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Podcast EP203: A Deep Dive on the Growing Impact of Silicon Lifecycle Management with Synopsys’ Randy Fish

Podcast EP203: A Deep Dive on the Growing Impact of Silicon Lifecycle Management with Synopsys’ Randy Fish
by Daniel Nenni on 01-12-2024 at 10:00 am
Categories: Uncategorized

Dan is joined by Randy Fish, Director of Product Line Management for the Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM) family at Synopsys. Randy has over 30 years of experience in the EDA, IP and semiconductor industries.

In this broad view of SLM, Randy explains what is special about monitoring and optimizing embedded memories. It turns… Read More

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2024 Outlook with Anupam Bakshi of Agnisys

2024 Outlook with Anupam Bakshi of Agnisys
by Daniel Nenni on 01-12-2024 at 6:00 am
Categories: Agnisys, EDA

Agnisys Company Photo

We have worked with Agnisys for the last two years and it has been a pleasure. Anupam and his team of specification automation experts have pioneered a family of products and solutions for streamlining the generation of the required files for design, software, verification, validation, and documentation for semiconductor development… Read More

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CES 2024

CES 2024
by Bill Jewell on 01-11-2024 at 3:00 pm
Categories: AI, Automotive, Events, Semiconductor Intelligence, Semiconductor Services

CES 2024

CES 2024 is being held this week in Las Vegas, Nevada with an estimated 130,000 attendees and over 4,000 exhibitors. CES (previously Consumer Electronics Show) has been held in Las Vegas every year since 1978, except for 2021 due to COVID-19. This was my ninth CES representing Semiconductor Intelligence, with the first in 2012.… Read More

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CES 2024 and all things Cycling

CES 2024 and all things Cycling
by Daniel Payne on 01-11-2024 at 10:00 am
Categories: Events
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UrbanCross min

From the comfort of my home office I attended CES 2024 virtually this week, and collected all the news for cyclists, and it’s mostly all about e-bikes. The total count of e-bike sales now even outnumber EV car sales worldwide, so that growth trend continues. Some 85% of all bikes sold in China are now e-bikes.

e-bikes

This single… Read More

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Synopsys Geared for Next Era’s Opportunity and Growth

Synopsys Geared for Next Era’s Opportunity and Growth
by Kalar Rajendiran on 01-11-2024 at 6:00 am
Categories: AI, Chiplet, EDA, Emulation, IP, Prototyping, Synopsys

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As semiconductor industry folks know, Synopsys is a behemoth of a company. At $5.84B in FY2023 revenue (FY Nov-Oct), approximately 20,000 employees and a market cap of about $74B, it leads the silicon-to-systems design solutions space within the industry. From humble beginnings in 1986 as a disruptive startup, the company has… Read More

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An Accellera Functional Safety Update

An Accellera Functional Safety Update
by Bernard Murphy on 01-10-2024 at 10:00 am
Categories: Accellera, Automotive, Semiconductor Services

Fusa interoperability min

In May of 2021 Accellera released a first white paper on the challenges they hope to address with their functional safety standard, together with the scope and goals they set for themselves. One major goal in this effort has been exchange and integration of functional safety data between different tools and flow and particularly… Read More

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Analog Bits Enables the Migration to 3nm and Beyond

Analog Bits Enables the Migration to 3nm and Beyond
by Mike Gianfagna on 01-10-2024 at 6:00 am
Categories: Analog Bits, IP

Analog Bits Enables the Migration to 3nm and Beyond

The world is abuzz with 3nm and 2nm technology availability. These processes offer the opportunity to pack far more on a single die than ever before. The complex digital systems contemplated will bring new AI algorithms to life and much more. But there is another side of the technology migration story.  With all that digital processing… Read More

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IEDM: What Comes After Silicon?

IEDM: What Comes After Silicon?
by Daniel Nenni on 01-09-2024 at 10:00 am
Categories: Events, Foundries, GAA, Intel Foundry

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The annual International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) took place last month. One of the presentations on the short course was by Matthew Metz of Intel titled New Materials Systems for Moore’s Law Continuation. In essence this was a look at some of the possibilities for what comes after silicon runs out of steam.

Matthew started… Read More

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IEDM 2023 – Modeling 300mm Wafer Fab Carbon Emissions

IEDM 2023 – Modeling 300mm Wafer Fab Carbon Emissions
by Scotten Jones on 01-09-2024 at 6:00 am
Categories: Events, Semiconductor Services, TechInsights
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For the first time ever, IEDM held a sustainability session at the 2023 conference. I was one of the authors who presented an invited paper, the following is a summary of my presentation.

Call to Action

From the United Nations [1]:

“Climate Change is the defining issue of our time, and we are at a defining moment.”

“Without drastic … Read More

Podcast EP202: A Tour of the Q3 2023 Electronic Design Market Data Report with Wally Rhines

Podcast EP202: A Tour of the Q3 2023 Electronic Design Market Data Report with Wally Rhines
by Daniel Nenni on 01-08-2024 at 10:00 am
Categories: Uncategorized

Dan is joined by Wally Rhines for a discussion of the Q3 2023 Electronic Design Market Data report that was just released. SEMI and the Electronic System Design Alliance collect data from almost all of the EDA companies in the world and compile it by product category and region where the sales occurred. It’s the most reliable data … Read More