We have seen that the interface IP category is seeing incredibly high growth rate over the last two decades and we expect this category to generate an ongoing high source of IP revenues for at least another decade. But if we dig into the various successful protocols like PCI Express, Ethernet or USB, we can detect a common function … Read More
Pushing the Packed SIMD Extension Over the Line: An Update on the Progress of Key RISC-V ExtensionThe rapid growth of signal processing workloads in…Read More
2026 Outlook with Richard Hegberg of Caspia TechnologiesTell us a little bit about yourself and…Read More
Siemens EDA Illuminates the Complexity of PCB DesignAs heterogeneous multi-die design becomes more prevalent, the…Read More
Accelerating Advanced FPGA-Based SoC Prototyping With S2CHaving spent a significant amount of my career…Read More
Verification Futures with Bronco AI Agents for DV DebugVerification has become the dominant bottleneck in modern…Read MoreSemiconductors up 6.5% in 2020, >10% in 2021?
Semiconductor sales in 2020 were $439.0 billion, up 6.5% from $412.3 billion in 2019, according to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS).
We at Semiconductor Intelligence have been tracking the accuracy of semiconductor market forecasts from various sources for several years. We look at publicly available projections… Read More
Podcast EP7: Signal Integrity and Killer Robots
Dan and Mike are joined by Matt Burns, technical marketing manager at Samtec. Matt discusses the signal integrity challenges faced by system designers. The materials and protocols used for channels on a board, between boards on a rack and even between racks are discussed. Matt also touches on the work Samtec is doing with BattleBots.… Read More
CEO Interview: Sathyam Pattanam
Sathyam has over 35 years of experience in company management, R&D management and software development in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) (mostly) and PCB Manufacturing. He has headed companies, global engineering and marketing organizations in Forture-500 and in startups companies to introduce innovative and … Read More
“For Want of a Chip, the Auto Industry was Lost”
Semiconductor production can’t be turned on and off like a switch
Semiconductor fabs have to run 24/7 to make money. They have to be running full all the time to fully utilize the high running costs and in the case of new fabs, high capital costs.
Unlike a brake pad factory hat can hire and fire people at will and source readily … Read More
Need Electromagnetic Simulations for ICs?
Electromagnetic (EM) simulations have been performed on die metal structures since the 1990s. Originally, the analysis was restricted to a single device (e.g., a spiral inductor). The number of on-die devices simulated simultaneously grew with the increasing capabilities of the computers performing the computations. This… Read More
Do You Care About What You’re Measuring? Part 3: Industrial Condition Monitoring
Mountains over 10,000 feet capped with snow in the winter. Some of the deepest, clearest blue sky you’ll find in the United States. Farmlands of green in the spring. That was the view looking out the second story window from the most awesome conference room I’ve ever taken a customer meeting. Even if I didn’t immediately understand… Read More
A New ML Application, in Formal Regressions
Machine learning (ML) is a once-in-a-generation innovation that seems like it should be applicable almost everywhere. It’s certainly revolutionized automotive safety, radiology and many other domains. In our neck of the woods, SoC implementation is advancing through learning to reduce total negative slacks and better optimize… Read More
Trust, but verify. How to catch peanut butter engineering before it spreads into your system — Part 2: Verification.
This article about verification is part 2 of a two article series. Please see part 1 on validation HERE.
Verification is a field that has emerged as its own discipline. It’s no longer being relegated to an activity led by the design team to which time is allocated as long as it doesn’t get in the way of designing. Chip companies… Read More
Take Your Agile Release Process to the Next Level with Compass 2.0.1 and EssentialSAFe® from HCL
As I’ve discussed before, HCL Compass is a very flexible tool to define and manage development and release processes at the enterprise level. In HCL’s own words: Low-code/no-code change management software for enterprise level scaling, process customization, and control to accelerate project delivery and increase developer… Read More


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