If you think my 40 years of semiconductor experience is impressive, Malcolm Penn has been at it for 55 years starting with the first commercial integrated circuit. Malcolm’s company Future Horizons has been providing legendary semiconductor industry forecasts since 1989. I have attended dozens of these both live and … Read More
Powering the Future: The Transformative Role of Semiconductor IP
In the rapidly changing landscape of technology, the semiconductor industry serves as a cornerstone, fueling innovation across multiple sectors. Central to this industry is the semiconductor Intellectual Property (IP)—a vital component that frequently escapes public attention and is instrumental in determining the future… Read More
Calibre DesignEnhancer Improves Power Management Faster and Earlier
Anyone who has attempted to implement a custom design in an advanced process node knows that effective power management can be quite challenging. Effects such as voltage (IR) drop and electromigration (EM) can present significant headaches for both design teams and foundries. Optimizing layouts for these kinds of issues is … Read More
Podcast EP245: A Conversation with Dr. Wally Rhines about Hardware Security and Caspia Technologies
Dan is joined by Dr. Walden Rhines. Wally is a lot of things, CEO of Cornami, board member, advisor to many and friend to all. In this conversation, Wally discusses his decision to join Caspia Technologies as Chairman of the Board.You can read the press release announcing this here:
… Read MoreEmotion AI: Unlocking the Power of Emotional Intelligence
Emotion AI, also known as affective computing or artificial emotional intelligence, is a rapidly growing field within artificial intelligence that seeks to understand, interpret, and respond to human emotions. This technology is designed to bridge the gap between human emotions and machine understanding, enabling more … Read More
Accellera and PSS 3.0 at #61DAC
Accellera invited me to attend their #61DAC panel discussion about the new Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) v3.0, and the formal press release was also just announced. The big idea with PSS is to enable seamless reuse of stimulus across simulation, emulation and post-silicon debug and prototyping.
Tom Fitzpatrick from Siemens… Read More
Nvidia Pulled out of the Black Well
Despite a severe setback, Nvidia pulled it off once again
There have been serious concerns about the ROI on AI and yield problems with Blackwell, but Nvidia pulled it off again and delivered a result significantly above guidance.
Beating the revenue guidance of $28B with 2B$ to just above 30B$, representing 15% QoQ and a 122% YoY … Read More
Intel and Cadence Collaborate to Advance the All-Important UCIe Standard
The Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express™ (UCIe™) 1.0 specification was announced in early 2022 and a UCIe 1.1 update was released on August 8, 2023. This open standard facilitates the heterogeneous integration of die-to-die link interconnects within the same package. This is a fancy way of saying the standard opens the door… Read More
WEBINAR: Workforce Armageddon: Onboarding New Hires in Semiconductors
The semiconductor industry is undergoing an unprecedented inflection—not in its technology, but in its very structure. This transformation is happening at a time of phenomenal growth, presenting both opportunity and crisis. The ingredient most critical to meeting the growth demands, but which also poses the greatest risk,… Read More
Podcast EP244: A Review of the Coming Post-Quantum Cryptography Revolution with Sebastien Riou
Dan is joined by Sebastien Riou. Director of Product Security Architecture at PQShield. Sebastien has more than 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, focusing on achieving “banking grade security” on resource-constrained ICs such as smart cards and mobile secure elements. Formerly of Tiempo-Secure, he helped… Read More
Build a 100% Python-based Design environment for Large SoC Designs