We have been working with Defacto since 2016 and it has been quite a journey. Putting an entire system on a chip is a driving force in the semiconductor industry. With the complexity of designing a modern SoC constantly increasing, new tools and methodologies are required and it all starts with RTL.
Defacto Technologies is an innovative… Read More
The talk of the table – or at least my end of the table – at the annual Cybersecurity Dinner – hosted by Copper Horse Ltd. – was the dismal state of IoT. Millions of devices are being connected – but no one is making money.
Of course that isn’t absolutely accurate. There are organizations that are able to make money in IoT,… Read More
Over the last decade, automobiles have been morphing from stand-alone mechanical objects to highly connected systems with ever-increasing usage of electronics. Semiconductor supply disruptions (OEM factory shutdowns) caused by the recent situation with Covid and the political tensions and China have demonstrated the… Read More
As engineers continue to design more complex systems with increasing frequency, the need for speed and capacity to solve these structures also increases. Over the years, HFSS has come a very long way and can now solve exponentially large structures with millions of unknowns. Ansys HFSS never stopped advancing, continuing … Read More
The explosion in volume and consumption of data, fueled by industry trends in virtualization, networking, and computing among others, continues to push photonic solutions forward into leading positions. On Feb 2nd, I attended a panel by Ansys at DesignCon that brought together industry experts from Intel, GlobalFoundries,… Read More
So much has changed over the recent couple of decades in what constitutes an automobile. Gone are the days when it was essentially an electro-mechanical product, used for just personal transportation. Over the years, it has evolved to adding in-cabin infotainment, tele and data communications, driving assistance, all the way… Read More
How Advancements in Technology Unlock New Insights
The demand for efficient and scalable chip production has never been greater. The need to scale at volume and adapt to shorter innovation cycles makes machine learning and advanced data analytics essential components of semiconductor production.
Join us on Tuesday, March … Read More
Dan is joined by Robert Blake, Chief Executive Officer of Achronix Semiconductor. He has worked in the semiconductor industry for over 25 years. Prior to Achronix he was the Chief Executive Officer of Octasic Semiconductor based in Montreal, Canada. Robert also worked at Altera, LSI Logic and Fairchild.
Robert explains how Achronix… Read More
RISC-V is a general-purpose license-free open Instruction Set Architecture [ISA] with multiple extensions. It is an ISA separated into a small base integer ISA, usable as a base for customized accelerators and optional standard extensions to support general-purpose software development. RISC-V supports both 32-bit and … Read More
During the day I do M&A work inside the semiconductor ecosystem and I have been part of more than a dozen acquisitions during my career so I know a good one when I see it and I see a great one with Keysight and Cliosoft, absolutely.
Cliosoft came to SemiWiki 12 years ago when we first went online so I know them quite well. With more than… Read More
Musk’s new job as Samsung Fab Manager – Can he disrupt chip making? Intel outside