July 2009 - Page 2 of 2 - Semiconductor Engineering

The Argument For Low Power In The Data Center

By Ann Mutschler - 16 Jul, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler For budgetary and ‘green’ motives, enterprise IT customers are demanding higher energy efficiency from their servers. This ultimately rests on the shoulders of the processor designer as the MPU is a significant source of power usage. Interestingly, the hidden and ugly truth is that for most data center managers, the cost of electricity for that data center is... » read more

Existing Circuit Styles Shed Light On Low-Power Design

By Cheryl Ajluni - 16 Jul, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Cheryl Ajluni Given the growing importance and impact of portable, battery-operated devices in today’s society, it’s easy to understand why power consumption has become such a critical factor in IC design. But it’s not just battery-operated devices that are driving the need for low-power design. In non-portable devices, the cost of providing power and the increased area resultin... » read more

Experts At The Table: ESL And Low Power

By Ed Sperling - 16 Jul, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power Design sat down with Walter Ng, senior director of platform alliances at Chartered Semiconductor; Brani Buric, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Virage Logic; John Sanguinetti, CTO at Forte Design Systems and Andrea Kroll vice president of marketing and business development at JEDA Technologies. What follows are excerpts of that discussion. ... » read more

Challenges At 32nm And Beyond

By Ed Sperling - 16 Jul, 2009 - Comments: 0

Wally Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics, talks about what's changing in design, the effect of low power, and who's going to be doing the most advanced designs. [youtube vid=_hDk9bx4gXo] » read more

Top 10 Power Management Verification Issues

By Bhanu Kapoor - 15 Jul, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Bhanu Kapoor We are at the crossroads of some fundamental changes that are taking place in the semiconductor industry. Power is a primary design criterion for bulk of the semiconductor designs now. Power is a key reason behind the shift towards multi-core designs as increase in power consumption limits increases in clock speed at the rate we have seen in the past. Voltage is the strong... » read more

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