June 2011 - Page 4 of 5 - Semiconductor Engineering


DAC Retrospective


The question I repeatedly get asked at DAC is, “How was the show?” And then, frequently, it’s followed by monologue about just how much traffic has shrunk over the years. It’s true there are fewer startups than in the past, and maybe some of the tradeshow floor buzz is gone. But in my humble opinion, that misses the point. DAC, first and foremost, is a conference. The tradeshow part... » read more

Tech Talk: Sonics CTO


Drew Wingard peels back the covers on dark silicon, the next big thing in semiconductors and what's needed to get there in a candid discussion with System-Level Design. [youtube vid=ciWTa2HGCkE] » read more

More Than Trees Growing in Luther Forest


By Joanne Itow Last week Semico visited the GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ Fab 8 construction site and was impressed for several reasons. Not only is the infrastructure significant but the people and surrounding community have welcomed GLOBALFOUDNRIES, embraced the project as well as the invasion of businesses and people that go along with the project. This made our visit extremely pleasant and trouble... » read more

Smart Power on SOI


By Adele Hars What if you had to reduce power dissipation by 40x? That's exactly the task that fell to STMicroelectronics, under an EU program called Smart Power Management. At the recent ISPSD (International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs) conference, ST and partners (GE Vingmed Ultrasound and Sintef) presented a paper on how they did it, using ST's latest SOI-based ... » read more

Executive Briefing: Naveed Sherwani


Open-Silicon's CEO talks with System-Level Design about getting the business priorities of designing a complex SoC in line with the technology; why getting chips out the door on time is critical and why it's not happening. [youtube vid=OAQ9JxJKYHU] » read more

Tech Talk: Atrenta CTO


Bernard Murphy talks with System-Level Design about what's changing in the semiconductor design area, how 3D stacking will affect design and what's needed in EDA tools. [youtube vid=kT3vs4sldSk] » read more

Litho in Las Vegas 2


The 3-beam conference began on Wednesday morning with the plenary session.  Nick Economou discussed the history and current performance of the Helium Ion Microscope.  What an amazing tool!  It has much higher resolution than a scanning electron microscope (SEM) with far less charging.  The result is truly amazing pictures of biological and other non-conducting samples.  I can’t wait to s... » read more

Experts At The Table: Power Budgeting


By Ed Sperling Low-Power Engineering sat down with Barry Pangrle, solutions architect for low-power design and verification at Mentor Graphics; Cary Chin, director of technical marketing for low-power solutions at Synopsys; Vic Kulkarni, general manager of the RTL business unit at Apache Design Solutions; Matt Klein, principal engineer for power and broadcast applications at Xilinx; and Paul ... » read more

Executive Briefing: Jack Harding


eSilicon's CEO talks with System-Level Design about changes in design at advanced nodes, the power of 2.5D and 3D stacking, and how the semiconductor supply chain is changing.   [youtube vid=HlipMzgdksc]   » read more

Cell phone optics, a production imprint application.


In all the discussion about the commercial viability of imprint, a manufacturing line has been quietly put in place to imprint lenses of cell phone camera chips. The company leading these developments is Heptagon with head office in Switzerland. At the same time, others are looking at the opportunity and bringing innovative technologies to add new features such as zooms, autofocus and image sta... » read more

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