SPIE 2023 Buzz – Siemens Aims to Break Down Innovation Barriers by Extending Design Technology Co-Optimization

SPIE 2023 Buzz – Siemens Aims to Break Down Innovation Barriers by Extending Design Technology Co-Optimization
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-26-2023 at 6:00 am

SPIE 2023 Buzz – Siemens Aims to Break Down Innovation Barriers by Extending Design Technology Co Optimization

Preventing the propagation of systematic defects in today’s semiconductor design-to-fabrication process requires many validation, analysis and optimization steps. Tools involved in this process can include design rule checking (DRC), optical proximity correction (OPC) verification, mask writing and wafer printing… Read More


Giving Back – The Story of One Silicon Valley Veteran’s Journey

Giving Back – The Story of One Silicon Valley Veteran’s Journey
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-22-2023 at 6:00 am

Giving Back – The Story of One Silicon Valley Veteran’s Journey

The concept of giving back is something many of us have contemplated. Giving back to the community or to support a particular cause. How to respond to those inquiries from our alma mater is another example. These conversations typically focus on giving money to provide needed support. As engineers, we are surrounded by a massive… Read More


Seven Silicon Catalyst Companies to Exhibit at CES, the Most Powerful Tech Event in the World

Seven Silicon Catalyst Companies to Exhibit at CES, the Most Powerful Tech Event in the World
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-21-2023 at 6:00 am

Seven Silicon Catalyst Companies to Exhibit at CES, the Most Powerful Tech Event in the World

According to its website, CES® Is the global stage for innovation, delivering the most powerful tech event in the world — the proving ground for breakthrough technologies and global innovators. Owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®, it is the only trade show that showcases the entire tech landscape… Read More


RISC-V Summit Buzz – Launchpad Showcase Highlights Smaller Company Innovation

RISC-V Summit Buzz – Launchpad Showcase Highlights Smaller Company Innovation
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-19-2023 at 8:00 am

RISC V Summit Buzz – Launchpad Showcase Highlights Smaller Company Innovation

One of the goals of the recent RISC-V Summit was to demonstrate that the RISC-V movement is real – major programs by large organizations committing to development around the RISC-V ISA. I would say this goal was achieved. Many high-profile announcements and aggressive, new architectures based on RISC-V were presented. On day … Read More


Samtec Welcomes You to the Future with Proven 224G PAM4 Interconnect Solutions

Samtec Welcomes You to the Future with Proven 224G PAM4 Interconnect Solutions
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-18-2023 at 8:00 am

Samtec Welcomes You to the Future with Proven 224G PAM4 Interconnect Solutions

We all know about the relentless march of Moore’s Law. Denser, faster, and cheaper semiconductor devices that fuel the innovations that surround us. For this discussion, I will lump the significant movement from single chip advances to multi-chip strategies into a single thread as devices continue to get smaller, faster and … Read More


IEDM Buzz – Intel Previews New Vertical Transistor Scaling Innovation

IEDM Buzz – Intel Previews New Vertical Transistor Scaling Innovation
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-10-2023 at 2:00 pm

IEDM Buzz – Intel Previews New Vertical Transistor Scaling Innovation

For more than 65 years, the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) has been the world’s pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of semiconductor and electronic device technology, design, manufacturing, physics, and modeling. As I post this, the conference is underway in San Francisco… Read More


RISC-V Summit Buzz – Axiomise Accelerates RISC-V Designs with Next Generation formalISA®

RISC-V Summit Buzz – Axiomise Accelerates RISC-V Designs with Next Generation formalISA®
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-04-2023 at 6:00 am

RISC V Summit Buzz – Axiomise Accelerates RISC V Designs with Next Generation formalISA®

If the recent RISC-V Summit proved one thing it’s that open-source hardware design, and particularly the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) has entered the mainstream. It is a design methodology and architecture to watch closely. Across a broad range of applications from data center, to automotive, to IoT, RISC-V processors… Read More


RISC-V Summit Buzz – Semidynamics Founder and CEO Roger Espasa Introduces Extreme Customization

RISC-V Summit Buzz – Semidynamics Founder and CEO Roger Espasa Introduces Extreme Customization
by Mike Gianfagna on 11-30-2023 at 10:00 am

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Founded in 2016 and based in Barcelona, Spain, Semidynamics™ is the only provider of fully customizable RISC-V processor IP.  The company delivers high bandwidth, high performance cores with vector units and tensor units targeted at machine learning and AI applications. There were some recent announcements from Semidynamics… Read More


Siemens Digital Industries Software Collaborates with AWS and Arm To Deliver an Automotive Digital Twin

Siemens Digital Industries Software Collaborates with AWS and Arm To Deliver an Automotive Digital Twin
by Mike Gianfagna on 11-28-2023 at 6:00 am

Siemens Digital Industries Software Collaborates with AWS and ARM To Deliver an Automotive Digital Twin

 

According to McKinsey & Company, a digital twin is a digital representation of a physical object, person, or process, contextualized in a digital version of its environment. Digital twins can help an organization simulate real situations and their outcomes, ultimately allowing it to make better decisions. Anyone… Read More


Webinar: Silicon Catalyst & EE Times Examine the Bigger Picture Aspects of AI – Nov. 29, 2023 – 9am to 10am Pacific

Webinar: Silicon Catalyst & EE Times Examine the Bigger Picture Aspects of AI – Nov. 29, 2023 – 9am to 10am Pacific
by Mike Gianfagna on 11-20-2023 at 2:00 pm

Webinar Silicon Catalyst & EE Times Examine the Bigger Picture Aspects of AI – Nov. 29, 2023 – 9am to 10am Pacific

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dominating the news cycle these days. It used to be about the latest (and largest) chips to accelerate AI algorithms. While that’s still relevant and exciting, AI news is taking a much broader, socioeconomic character. What does AI mean for job security, the economy, or even life on Earth? These … Read More