category: Cascade Effects

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

What Just Happened?
By Brian Fuller - 12 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

Boy that went by fast. One minute, I’m waking up a little groggy on New Year’s Day, wondering whether the silicon industry is ever going to rebound. The next minute, it’s today and the industry had a good year, and is, in many ways, a completely different animal than it was 12 months ago. Innovation is evolutionary, sure. But if you really think about 2013, you can make an argument tha... » read more

Crunch Time
By Brian Fuller - 14 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

The electronics industry finds itself today at a tipping point (well, okay, another tipping point). Consider:  The network as we’ve known it for a couple of generations is changing before our eyes, not the least of which to accommodate the expected explosion of Internet of Things in the coming years. ARM CEO Simon Segars put it this way at the recent ARM TechCon event in Santa Clara: ... » read more

The “Last Simple Node” And the Internet of Things
By Brian Fuller - 17 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

Power, performance and size are key targets that will enable the expected explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT). Today, most observers see the path to that running directly through 16/14nm finFET and below for the node’s ability to manage power and size and boost integration. Geoff Lees isn’t your average observer. The vice president and general manager of Freescale’s microcon... » read more

Can the EDA Software Industry Evolve Successfully?
By Brian Fuller - 09 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

The most fundamental industry question of the moment is uncomfortably simple: Can EDA move beyond itself? Industry growth is sluggish, and innovation via startups seems—seems because that’s a flabby statement—static today. Cadence CEO and venture capitalist Lip-bu Tan put it plainly in an interview: “If you look at the bigger picture, the semiconductor industry has not grown for ... » read more

Should EDA Heads Be In The Cloud?
By Brian Fuller - 19 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

Consider the following two comments about cloud computing and electronic design automation: “Over time everybody will move to the cloud in EDA at least in some extent.”—Raik Brinkmann, CEO of OneSpin Solutions. “We put a substantial effort into that, and of all the things we've done in the last 25 years this is probably the single one where the result is essentially zero. I don't ... » read more

Semiconductor Memory Aids
By Brian Fuller - 15 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Brian Fuller It's not hard to forget that semiconductor memory remains one of the most relentless challenges in system design. It sometimes doesn’t get the ink that sexier semiconductor design topics do, but it’s there. Always. Twenty years ago this year, University of Virginia computer scientists William Wulf and Sally McKee published a paper that popularized the term semiconductor ... » read more

The New Hybrid World: Vision And Reality
By Brian Fuller - 18 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

SAN FRANCISCO—You know the famous scene from the movie “The Graduate,” in which a young Dustin Hoffman is offered investment advice by a businessman. “I want to say just one word to you…just one word. Are you listening? Plastics.” Today, Hoffman’s character Benjamin Braddock might hear two words: “Integrated objects.” At least that’s how Ross Bringans from PARC sees... » read more

Deja Vu All Over Again
By Brian Fuller - 19 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Brian Fuller I’m sure you’ve had that experience, at least once in your life, where you’re walking down the street, you pass someone and think, “Where do I know that guy from? Looks soooo familiar….” Well, here in this spot, I’m that guy. You’re looking at that incredibly sincere mug shot nearby and thinking, “Where do I know that guy from? Didn’t he sell me a really ... » read more

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