February 2016 - Page 9 of 10 - Semiconductor Engineering

Network Challenges Ahead
By Ernest Worthman - 04 Feb, 2016 - Comments: 0

The Internet of Everything will require a new breed of networks to handle data from billions of devices quickly and securely, but how exactly that will happen isn't completely clear. The terms "high performance" and "high security" are generally incompatible in the networking world because the security technology in use today bogs down network performance. To have a high level of security re... » read more

Executive Insight: Paul Kocher
By Ed Sperling - 04 Feb, 2016 - Comments: 0

Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist of Rambus' Cryptography Research Division, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about the state of security today and how it will be affected as more devices are connected. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: The number of vulnerabilities is increasing. Are we making progress? Kocher: If your metric for progress is the... » read more

In The Era Of Driverless Cars, OTP Will Rule
By Jen-Tai Hsu - 04 Feb, 2016 - Comments: 0

Visit any car dealership these days and prepare to be amazed by the amount of electronics that comes standard with each car. That’s about to get even more evident as we head into the era of the driverless car, otherwise known as the connected or autonomous car. Who isn’t ready to leave the driving to electronics? The typical driver won’t be all that interested to learn that embedded me... » read more

Hybrid Vehicles = More Verification
By Ann Mutschler - 04 Feb, 2016 - Comments: 0

While it is probably no surprise to anyone even slightly familiar with the complexity of hybrid electric vehicle systems, these designs require more intense verification than traditional combustion engine systems. To fill out the picture, Mick Tegethoff, director, AMS product marketing at Mentor Graphics, reminded that verification is a very broad term. “Let's say you are doing circuit sim... » read more

IoE Things Are Spying On Us
By Ernest Worthman - 04 Feb, 2016 - Comments: 0

Special inaudible sounds are being embedded in Web pages and television commercials. In India, a company called SilverPush embeds short, ultrasonic sounds into television commercials and Web pages. Not only that, complementary software is being snuck onto computers, tablets, and smartphones. This software will pick up these “inaudible” signals and, via cookies, send what it learns back t... » read more

The Future Of Medical Device Certification
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 04 Feb, 2016 - Comments: 0

Given the critical nature of the functions performed by today’s medical devices, greater scrutiny along with the need for more certifiable software is on this rise. There is more interest today in government standards such as FDA 510K and IEC 62304 for medical device software. Enhanced scrutiny from government agencies can introduce unexpected delays – or even jeopardize the commercial rele... » read more

IoT Design Challenges
By Jeff Miller - 04 Feb, 2016 - Comments: 0

Low-cost IoT designs that interface with the real world incorporate multiple design domains that individually are challenging for today’s engineers, so it’s no surprise that putting them all together creates extreme pressure on IoT design teams. The typical IoT device contains a sensor and an actuator that interface to the Internet. The sensor creates a signal based on some real-world ac... » read more

Fallout From Scaling
By Ed Sperling - 03 Feb, 2016 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling & Ann Steffora Mutschler Semiconductor scaling is becoming much more difficult and expensive at each new node, creating sharp divisions about what path to take next for which markets and applications. What used to be confined to one or two clear choices is now turning into a menu of items and possibilities, often with no clear guarantees for a successful outcome. Views ... » read more

Blog Review: Feb. 3
By Jesse Allen - 03 Feb, 2016 - Comments: 0

In this week's top five tech picks, Ansys' Bill Vandermark highlights a variety of breakthroughs which, working together, help boost self-driving cars. Rambus' Aharon Etengoff reviews the television show Mr. Robot, which he says may have as much potential impact as WarGames did in the 80s. Cadence's Paul McLellan looks at Conway's Law of business organization and the changing structure of... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: Feb. 2
By Mark LaPedus - 02 Feb, 2016 - Comments: 0

Do-it-yourself optoelectronics The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed a technology to make optical components on a do-it-yourself basis. To make a component, researchers have devised what they call plasmon-assisted etching. The process makes use of a nanostructured template, which can be used to create optical components. The template is a 2D array of gold pillar-su... » read more

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