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Alphawave Semi Visit at #60DAC

Alphawave Semi Visit at #60DAC
by Daniel Payne on 08-03-2023 at 10:00 am

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On Wednesday at #60DAC I met Sudhir Mallya, Sr. VP Corporate Marketing at Alphawave Semi to get an update about what’s been happening at their IP company and with industry trends. The tagline for their company is: Accelerating the Connected World; and they have IP for connectivity, offer chiplet solutions, and even provide… Read More


Accellera and Clock Domain Crossing at #60DAC

Accellera and Clock Domain Crossing at #60DAC
by Daniel Payne on 08-02-2023 at 10:00 am

Accellera, clock domain crossing, #60DAC

Accellera sponsored a luncheon panel discussion at #60DAC, so I registered and attended to learn more about one of the newest working groups for Clock Domain Crossing (CDC). An overview of Accellera was provided by Lu Dai, then the panel discussion was moderated by Paul McLellan of Cadence, with the following panel members:

  • Anupam
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Application-Specific Lithography: Via Separation for 5nm and Beyond

Application-Specific Lithography: Via Separation for 5nm and Beyond
by Fred Chen on 08-02-2023 at 8:00 am

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With metal interconnect pitches shrinking in advanced technology nodes, the center-to-center (C2C) separations between vias are also expected to shrink. For a 5/4nm node minimum metal pitch of 28 nm, we should expect vias separated by 40 nm (Figure 1a). Projecting to 3nm, a metal pitch of 24 nm should lead us to expect vias separated… Read More


Qualitative Shift in RISC-V Targets Raises Verification Bar

Qualitative Shift in RISC-V Targets Raises Verification Bar
by Bernard Murphy on 08-02-2023 at 6:00 am

SVIPs

I had grown comfortable thinking about RISC-V as a cost-saving and more flexible alternative to Intel/AMD or Arm in embedded applications. Where clearly it is already doing very well. But following a discussion with Dave Kelf and Adnan Hamid of Breker, RISC-V goals have become much more ambitious, chasing the same big system applications… Read More


A Bold View of Future Product Development with Matt Genovese

A Bold View of Future Product Development with Matt Genovese
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-01-2023 at 10:00 am

Matt Genovese

Matt Genovese is the founder of Planorama Design, a software requirements and user experience design professional services company.  The company designs simple and intuitive software and IoT product user interfaces for complex, technical applications and systems.  Its unique and proven approach reduces client development… Read More


Agile Analog Visit at #60DAC

Agile Analog Visit at #60DAC
by Daniel Payne on 07-31-2023 at 10:00 am

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Chris Morrison, Director of Product Marketing at Agile Analog met with me on the Tuesday at DAC this year, and I asked what has changed in the last year for their analog IP business. The short answer is that the company has initially built up foundation IP for Analog Mixed-Signal (AMS) uses, then recently added new IP for data conversion,… Read More


Automated Code Review. Innovation in Verification

Automated Code Review. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 07-31-2023 at 6:00 am

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A little thinking outside the box this time. Microsoft is adding automation to their (and LinkedIn) code reviews; maybe we should consider this option also? Paul Cunningham (Senior VP/GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and now Silvaco CTO) and I continue our series… Read More


Podcast EP174: Expanding Application Horizons with OpenLight’s Silicon Photonics Platform

Podcast EP174: Expanding Application Horizons with OpenLight’s Silicon Photonics Platform
by Daniel Nenni on 07-28-2023 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Dr. Adam Carter, CEO of OpenLight. Adam has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, including a variety of roles in Networking, Optical Communication Systems, Optical Components and Modules markets.

Adam describes OpenLight’s unique silicon photonics platform – what makes … Read More


A Look at the Winners of the Silicon Catalyst/Arm Silicon Startups Contest

A Look at the Winners of the Silicon Catalyst/Arm Silicon Startups Contest
by Mike Gianfagna on 07-28-2023 at 6:00 am

A Look at the Winners of the Silicon Catalyst:Arm Silicon Startups Contest

Silicon Catalyst is the world’s only incubator focused exclusively on semiconductor solutions. This unique position puts the organization in the center of many new technology innovations. Recently, a Semiconductor Startups Contest was announced in collaboration with Arm. You can learn more about the details of theRead More


ASML Update SEMICON West 2023

ASML Update SEMICON West 2023
by Scotten Jones on 07-27-2023 at 10:00 am

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At SEMICON West I had a chance to catch up with Mike Lercel of ASML. In this article I am going to combine ASML presentation material from the SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference, Mike’s SEMICON presentation, my discussions with Mike at SEMICON and a few items from ASML’s recent earnings call.

DUV

ASML continues to improve DUV systems.… Read More