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Upskill Your Smart Soldiers and Conquer the Chip War in Style!

Upskill Your Smart Soldiers and Conquer the Chip War in Style!
by Sivakumar PR on 07-21-2023 at 6:00 am

Maven Silicon Article Figure 1

My recent article, ‘Chip War without Soldiers’ explained the importance of upskilling and preparing the chip design workforce in this current scenario, and it also explained how it will lead to ‘Fabs without Chips’ if we don’t prioritize it. VLSI Engineers are the pillars of the semiconductor industry, and they can only transform… Read More


Back to Basics – Designing Out PPA Risk

Back to Basics – Designing Out PPA Risk
by Bernard Murphy on 07-19-2023 at 6:00 am

balancing rocks

I wrote earlier about managing service-level risk in SoC design, since the minimum service level a system can guarantee under realistic traffic is critical to OEM guarantees of dependable system performance. An ABS design which might get bogged down in traffic under only 0.1% of scenarios is of no use to anyone. That said, meeting… Read More


Mirabilis Invites System Architects at DAC 2023 in San Francisco

Mirabilis Invites System Architects at DAC 2023 in San Francisco
by Daniel Payne on 07-07-2023 at 10:00 am

visualsim architect min

System architects have a difficult task of choosing the most efficient architecture by exploring alternative approaches, while tracking and testing requirements. Using a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach is recommended to achieve these goals,  before getting mired in low-level implementation details like… Read More


CEO Interview: Ashraf Takla of Mixel

CEO Interview: Ashraf Takla of Mixel
by Daniel Nenni on 07-07-2023 at 6:00 am

Ashraf Takla Mixel

Ashraf Takla is Founder and CEO of Mixel Inc., which he founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Mixel is a leading provider of mixed-signal IPs and offers a wide portfolio of high-performance mixed-signal connectivity IP solutions. Mixel’s mixed-signal portfolio includes PHYs and SerDes, such as MIPI D-PHY, MIPI… Read More


Vision Transformers Challenge Accelerator Architectures

Vision Transformers Challenge Accelerator Architectures
by Bernard Murphy on 07-05-2023 at 6:00 am

vision transformer

For what seems like a long time in the fast-moving world of AI, CNNs and their relatives have driven AI engine architectures at the edge. While the nature of neural net algorithms has evolved significantly, they are all assumed to be efficiently handled on a heterogenous platform processing through the layers of a DNN: an NPU for … Read More


Computational Imaging Craves System-Level Design and Simulation Tools to Leverage AI in Embedded Vision

Computational Imaging Craves System-Level Design and Simulation Tools to Leverage AI in Embedded Vision
by Kalar Rajendiran on 07-03-2023 at 10:00 am

Typical Pipelines

Aberration-free optics are bulky and expensive. Thanks to high-performance AI-enabled processors and GPUs with abundant processing capabilities, image quality nowadays relies more on high computing power tied to miniaturized optics and sensors. Computational imaging is the new trend in imaging and relies on the fusion … Read More


A preview of Weebit Nano at DAC – with commentary from ChatGPT

A preview of Weebit Nano at DAC – with commentary from ChatGPT
by Daniel Nenni on 07-03-2023 at 6:00 am

Weebit Amir Regev Demo Screenshot

Weebit Nano, a provider of advanced non-volatile memory (NVM) IP, will be exhibiting at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) this month. As part of this briefing I shared some of the basic the details with ChatGPT to see how it would phrase things. Here is some of what it suggested: “You won’t want to miss out on the epic experience… Read More


Unique IO & ESD Solutions @ DAC 2023!

Unique IO & ESD Solutions @ DAC 2023!
by Daniel Nenni on 06-29-2023 at 6:00 am

DAC photo Certus Semiconductor

The semiconductor industry continues to drive innovation and constantly seeks methods to lower costs and improve performance. The advantages of custom I/O libraries versus free libraries can be seen as cost-savings or, more importantly, new markets, new customers, and new business
opportunities.

At DAC 2023, Certus SemiconductorRead More


Transforming the electronics ecosystem with the component digital thread

Transforming the electronics ecosystem with the component digital thread
by Kalar Rajendiran on 06-27-2023 at 6:00 am

Complexity from Disaggregated Electronics Value Chain

The transformation of the vertically integrated electronics value chain to a disaggregated supply chain has brought tremendous value to the electronics industry and benefits to the consumers. This transformation has driven the various players to become highly specialized in order to support the market trends and demands … Read More


Tensilica Processor Cores Enable Sensor Fusion For Robust Perception

Tensilica Processor Cores Enable Sensor Fusion For Robust Perception
by Kalar Rajendiran on 06-22-2023 at 6:00 am

Tensilica DSPs

While sensor-based control and activation systems have been around for several decades, the development and integration of sensors into control systems have significantly evolved over time. Early sensor-based control systems utilized basic sensing elements like switches, potentiometers and pressure sensors and were … Read More