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Embedded Analytics Becoming Essential

Embedded Analytics Becoming Essential
by Tom Simon on 04-22-2021 at 6:00 am

Embedded Analytics

SoC integration offers huge benefits through reduced chip count in finished systems, higher performance, improved reliability, etc. A single die can contain billions of transistors, with multiple processors and countless subsystems all working together. The result of this has been rapid growth of semiconductor content … Read More


Adaptive Power/Performance Management for FD-SOI

Adaptive Power/Performance Management for FD-SOI
by Tom Dillinger on 04-21-2021 at 10:00 am

Dolphin FD SOI FBB

A vexing chip design issue is how to achieve (or improve) performance and power dissipation targets, allowing for a wide range of manufacturing process variation (P) and dynamic operation voltage and temperature fluctuations (VT).  One design method is to analyze the operation across a set of PVT corners, and ensure sufficient… Read More


Arm Announces v9 Generation – Custom, DSP, Security, More

Arm Announces v9 Generation – Custom, DSP, Security, More
by Bernard Murphy on 04-21-2021 at 6:00 am

Balance of Standardization min

This wasn’t as much of a big bang announcement as others I have seen. More a polishing of earlier-announced reveals, positioning updates, together with some new concepts. First, you probably remember the Cortex-X announcement from about a year ago, allowing users to customize their own instructions into the standard instruction… Read More


Addressing SoC Test Implementation Time and Costs

Addressing SoC Test Implementation Time and Costs
by Daniel Payne on 04-20-2021 at 10:00 am

testmax flow

In business we all have heard the maxim, “Time is Money.” I learned this lesson early on in my semiconductor career when doing DRAM design, discovering that the packaging costs and time on the tester were actually higher than the fabrication costs. System companies like IBM were early adopters of Design For Test (DFT)… Read More


5G Calls for New Transceiver Architectures

5G Calls for New Transceiver Architectures
by Tom Simon on 04-20-2021 at 6:00 am

5G Architecture

5G phones are now the top tier devices from many manufactures, and 5G deployment is accelerating in many regions. While 4G/LTE has served us well, 5G is necessary to support next-generation telecommunication needs. It will be used heavily by consumers and industry because it supports many new use cases. There is an excellent white… Read More


Die-to-Die Interface PHY and Controller Subsystem for Next Generation Chiplets

Die-to-Die Interface PHY and Controller Subsystem for Next Generation Chiplets
by Kalar Rajendiran on 04-19-2021 at 10:00 am

Comparison of D2D PHY and XSR SerDes OpenFive

In early April, Gabriele Saucier kicked off Design & Reuse’s IPSoC Silicon Valley 2021 Conference. IPSoC conference as the name suggests is dedicated to semiconductor intellectual property (IP) and IP-based electronic systems. There were a number of excellent presentations at the conference. The presentations had been… Read More


Demystifying Angel Investing

Demystifying Angel Investing
by Daniel Nenni on 04-19-2021 at 6:00 am

Silicon Catalyst

Recently we published the article Semiconductor Startups – Are they back? which went SemiWiki viral with 30k+ views. It’s certainly a sign of the times with M&A activity still running at a brisk rate. During the day I help emerging companies with business development including raising money and sell-side acquisitions… Read More


Your Car Is a Smartphone on Wheels—and It Needs Smartphone Security

Your Car Is a Smartphone on Wheels—and It Needs Smartphone Security
by Taylor Armerding on 04-18-2021 at 10:00 am

Your Car Is a Smartphone on Wheels—and It Needs Smartphone Security

Your modern car is a computer on wheels—potentially hundreds of computers on a set of wheels. Heck, even the wheels are infested with computers—what do you think prompts that little light on your dashboard to come on if your tire pressure is low? And computers don’t just run your infotainment system, backup camera, dashboard warning

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Dark Data Explained

Dark Data Explained
by Ahmed Banafa on 04-18-2021 at 8:00 am

Dark Data Explained

Dark data defines as the information assets organizations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes (for example, analytics, business relationships and direct monetizing). Similar to dark matter in physics, dark data often comprises most organizations’… Read More


Why I made the world’s first on-demand formal verification course

Why I made the world’s first on-demand formal verification course
by Ashish Darbari on 04-18-2021 at 6:00 am

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Verification Challenge
As chip design complexity continues to grow astronomically with hardware accelerators running riot with the traditional hardware comprising CPUs, GPUs, networking and video and vision hardware, concurrency, control and coherency will dominate the landscape of verification complexity for safe … Read More