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EP177: The Certus Approach to Meeting the Challenges of I/O and ESD with Stephen Fairbanks

EP177: The Certus Approach to Meeting the Challenges of I/O and ESD with Stephen Fairbanks
by Daniel Nenni on 08-18-2023 at 10:00 am
Categories: Certus Semiconductor, IP

Dan is joined by Stephen Fairbanks, CEO of Certus Semiconductor. Stephen is an ESD pioneer with over 30 years of experience starting with his time at Intel, SRF Technologies, and now Certus Semiconductor.

Stephen describes the varied challenges of ESD andI/O library design presented by today’s technologies and design… Read More

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CEO Interview: Anna Fontanelli of MZ Technologies

CEO Interview: Anna Fontanelli of MZ Technologies
by Daniel Nenni on 08-18-2023 at 6:00 am
Categories: Chiplet, EDA, MZ Technologies

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Anna has more than 25 years of expertise in managing complex R&D organizations and programs, giving birth to a number of innovative EDA technologies. She has pioneered the study and development of several generations of IC and package co-design environments and has held senior positions at leading semiconductor and EDA … Read More

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Sirius Wireless Partners with S2C on Wi-Fi6/BT RF IP Verification System for Finer Chip Design

Sirius Wireless Partners with S2C on Wi-Fi6/BT RF IP Verification System for Finer Chip Design
by Daniel Nenni on 08-17-2023 at 10:00 am
Categories: EDA, Prototyping, S2C EDA

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Sirius Wireless, a provider of RF IP solutions, collaborated with FPGA prototyping solutions expert S2C to develop its Wi-Fi6/BT RF IP Verification System, aiming to improve work efficiency and reduce time-to-market for their clients.

The emergence of Wi-Fi6, a wireless connection technology (WCT), has unleashed unexpected… Read More

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How Do You Future-Proof Security?

How Do You Future-Proof Security?
by Bernard Murphy on 08-17-2023 at 6:00 am
Categories: Automotive, Secure-IC, Security

Secure IC applications min

If you are designing electronics to go into a satellite or a military drone, it better have a useful lifetime of 15-20 years or more. Ditto for the grid or other critical infrastructure, your car, medical devices, anything where we demand absolute reliability. Reliability also requires countermeasures against hacking by anyone… Read More

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LIVE WEBINAR: Accelerating Compute-Bound Algorithms with Andes Custom Extensions (ACE) and Flex Logix Embedded FPGA Array

LIVE WEBINAR: Accelerating Compute-Bound Algorithms with Andes Custom Extensions (ACE) and Flex Logix Embedded FPGA Array
by Daniel Nenni on 08-16-2023 at 2:00 pm
Categories: Andes Technology, eFPGA, Events, Flex Logix, IP, RISC-V

Andes Flex Webinar

RISC-V have great adoption and momentum. One of the key benefits of RISC-V is the ability for SoC designers to extend its instruction sets to accelerate specific algorithms. Andes’ ACE (Andes Custom Extensions) allow customers to quickly create, prototype, validate and ultimately implement custom memories, dedicated ports… Read More

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#60DAC Update from Arteris

#60DAC Update from Arteris
by Daniel Payne on 08-16-2023 at 10:00 am
Categories: Arteris, IP

FlexNoC 5 min

I met up with Andy Nightingale, VP Product Marketing and Michal Siwinski, Chief Marketing Officer of Arteris at #60DAC for an update on their system IP company dealing with SoCs and chiplet-based designs. SemiWiki has been blogging about Arteris since 2011, and the company has grown enough in those 12 years to have an IPO, see their… Read More

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AI and Machine Unlearning: Navigating the Forgotten Path

AI and Machine Unlearning: Navigating the Forgotten Path
by Ahmed Banafa on 08-16-2023 at 6:00 am
Categories: AI
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AI and Machine Unlearning Navigating the Forgotten Path

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the concept of machine unlearning has emerged as a fascinating and crucial area of research. While the traditional paradigm of AI focuses on training models to learn from data and improve their performance over time, the notion of unlearning takes a step further… Read More

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WEBINAR: The Power of Formal Verification: From flops to billion-gate designs

WEBINAR: The Power of Formal Verification: From flops to billion-gate designs
by Daniel Nenni on 08-15-2023 at 5:00 pm
Categories: AI, Axiomise, Chiplet, Events, Semiconductor Services

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Semiconductor industry is going through an unprecedented technological revolution with AI/ML, GPU, RISC-V, chiplets, automotive and 5G driving the hardware design innovation. The race to deliver high performance, optimizing power and area (PPA), while ensuring safety and security is truly on. It has never been a more exciting… Read More

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A New Verification Conference Coming to Austin

A New Verification Conference Coming to Austin
by Bernard Murphy on 08-15-2023 at 6:00 am
Categories: Events, Semiconductor Services

Actually not so new, just new to us in the US. Verification Futures is already well established as a Tessolve event with a 10-year track record in the UK. This year they are bringing the conference to Austin on September 14th (REGISTER HERE).

While DVCon is an ever-popular event for sharing verification ideas, it isn’t always accessible… Read More

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Turnaround in Semiconductor Market

Turnaround in Semiconductor Market
by Bill Jewell on 08-14-2023 at 1:30 pm
Categories: Semiconductor Intelligence, Semiconductor Services
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Semiconductor Market Change Q3 2023

The global semiconductor market grew 4.2% in 2Q 2023 versus 1Q 2023, according to WSTS. The 2Q 2023 growth was the first positive quarter-to-quarter change since 4Q 2021, a year and a half ago. Versus a year ago, the market declined 17.3%, an improvement from a 21.3% year-to-year decline in 1Q 2023. Semiconductor market year-to-year… Read More