Cliosoft recently hosted a webinar where Carl Grace, a scientist from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) talked about a cutting edge project for detecting neutrinos. The project is called the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) project. Many of us know what a neutron is, but what is a neutrino? Before we get… Read More




10 Impactful Technologies in 2023 and Beyond
There are many exciting technologies that are expected to shape the future, the following are some of the technologies that will impact our lives in the coming 5 years at different levels and depth:
Generative AI, also known as generative artificial intelligence, is a type of #AI that is designed to generate new content or data … Read More
Effective Writing and ChatGPT. The SEMI Test
ChatGPT is a hot topic, leading a few of my colleagues to ask me as a writer what I think of the technology. I write content for tech companies and most of my contacts freely confess that they or more often their experts struggle with writing. If a tool could do that job for them they would be happy and I would have to find a different hobby.… Read More
All-In-One Edge Surveillance Gains Traction
Like it or not, the surveillance market is growing, at a CAGR approaching 10%. Big brother concerns sometimes cloud the picture but overlook the much larger practical yet less hype-worthy applications for surveillance. Home and industrial security, enhanced traffic flow management, monitoring for fire and other fast-growing… Read More
Podcast EP140: Hyperstone’s Unique Position as a Supplier to the Industrial Market
Dan is joined by Steffen Allert. Since 2007, Steffen has been the Vice President of Sales for Hyperstone, a producer of Flash Memory Controllers for Industrial Embedded Storage Solutions. Steffen brings more than 20 years of sales and management experience in the semiconductor and electronics market.
Dan explores the unique … Read More
Webinar: Achieving Consistent RTL Power Accuracy
A comprehensive report from the US Department of Energy (DOE), “Semiconductor Supply Chain Deep Dive Assessment” (February 2022) calls for a 1000X energy efficiency improvement that is required to maintain future compute requirement needs given a finite amount of world energy production. Energy efficiency is at the top of … Read More
Podcast EP139: The Third Quarter ESDA Market Data Report with Dr. Walden Rhines
Dan discusses the recent Q3 2022 ESDA report with Wally Rhines, Executive Sponsor of the SEMI Electronic Design Market Data report. While not tracking the record-breaking growth that has been seen over the past few quarters, growth is generally quite strong across the world. Dan explores the numbers with Wally, including some… Read More
Samtec Dominates DesignCon (Again)
Many technical shows have anchor tenants. Those are the companies that can be counted on to have a substantial booth presence, be active in the technical program and just pump life into the event at every turn. Samtec is that company for many shows around the world. And soon it will be time for them to work their magic at DesignCon in … Read More
Podcast EP138: The Impact of Using a Physically Aware NoC with Charlie Janac
Dan is joined by Charlie Janac, president and CEO of Arteris IP. Charlie’s career spans 20 years in multiple industries, including design automation, semiconductor capital equipment, nanotechnology, industrial polymers, and venture capital.
Charlie discusses the benefits of using network-on-chip, or NoC IP on several… Read More
CEO Interview: Stephen Fairbanks of Certus Semiconductor
Trained as a semiconductor Analog and RF Circuit Designer, Stephen Fairbanks has been designing and developing process-specific I/O and ESD libraries for 24 years. His foundational training began while attending Brigham Young University designing highspeed 32 GSPS data acquisition systems and RF interfaces for a time-of-flight… Read More
Weebit Nano Moves into the Mainstream with Customer Adoption