How do I know if an AMS block is tuned for the process and will perform and yield acceptably?… Read More
Magma FineSIM and MunEDA Cooperate
The RISC-V and Open-Source Functional Verification ChallengeMost of the RISC-V action at the end…Read More
Sarcina Democratizes 2.5D Package Design with Bump Pitch Transformers2.5D package design is rapidly finding its stride…Read More
Addressing Reliability and Safety of Power Modules for Electric VehiclesAs electric vehicles (EVs) gain widespread adoption, safety,…Read More
Shaping Tomorrow’s Semiconductor Technology IEDM 2024Anyone who has read my articles about IEDM…Read More
SI and PI Update from Cadence on Sigrity XSignal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI) issues…Read More
Semiconductors: A Decade of Invention… A World of Solutions
Please join IBM, Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., and GLOBALFOUNDRIES at the 2012 Common Platform Technology Forum. The forum will showcase the alliance’s technological progress and how joint collaboration and innovation is setting the direction for industry-leading solutions to enable next-generation products. … Read More
What Changed On My Transistor-Level Schematic?
Digital designers have used diff tools for years on their text-based HDL source code, but what about for the transistor-level IC designer, where is their diff tool for schematics or layout?… Read More
Multicore SoC Architecture Optimization
Once again with Synopsys and Arteris, the innovation is coming to solve an issue, faced by their potential customers: “In our research, we’ve found that almost half of project delays are caused by problems with the system architecture design and specification,” said Chris Rommel, vice president, embedded… Read More
DARPA looking for new base stations in new BYOD game
BYOD – bring your own device – has swept enterprises like a firestorm as CEOs wonder why they can’t use their shiny new iPad on the corporate network, and send their IT guys and gals off to make it happen. Under the right conditions and informed use, BYOD can be a productivity boom and not mess security and privacy up too badly for many … Read More
Words of AMS Wisdom from the Developer of Spectre, Spectre RF, Verilog-A, Verilog-AMS
Ken Kundert while at Cadence developed: Spectre, Spectre RF, Verilog-A and Verilog-AMS. About 6 years ago he and Henry Chang left Cadence and created a consulting company called The Designers Guide.
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DFM Provides Proven Value
Although design for manufacturing (DFM) tools and techniques have been around for several nodes, a lot of designers remain skeptical about their actual value, especially since many products still make it successfully to market without the use of DFM.… Read More
Power to the Drones
Unmanned systems are becoming indispensable to military forces and are used across all of land, sea and air. The generic name for such unmanned systems is UXS, usually UAS (air), UGS (ground) or UUS (underwater). The UAS is the most visible, both due to military strikes and the views of Japan after the Tsunami when areas were unreachable… Read More
Apple’s iPAD 3 Kicks Off a Season For Silicon Valley Re-Alignments
The Corporate PC may finally be on life supports and with it the purveyors of the hardware and software solutions as consumer adoption of new technology outpaces the carefully planned IT budgets that guarantee positive 3 year Returns on Investments (ROI). The Apple of the consumer’s eye will soon feast on the iPAD 3 with its retina… Read More
Smartphone shipments in Q4’11, the Milky Way the new limit!
In a previous blog, I was forecasting smartphone shipment to reach 430 million units in 2011. I was wrong! Apparently, I am not better than other analysts, as the actual figures for the smartphone shipment in 2011 are more than slightly different, as these have topped 491.4 million units! After 304 million in 2010, that’s a 61.3 percent… Read More
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