Webinar: Achieving Consistent RTL Power Accuracy

Webinar: Achieving Consistent RTL Power Accuracy
by Daniel Nenni on 01-23-2023 at 10:00 am

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A comprehensive report from the US Department of Energy (DOE), “Semiconductor Supply Chain Deep Dive Assessment” (February 2022) calls for a 1000X energy efficiency improvement that is required to maintain future compute requirement needs given a finite amount of world energy production. Energy efficiency is at the top of … Read More


CEO Interview: Stephen Fairbanks of Certus Semiconductor

CEO Interview: Stephen Fairbanks of Certus Semiconductor
by Daniel Nenni on 01-20-2023 at 6:00 am

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Trained as a semiconductor Analog and RF Circuit Designer, Stephen Fairbanks has been designing and developing process-specific I/O and ESD libraries for 24 years. His foundational training began while attending Brigham Young University designing highspeed 32 GSPS data acquisition systems and RF interfaces for a time-of-flight… Read More


Alphawave IP is now Alphawave Semi for a very good reason!

Alphawave IP is now Alphawave Semi for a very good reason!
by Daniel Nenni on 01-17-2023 at 6:00 am

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The semiconductor ecosystem has been full of interesting twists of late and Alphawave has been a company to watch since the very beginning. Alphawave came out of stealth mode in early 2019 as the world’s first IP company focused on multi-standard connectivity (SerDes) IP solutions. The importance of SerDes had been understated… Read More


Who will Win in the Chiplet War?

Who will Win in the Chiplet War?
by Daniel Nenni on 01-16-2023 at 6:00 am

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The first Chiplet specific conference is coming up which is a milestone in itself. As we know the only thing new about chiplets is the name but when there is a dedicated conference to such a specific thing you know it has officially “arrived”. There is even a cool new tagline: Chiplets make huge chips happen!

“The First Annual Chiplet… Read More


CEO Interview: Matt Genovese of Planorama Design

CEO Interview: Matt Genovese of Planorama Design
by Daniel Nenni on 01-13-2023 at 6:00 am

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Matt Genovese is the founder and CEO of Planorama Design, bringing over 25 years of career experience in high-tech, spanning semiconductors, hardware, IoT, IT, and software product development.  He has a strong track record of planning, launching, and shipping products that work.  Matt’s company, Planorama Design, is a softwareRead More


2022 Phil Kaufman Award Ceremony and Banquet Honoring Dr. Giovanni De Micheli

2022 Phil Kaufman Award Ceremony and Banquet Honoring Dr. Giovanni De Micheli
by Daniel Nenni on 01-10-2023 at 8:00 am

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One of the first events on the 2023 EDA calendar is the Phil Kaufman Award ceremony and banquet honoring the 2022 recipient Dr. Giovanni De Micheli. The event, hosted by the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESD Alliance) and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA), will be held Thursday, February 23, starting… Read More


Arteris IP Acquires Semifore!

Arteris IP Acquires Semifore!
by Daniel Nenni on 01-10-2023 at 5:45 am

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The semiconductor ecosystem consolidation continues with an interesting acquisition of an EDA company by an IP company. Having worked with both Arteris and Semifore over the past few years I can tell you by personal experience that this is one of those 1+1=3 types of acquisitions, absolutely.

Semifore was founded in 2006 by a team… Read More


CEO Interview: Dr. Chris Eliasmith and Peter Suma, of Applied Brain Research Inc.

CEO Interview: Dr. Chris Eliasmith and Peter Suma, of Applied Brain Research Inc.
by Daniel Nenni on 01-06-2023 at 6:00 am

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Professor Chris Eliasmith (right side) is co-CEO and President of Applied Brain Research Inc. Chris is also the co-inventor of the Neural Engineering Framework (NEF), the Nengo neural development environment, and the Semantic Pointer Architecture, all of which are dedicated to leveraging our understanding of the brain to … Read More


A Five-Year Formal Celebration at Axiomise

A Five-Year Formal Celebration at Axiomise
by Daniel Nenni on 12-23-2022 at 6:00 am

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It’s been a bit more than a year since I interviewed Dr. Ashish Darbari, founder and CEO of Axiomise. I’ve been keeping an eye on Ashish and his colleagues, and I was surprised to learn that they recently celebrated their fifth anniversary as a company. I thought that this would be a good time to catch up with him to find out what’s happened… Read More


Chiplets UCIe Require Verification

Chiplets UCIe Require Verification
by Daniel Nenni on 12-20-2022 at 6:00 am

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Chiplets have been trending on SemiWiki for the past two years and I think that will continue into the distant future. As a potential way to unclog Moore’s Law, you can bet the semiconductor ecosystem will prove once again to be a chiplet force of nature driving semiconductor company roadmaps to smaller and better things.

To be clear,… Read More