November 2013 - Page 9 of 10 - Semiconductor Engineering


Huge Challenges With Billions Of Things


Communication is poised in the next couple of years to cross a line between humans and things—things talking directly to other things as well as to people—setting in motion a series of technological, social and legal issues that will take years or decades to resolve. On one hand, this is made possible by leaps in processing performance and power management in mobile devices. In his keyno... » read more

Experts At The Table: What’s Missing In The IoT


Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the future of the IoT with Oleg Logvinov, director of market development for STMicroelectronics’ Industrial and Power Conversion Division; Martin Lund, senior vice president of the IP Group at Cadence; Naveed Sherwani, president and CEO of Open-Silicon; and Damon Hernandez, a member of the Web3D Consortium. What follows are excerpts of that conver... » read more

Tech Talk: 16nm-14nm Effects And Challenges


Arvind Shanmugavel from Apache Design talks with Semiconductor Engineering about electromigration, electrostatic discharge and thermal effects caused by increasing power density in finFETs.   [youtube vid=GOra5uYyIr8] » read more

Blog Review: Nov. 6


Mentor’s J VanDomelon provides some insights into a program to improve the working relationship between humans and robots, aka the Minotaur project. This is like sensitivity training for advanced weaponry. Synopsys’ Karen Bartleson rolls out part two of her discussion with Mike Malone about the phenomenon known as Silicon Valley. As with Moore’s Law, reports about impending doom, irrel... » read more

System Bits: Nov. 5


Silicon Photonics And Graphene The industry is looking towards silicon photonics that will increase the rate at which electronic systems can communicate with each other and reduce power consumption. Researchers at MIT, Columbia University and IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center are already a few steps beyond the traditional attempts to build optical components using materials such as Gallium ... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Nov. 5


Even the world's best supercomputers are staggeringly inefficient and energy-intensive machines. Our brains have upwards of 86 billion neurons, connected by synapses that not only complete myriad logic circuits, but continuously adapt to stimuli, strengthening some connections while weakening others. We call that process learning, and it enables the kind of rapid, highly efficient computational... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: Nov. 5


Nano Bulletproof Suit Luxury tailoring house Garrison Bespoke has developed a bulletproof suit based on carbon nanotubes. The Garrison Bespoke bulletproof suit is made with carbon nanotubes, which were originally developed to protect the U.S. 19th Special Forces in Iraq. The patented material is thinner and 50% lighter than Kevlar, which is traditionally used for bulletproof gear. Th... » read more

Experts At The Table: The Future Of Verification


Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the future of verification with Janick Bergeron, Synopsys fellow; Harry Foster, chief verification scientist at Mentor Graphics; Frank Schirrmeister, group director of product marketing for the Cadence System Development Suite; Prakash Narain, president and CEO of Real Intent; and Yunshan Zhu, vice president of new technologies at Atrenta. What foll... » read more

Notes From TechCon


ARM CEO Simon Segars put a different twist on the Internet of Things at this week’s TechCon 2013. He put it under the heading of the ‘mobile Internet,” which may prove to be a much more accurate description. This isn’t just about things talking to things. It’s about people and things interacting in ways never before possible, regardless of location. That sounds great in theory, but... » read more

Calendar Of Events


Industry Events   December 2014 January February March March 24-28, DATE, Dresden, Germany   Vendor-Sponsored Events November   2014 January February March April May May 23, Second Workshop on Virtual Prototyping and Embedded Systems ViPES, Phoenix, Ariz. » read more

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