August 2012 - Page 6 of 6 - Semiconductor Engineering

Experts At The Table: Challenges At 20nm

By Ed Sperling - 09 Aug, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering sat down to discuss the challenges at 20nm and beyond with Jean-Pierre Geronimi, special projects director at STMicroelectronics; Pete McCrorie, director of product marketing for silicon realization at Cadence; Carey Robertson, director of product marketing at Mentor Graphics; and Isadore Katz, president and CEO of CLK Design Automation. Wh... » read more

Getting In the Ballpark

By Ann Mutschler - 09 Aug, 2012 - Comments: 0

I admit it; I still have DAC on the brain. Even though attendance may not have been what the exhibitors would have liked to see, the conference is always a fantastic place to discuss ideas and pick up on trends. One topic I discussed with a number of folks are the challenges associated with design today, from the power-performance balance, 3D stacking to new process nodes and complexity, to nam... » read more

Why 450mm wafers?

By Chris Mack - 08 Aug, 2012 - Comments: 1

Why is 450-mm development so important to Intel (and Samsung and TSMC)? A few years ago, Intel and TSMC began heavily promoting the need for a transition from the current standard silicon wafer size, 300 mm, to the new 450-mm wafers. While many have worked on 450-mm standards and technology for years, it is only recently that the larger wafer has received enough attention and support (not ... » read more

Looking for a Sure Thing

By Atrenta - 08 Aug, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Mike Gianfagna Have you ever walked into a new car showroom and been told by the sales person that all cars were sold “as-is,” with no warranty? I doubt anyone would buy a car at a place like that. High-end cars can have more than 80 distinct electronic control systems on-board, each powered by various SoCs. And each of those SoCs contains many IP blocks sourced from multiple suppliers.... » read more

Moore’s Legacy

By Ed Sperling - 08 Aug, 2012 - Comments: 0

Low-Power High-Performance Engineering talks with MIPS' Mark Throndson, product marketing director, and Ranganathan "Suds" Sudhakar, chief architect, about Moore's Law, multicore chips, software, coherency and the insatiable global demand for speed. [youtube vid=VfvfYSkPpcs] » read more

Experts At The Table: Coherency

By Ed Sperling - 03 Aug, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling System-Level Design sat down to discuss coherency with Mirit Fromovich, principal solutions engineer at Cadence; Drew Wingard, CTO of Sonics; Mike Gianfagna, vice president of marketing at Atrenta, and Marcello Coppola, technical director at STMicroelectronics. What follow are excerpts of that conversation. SLD: How do we bring software more in line with the hardware to impr... » read more

India’s Impact

By Ed Sperling - 03 Aug, 2012 - Comments: 0

India’s great power outage, already being labeled “The Great Blackout,” left more than 600 million people in the dark. What’s more, it could well be repeated in the future. There are multiple forces that led to this collapse. One is political. A cap on energy prices and limited resources to power generating stations has limited the amount of investment that can be made in the power g... » read more

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