The word “safety” can mean a lot of different things to different people, but it’s a word we hear frequently when the topic involves automobiles. In contrast, “functional safety” has a long-established meaning in the design of electrical and mechanical systems: an automatic protection mechanism with a predictable response … Read More
SiFive to Power Next-Gen RISC-V AI Data Centers with NVIDIA NVLink FusionIn a strategic move that could reshape the…Read More
TSMC’s CoWoS® Sustainability Drive: Turning Waste into WealthIn a significant example of how high-tech manufacturing…Read More
Taming Advanced Node Clock Network Challenges: Duty CycleAs process nodes advance, circuit behavior becomes progressively…Read MoreCan Intel Catch TSMC in 2025?
At the ISS conference held from April 4th through 6th I presented on who I thought would have the leading logic technology in 2025. The following is a write up of that presentation.
ISS was a virtual conference in 2021 and I presented on who currently had logic leadership and declared TSMC the clear leader. Following that conference,… Read More
The ESD Alliance CEO Outlook is Coming April 28 –– Live!
It’s not often our community is able to attend an in-person discussion where executives share their insights on industry trends, especially over the past two years as the pandemic swept across the globe.
Well, that’s about to change and I suggest you start jotting down questions as the ESD Alliance plans its first in-person CEO … Read More
Chip Shortage Killed the Radio in the Car
“In my mind and in my car, we can’t rewind we’ve gone too far.” – “Video Killed the Radio Star” – The Buggles
I discovered within days of driving home my new BMW X3 last fall that I was a victim of the much ballyhooed chip shortage. Among the features “deleted” from … Read More
Podcast EP70: A Review of EDA and IP Growth For 2021 with Dr. Walden Rhines
Dan is joined by Dr. Walden Rhines in his capacity as Executive Sponsor for the SEMI Electronic Design Market Data Report. Wally provides an overview of the most recent report covering all of 2021. Spoiler alert: it was a record-breaking year in many areas.
Dan and Wally explore the details behind the numbers and what it may mean for… Read More
CEO Interview: Dr. Esko Mikkola of Alphacore
CEO’s background: what led to your current organization?
Since an early age, exceeding expectations has driven me to succeed in my areas of interest. While enlisted in the Finnish Army, I was selected, trained, and short-listed for the country’s astronaut training program before it was unfortunately dissolved. A major realized… Read More
Design to Layout Collaboration Mixed Signal
When talking about today’s sophisticated advanced node designs it’s easy to first think about the digital challenges. Yet, the effort to design the needed analog and mixed signal blocks for them should not be underestimated. The need for high speed clocks, high frequency RF circuits and high bit rate IOs makes the analog portions,… Read More
Intel Best Practices for Formal Verification
Dynamic event-based simulation of RTL models has traditionally been the workhorse verification methodology. A team of verification engineers interprets the architectural specification to write testbenches for various elements of the design hierarchy. Test environments at lower levels are typically exercised then … Read More
TSMC’s Reliability Ecosystem
TSMC has established a leadership position among silicon foundries, based on three foundational principles:
- breadth of technology support
- innovation in technology development
- collaboration with customers
Frequent SemiWiki readers have seen how these concepts have been applied to the fabrication and packaging technology… Read More
Synopsys Tutorial on Dependable System Design
Synopsys hosted a tutorial on the last day of DVCon USA 2022 on design/system dependability. Which here they interpret as security, functional safety, and reliability analysis. The tutorial included talks from DARPA, AMD, Arm Research and Synopsys. DARPA and AMD talked about general directions and needs, Arm talked about their… Read More




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