the memory demands of AI processors. The two presentations were: Steven Woo of Rambus on Memory Systems for AI......
View ArticleDo Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer?
One subject that regularly gets some traction in the news is whether cellphones cause brain cancer. Every so often a jury awards damages and the press makes a big deal about it, but usually it turns......
View ArticleDiwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights...and Photonics, the Silicon Festival of...
November 7 is the big day in Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, as it symbolizes the victory of light over darkness, and of knowledge over ignorance. All of which made it a perfect day to have... [[...
View ArticleAn Illuminating Chat with Lumerical's CTO
During the recent photonics summit, I sat down with James Pond, the CTO of Lumerical along with Rich Goldman who is doing their marketing. At CDNLive in Munich earlier in the year I got a brief demo......
View ArticleVirtuosity:"What's In a Name?"
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" Shakespeare knew long before us, that even names can be deceptive! The meaning of a word can be influenced by the context it is used in or... [[ Click on...
View ArticleChiplets -- Reinventing Systems Design
A new paradigm shift is now happening in the electronics industry with systems design. The conventional thinking of designing an electronic system with a single monolithic SoC is changing to using a......
View Article"GDPR Is an Enormous Regulatory Own Goal"
During the summer I was on Twitter when I saw a tweet from Benedict Evans. He is an Englishman (yeah!) who Andreessen-Horowitz (usually just called a16z) brought over to the US to be a partner. The......
View ArticleVeriest to Host Verification Meetup in Serbia Featuring Specman Macros
Veriest , a member of the Cadence Verification Alliance , is holding a series of Meetups in Serbia to serve the growing technology community. The December 12th event will feature a session on...
View ArticleWillamette HDL and Cadence Develop the Industry's First PSS Training Course...
Cadence continues to be a leader in SoC verification and has expanded our industry investment in Accellera portable stimulus language standardization. Some customers have expressed reservations that......
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 2nd December 2018
https://youtu.be/0vF465hv62k Made in Cadence EBC (camera Sean) Monday: Neural Nets Hit the Roofline—Memory for AI Tuesday: Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer? Wednesday: Diwali, the Hindu Festival of......
View ArticleICCAD and Open-Source CAD
Every year in November it is ICCAD, officially the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design. This year was the 37th, presumably meaning that the first one was in 1981. This year it was held......
View ArticleClayton Christensen on the Prosperity Paradox
Probably my favorite business book ever is Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma . It is not just important, a book that anyone involved in management and strategy should read, it is... [[...
View ArticleBenedict's Christmas Present...ation: The End of the Beginning
Every year Benedict Evans of a16z does a "big" presentation on the future of mobile and digital media. I put the word "big" in quotes because the other annual take on the internet... [[ Click on the...
View ArticleSemiconductor 2018: Up and to the Right...But Memory Way Up
I was at a meeting of the ESD Alliance (probably still called EDAC back then) when someone memorably described the EDA industry as being like a water skier being towed behind the semiconductor... [[...
View ArticleOne Cadence, One Team, One...
One Cadence, One Team, aaaanddd... One Family! This time of year sees all the India sites celebrate the annual Family Days. It is a way for Cadence to thank employees’ families for all their support......
View ArticleVirtuosity: Designing a Row-Based Layout Methodology – Why does this Make...
When designing layout at advanced nodes, would you like to: Do more projects with the same number of people? Keep the same schedule timelines as for the previous nodes? Reduce the steep learning... [[...
View ArticleThe Mother of All Demos
It is the 50th Anniversary on Sunday of a demo that took place on December 9th 1968. It would go on to become known as "The Mother of All Demos" because it changed people's conception... [[ Click on...
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