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Podcast EP121: Managing Design Flows and EDA Resources with Innova

Podcast EP121: Managing Design Flows and EDA Resources with Innova
by Daniel Nenni on 11-11-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Chouki Aktouf, founder & CEO of Defacto Technologies and co-founder of Innova Advanced Technologies. Prior to founding Defacto in 2003, Dr. Aktouf was an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Grenoble – France and leader of a dependability research group. He holds a PhD in Electric Engineering… Read More


Blockchain 4.0

Blockchain 4.0
by Ahmed Banafa on 11-10-2022 at 10:00 am

Blockchain 4.0

The simple and best definition of Blockchain technology is to think about it as electricity , you only see it’s applications but you understand how important it’s and know there are many applications and products that can run on it . But like any other technology it went through stages and evolved as it progressed and matured. We started… Read More


Integrating High Speed IP at 5nm

Integrating High Speed IP at 5nm
by Pavan Patel on 11-10-2022 at 6:00 am

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The advancements in deep submicron technology and adding multiple functionalities to reduce costs combined with scaling existing operations means that SoC designs become ever more complex. The biggest driving factors to go below the 16nm process node are the decrease in power and the increase in performance … Read More


Podcast EP120: How NXP is Revolutionizing Automotive Electronics Design

Podcast EP120: How NXP is Revolutionizing Automotive Electronics Design
by Daniel Nenni on 11-09-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Jim Bridgewater, director of product marketing for NXP automotive edge product line.

Jim provides an overview of the various wireless interfaces in current automotive design. He also discusses a new product from NXP called OrangeBox, a device that combines many of these interfaces into one domain controller.… Read More


MIPI in the Car – Transport From Sensors to Compute

MIPI in the Car – Transport From Sensors to Compute
by Bernard Murphy on 11-09-2022 at 6:00 am

NXP Camera subsystem min

I’ve written on and off about sensors, ML inference of the output of those sensors and the application of both in modern cars. Neither ADAS nor autonomous/semi-autonomous driving would be possible without these. But until now I have never covered the transport between sensors and the compute that safely turns what they produce… Read More


SoC Design Closure Just Got Smarter

SoC Design Closure Just Got Smarter
by Daniel Payne on 11-08-2022 at 10:00 am

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Near the end of any large SoC design project, the RTL code is nearly finished, floorplanning has been done, place and route has a first-pass, static timing has started, but the timing and power goals aren’t met. So, iteration loops continue on blocks and full-chip for weeks or even months. It could take a design team 5-7 days… Read More


Electron Blur Impact in EUV Resist Films from Interface Reflection

Electron Blur Impact in EUV Resist Films from Interface Reflection
by Fred Chen on 11-08-2022 at 6:00 am

Electron Blur Impact in EUV Resist Films from Interface Reflection

The resolution of EUV lithography is commonly expected to benefit from the shorter wavelengths (13.2-13.8 nm) but in actuality the printing process needs to include Pde the consideration of the lower energy electrons released by the absorption of EUV photons. The EUV photon energy itself has a nominal energy range of 90-94 eV,… Read More


Truechip Introduces Automation Products – NoC Verification and NoC Performance

Truechip Introduces Automation Products – NoC Verification and NoC Performance
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-07-2022 at 10:00 am

Truechip NoC Automation Product

While Truechip has established itself as a global provider of verification IP (VIP) solutions, they are always on the lookout for strategic IP needs from their customer base. Over the last several years, a solid market for Network-on-Chip (NoC) IP has grown, driven by the need to rapidly move data across a chip. Concurrently, the… Read More


Your Symmetric Layouts show Mismatches in SPICE Simulations. What’s going on?

Your Symmetric Layouts show Mismatches in SPICE Simulations. What’s going on?
by Maxim Ershov on 11-07-2022 at 6:00 am

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This Diakopto paper discusses for the first time, a new effect – a false electrical mismatch in post-layout simulations for perfectly symmetric nets. This effect is caused by the difference in distributions of parasitic coupling capacitors over the nodes of parasitic resistor networks, even for symmetric nets. This, in turn,… Read More


Musk: The Post-Truth Messiah

Musk: The Post-Truth Messiah
by Roger C. Lanctot on 11-06-2022 at 4:00 pm

Musk Post Truth Messiah

The hand-wringing over Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter began in earnest, Friday, as General Motors announced it would suspend advertising on the platform. Ford Motor Company, too, said it would take a step back.

The news of Musk’s completion of his Twitter acquisition completely eclipsed Mobileye’s hugely successful… Read More