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Ann Mutschler

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Ann Mutschler is senior executive editor at Semiconductor Engineering.

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Low-Power CPUs Hitting Their Stride In The Datacenter
By Ann Mutschler - 12 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Without a doubt, the cloud has and continues to change the nature of the datacenter, particularly the requirements the infrastructure has to deliver. Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, noted during a Webcast last week, “The infrastructure must change in support of cloud-based services.�... » read more

Power Optimization Requires Higher-Level Thinking
By Ann Mutschler - 12 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler With consumer demand—much of it for power sensitive mobile devices—driving the bulk of semiconductor design activity, it would seem obvious that the way chips are designed would have changed to reflect that. But have they? From an EDA perspective, the term ‘system level’ is used to mean ‘product level’ but this may not be enough, especially when it come... » read more

Power Grid Analysis Heats Up At 20nm
By Ann Mutschler - 12 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Do a simple Internet search for the term ‘power grid analysis’ and most of the results are academic sources. However, given the physics of either planar or finFET at 20nm and below, the power grid will see significant impacts. Overall, there are a number of technical implications of migrating from 28nm down to 20, 16 or 14 nm, with further impacts of moving fro... » read more

System Bits: Sept. 10
By Ann Mutschler - 10 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

Enabling flexible touchscreens While transparent conductors make touchscreens possible, the cost and the physical limitations of the material these conductors are usually made of are hampering progress toward flexible touchscreen devices but a research collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University has shown a new a way to design transparent conductors using metal nan... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Sept. 10
By Ann Mutschler - 10 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

Using DNA to assemble transistors from graphene Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms arrayed in a honeycomb pattern, just a single atom thick. It could be a better semiconductor than silicon – if we could fashion it into ribbons 20 to 50 atoms wide. Could DNA help? Stanford chemical engineering professor Zhenan Bao, believes it could. Bao and her team of researchers hope to solve a problem... » read more

System Bits: Sept. 3
By Ann Mutschler - 03 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

Maintaining an unstable quantum system In an experiment that could have implications for quantum computers and quantum simulators, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a way to maintain an unstable quantum system by applying bursts of microwave radiation – a quantum analog to vibrating the inverted pendulum. While a simple pendulum has two equilibrium point... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Sept. 3
By Ann Mutschler - 03 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

Flexible, organic solar cells Work by a team of chemical engineers at Penn State and Rice University may lead to a new class of inexpensive organic solar cells. If solar cells could be made as easily as posters or newspapers are printed, sheets of organic solar cells could be made, representing a fundamental shift in the way solar cells are made, the researchers said. Today, most solar c... » read more

The Week In Review: Aug. 30
By Ann Mutschler - 30 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Continuing its drive towards enabling the Internet of Things (IoT), Renesas recently licensed a third Tensilica core from Cadence, this time the ConnX D2 DSP, which has acceleration packages optimized for IoT wired and wireless modem standards. Renesas previously licensed the Tensilica HiFi Audio DSP and ConnX BBE16 cores. In another deal for Cadence, Mellanox Tech... » read more

Experts At The Table: Next-Generation IP Landscape
By Ann Mutschler - 30 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler System-Level Design sat down to discuss predictions about the next generation design IP landscape with Robert Aitken, R&D fellow at ARM; Laurent Moll, chief technical officer at Arteris; Susan Peterson, group director, product marketing for verification IP & memory models in the system & software realization group at Cadence; and John Koeter, vice preside... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Aug. 27
By Ann Mutschler - 27 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

Möbius strip ties liquid crystal in knots By tying knots in liquid crystals using a miniature Möbius strip made from silica particles, University of Warwick researchers hope to understand how their intricate configurations and unique properties can be harnessed in the next generation of advanced materials and photonic devices. Given that liquid crystal is an essential material in modern l... » read more

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