January 2013 - Page 4 of 5 - Semiconductor Engineering

Tradeoffs On The Fly
By Ed Sperling - 17 Jan, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler With classical bulk planar technology no longer shrinkable, the industry has been honing in on new ways to continue some scaling, achieve extra speed or better power while minimizing leakage. “To overcome the limits [of bulk planar technology] we need a different solution,” explained Giorgio Cesano, technology R&D marketing director at STMicroelectron... » read more

It’s Transition Time Again
By Ed Sperling - 17 Jan, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling After decades of shrinking features, developing new software on every level and engineering huge improvements in energy efficiency and performance, the semiconductor industry has reached a crossroads. To get to the next level will require massive improvements on all fronts, but not all consumers will be willing to pay for them. For example, if a battery lasts an entire day f... » read more

Embedded Power Management Challenges Grow
By Ed Sperling - 17 Jan, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Power management always has been, and will continue to be, a big issue with electronic devices. But when it comes to power management in embedded systems—controlling battery power in a smartphone, an industrial automation or automotive application, among a myriad of other options—the approaches come with different variables. For example, deeply embedded s... » read more

First Silicon At 14nm
By Ed Sperling - 17 Jan, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The first 14nm test chips are beginning to roll out the door from foundries, and companies are beginning to trumpet their success. But before anyone pops the champagne corks, there are some caveats. First of all, what most people are billing as 14nm chips are actually mostly 20nm. They are readily willing to concede that point, settling on 16nm, but the reality is that it’s... » read more

All Things To All Customers
By Ed Sperling - 17 Jan, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Low-Power High-Performance Engineering recently spoke with Suresh Menon, VP of systems development at Lattice Semiconductor, about the challenges of directing the development of power-sensitive FPGAs from architectural decisions to identifying the target applications. What follows are excerpts of that discussion. LPHP: When you look at the products that Lattic... » read more

All Things To All Customers
By Ed Sperling - 17 Jan, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Low-Power High-Performance Engineering recently spoke with Suresh Menon, VP of systems development at Lattice Semiconductor, about the challenges of directing the development of power-sensitive FPGAs from architectural decisions to identifying the target applications. What follows are excerpts of that discussion. LPHP: When you look at the products that Lattic... » read more

Guidelines For Designing Multi-Voltage ICs
By Arvind Narayanan - 17 Jan, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Arvind Narayanan Multi-voltage designs are increasingly common in ICs for mobile devices, but can be difficult to implement. The design flows for multi-voltage architectures are inherently complex and present many new challenges because many blocks are either operating at different voltages or are shut down intermittently. Multi-threshold CMOS switches enable switching off certain portio... » read more

ANSYS And Apache Technologies For An Integrated Chip-Package-System Flow
By Various Writers - 17 Jan, 2013 - Comments: 0

This paper presents solutions for effectively managing design specifications (performance) and margins (price). It discusses solutions based on accurate and predictive simulation software from ANSYS and Apache that offers electronics designers a simulation-driven chip–package–system convergence methodology. To download this white paper, click here. » read more

Shaking Up The Green500
By Barry Pangrle - 17 Jan, 2013 - Comments: 0

Barry Pangrle Last September, I wrote about the efficiency of IBM’s Power7+ architecture in my blog. IBM’s Sequoia supercomputer (a BlueGene/Q system) this past June had just shot to the top of the Supercomputing Top500 chart, clocking in at 16.32 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark. Other systems built around the IBM BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom were also dominating the top o... » read more

Low Power: A Solved Problem (?)
By Atrenta - 17 Jan, 2013 - Comments: 0

The Consumer Electronics Show simply begs to be written about. I had the good fortune of attending the show in person a few years back. I’m now addicted to it. A lot of those reading this will be familiar with the Design Automation Conference. If you are, think of how many people are riding in the elevator vs. how many are in the grand ballroom (any venue will do). That’s a good way to unde... » read more

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