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ANSYS Event to Highlight Cutting Edge Technology Development

ANSYS Event to Highlight Cutting Edge Technology Development
by Tom Simon on 04-02-2015 at 5:00 pm

If you follow technology news, it would be hard to deny that we live in exciting times. In some ways there is an unparalleled amount of big and cool technology development going on right now. We all have followed the rise of Tesla Motors. They took over a long vacant US big-auto plant in Fremont and are reinventing the US automobile industry.… Read More


SEMI Wafers to Wallstreet – New England Forum March 12, 2015

SEMI Wafers to Wallstreet – New England Forum March 12, 2015
by Scotten Jones on 04-02-2015 at 4:00 pm

On March 12 SEMI held a New England Forum breakfast event entitled “Wafers to Wallstreet” with four speakers. The main focus of the discussion was on the “Internet of Things” and the following are my impression from the talks in a bullet point format.

Device Scaling and Performance in the Era of IoT – Gary Rosen, Applied MaterialsRead More


EDPS: Fins and FinFETs

EDPS: Fins and FinFETs
by Paul McLellan on 04-02-2015 at 7:00 am

Look at those dolphins with fins on their backs. Did you know that FinFETs are actually named after them since Chenming Hu and his team though that they looked like a fish’s fin? And since they invented FinFETs they got to name them too. But those dolphins also mean that it is nearly time for this years Electronic Design Process… Read More


Intel Goes After Broadcom

Intel Goes After Broadcom
by Robert Maire on 04-01-2015 at 1:00 pm

Intel continues shopping spree with Broadcom
AMAT drops TEL merger due to high remedy cost
Global Foundries wins Apple A9 business at 20nm for 6S & “6C”

Intel follows Altera with Broadcom chaser…..
Sources in the industry have confirmed that Intel is advanced discussions to acquire Broadcom, following… Read More


Semiconductor CAPEX Growth Increases Fab Equipment Spending!

Semiconductor CAPEX Growth Increases Fab Equipment Spending!
by Daniel Nenni on 04-01-2015 at 8:00 am

SEMI Forecasts 15% Increase in Fab Equipment Spending for 2015

With worldwide capex growth of 8%, fab equipment spending is expected to increase by 15% in 2015, according to the most recent edition of the SEMI (www.semi.org) World Fab Forecast. SEMI’s data also predicts a slowdown of fab equipment spending in 2016 to low single … Read More


What is Skipper?

What is Skipper?
by Paul McLellan on 04-01-2015 at 1:00 am

What is Skipper? Well, it seems it’s a penguin in the movie Madagascar. And one of Barbie’s sisters. Who knew? But for Semiwiki readers it’s an integrated chip finishing platform from ICScape. Skipper can read in full-chip layout extremely fast, examine it and manipulate it in various ways, and write it out again.… Read More


Secret Sauce for Successful Mixed-signal SoCs

Secret Sauce for Successful Mixed-signal SoCs
by admin on 03-31-2015 at 12:00 pm

For a design engineer engulfed in the daily rigorous routine of having to keep in sync with updates from various design team members as well the dictums of the design management team, the task of remaining up-to-date with the design information is very often daunting.

What design changes have been checked in this week? Is the verification… Read More


Linley Mobile Microprocessor Conference

Linley Mobile Microprocessor Conference
by Paul McLellan on 03-31-2015 at 7:00 am

As The Who sang on Who’s Next:Keep me movin’, groovin’, groovin’, yeah
Movin’, Yeah
Mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, …

On April 22nd and 23rd the place to be moving (or movin’) to will be the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara. Because What’s Next is this year’s Linley Mobile ConferenceRead More


Verifying the RTL Coming out of a High-Level Synthesis Tool

Verifying the RTL Coming out of a High-Level Synthesis Tool
by Daniel Payne on 03-30-2015 at 9:30 pm

With High-Level Synthesis (HLS) the first benefit that comes to my mind is reduced design time, because coding with C or SystemC is more efficient than low-level RTL code. What I’ve just learned is that there’s another benefit, a reduction in the amount of functional simulation required. One HLS customer was able … Read More


Atmel’s L21 MCU for IoT Tops Low Power Benchmark

Atmel’s L21 MCU for IoT Tops Low Power Benchmark
by Majeed Ahmad on 03-30-2015 at 7:30 am

The Internet of Things (IoT) juggernaut has unleashed a flurry of low-power microcontrollers, and in that array of energy-efficient MCUs, one product has earned the crown jewel of being the lowest-power Cortex M-based solution with power consumption down to 35µA/MHz in active mode and 200nA in sleep mode.

How do we know if AtmelRead More