July 16-19, 2012, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas , Nevada , USA
ERSA-News: ERSA-NEWS ERSA’12 Website: http://ersaconf.org/ersa12
The 2012 International Conference on ENGINEERING OF RECONFIGURABLE SYSTEMS AND ALGORITHMS – ERSA’12
Automating Reset Domain Crossing (RDC) Verification with Advanced Data AnalyticsThe complexity of System-on-Chip (SoC) designs continues to…Read More
The Immensity of Software Development and the Challenges of Debugging Series (Part 2 of 4)Part 2 of this 4-part series reviews the…Read More
Collaboration Required to Maximize ASIC Chiplet ValueIt is a well-known fact that chiplets provide…Read More
FPGAs connect users over TV whitespace
New embedded computing standards always take a while to get traction, and a burning question for innovators is what to do in the period between concept and acceptance. Sometimes, new ideas come when commercial silicon changes direction.… Read More
CEO Forecast Panel
This year’s CEO forecast panel was held at Silicon Valley Bank. Bankers live better than verification engineers, as if you didn’t know, based on the quality of the wine they were serving compared to DVCon.
This year the panelists were Ed Cheng from Gradient, Lip-Bu, Aart and Wally (and if you don’t know who they… Read More
Farm Management
Every so often I come across a new company in EDA or one of its neighboring domains, new to me anyway, and new to SemiWiki. One such company is RunTime Design Automation (RTDA). They provide a suite of tools for managing server farms (or internal clouds which seems to be the trendy buzzword du jour). Running a few EDA scripts on a few servers… Read More
3D Transistor for the Common Man!
The 1999 IDM paper Sub 50-nm FinFET: PMOSstarted the 3D transistor ball rolling, then in May of 2011 Intel announceda production version of a 3D transistor (TriGate) technology at 22nm. Intel is the leader in semiconductor process technologies so you can be sure that others will follow. Intel has a nice “History of the Transistor… Read More
2012 semiconductor market could decline by 1% or more
The world semiconductor market grew a slight 0.4% in 2011, according to WSTS. In early 2011, expectations were for growth in the 6% to 10% range. Various natural and man-made disasters lead to weaker than expected growth. The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan disrupted semiconductor and electronics production. Floods… Read More
Synopsys MIPI M-PHY in 28nm introduction with Arteris
MIPI set of specifications (supported by dedicated controllers) are completed by a PHY function, the D-PHY or the M-PHY function. The D-PHY was the first to be released, and most of the MIPI functions supported in a smartphone we are using today probably still use a D-PHY, but the latest MIPI specifications have been developed based… Read More
Huawei and Intel Redrawing the New Mobile Playing Field
This time is differentis a book that was released just months before the financial crises in 2008 describing hundreds of historical cases where smart people ended up making disastrous decisions over the span of 800 years that led to government defaults, banking panics etc… In the semiconductor industry, we also tend to think this… Read More
HSPICE Users Talking about Their Circuit Simulation Experience, Part 2
Continued from < Part 1 <… Read More
HSPICE Users Talking about Their Circuit Simulation Experience
HSPICE users gathered in January 2012 at the HSPICE SIG(Special Interest Group) to talk about their experiences using this circuit simulator for a variety of IC and signal integrity issues. I wasn’t able to attend in person however I did watch the video and wanted to summarize what I heard:… Read More
5 Expectations for the Memory Markets in 2025