When I hear the company name of ANSYS the first EDA tool category that comes to mind is power noise sign-off. Going to DAC is a great way to find out what’s new with EDA, IP and foundries. There are three places that you can find ANSYS at DAC this year:… Read More
ASIC-to-FPGA Turnkey Prototyping Bundle: A Practical Path to Earlier Hardware ValidationFor ASIC design teams, the gap between RTL…Read More
Security by Design: Arteris Expands Its Partnership with ArmArteris has expanded its partnership with Arm to…Read More
How early symmetry validation eliminates costly late-stage respinsBy Mauli Shah, Product Engineer, Siemens Analog and…Read More
Rethinking Formal Verification in the AI EraBy Kanav Arora, ML Researcher at ChipAgents Most…Read More
CEO Interview with Ann Wu and Akash Levy of SilimateAnn Wu is Co-founder & CEO of Silimate.…Read MoreIMEC Technology Forum (ITF) – EUV When, Not If
For me personally EUV has been something of a roller coaster ride over the last several years. I started out a strong believer in EUV but then at the SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference in 2014 TSMC gave a very negative assessment of EUV, and there was a SEMATECH paper on high NA EUV that struck me as extremely unlikely to succeed. I … Read More
Moving chips from industrial to industrial IoT
IHS has put out its 1Q2016 Application Market Forecast predicting the highest growth rate segments for semiconductors over the next five years – and what was once old is new yet again. There it is, in the top right corner: industrial, projected to outpace even the automotive sector.… Read More
How TSMC Tackles Variation at Advanced Nodes
The design community is always hungry for high-performance, low-power, and low-cost devices. There is emergence of FinFET and FDSOI technologies at ultra-low process nodes to provide high-performance and low-power requirements at lower die-size. However, these advanced process nodes are prone to new sources of variation.… Read More
Google, Deep Reasoning and Natural Language Understanding
Understanding natural language is considered a hard problem in artificial intelligence. You could be forgiven for thinking this can’t be right – surely language recognition systems already have this problem mostly solved? If so, you might be confusing recognition with understanding – loosely, recognition is the phonology… Read More
How Microsoft Could Become A Mobile Player
Microsoft BUILD is the company’s annual developer conference where they communicate their latest strategies and deliverables to developers and launch many new innovations. BUILD is extremely developer- focused and is intended to inform current Microsoft developers as well as recruit more developers to develop for Microsoft… Read More
How AT&T Will Turn on Car 2 Car Connectivity
Cnet reports that, starting this week, AT&T is offering “Unlimited Plan” customers the option to add connected cars or a ZTE Mobley Wi-Fi plug-in device to their plan for $40/month for unlimited data – $10/month will buy 1GB. The plan applies to certain Buick, Audi, Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC, Jaguar, Land… Read More
Banks and Retailers need to win in IOT
In the runtime for the current mobile ecosystem – apps:
- Average user has 21 apps on her smart phone, out of the total 1.5m apps on app-store
- While apps account for more than half the time user spends on digital/smart platform, an average user spend more than 40% of that time on a single app
- 2/3rd of all smartphone user did not download
ARM tests out TSMC 10FinFET – with two cores
About 13 months ago, the leak blogs posted news of “Artemis” on an alleged ARM roadmap slide, supposedly a new 16FF ARM core positioned as the presumptive successor to the Cortex-A57. Now, we’re finding out what “Artemis” may actually be, inside a multi-core PPA test chip on TSMC 10FinFET.… Read More
Who protects power protection chips?
Power protection chips are widely used these days to protect sensitive circuitry from over-voltage and over-current stress. However, these workhorse chips are often subjected to extraordinary thermal stress themselves and need to be protected from burning up – literally.
Power protection chips work like electronic fuses,… Read More


ASML High-NA EUV is Not Ready for High-Volume Production