One of the great advantages of emulation is that runtimes are much faster than for simulation – sufficiently fast that you can really debug hardware together with software for comprehensive use-case testing. A not so great aspect is that emulators are expensive and, until relatively recently, not particularly easy to share across… Read More
Kirin 9030 Hints at SMIC's Possible Paths Toward >300 MTr/mm2 Without EUVEarlier this month, TechInsights did a teardown of…Read More
Why TSMC is Known as the Trusted FoundryTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is widely regarded…Read More
Journey Back to 1981: David Patterson Recounts the Birth of RISC and Its Legacy in RISC-VIn a warmly received keynote at the RISC-V…Read More
Assertion-First Hardware Design and Formal Verification ServicesGenerative AI has transformed software development, enabling entire…Read More
TSMC's Customized Technical Documentation Platform Enhances Customer ExperienceTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's leading dedicated…Read MoreDigital – what is different about it?
A very basic question, surely, but something that has been surprisingly difficult for many to answer coherently! There is no universally acceptable description or definition out there. Many use digital and mobile interchangeably, some more technology-minded define Digital by use of APIs (and differentiate it from ecommerce… Read More
IOT and Assisted Living
It is most likely the you have heard the term “internet of things”or IOT in regards to everyday things such as our televisions and phones. That is not however where this new innovation is going to end. There has been a lot of talk about the IOT stepping into the healthcare industry with things like connected healthcare.
Another area… Read More
VHDL parameterized PWM controller
Digital outputs can either go ON or OFF. Analog signals, on the other side, can smoothly assume multiple values in a range. There is a technique that emulates analog behavior with a digital output. That technique is PWM, namely, Pulse Width Modulation. It can be implemented as pulses with varying ‘high’ and ‘low’… Read More
Alexa – what should tech do next?
In the ongoing debate over substantive use cases and the difference between we “can” do something and we “should” do something, technologists and the firms they work for may be all that stand between the rebirth of innovation and the decline of civilization.… Read More
KLAM Kommentary – Assessing the political landscape of approval
LRCX & KLAC’s merger continues to be closely watched given the recent turns and reversals we have seen which call into question the ability to get the deal done. The deal was announced in October of 2015 and we are on our second request from the DOJ and the deal will almost certainly go beyond the Oct 20th, one year deadline… Read More
Developing Countries – Unlikely Champions of IOT
When considering any new or emerging technology, it can be easy to immediately think of the potential implementation in developed markets. After all, these are the markets where consumers have high purchasing power, and businesses and governments have strong credit lines and funding options. Well, wouldn’t it be a surprise … Read More
Market Trends Motivate a Shift-Left in Functional Verification
Today, in the context of functional verification, industry trends are based on the needs of prominent vertical markets. There is some overlap in what these markets need, but there are some use models that are very specific to each market.
We assert this because we have a lot of customers asking about emulation solutions not from … Read More
GlobalFoundries Roadmap Update 2016!
I attended a lunch yesterday with GlobalFoundries CEO Sanjay Jha (formerly of Qualcomm), SVP Gregg Barltlett (Motorola/GF), and CTO Gary Patton (IBM). Having followed GF from the very beginning I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that GF has transformed from a collection of companies (AMD, Chartered, IBM) to a fully integrated… Read More
Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA Highlights
These days, FPGAs are fairly complex pieces of silicon. Being that the case, it would take several articles even to put a summary of the features embedded in high-end FPGA devices. Hence, in this article, I will concentrate in just one feature, namely, the new embedded memory blocks of the recently released Intel-Altera Stratix… Read More


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