January 2014 - Page 8 of 10 - Semiconductor Engineering

Verifying Security Aspects of SoC Designs with Jasper App
By Various Writers - 15 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

This paper presents Jasper technology and methodology to verify the robustness of secure data access and the absence of functional paths touching secure areas of a design. Recently, we have seen an increasing demand in industrial hardware design to verify security information. Complex system-on-chips, such as those for cell phones, game consoles, and servers contain secure information. And it i... » read more

Reducing Power Consumption in Mobile Applications with High-Speed Gear3 MIPI M-PHY IP
By Various Writers - 15 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 1

Mobile systems require increasing data volume for multiple chip-to-chip interfaces. The high-speed MIPI® M-PHY is tailored for mobile systems where performance, power, and efficiency are key criteria. With up to 5,824 Mbps bandwidth, the speed meets devices’ high bandwidth and scalability requirements. The M-PHY is designed to accommodate the intermittent nature of inter-chip communications ... » read more

The Integrated IP Subsystem: A Converging SoC Solution
By Various Writers - 15 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

The consumer device market is witnessing incredible market space convergence between mobile handheld, automotive, and home electronics. IP vendors, engineers, and system design engineers face a multitude of challenges when designing and developing ICs, systems, or subsystems for the next great portable device. The next cell phone for instance, will not only be a multimedia player, but also a ... » read more

How to Achieve Estimation, Reduction, And Verification Of Power In RTL Designs
By Various Writers - 15 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

Maintaining power dissipation at low levels is a major concern in modern day IC designs. For wireless electronic appliances, battery life is one of the major influencers of the purchase decision and is an effective differentiator. Mobile phones, digital cameras and personal MP3 players are increasingly being sold based on their battery lives. In wired applications, power consumption determines ... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 15
By Ed Sperling - 15 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

Mentor’s Colin Walls digs into safety-critical sensors for cars, which are essential to the operation of a variety of systems in vehicles. The number of redundant sensors increases proportionate to the risk from failure, something that has been an accepted practice in mil/aero markets for years. Cadence’s Brian Fuller gazes into a crystal ball and concludes that while the semiconductor i... » read more

EDA And IP Revenue Up Again
By Ed Sperling - 14 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

The EDA and IP market showed continued growth again in Q3 of 2013, according to just-released statistics from the EDA Consortium. Total revenue was $1.729 billion, up 6.8% from the $1.619 billion reported in the same period in 2012. Wally Rhines, board sponsor for EDAC’s Market Statistics Service and chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics, said the numbers showed stability and growth, but no ... » read more

Mixed Signals Seen For Fab Tool Industry
By Mark LaPedus - 14 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 2

After a slight downturn in 2013, the semiconductor equipment market is expected to rebound and see solid growth in 2014, according to forecasters at SEMI’s Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) at Half Moon Bay, Calif. Gartner, IC Insights and VLSI Research separately projected strong growth in the fab tool industry in 2014. But on the downside, the number of large fab tool buyers continues to... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: Jan. 14
By Mark LaPedus - 14 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

MoS2 FETs Two-dimensional materials are gaining steam in the R&D labs. The 2D materials include graphene, boron nitride (BN) and the transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). One TMD, molybdenum diselenide (MoS2), is an attractive material for use in future field-effect transistors (FETs). MoS2 has several properties, including a non-zero band gap, atomic scale thickness and pristine int... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Jan. 14
By Ann Mutschler - 14 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

Disorderly conduct With a significant ability to store power per a given weight, lithium batteries have been a major focus of research to enable use in everything from portable electronics to electric cars and now researchers at MIT and Brookhaven National Laboratory have found the use of disordered materials – generally considered unsuitable for batteries – can be used in a new avenue for... » read more

System Bits: Jan. 14
By Ann Mutschler - 14 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

Fastest organic transistor Research teams from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Stanford University have worked together to produce what they believe are the world’s fastest thin-film organic transistors, proving that this experimental technology has the potential to achieve the performance needed for high-resolution television screens and similar electronic devices. The researchers sa... » read more

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