Hardware-level chip security has become an important topic across the semiconductor ecosystem. Thanks to sophisticated AI-fueled attacks, the hardware root of trust and its firmware are now vulnerable. And unlike software security, an instantiated weakness cannot be patched. The implications of such vulnerabilities are… Read More
Author: Mike Gianfagna
A Six-Minute Journey to Secure Chip Design with Caspia
PDF Solutions Charts a Course for the Future at Its User Conference and Analyst Day
Every major supplier has its user event. This is usually where the latest innovations from the company are revealed and progress over the past year is promoted. While there may be user presentations and exhibits, the primary focus is typically the vendor communicating its messages to the user base. The upcoming PDF Solutions Users… Read More
A Tour of Advanced Data Conversion with Alphacore
There is always a lot of buzz about advanced AI workloads at trade shows. How to train them and how to run them. Advanced chip and multi-die designs are how AI is brought to life, so it was a perfect fit for discussion at a show. But there is another side of this discussion. Much of the work going on in AI workloads has to do with processing… Read More
PDF Solutions Calls for a Revolution in Semiconductor Collaboration at SEMICON West
SEMICON West was held in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7-9. This premier event brings the incredibly diverse global electronics supply chain together to address the semiconductor ecosystem’s greatest opportunities and challenges. The event’s tagline this year is:
Stronger Together — Shaping a Sustainable Future in Talent,… Read More
Webinar – The Path to Smaller, Denser, and Faster with CPX, Samtec’s Co-Packaged Copper and Optics
For markets such as data center, high-performance computing, networking and AI accelerators the battle cry is often “copper is dead”. The tremendous demands for performance and power efficiency often lead to this conclusion. As is the case with many technology topics, things are not always the way they seem. It turns out a lot … Read More
Webinar – IP Design Considerations for Real-Time Edge AI Systems
It is well-known that semiconductor growth is driven by AI. That simple statement breaks down into many complex use cases, each with its own requirements and challenges. A webinar will be presented by Synopsys on October 23 that focuses on the specific requirements for one of the most popular use cases – AI at the edge. The speaker… Read More
Secure-IC and Silicon Labs Raise the Bar for Hardware Security
Cybersecurity is getting more critical every day. Thanks to sophisticated AI attacks, the need for hardware chip-level security is greater than ever. To fortify hardware against these types of attacks is not easy. There are three key attributes of a successful strategy: a well-designed root-of-trust, collaboration to ensure… Read More
Analog Bits Steps into the Spotlight at TSMC OIP
The TSMC Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum kicked off on September 24 in Santa Clara, CA. This is the event where TSMC recognizes and promotes the vast ecosystem the company has created. After watching this effort grow over the years, I feel that there is nothing the group can’t accomplish thanks to the alignment and… Read More
Webinar Preview – Addressing Functional ECOs for Mixed-Signal ASICs
An engineering change order, or ECO in the context of ASIC design is a way to modify or patch a design after layout without needing to re-implement the design from its starting point. There are many reasons to use an ECO strategy. Some examples include correcting errors that are found in post-synthesis verification, optimizing … Read More
Tessent MemoryBIST Expands to Include NVRAM
The concept of built-in self-test for electronics has been around for a while. An article in Electronic Design from 1996 declared that, “built-in self-test (BIST) is nothing new.” The memory subsystem is a particularly large and complex part of any semiconductor design, and it’s one that can be particularly vexing to test. Design… Read More
PDF Solutions Charts a Course for the Future at Its User Conference and Analyst Day