How an Embedded Non-Volatile Memory Can Be a Differentiator

How an Embedded Non-Volatile Memory Can Be a Differentiator
by Kalar Rajendiran on 12-22-2022 at 6:00 am

State of Weebit ReRAM

Embedded memory makes computing applications run faster. In the early days of the semiconductor industry, the desire to utilize large amount of on-chip memory was limited by cost, manufacturing difficulties and technology mismatches between logic and memory circuit implementations. Since then, advancements in semiconductor… Read More


VeriSilicon’s VeriHealth Chip Design Platform for Smart Healthcare Applications

VeriSilicon’s VeriHealth Chip Design Platform for Smart Healthcare Applications
by Kalar Rajendiran on 12-13-2022 at 10:00 am

VeriHealth Showing Fall Detection

The wearables electronics market is a large and fast growing one. According to Precedence Research, the global wearable technology market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 13.89% during the forecast period 2022 to 2030. Precedence estimated the global wearable technology market size at USD 121.7 billion… Read More


Achieving 400W Thermal Envelope for AI Datacenter SoCs

Achieving 400W Thermal Envelope for AI Datacenter SoCs
by Kalar Rajendiran on 12-05-2022 at 10:00 am

Alchip BlockDiagram Oct 26 2022 tsmc na oip presentation

Successful ASIC providers offer top-notch infrastructure and methodologies that can accommodate varied demands from a multitude of customers. Such ASIC providers also need access to best-in-class IP portfolio, advanced packaging and test capabilities, and heterogeneous chiplet integration capability among other things.… Read More


Integration Methodology of High-End SerDes IP into FPGAs

Integration Methodology of High-End SerDes IP into FPGAs
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-29-2022 at 6:00 am

AlphaCORE100 Multi Standard SerDes

Over the last couple of decades, the electronics communications industry has been a significant driver behind the growth of the FPGA market and continues on. A major reason behind this is the many different high-speed interfaces built into FPGAs to support a variety of communications standards/protocols. The underlying input-output… Read More


It’s Always About the Yield

It’s Always About the Yield
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-17-2022 at 6:00 am

yieldHUB Box Plot

Whether it is the stock market or the semiconductor market, the name of the game is yield. In semiconductors, yield has to do with minimizing scrap costs in all phases of manufacturing. This means squeezing as many good dies from a wafer as well as maximizing the number of good assembled/packaged chips that pass system level testing.… Read More


proteanTecs Technology Helps GUC Characterize Its GLink™ High-Speed Interface

proteanTecs Technology Helps GUC Characterize Its GLink™ High-Speed Interface
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-15-2022 at 6:00 am

proteanTecs D2D Monitoring Hardware Block Diagram

An earlier post on SemiWiki discussed how deep data analytics helps accelerate SoC product development. The post presented insights into proteanTecs’ technology and quantified the benefits that can be derived by leveraging the software platform for SoC product development. You can review that earlier blog here. The power … Read More


Truechip Introduces Automation Products – NoC Verification and NoC Performance

Truechip Introduces Automation Products – NoC Verification and NoC Performance
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-07-2022 at 10:00 am

Truechip NoC Automation Product

While Truechip has established itself as a global provider of verification IP (VIP) solutions, they are always on the lookout for strategic IP needs from their customer base. Over the last several years, a solid market for Network-on-Chip (NoC) IP has grown, driven by the need to rapidly move data across a chip. Concurrently, the… Read More


Elevating Production Testing with proteanTecs and Advantest’s ACS Edge™ Platforms

Elevating Production Testing with proteanTecs and Advantest’s ACS Edge™ Platforms
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-03-2022 at 10:00 am

Embedded Universal Chip Telemetry Agents

SemiWiki recently posted a blog on “Deep Data Analytics for Accelerating SoC Product Development.” That blog focused on proteanTecs’ AI-enabled chip analytics platform that helps accelerate SoC product development. The blog provided insight into proteanTecs’ approach and shared quantifiable business-impact metrics … Read More


Quadric’s Chimera GPNPU IP Blends NPU and DSP to Create a New Category of Hybrid SoC Processor

Quadric’s Chimera GPNPU IP Blends NPU and DSP to Create a New Category of Hybrid SoC Processor
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-01-2022 at 10:00 am

Memory Optimization Equals Power Minimization

Performance, Power and Area (PPA) are the commonly touted metrics in the semiconductor industry placing PPA among the most widely used acronyms relating to chip development. And rightly so as these three metrics greatly impact all electronic products that are developed. The degree of impact depends of course on the specific … Read More


New Cadence Joint Enterprise Data and AI Platform Dramatically Accelerates AI-Driven Chip Design Development

New Cadence Joint Enterprise Data and AI Platform Dramatically Accelerates AI-Driven Chip Design Development
by Kalar Rajendiran on 10-24-2022 at 10:00 am

1 Cadence Joint Enterprise Data and AI JedAI Platform

Without data, there is no computing field to talk about, no technology world to awe at and not much of a semiconductor industry to work in. There is no argument that data is the foundational piece for everything, has been to date and will continue to be. While processing an application’s input data is essential to serve the intended… Read More