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The Grand Folly of India’s Foundry Plans, Part 2

The Grand Folly of India’s Foundry Plans, Part 2
by Peter Gasperini on 08-04-2014 at 8:00 am


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Authors: Pete Gasperini & Abhijit Athavale

The first article on this topic, published here on Semiwiki on July 6[SUP]th[/SUP], addressed New Delhi’s proposal to subsidize the construction of two silicon fabs – one in 22nm, the other in 28nm – in order to stimulate India’s high tech sector and reduce… Read More


Electronic Thermal Management through Icepak

Electronic Thermal Management through Icepak
by Pawan Fangaria on 08-03-2014 at 8:30 pm

Last week my daughter was playing some games on my Google Nexus smartphone for a while when one of my friends called. When I picked up the phone, I couldn’t imagine it was so hot. There is no doubt; every electronic device today emits an order of magnitude higher heat than what it used to at most a decade ago. There is so much emphasis on … Read More


Bring Water to those in the World that need it

Bring Water to those in the World that need it
by Luke Miller on 08-03-2014 at 3:00 pm

Dear Reader, I need your help with something.

Invention is the Mother of necessity. When I bought the Miller Farm, it came with a very shallow well. What that meant is priming the pump, alot. Me being an engineer weighed the options. The wife, with 5 kids to bath, wash clothes, cook, etc.. was a bit overwhelmed. Of course the worst day… Read More


Open Source Verilog

Open Source Verilog
by Paul McLellan on 08-03-2014 at 8:01 am

Over the years there have been various open source EDA projects but none that has realized a full industrial strength design tool that has broad adoption and is strong enough to compete with similar products from the EDA industry.

Open source is clearly a great way to develop software. Lots of people can see all the source code and … Read More


Enabling Higher Level Design Automation with Smart Tools

Enabling Higher Level Design Automation with Smart Tools
by Pawan Fangaria on 08-02-2014 at 10:00 pm

Although design houses have always strived for optimizing best design flows according to their design needs by customizing the flows using effective and efficient internal as well as external tools, this need has further grown in the context of design scenarios getting wider and wider from transistor, gate and RTL to system level.… Read More


FDSOI Target Applications Are…

FDSOI Target Applications Are…
by Eric Esteve on 08-01-2014 at 12:05 pm

Not PC segment, not necessarily Application Processor for Mobile, despite the power efficiency advantage versus a bulk technology. After several weeks filled by very animated and controversial discussion about FD-SOI cost, thanks to Semiwiki bloggers and readers, it seems interesting to elevate the debate and try to figure… Read More


eSilicon and the Ten Minute Quote

eSilicon and the Ten Minute Quote
by Paul McLellan on 08-01-2014 at 8:01 am

One of the challenges in bringing a design into production is getting a quote that includes all the various stages of the process. The quote cycle typically takes a couple of weeks. It is also pretty wasteful. A typical design might be quoted by 3 manufacturers and so 2 out of 3 quotes are wasted expense because the design is lost to a … Read More


It’s not a fiction, it’s about to turn into reality

It’s not a fiction, it’s about to turn into reality
by Pawan Fangaria on 08-01-2014 at 2:00 am

Often I used to wonder why a search engine company would invest so heavily and indulge into stuff like smartphones, home automation devices, servers and many other exotic, innovative things they are doing internally and externally. But when I connect the dots, I find that this company in on certain massive missions which, if accomplished… Read More


How to Beat a New Entrant with Superior EDA tool

How to Beat a New Entrant with Superior EDA tool
by barun on 07-31-2014 at 8:00 pm

How to handle a new entrant with superior product quality is a point of worried to all EDA companies. Due to continuous research happenings and relatively lower investment requirement new and new EDA start-ups are coming in EDA domains regularly. In several situations, these start-ups offer product of superior quality in terms… Read More