After the leadership transition at the top, Synopsys had just a little more than two months before the company’s flagship event, the Synopsys User Group (SNUG) conference. The Synopsys user community and entire ecosystem were waiting to hear new CEO Sassine Ghazi’s keynote to learn where the company is going and its strategic … Read More
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Ultra-low-power MIPI use case for streaming sensors
MIPI built its reputation on the efficient streaming of data from camera sensors in mobile devices. It combines high-speed transfers with balanced power consumption, helping extend battery life while providing the responsiveness users expect. However, high speed is not the only mode of operation for a MIPI interface – specifications… Read More
Arm Automotive Update Stresses Prototyping for Software Development
If you were at all uncertain about auto OEM development priorities, the answer is becoming clear: to accelerate/shift left automotive software development and debug. At 100M lines of code and accelerating, this task is overshadowing all others. A recent Arm update from Dipti Vachani (SVP and GM for the Automotive Line of Business)… Read More
A Modeling, Simulation, Exploration and Collaborative Platform to Develop Electronics and SoCs
During the GOMACTech conference held in South Carolina last week I had a Zoom call with Deepak Shankar, Founder and VP Technology at Mirabilis Design Inc. to ask questions and view a live demo of VisualSim – a modeling, simulation, exploration and collaborative platform to develop electronics and SoCs. What makes VisualSim so … Read More
Weebit Nano Brings ReRAM Benefits to the Automotive Market
Non-volatile memory (NVM) is a critical building block for most electronic systems. The most popular NVM technology has traditionally been flash. As a discrete part, the technology can be delivered in various form factors. For embedded applications flash presents scaling challenges, however. A new NVM technology developed… Read More
Andes Technology: Pioneering the Future of RISC-V CPU IP
On September 13, 2021, Andes Technology Corporation successfully issued its GDR (Global Depositary Receipt) public offering on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. At the time it made Andes the only international public RISC-V Instruction set architecture (ISA) CPU IP supplier. This allowed investors around the world to participate… Read More
sureCore Enables AI with Ultra-Low Power Memory IP
We all know that AI is becoming pervasive in a wide array of products to make them smarter, safer and feature rich. Just look at the announcements from the recent CES show in Las Vegas to see some examples. These AI workloads demand a lot of compute power. Fueling this trend is the need for significant arrays of embedded memory on chip,… Read More
Arteris is Unleashing Innovation by Breaking Down the Memory Wall
There is a lot of discussion about removing barriers to innovation these days. Semiconductor systems are at the heart of unlocking many forms of technical innovation, if only we could address issues such as the slowing of Moore’s Law, reduction of power consumption, enhancement of security and reliability and so on. But there … Read More
2024 Outlook with Elad Alon of Blue Cheetah Analog Design
We have been working with Blue Cheetah Analog Design for three years now with great success. With new process nodes coming faster than ever before and with chiplets being pushed to the forefront of technology, the die-to-die interconnect traffic on SemiWiki has never been greater and chiplets is one of our top search terms.
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Automotive Electronics Trends are Shaping System Design Constraints
Something is brewing in automotive electronics. Within a one-month window most of the product announcements and pitches to which I am being invited are on automotive topics. Automotive markets have long been one of the primary targets for suppliers to system designers, but this level of alignment in announcements seems more … Read More
ASML- Soft revenues & Orders – But…China 49% – Memory Improving