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How Breker is Helping to Solve the RISC-V Certification Problem

How Breker is Helping to Solve the RISC-V Certification Problem
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-02-2024 at 10:00 am

How Breker is Helping to Solve the RISC V Certification Problem

RISC-V cores are popping up everywhere. The growth of this open instruction set architecture (ISA) was quite evident at the recent RISC-V summit. You can check out some of the RISC-V buzz on SemiWiki here. While all this is quite exciting and encouraging, there are hurdles to face before true prime-time, ubiquitous application… Read More


CEO Interview: Ollie Jones of Sondrel

CEO Interview: Ollie Jones of Sondrel
by Daniel Nenni on 12-02-2024 at 6:00 am

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Sondrel has just appointed a new CEO, Ollie Jones, so we had a chat with him to find out his vision for the company.

Ollie is a highly driven, commercially astute senior leader with 20+ years Commercial and Business Development experience across Technology and Engineering sectors.

Ollie has worked extensively across Europe, North… Read More


Podcast EP263: The Current and Future Impact of the CHIPS and Science Act with Sanjay Kumar

Podcast EP263: The Current and Future Impact of the CHIPS and Science Act with Sanjay Kumar
by Daniel Nenni on 11-29-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Sanjay Kumar. Most recently, Sanjay was senior director at the Department of Commerce on the team implementing the CHIPS and Science Act. Before that, he was in the industry for more than 20 years, up and down the semiconductor value chain working at systems companies such as Meta, fabless companies such as Infineon,… Read More


CEO Interview: Dr. Yunji Corcoran of SMC Diode Solutions

CEO Interview: Dr. Yunji Corcoran of SMC Diode Solutions
by Daniel Nenni on 11-29-2024 at 6:00 am

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Dr. Yunji Corcoran is the Chairwoman and CEO of SMC Diode Solutions. Dr. Corcoran has managed a successful career in the power semiconductor field for over 30 years, specializing in design, manufacturing, and global sales. She holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Nanjing University and a PhD in semiconductor materials from… Read More


CEO Interview: Rajesh Vashist of SiTime

CEO Interview: Rajesh Vashist of SiTime
by Daniel Nenni on 11-28-2024 at 10:00 am

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Rajesh Vashist is SiTime’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and has served in this role since September 2007. Prior to joining SiTime, Mr. Vashist served as CEO and chairman of the board of directors of Ikanos Communications, Inc., a semiconductor and software development company, from July 1999 to October 2006. Mr. Vashist… Read More


CEO Interview: Dr. Greg Newbloom of Membrion

CEO Interview: Dr. Greg Newbloom of Membrion
by Daniel Nenni on 11-28-2024 at 6:00 am

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Greg Newbloom, Ph.D., is the founder & CEO of Membrion, a cleantech startup focused on recycling wastewater from harsh industrial processes. Membrion makes electro-ceramic desalination (ECD) membranes out of the same material as the silica gel desiccant packets found in the bottom of a beef jerky package. Dr. Newbloom’s… Read More


MZ Technologies is Breaking Down 3D-IC Design Barriers with GENIO

MZ Technologies is Breaking Down 3D-IC Design Barriers with GENIO
by Mike Gianfagna on 11-27-2024 at 10:00 am

MZ Technologies is Breaking Down 3D IC Design Barriers with GENIO

3D-IC design can be both exciting and frustrating. It’s exciting because it opens a new world of innovation possibilities – opportunities that aren’t constrained by the rules of monolithic chip scaling. It can be frustrating because of the large array of complex technical challenges that must be overcome to make this new paradigm… Read More


Compiler Tuning for Simulator Speedup. Innovation in Verification

Compiler Tuning for Simulator Speedup. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 11-27-2024 at 6:00 am

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Modern simulators map logic designs into software to compile for native execution on target hardware. Can this compile step be further optimized? Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and now Silvaco CTO) and I continue our series on research ideas.… Read More


WEBINAR: Elevate Your Analog Layout Design to New Heights

WEBINAR: Elevate Your Analog Layout Design to New Heights
by Daniel Payne on 11-26-2024 at 10:00 am

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Analog IC layout is a demanding endeavor as it entails conforming to complex layout design rules, interpreting design intentions from the schematics and understanding arcane topics like transistor matching, noise tolerance, parasitics and latch up. These skills are often handed down from one generation to the next, one on … Read More


Scaling AI Data Centers: The Role of Chiplets and Connectivity

Scaling AI Data Centers: The Role of Chiplets and Connectivity
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-26-2024 at 6:00 am

Building the Modern Data Centre AI Compute Nodes

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized data center infrastructure, requiring a reimagining of computational, memory, and connectivity technologies. Meeting the increasing demand for high performance and efficiency in AI workloads has led to the emergence of innovative solutions, including chiplets, advanced… Read More