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Podcast EP88: A conversation with Maheen Hamid, one of Silicon Valley’s 100 Most Influential Women

Podcast EP88: A conversation with Maheen Hamid, one of Silicon Valley’s 100 Most Influential Women
by Daniel Nenni on 06-17-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Maheen Hamid, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Breker Verification Systems and a recipient of Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 100 most influential women award. Maheen discusses her journey to Silicon Valley and Breker, beginning with her upbringing in Bangladesh. Maheen married… Read More


Stop-For-Top IP Model to Replace One-Stop-Shop by 2025

Stop-For-Top IP Model to Replace One-Stop-Shop by 2025
by Eric Esteve on 06-17-2022 at 6:00 am

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…and support the creation of successful Chiplet business

The One-Stop-Shop model has allowed IP vendors of the 2000’s to create a successful IP business, mostly driven by consumer application, smartphone or Set-Top-Box. The industry has dramatically changed, and in 2020 is now driven by data-centric application (datacenter,… Read More


Three Key Takeaways from the 2022 TSMC Technical Symposium!

Three Key Takeaways from the 2022 TSMC Technical Symposium!
by Daniel Nenni on 06-16-2022 at 12:10 pm

TSMC Technology Roadmap 2022

The TSMC Technical Symposium is today so I wanted to give you a brief summary of what was presented. Tom Dillinger will do a more technical review as he has done in the past. I don’t want to steal his thunder but here is what I think are the key takeaways. First a brief history lesson.

The history of TSMC Technology Development with 12 keyRead More


Podcast EP87: How Axiomise Addresses the Verification Challenge

Podcast EP87: How Axiomise Addresses the Verification Challenge
by Daniel Nenni on 06-16-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by GD Bansal, COO at Axiomise.  Dan explores the Axiomise business model to provide training and consulting services for formal verification with GD. The benefits and challenges of using formal verification on complex designs are discussed, along with the benefits of the Axiomize vendor-neutral approach to … Read More


HLS in a Stanford Edge ML Accelerator Design

HLS in a Stanford Edge ML Accelerator Design
by Bernard Murphy on 06-16-2022 at 6:00 am

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I wrote recently about Siemens EDA’s philosophy on designing quality in from the outset, rather than trying to verify it in. The first step is moving up the level of abstraction for design. They mentioned the advantages of HLS in this respect and I refined that to “for DSP-centric applications”. A Stanford group recently presented… Read More


Seeing 1/f noise more accurately

Seeing 1/f noise more accurately
by Don Dingee on 06-15-2022 at 10:00 am

Decimation chain speeds up measurements for 1/f noise

Electronics noise is often described as “white,” spread evenly across a band, typical on older semiconductor processes where thermal and shot noise dominate. As transistors shrink, “pink” 1/f noise takes over at low frequencies – becoming stronger in advanced processes and quantum computing technology. But it’s not an easy… Read More


Podcast: Will Arm Risk RISC-V?

Podcast: Will Arm Risk RISC-V?
by Daniel Nenni on 06-15-2022 at 6:00 am

What’s at stake? A candid discussion between Junko Yoshida, Editor in Chief of the Ojo-Yoshida Report, and Frank Lin, CEO of Andes.

Will Arm RISC-V? from the Ojo-Yoshida Report

Andes Technology, a Taiwanese CPU core IP company, began phasing out its proprietary processing architecture in favor of RISC-V in 2015, as it preparedRead More


Truechip’s Network-on-Chip (NoC) Silicon IP

Truechip’s Network-on-Chip (NoC) Silicon IP
by Kalar Rajendiran on 06-14-2022 at 10:00 am

Truechip NoC Silicon IP Block Diagram

Driven by the need to rapidly move data across a chip, the NoC IP is already a very common structure for moving data with an SoC. And various implementations of the NoC IP are available in the market depending on the end system requirements. Over the last few years, the RISC-V architecture and the TileLink interface specification … Read More


A Different Perspective: Ansys’ View on the Central Issues Driving EDA Today

A Different Perspective: Ansys’ View on the Central Issues Driving EDA Today
by John Lee on 06-14-2022 at 6:00 am

RedHawk SC uses Ansys SeaScape Big Data Platform Designed for EDA Applications

For the past few decades, System-on-Chip (SoC) has been the gold standard for optimizing the performance and cost of electronic systems. Pulling together practically all of a smartphone’s digital and analog capabilities into a monolithic chip, the mobile application processor serves as a near-perfect example of an SoC. But… Read More


Podcast EP86: Negative Outlook for the Semiconductor Industry with Malcolm Penn

Podcast EP86: Negative Outlook for the Semiconductor Industry with Malcolm Penn
by Daniel Nenni on 06-13-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Malcolm Penn, founder and CEO of Future Horizons, a firm that provides industry analysis and consulting services on the global semiconductor industry.

Dan and Malcolm discuss the current and future state of the semiconductor industry. What has driven the cyclic nature of the business and are we doomed to repeat… Read More