Many years ago when I worked for Ed Staiano at Motorola, I learned never to use the word “comfortable” in a career context. I’m comfortable being with family and friends. This new high-back chair I sit in at my new faux-cocobolo desk (slightly distressed chalk-painted wood and industrial piping, awesome) is comfortable,… Read More
RVA23 Ends Speculation’s Monopoly in RISC-V CPUsRVA23 marks a turning point in how mainstream…Read More
Perforce and Siemens Collaborate on 3DIC Design at the Chiplet SummitThe recent Chiplet Summit at the Santa Clara…Read More
Building the Interconnect Foundation: Bump and TSV Planning for Multi-Die SystemsThe first article in this series examined how…Read More
CHERI: Hardware-Enforced Capability Architecture for Systematic Memory SafetyThe rapid escalation of cyberattacks over the past…Read More
WEBINAR: Two-Part Series on RF Power Amplifier DesignAt lower frequencies with simpler modulation, RF power…Read MoreSoftware-Driven Verification Drives Tight Links between Emulation and Prototyping
I’ve mentioned many times what has become a very common theme in SoC and system verification – it has to be driven by the software because any concept of exhaustively verifying “everything” is neither feasible nor meaningful. Emulation has become a critical component of this flow in validating and regressing… Read More
Bringing Formal Verification into Mainstream
Formal verification can provide a large productivity gain in discovering, analyzing, and debugging complex problems buried deep in a design, which may be suspected but not clearly visible or identifiable by other verification methods. However, use of formal verification methods hasn’t been common due to its perceived complexity… Read More
Metric-Driven Verification for System Signoff
Everyone knows that verification is hard and is consuming an increasing percentage of verification time and effort. And everyone should know that system-level verification (SoC plus at least some software and maybe models for other components on a board) is even harder—which is why you see hand-wringing over how incompletely… Read More
Why IoT Needs Fog Computing?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the hottest mega-trends in technology – and for good reason , IoT deals with all the components of what we consider web 3.0 including Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing and Mobile Computing.… Read More
No reason for FD-SOI Roadmap to follow Moore’s law!
We in Semiwiki are writing about FD-SOI since 2012, describing all the benefits offered by the technology in term of power consumption, price per performance compared with FinFET, etc. Let me assess again that I am fully convinced that FD-SOI is a very smart and efficient way to escape from the Moore’s law paradox: the transistor… Read More
SpyGlass DFT ADV accelerates test closure – Xilinx and Synopsys webinar
Fed up with ECOing your way out of test problems? You might want to register for this webinar.When you’re building monster SoC FPGAs, you have all the same problems you have with any other SoC. That includes getting to very high test coverage as quickly as you can with a design targeted to the most advanced processes. We’re not just … Read More
Stop the Dashboard Insanity!
Speaking as part of the digital track at this week’s NAB confab, John Ellis proclaimed the demise of the dashboard radio in the coming world of automated vehicles. The headline reporting his talk in Tom Taylor’s newsletter was “Radio is on a path to extinction in the vehicle.”There’s no point in being subtle … Read More
Fast Track to a reconfigurable ASIC design
Licensing IP can be a pain, especially when the vendor’s business model has front-loaded costs to get started. Without an easy way to evaluate IP, justifying a purchase may be tough. With more mid-volume starts coming for the IoT, wearables, automotive, and other application segments, it’s a growing concern. Flex… Read More


CEO Interview with Jerome Paye of TAU Systems