One of Intel’s most advanced fabrication sites is called Ronler Acres, located in Hillsboro, Oregon and I jumped at the opportunity to visit this site on April 26th when members from the SEMI Pacific Northwest Chapter are meeting to discuss a timely topic, “The Age of Automotive Electronics”. The previous … Read More
Scaling 3D IC Technologies – Siemens Hosts a Meeting of the Minds at DAC3D IC was a very popular topic at…Read More
Analysis and Exploration of Parasitic EffectsWith advanced semiconductor processes continuing to shrink, the…Read More
Siemens Proposes Unified Static and Formal Verification with AIGiven my SpyGlass background I always keep an…Read More
Alchip Launches 2nm Design Platform for HPC and AI ASICs, Eyes TSMC N2 and A16 RoadmapAlchip Technologies, a global leader in high-performance computing…Read More
Protecting Sensitive Analog and RF Signals with Net ShieldingBy Hossam Sarhan Communication has become the backbone…Read More
Healthcare Predictive Analytics Insights from Patents
Predictive analytics analyzes current and historical data to make predictions about future events and trends. The predictions are based on the predictive models that are generated from a machine learning technique that recognizes pattern in the current and historical data.
US20140275807 illustrates the predictive analytics… Read More
Five Reasons to be More Bullish on a 2016 Commercial PC Refresh
Last week’s IDC and Gartner Q4-2015 report on PC sales sent a shock-wave through the industry. The stock market responded with a sell-off of major PC-related names like Advanced Micro Devices, HP Inc. (fka Hewlett-Packard), Intel, Lenovo, and NVIDIA. While I was disappointed in the Q4 numbers, I also have a good grasp of what was… Read More
Solving the Next Big SoC Challenges with FPGA Prototyping
The health of the semiconductor industry revolves around the “start”. Chip design starts translate to wafer starts, and both support customer design wins and product shipments. Roadmaps develop for expanding product offerings, and capital expenditures flow in to add capacity enabling more chip designs and wafer starts. If… Read More
Enterprise SSD SOC’s Call for a Different Interconnect Approach
The move to SSD storage for enterprise use brings with it the need for difficult to design enterprise capable SSD controller SOC’s. The benefits of SSD in hyperscale data centers are clear. SSD’s offer higher reliability due to the elimination of moving parts. They have a smaller foot print, use less power and offer much better performance.… Read More
Multi-Level Debugging Made Easy for SoC Development
An SoC can have a collection of multiple blocks and IPs from different sources integrated together along with several other analog and digital components within a native environment. The IPs can be at different levels of abstractions; their RTL descriptions can be in different languages such as Verilog, VHDL, or SystemVerilog.… Read More
FPGA tools for more predictive needs in critical
“Find bugs earlier.” Every software developer has heard that mantra. In many ways, SoC and FPGA design has become very similar to software development – but in a few crucial ways, it is very different. Those differences raise a new question we should be asking about uncovering defects: earlier than when?… Read More
ASML and IMEC EUV Progress
Day 1 of the SPIE conference featured a number of customer updates on the status of their EUV programs. On Tuesday morning we got to hear ASML’s update on their work.… Read More
Reinventing Power Management ICs for Mobile
Semiconductor startups are becoming rather rare in Silicon Valley, otherwise known as the cradle of technology innovation. In an era where social media and cloud-based software startups are sprouting in every nook and corner of the Valley, it is extremely difficult to get venture capital funding for semiconductor startups,… Read More
Millennial Tyranny, Tattoos and Scions!
Millennials tiring of TV commercials for erectile dysfunction and rheumatoid arthritis will have their revenge soon enough. The population bulge of under-35-year-olds is making its way through the demographic grinder and will soon be reformatting everything from business models and television advertising budgets to the… Read More
cHBM for AI: Capabilities, Challenges, and Opportunities