The ever-increasing demands placed on Intellectual Property (IP) and System-on-Chip (SoC) development teams have resulted in an ever-increasing need for automation solutions that can boost productivity without contributing to further risk. Certainly, demands for automation have long been the drivers behind the growth… Read More
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The Inconvenient Truth of Clock Domain Crossings
Almost everything that we do in chip design and verification was invented to raise the abstraction above schematics and polygons. Register-transfer-level (RTL) design, functional simulation, logic synthesis, floorplanning, and more fall into this category. Even the notion of binary circuits is an abstraction. Underneath… Read More
Sondrel Extends ASIC Turnkey Design to Supply Services From Europe to US
It’s no secret that system companies are driving a lot of new silicon. Google, AWS, Tesla and others have well-established design teams delivering differentiated servers, AI engines and other technologies. I’m sure NVIDIA suspects sub rosa projects are already underway in many of these hyperscalers to design out their GPUs.… Read More
CEO Interview: Ashraf Takla of Mixel
Ashraf Takla is Founder and CEO of Mixel Inc., which he founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Mixel is a leading provider of mixed-signal IPs and offers a wide portfolio of high-performance mixed-signal connectivity IP solutions. Mixel’s mixed-signal portfolio includes PHYs and SerDes, such as MIPI D-PHY, MIPI… Read More
Visit with Agnisys at DAC 2023 in San Francisco July 10-12
I’d like to extend an invitation to you and your development team to visit with Agnisys in our booth, #2512, at this week’s Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2023, Monday, July 10-12.
In its 60th year, DAC is recognized as the premier event for the design and design automation of electronic chips to systems, so you can count on team… Read More
Automotive IP Certification
The electrification of cars and the growth of EVs means that more semiconductor content is being added with every new vehicle model from suppliers around the globe. There are unique concerns for automotive IP in terms of reliability, security and safety over the lifetime of the vehicle. I had the pleasure to speak with Pawini Mahajan… Read More
CEO Interview: Issam Nofal of IROC Technologies
Issam Nofal is the CEO of IROC Technologies and has held various positions with the company for over 23 years as Product Manager, Project Leader, and R&D Engineer. He has authored several papers on test and reliability of Integrated Circuits. He holds a PhD in Microelectronics from Grenoble INP.
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… Read MoreChiplet Q&A with John Lee of Ansys
At the recent Synopsys Users Group Meeting (SNUG) I had the honor of leading a panel of experts on the topic of chiplets. One of those panelists was John Lee, Head of Electronics, Semiconductors and Optics at Ansys.
How is the signoff flow evolving and what is being done to help mitigate the growing signoff complexity challenge?
With… Read More
Overcoming Semiconductor Supply Chain Bottlenecks
During the recent COVID pandemic it was common to read about automobile companies unable to deliver new vehicles, caused by the shortage of specific automotive chips. Even bad weather has shut down the supply of semiconductor parts to certain customers. This disruption of the IC supply chain has caused many companies that buy … Read More
Hardware Root of Trust for Automotive Safety
Traveling by car is something that I take for granted and I just expect that my trips will be safe, yet our cars are increasingly using dozens of ECUs, SoCs and millions of lines of software code that combined together present a target for hackers or system failures. The Automotive Safety Integrity Levels (ASIL) are known by the letters:… Read More
ASML- Soft revenues & Orders – But…China 49% – Memory Improving