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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


Podcast EP16: Hyperscale Computing & Changes in the Datacenter

Podcast EP16: Hyperscale Computing & Changes in the Datacenter
by Daniel Nenni on 04-16-2021 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Frank Schirrmeister, senior group director of solutions marketing at Cadence Design Systems, Frank has extensive experience in complex system design from his work at companies such as Cadence, Synopsys, Imperas and ChipVision. He has also advised Vayavya Labs and CriticalBlue.

Dan and Frank discuss the many… Read More


TSMC Ups CAPEX Again!

TSMC Ups CAPEX Again!
by Daniel Nenni on 04-16-2021 at 6:00 am

TSMC 1Q21 Revenue by Platform

We were all pleasantly surprised when TSMC increased 2021 Capex to a record $28 billion. To me this validated the talk inside the ecosystem that Intel would be coming to TSMC at 3nm. We were again surprised when TSMC announced a $100B investment over the next three years which belittled Intel’s announcement that they would spend … Read More


Enabling Next Generation Silicon In Package Products

Enabling Next Generation Silicon In Package Products
by Kalar Rajendiran on 04-15-2021 at 10:00 am

System on Package Motivation AlphaWave IP

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


Low Energy SoCs with Near Threshold Voltage

Low Energy SoCs with Near Threshold Voltage
by Tom Simon on 04-15-2021 at 6:00 am

Low Energy Efficiency

There is an important difference between low power and low energy in SOC design. Low power focuses on instantaneous power consumption. This is frequently done to deal with cooling and heat dissipation issues. Of course, it serves as a prerequisite for low energy design, which seeks to reduce overall power consumption over time.… Read More


Global Variation and Its Impact on Time-to-Market for Designs

Global Variation and Its Impact on Time-to-Market for Designs
by umangdoshi on 04-14-2021 at 2:00 pm

Impact of Global Variation on Delay

We have come a long way from the days of limited and manageable characterization databases with fewer views and smaller library sizes. The technologies we are headed towards pushing characterization to its limits with special modeling for variation, aging and reliability all on a single process, voltage and temperature (PVT).… Read More


Semiconductors, the E-waste Problem, and a Pathway for a Solution

Semiconductors, the E-waste Problem, and a Pathway for a Solution
by rahulrazdan on 04-14-2021 at 10:00 am

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Semiconductors have been central to the information revolution which is reshaping society. The modern world would not exist without this critical resource.  Further, semiconductors are central to many sustainability solutions such as the enablement of smart infrastructure, electrification, and virtualization. One ofRead More


Siemens EDA Updates, Completes Its Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio

Siemens EDA Updates, Completes Its Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio
by Bernard Murphy on 04-14-2021 at 6:00 am

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Siemens EDA’s Veloce emulation products are long-established and worthy contenders in any emulation smack-down. But there was always a hole in the complete acceleration story. Where was the FPGA prototyper? Current practice requires emulation for fast simulation with hardware debug, plus prototyping for faster simulation… Read More


Certitude: Tool that can help to catch DV Environment Gaps

Certitude: Tool that can help to catch DV Environment Gaps
by eInfochips on 04-13-2021 at 2:00 pm

Certitude 9

Design verification (DV) is still one of the biggest challenges in the ASIC based product world. In last two decades, we have seen many changes in terms of HVLs and methodologies used for design verification. System Verilog is the most popular HVL these days and UVM is the most popular verification methodology.

Even after such an… Read More