Dr. Stanley Hyduke, founder and CEO of Aldec talks about how keeping pace with the evolution of FPGAs and listening to customers underpin the company’s success.… Read More
CEO Interview: Stanley Hyduke, founder and CEO of Aldec
TSMC's 2024 Sustainability Report: Pioneering a Greener Semiconductor FutureTSMC, the world's most trusted semiconductor foundry, released…Read More
Intel's Commitment to Corporate Responsibility: Driving Innovation and SustainabilityIntroduction by Lip-BU Tan: I’m an engineer at…Read More
Cadence's Strategic Leap: Acquiring Hexagon's Design & Engineering BusinessIn a bold move that underscores the accelerating…Read More
TSMC 2025 Update: Riding the AI Wave Amid Global ExpansionWelcome to the second half of a very…Read More
Alchip’s 3DIC Test Chip: A Leap Forward for AI and HPC InnovationToday Alchip Technologies, a Taipei-based leader in high-performance…Read More
FD-SOI in Japan?
If you want to get your finger on the Japan FD-SOI pulse, registration is still open for a free, two-day workshop in Tokyo this week organized by the SOI Consortium. This is the 3rd Annual SOI Tokyo Workshop, and there’s a really interesting line-up of speakers.
In case you’re wondering, Japan is doing FD-SOI. In fact… Read More
Webinar -New Concepts in Semiconductor IP Lifecycle Management
The semiconductor IP market continues growing at a healthy rate, and IP reuse is a staple of all modern SoC designs. Along with the acceptance of IP reuse comes a host of growing challenges, like:
- Increase in design files
- Increase in meta-data
- More links between design members worldwide
- More links between data in multiple engineering
Three Major Challenges Facing IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) — a universe of connected things providing key physical data and further processing of that data in the cloud to deliver business insights— presents a huge opportunity for many players in all businesses and industries . Many companies are organizing themselves to focus on IoT and the connectivity of… Read More
CPU, GPU, H/W Accelerator or DSP to Best Address CNN Algorithms?
If you read an article dealing with Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), you will probably hear about the battle between CPU and GPU, both off-the-shelf standard product. Addressing CNN processing needs with standard CPU or GPU is like having to sink a screw when you only have a hammer or a monkey wrench available. You can dissert… Read More
Time is Money, Especially when Testing ICs
Semiconductor companies are looking for ways to keep their business profitable by managing expenses on both the design and test side of electronic products, which is quite the challenge as the trends show increases in test pattern count and therefore test costs. Scan compression is a well-known technique first created over 15… Read More
Webinar: Getting to Accurate Power Estimates Earlier and Faster
Power has become a very important metric in modern designs – for mobile and IoT devices which must live on a battery charge for days or years, for datacenters where power costs can be as significant as capital costs, and for increasingly unavoidable regulatory reasons. But accurate power estimation on a design must start from an … Read More
CDC Verification for FPGA – Beyond the Basics
FPGAs have become a lot more capable and a lot more powerful, more closely resembling SoCs than the glue-logic we once considered them to be. Look at any big FPGA – a Xilinx Zynq, an Intel/Altera Arria or a Microsemi SmartFusion; these devices are full-blown SoCs, functionally different from an ASIC SoC only in that some of the device… Read More
$100M China Investment for FD-SOI Ecosystem!
When GlobalFoundries first briefed me on 22FDX during a trip to Dresden in 2015, China was one of the first things that came to mind. The China semiconductor market was still on 28nm and FinFETs seemed far away for the majority of the Chinese fabless companies. A low cost, low power, low complexity 22nm process with a path to 12nm (12FDX)… Read More
The eFPGA Market is Heating Up!
It is nice to see an emerging market successfully emerge for a change. With embedded FPGAs we are way past test chips and are now seeing tape-outs and silicon in a variety of applications. I’m not sure what the current market estimate of eFPGA is just yet but they align nicely with the $30B+ micro controller market. Market studies have… Read More
Rapidus, IBM, and the Billion-Dollar Silicon Sovereignty Bet