How much perfectly good silicon is being discarded in the quest for reliability? During high-volume chip manufacturing, aggressive testing with strict thresholds may ensure quality but reduces yield, discarding marginal chips that could function flawlessly. On the other hand, prioritizing yield risks allowing defective… Read More
2025 Outlook with Uzi Baruch of proteanTecs
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I am the Chief Strategy Officer at proteanTecs where I oversee our organic and inorganic growth strategies, as well as our go-to-market. This includes collaboration with ecosystem partners, defining our business model, and creating value for our customers through a targeted… Read More
Enhancing System Reliability with Digital Twins and Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM)
As industries become more reliant on advanced technologies, the importance of ensuring the reliability and longevity of critical systems grows. Failures in components, whether in autonomous vehicles, high performance computing (HPC), healthcare devices, or industrial automation, can have far-reaching consequences.… Read More
Datacenter Chipmaker Achieves Power Reduction With proteanTecs AVS Pro
As semiconductor technology advances and nodes continue to shrink, designers are faced with increasing challenges related to device complexity, power consumption, and reliability. The delicate balance between high performance, low power usage, and long-term reliability is more critical than ever. This growing demand … Read More
Maximizing 3DIC Design Productivity with 3DBlox: A Look at TSMC’s Progress and Innovations in 2024
At the 2024 TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum, one of the technical talks by TSMC focused on maximizing 3DIC design productivity and rightfully so. With rapid advancements in semiconductor technology, 3DICs have become the next frontier in improving chip performance, energy efficiency, and density. TSMC’s focus on streamlining the… Read More
Automating Reset Domain Crossing (RDC) Verification with Advanced Data Analytics
The complexity of System-on-Chip (SoC) designs continues to rise at an accelerated rate, with design complexity doubling approximately every two years. This increasing complexity makes verification a more difficult and time-consuming task for design engineers. Among the key verification challenges is managing reset domain… Read More
proteanTecs Introduces a Safety Monitoring Solution #61DAC
At #61DAC it was quite clear that semiconductors have “grown up”. The technology has taken its place in the world as a mission-critical enabler for a growing list of industries and applications. Reliability and stability become very important as this change progresses. An error of failure is somewhere between inconvenient… Read More
proteanTecs at the 2024 Design Automation Conference
Meet with proteanTecs at DAC. Explore our full set of health and performance monitoring solutions. We’ll be showcasing our latest products and solutions, and we’d love to connect while you’re there. Visit booth #2417 to explore our health and performance monitoring solutions.
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3DIC Verification Methodologies for Advanced Semiconductor ICs
At the recent User2user conference, Amit Kumar, Principal Hardware Engineer, Microsoft, shared the company’s experience from building a 3DIC SoC and highlighted Siemens EDA tools that were used. The following is a synthesis of core aspects of that talk.
3DIC Challenges
Despite the numerous advantages of 3DIC technology, its… Read More
What to Do with All that Data – AI-driven Analysis Can Help
Today’s advanced node chip designs are faced with many new complexities from design and verification down to manufacturing. The solutions used at every stage of chip development generate petabytes of data. Managing, analyzing, understanding, and acting upon that data is overwhelming and paralyzing. Manual interpretation… Read More
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