June 2011 - Page 2 of 5 - Semiconductor Engineering

Congestion Mitigation During RTL Development
By Various Writers - 29 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

Any survey of chip design teams consistently points to two problem areas impacting quality and schedule of today’s system on chip (SoC) designs. Those areas are: a) completeness of verification, and b) physical design closure for area, timing and power for complex IP’s and SoC’s. With the advent of deep sub-micron technology, these problem areas have become exacerbated. In this White Pape... » read more

Wafer Demand Outpaces Semiconductor Unit Growth in 2011
By Joanne Itow - 28 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Joanne Itow Semiconductor unit sales remain strong and are expected to reach 718 billion in 2011, an 8.6% growth over 2010. Unit sales are driving wafer demand at both advanced and mature fabs. Total silicon demand is expected to grow by 10% in 2011. In the first quarter of 2011, semiconductor unit sales increased 1.3% over Q4 2010, reflecting an unusually healthy growth compared to the ... » read more

Experts At The Table: Multi-Foundry Strategies
By Ed Sperling - 27 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Semiconductor Manufacturing and Design sat down with Walter Ng, vice president of the IP ecosystem at GlobalFoundries; John Murphy, director of strategic alliances marketing at Cadence; Michael Buehler-Garcia, director of Calibre design solutions marketing at Mentor Graphics; Bob Smith, vice president of marketing and business development at Magma, and Linh Hong, vice president ... » read more

Multisourcing Options
By Ed Sperling - 27 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design discusses the ability to move chip designs from one foundry to another with Walter Ng of Global Foundries, Michael Buehler-Garcia of Mentor Graphics, John Murphy of Cadence and Ling Hong of Kilopass. [youtube vid=1YxYKmfL4SE] » read more

Nanomenhirs, a new opportunity for Obelix
By Michael Watts - 24 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Michael P.C. Watts In classical times there was a successful business in menhirs. Menhirs are stone pillars that date from Stone Age times and are believed to have been used by druids for human sacrifice, used as territorial markers or elements of a complex ideological system, or functioned as early calendars … in other words the experts do not have a clue what they were used for ! ... » read more

What’s A Subsystem?
By Ed Sperling - 24 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

The interchangeability of IP has proved to be a myth. While large companies have been able to tap into their internally developed IP quite successfully, the ability to use commercially available IP has proved to be limited—particularly outside of the standard IP world. That will change, but not in the way most of the small IP companies actually expected. While the barrier to entry for deve... » read more

Experts At The Table: Are We Cool?
By Ed Sperling - 24 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power Engineering sat to discuss progress in the realm of power management with Ambrose Low, director of IC Design Engineering for Broadcom’s mobile platforms group; Ruggero Castagnetti, distinguished engineer at LSI, and Andy Brotman, vice president of design infrastructure at GlobalFoundries. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. LPE: How do we get the mes... » read more

A Report from the 5th SEMI Brussels Forum
By SEMI - 17 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Heinz Kundert First, I’d like to give you some background on the SEMI Brussels Forum. It is our industry’s annual advocacy-focused event attended by industry executives and stakeholders of the European Union. Currently, our forum is the leading policy event for the European semiconductor and photovoltaic (PV) equipment and materials industries. A couple weeks ago, the 5th SEMI Bru... » read more

Phased Loops
By Ed Sperling - 17 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

One thing that became clear at DAC this year is that the next big collision won’t be the technology itself. It will be the business infrastructure that supports the technology. The integration of IP, software, subsystems, and ultimately entire die and packages will have a major impact on the chip industry on all levels. For some companies it will be good. For others it will be bad. But for... » read more

The Tao Of Software
By Ed Sperling - 16 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling and Pallab Chatterjee As software teams continue to race past hardware teams in numbers of engineers, hours spent on designs and NRE budgets, companies are beginning to question whether there needs to be a fundamental shift in priorities and strategy. The problem is that it takes far too long to write and debug the software and to get it working on the hardware, even with vir... » read more

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