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EDA Design and Amazon Web Services (AWS)

EDA Design and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
by Daniel Payne on 06-21-2021 at 10:00 am

EC2 min

I first remember blogging about EDA in the cloud starting back in 2011, so what’s changed in the last 10 years you may ask? In 2011, it was basically a handful of EDA point tools running batch mode in the cloud, and you were on your own to integrate those into a coherent flow, so expect help from the CAD and IT departments for sure.… Read More


Die-to-Die Connections Crucial for SOCs built with Chiplets

Die-to-Die Connections Crucial for SOCs built with Chiplets
by Tom Simon on 06-21-2021 at 6:00 am

die to die connections

If you ascribe to the notion that things move in circles, or concentrically, the move to die-to-die connectivity makes complete sense. Just as multi-chip modules (MCM) were the right technology decades ago to improve power, areas, performance and cost, the use of chiplets with die-to-die connections provides many advantages… Read More


Ten Lessons Learned from Andy Grove

Ten Lessons Learned from Andy Grove
by Betsy Corcoran on 06-20-2021 at 6:00 am

Andy Grove SemiWiki

I met Andy Grove on a sunny day in New York City in 1987. He was dashing to press interviews for his just-off-the-presses management book, “One on One with Andy Grove.” I was a freshly badged member of the press working for IEEE Spectrum, a year or so out of college, still toting my college backpack. Little did I know that that would be Read More


Podcast Episode 25: Silicon IP for Early-Stage Semiconductor Companies

Podcast Episode 25: Silicon IP for Early-Stage Semiconductor Companies
by Daniel Nenni on 06-18-2021 at 10:00 am

Moderator:
Daniel Nenni, Semiwiki
Panelists:
Jothy Rosenberg, CEO Dover Microsystems
John Terry, CEO Espre Technologies
Fares Mubarak, CEO Spark Microsystems

General Theme: A discussion around the requirements and challenges of investigation and ultimate selection of IP for early-stage chip companies, discussing both… Read More


There’s No Such Thing as Ground (But Perhaps There’s a Bob) Minimze Your Ports

There’s No Such Thing as Ground (But Perhaps There’s a Bob) Minimze Your Ports
by Matt Commens on 06-18-2021 at 6:00 am

Fig. 1 Electromagnetic wave launching from a 60 GHz substrate integrated waveguide SiW array antenna animate

I would contend there is no job quite like working as a support engineer for a simulation tool like Ansys HFSS. Such a role forces an engineer to understand technology in breadth and depth like no other because HFSS is applied to such a broad range of applications and products throughout the world. My own introduction to HFSS began … Read More


Alchip is Painting a Bright Future for the ASIC Market

Alchip is Painting a Bright Future for the ASIC Market
by Mike Gianfagna on 06-17-2021 at 10:00 am

Alchip is Painting a Bright Future for the ASIC Market

I’ve spent most of my career in the ASIC business. In 2003, Gartner predicted the ASIC market would grow to $16.9B. During that time, there were a number of startups building ASICs, but the applications were a bit specialized and aimed at new markets. Consequently, there was a lot of risk to build a chip startup and many ASICs either… Read More


Ferroelectric Hafnia-based Materials for Neuromorphic ICs

Ferroelectric Hafnia-based Materials for Neuromorphic ICs
by Raisul Islam on 06-17-2021 at 6:00 am

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The ferroelectric effect in materials has been exploited to fabricate (fab) reliable Ferroelectric Random Access Memories (FRAM) Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) ICs for over 20 years. Recent years have seen have seen a breakthrough in discovering ferroelectric properties in Hafnium Oxide (HfO2 or “hafnia”), a fab-friendly… Read More


Silicon Photonics Solutions Address Bandwidth, Reach, and Power Challenges

Silicon Photonics Solutions Address Bandwidth, Reach, and Power Challenges
by Kalar Rajendiran on 06-16-2021 at 10:00 am

MegaTrends and Silicon Photonics

A couple of weeks ago, I blogged on GlobalFoundries’ silicon technologies supporting automotive radar applications. This time it is on GlobalFoundries’ silicon photonics technology which expects to find adoption in a broad spectrum of applications.  The blog is based on listening to a technology presentation made by Dr. … Read More


Connecting System Design to the Enterprise

Connecting System Design to the Enterprise
by Bernard Murphy on 06-16-2021 at 6:00 am

Connecting System Design to the Enterprise min

While systems design underpins the explosion in “smart everything”, it remains somewhat isolated from another explosion—the proliferation of tools for application lifecycle management (ALM). ALM tools are prevalent on the web, in the cloud and on our phones, to streamline product design and build, to track correspondence… Read More


“Kandou it”

“Kandou it”
by Lauro Rizzatti on 06-15-2021 at 10:00 am

Kandou KB8001 Block Diagram

In another departure from my chip design verification “beat,” I took a look at Kandou and like what I learned.

Kandou from Lausanne, Switzerland, boasts “Kandou It” as its tagline and as it should be if Kandou’s USB-C multi-protocol retimer solution with USB4 support is inside next-gen laptops, notebooks, desktops, tablets and… Read More