September 2009 - Page 2 of 3 - Semiconductor Engineering

Where Did All The Jobs Go?
By Ed Sperling - 18 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

Recoveries are measured in dollars, not in jobs. This one—and even the last recovery in 2003—will produce far fewer full-time jobs in the short run than past recoveries. That doesn’t mean companies won’t hire great numbers of workers. But much of that will be contract labor. The trend is to not hire full timers until it’s hard to get enough qualified people to do contract work be... » read more

End User Report: The Case For Formalizing Power Modeling
By Ed Sperling - 17 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

While the industry clearly agrees that power modeling is a necessity for next-generation semiconductor design at the transaction level, what is lacking is a standard way to exchange power models. Low-Power Design talked with David Hathaway, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Electronic Design Automation and Nagu Dhanwada, Senior R&D Engineer and Team Lead for Chip Level Power Analysis T... » read more

Pulling Power Out Of Thin Air
By Ed Sperling - 17 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Cheryl Ajluni It wasn’t all that long ago that voice communication via a traditional landline was the norm. At the time, consumers would have been hard pressed to imagine a world in which anytime, anywhere communication (voice and data) with a device no bigger than the human hand was possible. Many of those same consumers might today find it hard to conceive of a world in which their... » read more

Moore’s Law vs. Low Power
By Ed Sperling - 17 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Moore’s Law and low-power engineering are natural-born enemies, and this dissension is becoming more obvious at each new process node as the two forces are pushed closer together. The basic problem is that shrinking transistors and line widths between wires opens up far more real estate on a chip, which encourages chip architects and marketing chiefs at chipmakers to take... » read more

Feel The (Low) Power
By Ed Sperling - 17 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Clive (Max) Maxfield When I designed my first ASIC way back in the mists of time (circa 1980), its power consumption was the last thing on my mind. You have to remember that we're talking about a device containing only about 2,000 equivalent gates implemented in a 5 micron technology. Also, I was designing this little scamp as a gate-register-level schematic using pencil and paper (I pr... » read more

Experts At The Table: What’s Next?
By Ed Sperling - 17 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

Low-Power Design sat down with Leon Stok, EDA director for IBM’s System & Technology Group; Antun Domic, senior vice president and general manager of Synopsys’ Implementaton Group; Prasad Subramaniam, vice president of design technology at eSilicon, and Bernard Murphy, chief technology officer at Atrenta. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. LPD: What are we facing at ... » read more

Strategies For Power Management Verification
By Bhanu Kapoor - 17 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Bhanu Kapoor In an earlier blog article, we took a look at some of the top power management verification issues. Typical power management verification strategy requires a combination of structural rule-checking, power-aware simulation, and formal validation to address these issues. In the previous blog article, we discussed the need for power-aware simulation and stressed the fact that... » read more

Tires That Talk
By Ed Sperling - 14 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

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Cognitive Radio
By Ed Sperling - 14 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

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Why The Chartered Semiconductor Acquisition Matters
By Ed Sperling - 11 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

The acquisition of Chartered by a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi government may sound like a rather brash investment, but our sources say it’s all part of a rather audacious plan that began unfolding one day after the deal to jointly run AMD’s foundry was hatched. In fact, this is anything but an impulsive buy by a country swimming in oil profits. The plan is actually to inte... » read more

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