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SPIE 2021 – Applied Materials – DRAM Scaling

SPIE 2021 – Applied Materials – DRAM Scaling
by Scotten Jones on 04-08-2021 at 10:00 am

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At the SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference in February 2021, Regina Freed of Applied Materials gave a paper: “Module-Level Material Engineering for Continued DRAM Scaling”. Applied Materials provided me with the presentation and was kind enough to set up an interview for me with Regina Freed.

I also spoke to Regina Freed last… Read More


Cadence Dynamic Duo Upgrade Debuts

Cadence Dynamic Duo Upgrade Debuts
by Bernard Murphy on 04-08-2021 at 6:00 am

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Cadence calls their hardware acceleration platforms, Palladium Z2 for fast pre-silicon hardware debug and Protium X2 for fast pre-silicon software validation, their Dynamic Duo. With good reason. Hardware acceleration is now fundamental to managing the complexity of verification and validation for large systems, hardware… Read More


Is E-Waste Declining ? The rest of the story

Is E-Waste Declining ? The rest of the story
by rahulrazdan on 04-07-2021 at 10:00 am

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Recently,  there have been a number of articles with titles such as “Study shows residential electronic scrap generation is declining”  or “E-scrap generation on the decline, study finds.”  or “E-Waste Is Declining, Government Needs To Change Laws To Keep Up – And Get Out Of The Recycling Business.”    

As a veteran of Read More


Webinar: Annapurna Labs and Altair Team up for Rapid Chip Design in the Cloud

Webinar: Annapurna Labs and Altair Team up for Rapid Chip Design in the Cloud
by Mike Gianfagna on 04-07-2021 at 6:00 am

Annapurna Labs and Altair Team up for Rapid Chip Design in the Cloud

This is a story of strategic recursion. Yes, a fancy term. I just made up. If you’re not into algorithm development you can Google recursion, but the simple explanation is we’re talking about using the cloud to design the cloud. The story begins with Annapurna Labs, a fabless chip company focused on bringing innovation to cloud infrastructure,… Read More


Kioxia and Western Digital and the current Kioxia IPO/Sale rumors

Kioxia and Western Digital and the current Kioxia IPO/Sale rumors
by Scotten Jones on 04-06-2021 at 10:00 am

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There are a lot of articles out right now discussing a possible IPO for Kioxia or sale of the company with Western Digital (WD) and Micron Technology (MT) mentioned as possible acquirers. Kioxia and WD have a partnership for Flash Memory and on March 18th WD gave a presentation on the state of their partnership and what they see as their… Read More


VC Formal SIG Virtually Conferences in Europe

VC Formal SIG Virtually Conferences in Europe
by Bernard Murphy on 04-06-2021 at 6:00 am

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Pratik Mahajan, Synopsys VC Formal R&D Group Director, kicked off an absorbing event featuring talks from multiple customers in Europe. He spent some time on formal signoff, an important topic that I’m still not sure is fully understood. Answering the questions “OK, we did a bunch of formal checking but how does that affect… Read More


RISC-V is Building Momentum

RISC-V is Building Momentum
by Adrienne Downey on 04-05-2021 at 10:00 am

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The semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) market is an integral part of the semiconductor industry. Third-party IP has propelled the industry, opening the door for many new products from start-ups to established IDMs. Enabling increasingly complex devices, reducing the cost of product development and reducing the time… Read More


How Mentor became Siemens EDA

How Mentor became Siemens EDA
by Daniel Nenni on 04-05-2021 at 6:00 am

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When I started in EDA the big three were Daisy, Mentor and Valid (DMV as we called them). Then came Synopsys in 1986 followed by Cadence, which was a clever merger between ECAD (Dracula DRC) and Solomon Design. Daisy and Valid were pushed aside and then there were, “Three dogs hovering over one bowl of dog food, not a pretty site.”… Read More


Tesla’s License to Kill

Tesla’s License to Kill
by Roger C. Lanctot on 04-04-2021 at 8:00 am

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Even as Honda Motors puts a so-called Level 3 semi-autonomous vehicle on the road in Japan – 100 of them to be exact – the outrage grows over semi-autonomous vehicle tech requiring driver vigilance. Tesla Motors and General Motors have taken this plunge, creating a driving scenario where drivers – under certain circumstances … Read More


The Quest for Bugs: “Deep Cycles”

The Quest for Bugs: “Deep Cycles”
by Bryan Dickman on 04-04-2021 at 6:00 am

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Verification is a resource limited ‘quest’ to find as many bugs as possible before shipping. It’s a long, difficult, costly search, constrained by cost, time and quality. For a multi-billion gate ASIC,

The search space is akin to a space search; practically infinite

In this article we talk about the quest for bugs at the system-level,Read More