As chip design complexity increases, integration scales expand and time-to-market pressures grow, as a result, design verification has become increasingly challenging. In multi-FPGA environments, the complexity of design debugging and verification further escalates, making it difficult for traditional debugging methods… Read More
Analog Bits Builds a Road to the Future at TSMC OIP
The TSMC Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum has become the industry benchmark when it comes to showcasing industry-wide collaboration. The extreme design, integration and packaging demands presented by multi-die, chiplet-based design have raised the bar in terms of required collaboration across the entire … Read More
Podcast EP254: How Genealogy Correlation Can Uncover New Design Insights and improvements with yieldHUB’s Kevin Robinson
Dan is joined by Kevin Robinson, yieldHUB’s Vice President of operations and sales. With over 23 years of experience as a test engineer in the semiconductor industry, Kevin brings a wealth of knowledge and dedication to his dual role. At yieldHUB, Kevin leads both sales and operations teams, playing a crucial role in delivering… Read More
CEO Interview: Dr. Mehdi Asghari of SiLC Technologies
Mehdi is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of success. He is currently CEO and co-founder of SiLC. SiLC is his third Silicon Photonics start up focusing on advanced imaging solutions that enable machines to see like humans. His previous start up, Kotura where he was CTO and SVP of Engineering, developed communication solutions… Read More
Prioritize Short Isolation for Faster SoC Verification
Improve productivity by shifting left LVS
In modern semiconductor design, technology nodes continue to shrink and the complexity and size of circuits increase, making layout versus schematic (LVS) verification more challenging. One of the most critical errors designers encounter during LVS runs are shorted nets. Identifying… Read More
The Perils of Aging, From a Semiconductor Device Perspective
We‘re all aware of the challenges aging brings. I find the older I get, the more in touch I feel with those challenges. I still find it to be true that aging beats the alternative. I think most would agree. Human factors aside, I’d like to discuss the aging process as applied to the realm of semiconductor device physics. Here, as with… Read More
ASML surprise not a surprise (to us)- Bifurcation- Stocks reset- China headfake
- Investors finally realize the upcycle isn’t as strong as stocks indicated
- Industry Bifurcation between AI & rest of industry continues
- China spending risk/overhang finally kicks in
- AI is super strong, majority of chips remain weak- Invest accordingly
ASML simply states chip industry reality that investors have
… Read MoreMobile LLMs Aren’t Just About Technology. Realistic Use Cases Matter
Arm has been making noise about running large language models (LLMs) on mobile platforms. At first glance that sounds wildly impractical, other than Arm acting as an intermediary between a phone and a cloud-based LLM. However Arm are partnered with Meta to run Llama 3.2 on-device or in the cloud, apparently seamlessly. Running… Read More
Electron Beam Probing (EBP): The New Sheriff in Town for Security Analyzing of Sub- 7nm ICs with Backside PDN
The outsourcing fabrication of ICs makes them vulnerable to hardware security threats. Security threats such as reverse engineering, insertion of hardware Trojan, and backside contact-less probing to steal cryptographic information can cause financial loss to IP owners and security risk to the system in which these ICs are… Read More
Navigating Resistance Extraction for the Unconventional Shapes of Modern IC Designs
The semiconductor industry is experiencing rapid evolution, driven by the proliferation of IoT applications, image sensors, photonics, MEMS applications, 3DIC and other emerging technologies. This growth has dramatically increased the complexity of integrated circuit (IC) design. One aspect of this complexity is the … Read More
More Headwinds – CHIPS Act Chop? – Chip Equip Re-Shore? Orders Canceled & Fab Delay