Senior Vice President of Strategic Technology Programs, Cadence Design
Search every verified Thomas Beckley interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Tom Beckley, Senior Vice President of Strategic Technology Programs at Cadence Design, has delivered keynote addresses at CDNLive EMEA events from 2012 to 2019. In his 2019 keynote, Beckley discussed the impact of data and artificial intelligence on the semiconductor industry, stating that "data is becoming the new corporate asset" and that "the AI segment will grow at three times that rate" compared to the broader semiconductor industry. He announced that Cadence had formed a group of about 250 people focused on multiphysics, and that the company introduced the Clarity 3D electromagnetic solver, which he described as "architected to be run on the cloud with massive parallelism." Beckley also noted that his team received a $25 million grant from DARPA for a program targeting push-button analog, package, and board design. In earlier keynotes, Beckley addressed mixed-signal design challenges and Cadence's investments in verification and implementation tools. He stated that "verification is the largest methodology hurdle in mixed signal design" and that Cadence was working on a next-generation fast spice product. Beckley also discussed the use of machine learning algorithms to improve simulation and floor planning, and highlighted collaborations with companies including Nvidia, Intel, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin as part of a US government-funded electronic resurgence initiative.
“Data is becoming the new corporate asset and all of a sudden there's so much compute power available for computer scientists that at the center of all this activity now is AI.”
“While the semiconductor industry is going to see great growth over the next eight to ten years, the AI segment will grow at three times that rate.”
“5G won't be four times faster than 4G; it will be 40 times faster than 4G with much higher bandwidth. It will be the foundation for the driverless car, the smart city, automation on the factory floor with IoT.”
“TSMC is investing billions and billions of dollars each year in advanced packaging for 3D IC, wafer level stacking, optimizing certain components at larger nodes and others at much smaller nodes because of this.”
“About a year ago, Cadence recognized the need to look at miniaturization and what it has in terms of heterogeneous system design and the physics effects. We formed a group now about 250 people strong focused on multiphysics.”
“We just introduced our first new product called the Clarity 3D electromagnetic solver, architected to be run on the cloud with massive parallelism, offering unprecedented performance and capacity with golden accuracy.”
“Last year, my team alone received a $25 million grant from DARPA for a moonshot program targeting push-button analog, package, and board design.”
“We are using machine learning algorithms to improve smarter simulation, better floor planning, and improved power, performance, and area in our core EDA platforms.”
“The third generation Jasper Gold platform includes machine learning technology called smart proof technology, which significantly improves performance and convergence in hardware verification.”
“We are collaborating with leading commercial companies including Nvidia, Intel, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin as part of the electronic resurgence initiative funded by the US government.”
“That lidar system is in excess of $50,000 per vehicle — that is not sustainable. That's not going to be the driverless car; it's going to be solid-state, it's going to drop by orders of magnitude in cost and improve reliability by orders of magnitude because of new fabrics.”
“Last month at CDNLive Silicon Valley Cadence introduced a new DRC system, Pegasus — it's built on the cloud with a massively parallel architecture and scales on hundreds and hundreds of CPUs upwards to a thousand or more. Think about doing a DRC turn in a matter of hours versus days or weeks and what that means in term...”
“The drivers of mobility, video, and social networking are really powering mixed signal design, and therefore applications must provide low power, high bandwidth, and technology integration. There's really no better example than Apple and the iPad and the iPhone.”
“Every supplier on the iPad is a Virtuoso customer, including Apple. They're all Cadence customers, and the iPad is a good example of the state of the art of mixed signal design and some of the future direction of where it's going.”
“Over the next five years, we're expecting to see the bandwidth and a surge of almost 20-fold in terms of mobile data traffic. That's huge. With 4G and 5G, there's a trend for multiple radios to handle the throughput that's required.”
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