Those of you who have been in the industry for a little while will remember that the recipe for reliable electronics in cars (and other vehicles) used to be simple. Stick to old (like 10 years old) and well-proven processes and tweak rather than tear up and restart well-proven designs to the greatest extent possible. Because incrementing… Read More




Improving Wafer Quality and Yield with UPW Resistivity and TOC Measurements
An earlier SemiWiki post discussed water sustainability in semiconductor manufacturing, related challenges and solutions. Whether first time use or recycled use, water purity needs to meet certain stringent criteria for the processing task on hand. This article will look at it from a wafer quality and yield perspective and… Read More
RISC-V Summit Buzz – Axiomise Accelerates RISC-V Designs with Next Generation formalISA®
If the recent RISC-V Summit proved one thing it’s that open-source hardware design, and particularly the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) has entered the mainstream. It is a design methodology and architecture to watch closely. Across a broad range of applications from data center, to automotive, to IoT, RISC-V processors… Read More
Podcast EP196: A Look at the Upcoming IEDM Conference with the Publicity Chair and Vice Chair
Dan is joined by Jungwoo Joh, a Process Development Manager at Texas Instruments and Publicity Chair for IEDM 2023. He currently leads gallium nitride technology development for power applications, and has been working on reliability, device characterization & modeling, and process development for various GaN based … Read More
CEO Interview: David Moore of Pragmatic
David has almost 25 years of leadership experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Pragmatic, he served as Chief Strategy Officer at Micron Technology, Inc. He also spent six years at Intel Corporation in various roles, including General Manager of the Programmable Solutions Group, where he led the multi-billion-dollar… Read More
RISC-V Summit Buzz – Semidynamics Founder and CEO Roger Espasa Introduces Extreme Customization
Founded in 2016 and based in Barcelona, Spain, Semidynamics™ is the only provider of fully customizable RISC-V processor IP. The company delivers high bandwidth, high performance cores with vector units and tensor units targeted at machine learning and AI applications. There were some recent announcements from Semidynamics… Read More
Rugged Security Solutions For Evolving Cybersecurity Threats
Secure-IC is a global leader in end-to-end cybersecurity solutions, specializing in the domain of embedded systems and connected devices. With an unwavering commitment to pushing the boundaries of security innovation, Secure-IC has established a remarkable track record. Its credentials include active involvement in new… Read More
SystemVerilog Has Some Changes Coming Up
SystemVerilog came to life in 2005 as a superset of Verilog-2005. The last IEEE technical committee revision of the SystemVerilog LRM was completed in 2016 and published as IEEE 1800-2017.
Have the last seven years revealed any changes or enhancements that maintain SystemVerilog’s relevance and efficaciousness in the face … Read More
A Complete Guidebook for PCB Design Automation
Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) are the foundation of modern electronics, and designing them efficiently is complex. Design automation and advanced PCB routing have transformed the process, making it faster and more reliable. Design automation streamlines tasks, reduces errors, and ensures consistency. Advanced PCB routing… Read More
ML-Guided Model Abstraction. Innovation in Verification
Formal methods offer completeness in proving functionality but are difficult to scale to system level without abstraction and cannot easily incorporate system aspects outside the logic world such as in cyber-physical systems (CPS). Paul Cunningham (Senior VP/GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst,… Read More
Facing the Quantum Nature of EUV Lithography