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The RISC-V and Open-Source Functional Verification Challenge

The RISC-V and Open-Source Functional Verification Challenge
by Daniel Nenni on 10-24-2024 at 10:00 am

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Most of the RISC-V action at the end of June was at the RISC-V Summit Europe, but not all. In fact, a group of well-informed and opinionated experts took over the Pavilion stage at the Design Automation Conference to discuss functional verification challenges for RISC-V and open-source IP.

Technology Journalist Ron Wilson and … Read More


Sarcina Democratizes 2.5D Package Design with Bump Pitch Transformers

Sarcina Democratizes 2.5D Package Design with Bump Pitch Transformers
by Mike Gianfagna on 10-24-2024 at 6:00 am

Sarcina Democratizes 2.5D Package Design with Bump Pitch Transformers

2.5D package design is rapidly finding its stride in a wide variety of applications, including AI. While there are still many challenges to its widespread adoption, the chiplet approach is becoming more popular compared to monolithic design. However, the required market to create a chiplet ecosystem is still under development.… Read More


Addressing Reliability and Safety of Power Modules for Electric Vehicles

Addressing Reliability and Safety of Power Modules for Electric Vehicles
by Kalar Rajendiran on 10-23-2024 at 10:00 am

Cadence Power Module Design Process

As electric vehicles (EVs) gain widespread adoption, safety, reliability, and efficiency are becoming increasingly important. A crucial component in ensuring these aspects is the power module (PM), which manages the energy flow between the EV battery and the motor. The design of these power modules must not only meet the high-performance… Read More


Shaping Tomorrow’s Semiconductor Technology IEDM 2024

Shaping Tomorrow’s Semiconductor Technology IEDM 2024
by Scotten Jones on 10-23-2024 at 6:00 am

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Anyone who has read my articles about IEDM in the past know I consider it a premiere conference covering developments of leading-edge semiconductor process technology. The 2024 conference will take place in San Francisco from December 7th through 11th.

Some highlight of this year’s technical program are:

AI  – Lots of artificial… Read More


SI and PI Update from Cadence on Sigrity X

SI and PI Update from Cadence on Sigrity X
by Daniel Payne on 10-22-2024 at 10:00 am

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Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI) issues are critical to analyze, ensuring the proper operation of PCB systems and IC packages, yet the computational demands from EDA tools can cause engineers to only analyze what they deem are critical signals, instead of the entire system. Cadence has managed to overcome this SI/PI… Read More


Advanced Audio Tightens Integration to Implementation

Advanced Audio Tightens Integration to Implementation
by Bernard Murphy on 10-22-2024 at 6:00 am

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You might think that in the sensing world all the action is in imaging and audio is a backwater. While imaging features continue to evolve, audio innovations may be accelerating even faster to serve multiple emerging demands: active noise cancellation, projecting a sound stage from multiple speakers, 3D audio and ambisonics,… Read More


Unlocking SoC Debugging Challenges: Paving the Way for Efficient Prototyping

Unlocking SoC Debugging Challenges: Paving the Way for Efficient Prototyping
by Daniel Nenni on 10-21-2024 at 10:00 am

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As chip design complexity increases, integration scales expand and time-to-market pressures grow, as a result, design verification has become increasingly challenging. In multi-FPGA environments, the complexity of design debugging and verification further escalates, making it difficult for traditional debugging methods… Read More


Analog Bits Builds a Road to the Future at TSMC OIP

Analog Bits Builds a Road to the Future at TSMC OIP
by Mike Gianfagna on 10-21-2024 at 6:00 am

Analog Bits Builds a Road to the Future at TSMC OIP

The TSMC Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum has become the industry benchmark when it comes to showcasing industry-wide collaboration. The extreme design, integration and packaging demands presented by multi-die, chiplet-based design have raised the bar in terms of required collaboration across the entire … Read More


Podcast EP254: How Genealogy Correlation Can Uncover New Design Insights and improvements with yieldHUB’s Kevin Robinson

Podcast EP254: How Genealogy Correlation Can Uncover New Design Insights and improvements with yieldHUB’s Kevin Robinson
by Daniel Nenni on 10-18-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Kevin Robinson, yieldHUB’s Vice President of operations and sales. With over 23 years of experience as a test engineer in the semiconductor industry, Kevin brings a wealth of knowledge and dedication to his dual role. At yieldHUB, Kevin leads both sales and operations teams, playing a crucial role in delivering… Read More


CEO Interview: Dr. Mehdi Asghari of SiLC Technologies

CEO Interview: Dr. Mehdi Asghari of SiLC Technologies
by Daniel Nenni on 10-18-2024 at 6:00 am

Dr. Mehdi Asghari

Mehdi is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of success. He is currently CEO and co-founder of SiLC. SiLC is his third Silicon Photonics start up focusing on advanced imaging solutions that enable machines to see like humans. His previous start up, Kotura where he was CTO and SVP of Engineering, developed communication solutions… Read More