Semiconductor industry is going through an unprecedented technological revolution with AI/ML, GPU, RISC-V, chiplets, automotive and 5G driving the hardware design innovation. The race to deliver high performance, optimizing power and area (PPA), while ensuring safety and security is truly on. It has never been a more exciting… Read More
Author: Daniel Nenni
Morris Chang’s Journey to Taiwan and TSMC
High volume manufacturing is a 24/7 business with 12 hour shifts. You don’t always get to pick the shifts you want and you must cover for others when they can’t. It’s a challenging career and not for the faint of heart like myself.
In the 1980s and 1990s I spent time in Japan working with some of the top Japanese semiconductor manufacturers.… Read More
DVCon India 2023 | Keynote: “Journeying Beyond AI: Unleashing the Art of Verification”
DVCon India 2023 | Keynote: “Journeying Beyond AI: Unleashing the Art of Verification” by Sivakumar P R, Founder & CEO, Maven Silicon
Get Ready for an Epic Tech Odyssey with the keynote, ‘Journeying Beyond AI: Unleashing the Art of Verification’, by P. R. Sivakumar, Founder, and CEO, Maven Silicon.
The semiconductor industry… Read More
How Taiwan Saved the Semiconductor Industry
Now that semiconductors are front page news and a political football, I would like to write more about how we got to where we are today to better understand where semiconductors will go tomorrow. I will start this article with a provocative quote that really made me laugh and will put some context to what I am trying to accomplish here:… Read More
CEO Interview: Harry Peterson of Siloxit
Harry Peterson is a mixed-signal chip designer with a BS in Physics from Caltech. He managed IC design groups within Fairchild, Kodak, Philips, Northern Telecom, Toshiba and Pixelworks. During sabbaticals he helped fly experiments on NASA’s orbiting satellite observatory (OSO-8) and build telescopes in the Canary… Read More
Signal Integrity 101: Fundamentals for Professional Engineers
I have been watching Youtube since it began and have been amazed by it’s evolution. Literally everything is on Youtube now from sailing to home and auto repair, sewing and embroidery (wife), semiconductors, and now there is Youtube TV.
Signal Integrity has been a hot topic on SemiWiki since Samtec arrived in 2020. Samtec… Read More
The Efabless Generative AI Challenges and Why They Matter
Last week, Efabless announced the second edition of its AI Generated Open-Source Silicon Design Challenge series. As we discussed in earlier blogs, the first challenge was a great success with twelve submissions and six successful designs created in just three weeks. The contestants used natural language prompts to create… Read More
WEBINAR: Driving Golden Specification-Based IP/SoC Development
The ever-increasing demands placed on Intellectual Property (IP) and System-on-Chip (SoC) development teams have resulted in an ever-increasing need for automation solutions that can boost productivity without contributing to further risk. Certainly, demands for automation have long been the drivers behind the growth… Read More
CEO Interview: Rob Gwynne of QPT
I am joined today by Rob Gwynne, Founder and CEO of QPT. He is a genuine polymath as his technical experience spans digital, analogue, mixed signal and RF electronics, EMC, radar, DSP, FPGA, software development (embedded, drivers, application level), advanced PCB layout and simulation, optics, precision instrumentation,… Read More
CEO Interview: Ashraf Takla of Mixel
Ashraf Takla is Founder and CEO of Mixel Inc., which he founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Mixel is a leading provider of mixed-signal IPs and offers a wide portfolio of high-performance mixed-signal connectivity IP solutions. Mixel’s mixed-signal portfolio includes PHYs and SerDes, such as MIPI D-PHY, MIPI… Read More









CEO Interview with Jerome Paye of TAU Systems