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Ann Mutschler is senior executive editor at Semiconductor Engineering.

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System Bits: Dec. 8
By Ann Mutschler - 08 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Untraceable text-messaging Anonymity networks, like Tor, which sit on top of the public Internet, were meant to conceal Web-browsing habits but recent research by MIT has shown that adversaries can infer a great deal about the sources of supposedly anonymous communications by monitoring data traffic though a few well-chosen nodes in an anonymity network. To fight this growing concern, a tea... » read more

How To Model Cars
By Ann Mutschler - 03 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 1

The most technologically advanced and comprehensive consumer product in the world today is not the smartphone. It's the automobile. This is easier to see once the hood is up and you can take a peek around. Today’s cars contain sophisticated motion systems, crash safety systems, climate control systems, driver assistance, and infotainment, to name a few. In semiconductor design, one of the ... » read more

Driving The Road Less Traveled
By Ann Mutschler - 03 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 1

To a large extent, the automotive industry does not follow traditional design approaches that are seen in the semiconductor industry, mostly because of the way the automotive ecosystem is structured, combined with a level of complexity not seen even in products like smartphones and other highly sophisticated consumer electronic devices. Thomas Heurung, manager of technical sales teams in Eur... » read more

System Bits: Dec. 1
By Ann Mutschler - 01 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Extracting the right information in large data sets When solving complex scientific problems, researchers sometimes encounter what is called the curse of dimensionality, that is, they have so much data that they cannot efficiently analyze it. Large data sets can also be expensive and time consuming to acquire, so it is critical to gather only what is necessary. To this end, University of Il... » read more

The Challenge Of Fitting In
By Ann Mutschler - 30 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

Connections between players in the semiconductor industry are becoming critical for survival. Whether the focus is a connected car, home automation, health care or the energy grid, each company in each of those markets relies on others to build useful products. There are several forces at work here. One is an emphasis on connecting everything, regardless of whether it is inside a single vert... » read more

System Bits: Nov. 25
By Ann Mutschler - 25 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

Silicon-based quantum computer coding With the goal of removing lingering doubts quantum computers can become a reality, researchers at the University of New South Wales have proven – with what they say is the highest score ever obtained – that a quantum version of computer code can be written and manipulated using two quantum bits in a silicon microchip, removing any doubt silicon ca... » read more

Handoff Points Getting Blurry
By Ann Mutschler - 24 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

Whether driven by [getkc id="74" comment="Moore's Law"] or just sheer complexity, the way information is passed through the design and test flow is changing. For the past couple of process generations, there has been a concerted push by tool vendors and their customers to run more steps earlier in a flow, sometimes concurrently. While this so-called "shift left" helps to speed up software de... » read more

Do Circuits Whisper Or Shout?
By Ann Mutschler - 18 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

Maximizing SoC performance and minimizing power is becoming a multi-layered and multi-company challenge that depends on everything from ecosystem feedback and interactions to micro-architectural decisions about whether analog circuits whisper or shout. What used to be a straightforward architectural tradeoff between performance and power has evolved into a much more diffuse and collaborativ... » read more

System Bits: Nov. 17
By Ann Mutschler - 17 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

Algorithmic photo captioning Researchers at Idiap, an EPFL-affiliated research institute in Martigny have developed an algorithm that can describe an image without having to pull up captions that it has already learned by using a program that makes vector representations of images and captions based on an analysis of caption syntax. Rémi Lebret, a PhD student specializing in Deep Learning ... » read more

Scalability From Granularity
By Ann Mutschler - 12 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

You might have seen that ARM TechCon is happening this week in Silicon Valley, with a number of product announcements from the IP giant accompanying the conference. One of those is the A-35, which stuck out for me in terms of the range of scalability possible, among other things. Here is a graphic that shows the range of scalability: [caption id="attachment_23671" align="alignright" wid... » read more

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