I recently spent some time at DesignCon 2020 in Santa Clara. For those who haven’t attended this show in a while, you need to go. It’s no longer a small event focused on chip design. It has grown into a true system-level conference, with a broad ecosystem represented on the show floor and in the technical sessions. Ecosystem is an important… Read More
Hardware is the Center of the Universe (Again)The 40-Year Evolution of Hardware-Assisted Verification — From…Read More
Smarter ECOs: Inside Easy-Logic’s ASIC Optimization EngineEasy-Logic Technology Ltd. is a specialized Electronic Design…Read More
The Name Changes but the Vision Remains the Same – ESD Alliance Through the YearsThe Electronic System Design Alliance (ESDA) has been…Read More
TSMC Process Simplification for Advanced NodesIn the modern world, the semiconductor industry stands…Read More
CEO Interview with Juniyali Nauriyal of PhotonectJuniyali Nauriyal is the CEO and Co-Founder of…Read MoreThe First SiFive Tech Symposiums of 2020 are Fast Approaching – We’ll be in San José, Costa Rica, and Mexico City This Month
We’re confirming seats for our first two SiFive Tech Symposiums in 2020. The first will take place in San José, Costa Rica on February 25, and the second will be in Mexico City, Mexico, on February 28. Just like our 2019 symposiums, these events are designed to engage the global hardware community in the RISC-V ecosystem, and to further… Read More
Mentor at DVCON 2020!
Are you ready for the premier conference for functional design and verification of electronic systems?
Sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative, DVCon is an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating design and verification standards required by systems, semiconductor, intellectual property (IP)… Read More
The Tech week that was February 10-14 2020
The new coronavirus outbreak or COVID-19 outbreak, as it is now officially called, continues to dominate the news again this week as currently there is no end forecast to the outbreak, and infection numbers continue to rise. This will have an impact on semiconductor supplies in the coming months and into Q2 as the necessary restrictions… Read More
Minimal Corona Impact on Chip Equipment Stocks
Very solid quarter driven by foundry/logic
AMAT reported a very solid quarter, beating the top end of guidance with foundry and logic being the primary drivers of spend. Revenues were $4.16B and EPS of $0.98 non-GAAP versus street of $4.11B and $0.93 EPS.
Guide not too wide… – $300M “Corona Cut”
More importantly,… Read More
The Future Of Embedded Monitoring – February 2020
Shall I compare thee to a…Rolls Royce jet engine?
‘There is a new era dawning whereby deeply embedded sensing within all technology will bring about great benefit for the reliability and performance of semiconductor-based products.’ These were my words during a presentation to an industry audience in China back in September… Read More
Design Technology CoOptimization at SPIE 2020
SLiC Library tool dramatically accelerates DTCO for 3nm and beyond
In advanced technology nodes below 10nm, Design and Process Technology development have become increasingly intertwined. In older nodes the traditional technology roll-out was done mostly in a sequential manner with clear geometry scaling targets set by … Read More
Savings Tip the Balance to EVs
In a rare and perhaps unfortunate moment of candor, Cruise Automation CEO Dan Ammann wrote, in his blog post describing the emergence of Cruise (a subsidiary of General Motors) that conventional internal combustion engine vehicles “break down relatively easily. And if they make it 150,000 miles, well, lucky you.”
Ammann goes… Read More
Thermal Reliability Challenges in Automotive and Data Center Applications – A Xilinx Perspective
I wrote recently on ANSYS and TSMC’s joint work on thermal reliability workflows, as these become much more important in advanced processes and packaging. Xilinx provided their own perspective on thermal reliability analysis for their unquestionably large systems – SoC, memory, SERDES and high-speed I/O – stacked within a … Read More
TinyML Makes Big Impact in Edge AI Applications
Machine Learning (ML) has become extremely important for many computing applications, especially ones that involve interacting with the physical world. Along with this trend has come the development of many specialized ML processors for cloud and mobile applications. These chips work fine in the cloud or even in cars or phones,… Read More


CEO Interview with Aftkhar Aslam of yieldWerx