Memory Innovation at the Edge: Power Efficiency Meets Green Manufacturing

Memory Innovation at the Edge: Power Efficiency Meets Green Manufacturing
by Admin on 07-22-2025 at 10:00 am

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By Tetsu Ho

With the ever-increasing global demand for smarter, faster electronic systems, the semiconductor industry faces a dual challenge: delivering high-performance memory while reducing environmental impact. Winbond is meeting this challenge head-on by embedding sustainability into every layer of its operations—from… Read More


Protecting Sensitive Analog and RF Signals with Net Shielding

Protecting Sensitive Analog and RF Signals with Net Shielding
by Admin on 07-21-2025 at 6:00 am

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By Hossam Sarhan

Communication has become the backbone of our modern world, driving the rapid growth of the integrated circuit (IC) industry, particularly in communication and automotive applications. These applications have increased the demand for high-performance analog and radio frequency (RF) designs.

However, designing… Read More


Closing the Stochastics Resolution Gap

Closing the Stochastics Resolution Gap
by Admin on 07-20-2025 at 6:00 am

Closing the Stochastics Resolution Gap

The relentless miniaturization of semiconductor devices has always relied on achieving ever-smaller features on silicon wafers. However, as the industry enters the realm of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, it faces a critical barrier: stochastics, or the inherent randomness in patterning at atomic scales. This phenomenon… Read More


Godfather of AI: I Tried to Warn Them But We’ve Already Lost Control!

Godfather of AI: I Tried to Warn Them But We’ve Already Lost Control!
by Admin on 07-16-2025 at 10:00 am

Geoffrey Hinton Godfather of AI

Geoffrey Hinton, dubbed the “Godfather of AI,” joins Steven Bartlett on “The Diary of a CEO” podcast to discuss his pioneering work in neural networks and his growing concerns about AI’s dangers. Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist, explains how he advocated for brain-inspired… Read More


Improve Precision of Parasitic Extraction for Digital Designs

Improve Precision of Parasitic Extraction for Digital Designs
by Admin on 07-15-2025 at 10:00 am

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By Mark Tawfik

Parasitic extraction is essential in integrated circuit (IC) design, as it identifies unintended resistances, capacitances, and inductances that can impact circuit performance. These parasitic elements arise from the layout and interconnects of the circuit and can affect signal integrity, power consumption,… Read More


Dual Strategy of Electroless Metal Deposition and Surface Silylation Toward Scalable Low-Temperature Hybrid Bonding for Advanced Packaging Applications

Dual Strategy of Electroless Metal Deposition and Surface Silylation Toward Scalable Low-Temperature Hybrid Bonding for Advanced Packaging Applications
by Admin on 07-09-2025 at 8:00 am

Hybrid Bonding for Advanced Packaging

In extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) systems, the collector mirror is a critical optical component that gathers and directs EUV light from the source toward the projection optics. Over time, the collector surface accumulates contaminant films — primarily tin (Sn) debris from the laser-produced plasma (LPP) source, … Read More


Rethink Scoreboards to Supercharge AI-Era CPUs

Rethink Scoreboards to Supercharge AI-Era CPUs
by Admin on 07-01-2025 at 6:00 am

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By Dr. Thang Minh Tran, CEO/CTO Simplex Micro

Today’s AI accelerators—whether built for massive data centers or low-power edge devices—face a common set of challenges: deep pipelines, complex data dependencies, and the high cost of speculative execution. These same concerns have long been familiar in high-frequency microprocessor… Read More


Jitter: The Overlooked PDN Quality Metric

Jitter: The Overlooked PDN Quality Metric
by Admin on 06-30-2025 at 6:00 am

Figure 1 – Accumulated jitter

Bruce Caryl is a Product Specialist with Siemens EDA

The most common way to evaluate a power distribution network is to look at its impedance over the effective frequency range. A lower impedance will produce less noise when transient current is demanded by the IC output buffers. However, this transient current needs to be provided… Read More


Silvaco’s Diffusion of Innovation: Ecosystem Investments Driving Semiconductor Advancements

Silvaco’s Diffusion of Innovation: Ecosystem Investments Driving Semiconductor Advancements
by Admin on 06-27-2025 at 8:00 am

Silvaco at a Glance 2025

In Silvaco’s June 2025 Tech Talk, “The Diffusion of Innovation: Investing in the Ecosystem Expansion,” Chief Revenue Officer Ian Chen outlined how strategic partnerships accelerate R&D in semiconductor design and digital twin modeling. As a leading provider of TCAD, EDA software, and SIP solutions,… Read More


Legacy IP Providers Struggle to Solve the NPU Dilemna

Legacy IP Providers Struggle to Solve the NPU Dilemna
by Admin on 06-11-2025 at 10:00 am

Fracture the IO Network

At Quadric we do a lot of first-time introductory visits with prospective new customers.  As a rapidly expanding processor IP licensing company that is starting to get noticed (even winning IP Product of the Year!) such meetings are part of the territory.  Which means we hear a lot of similar sounding questions from appropriately… Read More