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


CEO Interview: Ron Black of Codasip

CEO Interview: Ron Black of Codasip
by Daniel Nenni on 12-16-2022 at 6:00 am

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Dr. Black has over 30 years of industry experience. Before joining Codasip, he has been President and CEO at Imagination Technologies and previously CEO at Rambus, MobiWire (SAGEM Handsets), UPEK, and Wavecom. He holds a BS and MS in Engineering and a Ph.D. in Materials science from Cornell University. A consistent thread of his… Read More


Synopsys Crosses $5 Billion Milestone!

Synopsys Crosses $5 Billion Milestone!
by Daniel Nenni on 12-14-2022 at 6:00 am

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“We intend to grow revenue 14% to 15%, continue to drive notable ops margin expansion and aim for approximately 16% non-GAAP earnings per share growth.”

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

Synopsys is the EDA bellwether since they report early and are the #1 EDA and #1 IP company.  In addition to crossing… Read More


Rethinking the System Design Process

Rethinking the System Design Process
by Daniel Nenni on 12-08-2022 at 10:00 am

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The system design process can incorporate linear thinking, parallel thinking, or both, depending on the nature of the anticipated system, subsystem, or element of a subsystem. The structure, composition, scale, or focal point of a new/incremental system design incorporates the talents and gifts of the designer in either a … Read More


Live Webinar: Code Review for System Architects

Live Webinar: Code Review for System Architects
by Daniel Nenni on 12-06-2022 at 6:00 am

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Register management tools have been used mostly in a bottom-up approach. There are some documents and/or spreadsheets created by the System Architects that are delivered to the design and verification teams. They then start capturing the HW/SW interface of the peripheral IPs in their in-house or commercial register management… Read More


Samsung Versus TSMC Update 2022

Samsung Versus TSMC Update 2022
by Daniel Nenni on 12-02-2022 at 6:00 am

TSMC Versus Samsung

After attending the TSMC and Samsung foundry conferences I wanted to share some quick opinions about the foundry business. Nothing earth shattering but interesting just the same. Both conferences were well attended. If we are not back to the pre pandemic numbers we are very close to it.

TSMC and Samsung both acknowledged that there… Read More


INNOVA PDM, a New Era for Planning and Tracking Chip Design Resources is Born

INNOVA PDM, a New Era for Planning and Tracking Chip Design Resources is Born
by Daniel Nenni on 12-01-2022 at 6:00 am

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No doubt that the design success of nowadays system on chips (SoCs) is directly linked to the success of cost control. More market opportunities are open for less expensive system on chips and electronic systems.

Both the design cost prediction and the resource tracking during the design process, are key to such a success

Predicting… Read More


IDEAS Online Technical Conference Features Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia, IBM, Samsung, and More Discussing Chip Design Experiences

IDEAS Online Technical Conference Features Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia, IBM, Samsung, and More Discussing Chip Design Experiences
by Daniel Nenni on 11-29-2022 at 10:00 am

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Ansys is hosting IDEAS Digital Forum 2022, a no-cost virtual event that brings together industry executives and technical design experts to discuss the latest in EDA for Semiconductors, Electronics, and Photonics.

See the full online conference agenda and list of speakers at www.ansys.com/IDEAS. The free registration will… Read More