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Hardware Data Acceleration for Semiconductor Design

Hardware Data Acceleration for Semiconductor Design
by Kalar Rajendiran on 10-11-2021 at 6:00 am

What if you could Table

This blog is a follow-on piece to an earlier one titled NetApp’s ONTAP Enables Engineering Productivity Boost.  If you have not had an opportunity to read that blog,  please do so for context. Using real life examples, it showcases how customers could improve real-world design engineering productivity as much as 10%.

For the … Read More


IAA Mobility: The Un-Car Show

IAA Mobility: The Un-Car Show
by Roger C. Lanctot on 10-10-2021 at 6:00 am

IAA Mobility The Un Car Show

IAA Mobility held in Munich last month was the first post-pandemic international auto show to take place outside of China. The organizers positioned automotive displays in city-center plazas while car companies rubbed shoulders with large suppliers and tiny startups on the show floor at the conference center.

Attendees would… Read More


Podcast EP42: Semiconductor Materials Innovations

Podcast EP42: Semiconductor Materials Innovations
by Daniel Nenni on 10-08-2021 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Alex Yoon, head of strategic and emerging technologies at Intermolecular. Dan and Alex explore the application of Intermolecular’s materials research capabilities, including their prototype fab in the Bay Area.

https://intermolecular.com/

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in these podcasts… Read More


CEO Interview: Mike Wishart of Efabless

CEO Interview: Mike Wishart of Efabless
by Daniel Nenni on 10-08-2021 at 6:00 am

Mike Wishart

Mike Wishart has a storied career in investment banking and technology. His resume includes stints at Smith Barney, Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs after his Stanford MBA. He has served as a director at Brooktree, Spansion, Cypress and now Knowles. Mike is also a venture partner at Tyche Partners, a venture capital firm focused… Read More


DARPA Toolbox Initiative Boosts Design Productivity

DARPA Toolbox Initiative Boosts Design Productivity
by Tom Simon on 10-07-2021 at 10:00 am

DARPA Toolbox Initiative

When you think of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), this first thing that comes to mind is the development of the internet. And indeed, if you look at their website’s historic timeline, the development of ARPANET, as it was known at the time, is shown prominently in 1969. Incidentally, I actually used one of … Read More


Semiconductors – Limiting Factors; Supply Chain & Talent- Will Limit Stock Upside

Semiconductors – Limiting Factors; Supply Chain & Talent- Will Limit Stock Upside
by Robert Maire on 10-07-2021 at 6:00 am

Semiconductor shortage

– If chips are “as good as it gets” so are the stock prices
– Are we at a near term ceiling that stocks have bounced off of?
– If growth slows do valuations also slow?
– Are we in a holding pattern waiting for a down cycle?

Second order derivative investing

As we have said many times in the past, investors… Read More


Podcast EP41: A First Look at DAC 2021

Podcast EP41: A First Look at DAC 2021
by Daniel Nenni on 10-06-2021 at 10:00 am

Dan and Mike are joined by Harry Foster, Chief Scientist Verification at Siemens Digital Industry Software, Co-Founder and Executive Editor for the Verification Academy and 2021 Design Automation Conference General Chair. In this first in a series of DAC podcasts, we explore several dimensions of DAC 2021 with Harry, including … Read More


IBM and HPE Keynotes at Synopsys Verification Day

IBM and HPE Keynotes at Synopsys Verification Day
by Bernard Murphy on 10-06-2021 at 6:00 am

Synopsys Verification Day 2021 View Ondemand min

I have attended several past Synopsys verification events which I remember as engineering conference room, all-engineer pitches and debates. Effective but aiming for content rather than polish. This year’s event was different. First it was virtual, like most events these days, which certainly made the whole event feel more… Read More


Blur, not Wavelength, Determines Resolution at Advanced Nodes

Blur, not Wavelength, Determines Resolution at Advanced Nodes
by Fred Chen on 10-05-2021 at 10:00 am

Blur not Wavelength Determines Resolution at Advanced Nodes

Lithography has been the driving force for shrinking feature sizes for decades, and the most easily identified factor behind this trend is the reduction of wavelength. G-line (436 nm wavelength) was used for 0.5 um in the late 1980s [1], and I-line (365 nm wavelength) was used down to 0.3 um in the 1990s [2]. Then began the era of deep-ultraviolet… Read More


On-Device Tensilica AI Platform For AI SoCs

On-Device Tensilica AI Platform For AI SoCs
by Kalar Rajendiran on 10-05-2021 at 6:00 am

Varying On Device AI Requirements 1

During his keynote address at the CadenceLIVE 2021 conference, CEO Lip-Bu Tan made some market trend comments. He observed that most of the data nowadays is generated at the edge but only 20% is processed there. He predicted that by 2030, 80% of data is expected to be processed at the edge. And most of this 80% will be processed on edge… Read More