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Ann Mutschler

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Ann Mutschler is senior executive editor at Semiconductor Engineering.

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System Bits: Sept. 22
By Ann Mutschler - 22 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

Scaling up production of thin electronic materials With potential application in future spintronics applications, among other things, a team led by MIT researchers have developed a way to make large sheets of molybdenum telluride (MoTe2) and other materials like graphene that hold promise for electronic, optical, and other high-tech applications. The team — which includes MIT postdoc Lin ... » read more

System Bits: Sept. 15
By Ann Mutschler - 15 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

Cache-coherence innovation for thousand-core chips MIT researchers are getting ready to unveil what they say is the first fundamentally new approach to cache coherence in more than three decades. They reminded that in a modern, multicore chip, every processor core has its own small memory cache, where it stores frequently used data. The chip also has a larger, shared cache, which all the cores... » read more

Five Questions: Simon Davidmann
By Ann Mutschler - 14 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

Simon Davidmann, president and CEO of Imperas sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to discuss what software engineers want, software development challenges, software reuse, and software quality. SE: What do software engineers want today? Davidmann: We have a narrow view on it because we're coming out of the EDA industry and we're very close to the semiconductors and silicon. The bit th... » read more

Deciphering Performance Analysis
By Ann Mutschler - 10 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 1

Simulation traditionally has been the go-to technology for improving system performance, but practices are evolving and maturing because engineering teams need to be able to simulate in multiple domains and at at multiple levels of abstraction. In addition, they need to tune the level of [getkc id="11" kc_name="simulation"] they are using to what types of models they have available, and what ki... » read more

FPGA’s Role Expands
By Ann Mutschler - 10 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 1

For more than a decade FPGA vendors argued that FPGAs would become a viable alternative to ASICs, adding programmability along with the same kind of advances in performance and power that ASICs saw at each new process node. While that never played out as they expected, FPGAs nonetheless have carved out a formidable position in the semiconductor market. Generally speaking, FPGAs today are us... » read more

Performance Analysis On Dark Silicon
By Ann Mutschler - 10 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

It’s one thing to do performance analysis on the ‘light’ parts of an SoC design, but what about when most of the silicon is ‘dark?’ Jon McDonald, technical marketing engineer at Mentor Graphics stressed that modeling the effects of turning on and off sections of the silicon is an important part of creating an accurate representation of the system. “Our models support state-based... » read more

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

Engineering verifies disarmament agreements While it might sound a bit far fetched at first glance, an MIT PhD has developed a tool to identify nuclear weapons. Ruaridh Macdonald, now working on a nuclear weapons verification project in the Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy, whereby the linchpin of disarmament agreements is to be able to verify that the signers are following the ru... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Sept. 8
By Ann Mutschler - 08 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

Solar water-splitting By splitting water molecules, Rice University researchers have demonstrated what they say is an efficient way to capture energy from the sun and convert it into clean, renewable energy. The technology relies on a configuration of light-activated gold nanoparticles that harvest sunlight and transfer solar energy to highly excited electrons, which scientists sometimes re... » read more

How Long Will FinFETs Last?
By Ann Mutschler - 07 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss how long [getkc id="185" kc_name="FinFET"]s will last and where we will we go next with Vassilios Gerousis, Distinguished Engineer at [getentity id="22032" e_name="Cadence"]; Juan Rey, Sr. Director of Engineering for Calibre R&D at [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor Graphics"]; Kelvin Low, Senior Director, Foundry Marketing at [getentity id="2286... » read more

Can Cars Be Hack-Proof?
By Ann Mutschler - 03 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

Not many days go by when there isn't a news headline describing the latest hacking attempt — or success — of an automobile or automotive system. Malicious hacking has been around almost since the dawn of connected electronics, but it's happening with increasing sophistication in the automotive sector. Even high-end vehicles suffer security flaws that are too costly or not worthwhile to f... » read more

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