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Reset Domain Crossing (RDC) Challenges

Reset Domain Crossing (RDC) Challenges
by Daniel Payne on 12-18-2024 at 10:00 am

Origin of reset trees

In the early days an IC had a single clock and a single reset signal, making it a simple matter to reset the chip into a known, stable state, so there was little need for detailed analysis. For modern designs there can be dozens to hundreds of clocks, creating separate domains and some use of asynchronous resets, so the challenge of ensuring… Read More


CEO Interview: Slava Libman of FTD Solutions

CEO Interview: Slava Libman of FTD Solutions
by Daniel Nenni on 12-18-2024 at 6:00 am

Slava Libman preferred

Slava Libman, Ph.D. is the CEO of FTD solutions, the provider of facility management solutions that improve sustainability and enhance efficiency in industrial facilities. With more than 25 years of experience in water technology, Dr. Libman is a sought-after speaker and an active leader in the water and semiconductor industries.… Read More


Intel – Everyone’s Favourite Second Source?

Intel – Everyone’s Favourite Second Source?
by Peter Bennet on 12-17-2024 at 10:00 am

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A response to Daniel Nenni’s “What’s Wrong with Intel?” article, which invited alternative views.

At the risk of calling down the forecast universal opprobrium, I’m going to disagree with Dan’s take on the centrality of Intel.

I don’t agree that Intel is too big/important to fail or that the US can’t succeed in semiconductors without… Read More


An Invited Talk at IEDM: Intel’s Mr. Transistor Presents The Incredible Shrinking Transistor – Shattering Perceived Barriers and Forging Ahead

An Invited Talk at IEDM: Intel’s Mr. Transistor Presents The Incredible Shrinking Transistor – Shattering Perceived Barriers and Forging Ahead
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-16-2024 at 10:00 am

An Invited Talk at IDEM Intel’s Mr. Transistor Presents The Incredible Shrinking Transistor – Shattering Perceived Barriers and Forging Ahead

IEDM turned 70 last week. This was cause for much celebration in the form of special events. One such event was a special invited paper on Tuesday afternoon from Intel’s Tahir Ghani, or Mr. Transistor as he is known. Tahir has been driving innovation at Intel for a very long time. He is an eyewitness to the incredible impact of the Moore’s… Read More


Certification for Post-Quantum Cryptography gaining momentum

Certification for Post-Quantum Cryptography gaining momentum
by Don Dingee on 12-16-2024 at 6:00 am

NIST A6046 certificate for Secure-IC, the first security IP and software vendor to achieve certification for post-quantum cryptography

A crucial step in helping any new technology specification gain adoption is certification. NIST has been hard at work establishing more than post-quantum cryptography algorithms – they’ve also integrated the new algorithms into their process for third-party validation testing to ensure implementations are as advertised.… Read More


Podcast EP266: An Overview of the Design & Verification EDA Businesses at Keysight with Nilesh Kamdar

Podcast EP266: An Overview of the Design & Verification EDA Businesses at Keysight with Nilesh Kamdar
by Daniel Nenni on 12-13-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Nilesh Kamdar, the General Manager of the Design & Verification EDA businesses at Keysight. Nilesh has also held roles as Portfolio Manager, and Director of the Software Business & Operations team at Keysight. Nilesh joined Hewlett-Packard in 1999 in the EEsof EDA division. Over his 25+ year career he … Read More


CEO Interview: Caroline Guillaume of TrustInSoft

CEO Interview: Caroline Guillaume of TrustInSoft
by Daniel Nenni on 12-13-2024 at 6:00 am

Caroline Guillaume (TrustInSoft CEO)


Caroline Guillaume is the Chief Executive Officer of TrustInSoft.  She has an extensive background working in the critical software industry, notably at Thales Digital Identity and Security where for 14 years she contributed to the Sales division including as the VP of Sales – Software Monetization Europe and VP of Banking… Read More


IEDM Opens with a Big Picture Keynote from TSMC’s Yuh-Jier Mii

IEDM Opens with a Big Picture Keynote from TSMC’s Yuh-Jier Mii
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-12-2024 at 10:00 am

IEDM Opens with a Big Picture Keynote from TSMC’s Yuh Jier Mii

The main program for the 70th IEDM opened on Monday morning in San Francisco with an excellent keynote from Dr. Yuh-Jier Mii, Executive Vice President and Co-Chief Operating Officer at TSMC. Dr. Mii joined TSMC in 1994. Since then, he has contributed to the development and manufacturing of advanced CMOS technologies in both fab

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Thanks for the Memories

Thanks for the Memories
by Bill Jewell on 12-12-2024 at 8:00 am

Semiconductor Market Average Change 2024

The December 2024 WSTS forecast called for strong 2024 semiconductor market growth of 19%. However, the strength is limited to a few product lines. Memory is projected to grow 81% in 2024. Logic is expected to grow 16.9%. The micro product line should show only 3.9% growth, while discretes, optoelectronics, sensors and analog … Read More


CEO Interview: Mikko Utriainen of Chipmetrics

CEO Interview: Mikko Utriainen of Chipmetrics
by Daniel Nenni on 12-12-2024 at 6:00 am

Chipmetrics Founders

Tell us about your company?
Chipmetrics is a Finnish company specializing in metrology solutions for high aspect ratio 3D chips, especially 3D NAND and 3D DRAM with an eye on GAAFET and CFET structures. We are a young but mature company founded in 2019 with over 40 customers worldwide, and we’re looking to further scale up our international… Read More