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Is IBM’s 2nm Announcement Actually a 2nm Node?

Is IBM’s 2nm Announcement Actually a 2nm Node?
by Scotten Jones on 05-09-2021 at 6:00 am

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IBM has announced the development of a 2nm process.

IBM Announcement

What was announced:

  • “2nm”
  • 50 billion transistors in a “thumbnail” sized area later disclosed to be 150mm2 = 333 million transistors per millimeter (MTx/mm2).
  • 44nm Contacted Poly Pitch (CPP) with 12nm gate length.
  • Gate All Around (GAA), there are several ways
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Podcast EP19: The Emergence of 2.5D and Chiplets in AI-Based Applications

Podcast EP19: The Emergence of 2.5D and Chiplets in AI-Based Applications
by Daniel Nenni on 05-07-2021 at 10:00 am

Dan and Mike are joined by Sudhir Mallya, vice president of corporate and product marketing at OpenFive. We explore 2.5D design and the role chiplets play. Current technical and business challenges are discussed as well as an assessment of how the chiplet market will develop and what impact it will have.

The views, thoughts, and

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CEO Interview: Srinath Anantharaman of Cliosoft

CEO Interview: Srinath Anantharaman of Cliosoft
by Daniel Nenni on 05-07-2021 at 6:00 am

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Srinath Anantharaman founded Cliosoft in 1997 and serves as the company’s CEO.  He has over 40 years of software engineering and management experience in the EDA industry.  Srinath graduated with a Bachelor of Technology from IIT/Kanpur and MSEE from Washington University in St. Louis.

The last time we talked to you was 2017. Read More


Verification Management the Synopsys Way

Verification Management the Synopsys Way
by Bernard Murphy on 05-06-2021 at 6:00 am

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Remember the days when verification meant running a simulator with directed tests? (Back then we just called them tests.) Then came static and formal verification, simulation running in farms, emulation and FPGA prototyping. We now have UVM, constrained random testing and many different test objectives (functional, power,… Read More


Spot-On Dead Reckoning for Indoor Autonomous Robots

Spot-On Dead Reckoning for Indoor Autonomous Robots
by Kalar Rajendiran on 05-05-2021 at 10:00 am

Sensors Characteristics

One meaning of the word “reckoning” says it is the action or process of calculating or estimating something. But dead reckoning? What does that mean? Believe it or not, we have all deployed dead reckoning to varying degrees of success on different occasions. As an example, when driving on a multi-lane winding highway and direct … Read More


Why Near-Threshold Voltage is an Excellent Choice for Hearables

Why Near-Threshold Voltage is an Excellent Choice for Hearables
by Lauri Koskinen on 05-05-2021 at 6:00 am

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In the previous blogs on this topic, we’ve seen that utilizing near-threshold voltage (NTV) saves incredible amounts of energy, theoretically up to 10x and in practice from 2x to 4x. But there is a price which makes some applications more suited for NTV than others. This is due to the inevitable performance (speed) loss of NTV as … Read More


Transistor-Level Static Checking for Better Performance and Reliability

Transistor-Level Static Checking for Better Performance and Reliability
by Daniel Payne on 05-04-2021 at 10:00 am

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My first transistor-level IC design job was with Intel, doing DRAM designs by shrinking the layout to a smaller process node, and it also required running lots of SPICE runs with manually extracted parasitics to verify that everything was operating OK, meeting the access time specifications and power requirements across PVT … Read More


Achronix Next-Gen FPGAs Now Shipping

Achronix Next-Gen FPGAs Now Shipping
by Kalar Rajendiran on 05-04-2021 at 6:00 am

1980s to Now Market Changes

Earlier in April, Achronix made a product announcement with the headline “Achronix Now Shipping Industry’s Highest Performance Speedster7t FPGA Devices.” The press release drew attention to the fact that the 7nm Speedster®7t AC7t1500 FPGAs have started shipping to customers ahead of schedule. In the complex product world… Read More


You know you have a problem when 60 Minutes covers it!

You know you have a problem when 60 Minutes covers it!
by Robert Maire on 05-03-2021 at 2:00 pm

60 Minutes Chip Shortage

-Chip shortage on 60 Minutes- Average Joe now aware of chip issue
-Intel sprinkling fairy dust (money) on New Mexico & Israel
-Give up on buy backs and dividends
-Could Uncle Sam give a handout to Intel?

You normally don’t want to answer the door if 60 Minutes TV crew is outside as it likely doesn’t mean good things.… Read More


Synopsys Debuts Major New Analog Simulation Capabilities

Synopsys Debuts Major New Analog Simulation Capabilities
by Tom Simon on 05-03-2021 at 10:00 am

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Just prior to this year’s Synopsys User Group (SNUG) meeting, I had a call with Hany Elhak, Group Director of Product Management and Marketing at Synopsys, to talk about their latest announcements for analog simulation. Synopsys usually has big things to talk about each year around this time – this year is no exception. Hany… Read More