Solving critical customer problems sometimes isn’t enough. One of my most interesting experiences came during the development and rollout of a product that was designed to optimize integration of hardware and embedded software. In this case, the product performed exactly as planned but the plan ignored the organizational… Read More
PDF Solutions' AI-Driven Collaboration & Smarter DecisionsWhen most people hear the term PDF, they…Read More
Bringing Low-Frequency Noise into FocusKey takeaways The challenge of acquiring high-quality, reproducible…Read More
A Brief History of TSMC Through 2025Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's largest dedicated…Read More
Google's Road Trip to RISC-V at Warehouse Scale: Insights from Google's Martin DixonIn an engaging presentation at a recent RISC-V…Read More
Bridging Embedded and Cloud Worlds: AWS Solutions for RISC-V DevelopmentIn a compelling keynote at the RISC-V Summit…Read MoreTSMC OIP Overview and Agenda!
The TSMC Symposium and OIP Ecosystem Fourm are the most coveted events of the year for the fabless semiconductor ecosystem, absolutely. In my 35 years of semiconductor experience never has there been a more exciting time in the ecosystem and that is clear by the overview and agenda for this year’s event. I hope to see you there:… Read More
Carnegie Robotics Case Study: RTLvisionPRO
RTLvisionPRO has proven to be an indispensable tool which has greatly improved the productivity and work-flow of our current task: understanding, verifying, and documenting the existing RTL IP library at our company. Consisting of about 500 Verilog and VHDL files, the library has been under development for several years and… Read More
AI, Safety and the Network
If you follow my blogs you know that Arteris IP is very active in these areas, leveraging their central value in network-on-chip (NoC) architectures. Kurt Shuler has put together a front-to-back white-paper to walk you through the essentials of AI, particularly machine learning (ML) and its application for example in cars.
He… Read More
SiFive to Host its Tech Symposium on RISC-V in Israel on September 5
There’s no question that the RISC-V ISA is revolutionizing the semiconductor ecosystem around the world. We see Israel as the epicenter of RISC-V based development and innovation in the Middle East. For the second year in a row, SiFive will be hosting its Tech Symposium on RISC-V in Israel to help foster the growth and momentum that’s… Read More
Leave the Driving to Musk!
For years Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk has been taunting the global insurance industry that he would offer insurance coverage directly from Tesla if he was dissatisfied with the industry’s own underwriting. That shoe dropped last week with a resounding thud as Tesla Insurance Services launched in California.
As part of the filing,… Read More
Cryptocurrencies Should be Enabled to Blacklist Criminal Holdings
Cryptocurrency is seen as a new, wild, reckless, revolutionary, and sometimes shady financial instrument. In addition to legitimate transactions, a disproportionate amount of attention is paid to the criminal use of cryptocurrency to store wealth, collect payments, transfer illicit funds, and launder money. Malicious
WEBINAR: Lightspeed Data Sync – Design Workspace Problems Solved!
With every process node and every SOC design, engineering and IT teams are experiencing an unprecedented data explosion. User workspaces routinely exceed 10’s of GB and sometimes even 100’s of GB. Regression runs, characterization runs, design and debug of workspaces, building verification environments – all of these… Read More
From AMD to Actel (to Microchip)
By the late 80s it had become clear to me that the Japanese were right. Memories, Microprocessors, and Gate Arrays (As well as ASICs) were what customers wanted then. “Building blocks of ever-increasing complexity” was obsolete. What next? Should I try to become an overnight networking expert? Maybe a DSP expert? Pretty… Read More
China Winning the Future of the semiconductor industry?
In this second article about China’s role in the global semiconductor industry I analyse the impact of the Chinese government’s Big Fund and compare Chinese investments in semiconductor R&D with those in other countries. In my previous article, I looked at the possible effects of a US-China decoupling in the… Read More


Quantum Computing Technologies and Challenges