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Ann Mutschler

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Ann Mutschler is senior executive editor at Semiconductor Engineering.

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USB Connectors Get Smarter
By Ann Mutschler - 30 Jul, 2015 - Comments: 0

By now, there’s quite a buzz about the new USB Type-C spec given that it provides for a reversible plug connector for USB devices and cabling, aiming to end the endless cable flipping to make sure the orientation is correction. To avoid confusion, while developed at about the same time as the USB 3.1 specification, it is distinct from that one. When it comes to software support for Type-C,... » read more

System Bits: July 28
By Ann Mutschler - 28 Jul, 2015 - Comments: 0

Massless particles for faster electronics Princeton University researchers along with an international team have finally proved a massless particle that had been theorized for 85 years. They say this particle could give rise to faster and more efficient electronics because of its unusual ability to behave as matter and antimatter inside a crystal. [caption id="attachment_21431" align="align... » read more

System Bits: July 21
By Ann Mutschler - 21 Jul, 2015 - Comments: 0

White graphene can take the heat According to researchers at Rice University, 3D boron nitride structures excel at thermal management for electronics. Rice researchers Rouzbeh Shahsavari and Navid Sakhavand have completed the first theoretical analysis of how 3D boron nitride might be used as a tunable material to control heat flow in such devices. In its 2D form, hexagonal boron nitride... » read more

Remembering Gary Smith
By Ann Mutschler - 16 Jul, 2015 - Comments: 2

The EDA industry recently said farewell to one of its biggest advocates, Gary Smith, who passed away on July 3. Writing a remembrance for an industry acquaintance can be uncomfortable; writing one for someone who was a friend is just, plain painful. While I had a number of years writing about technology under my belt, by the time I started covering EDA for Electronic Business in 1997 I k... » read more

Speeding Up Analog
By Ann Mutschler - 16 Jul, 2015 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss analog design and how to speed up analog circuits with Kurt Shuler, vice president of marketing at Arteris; Bernard Murphy, CTO at Atrenta; Wilbur Luo, senior group director, product management for custom IC and PCB at Cadence; Brad Hoskins, director, IC design, microcontrollers at Freescale; and Jeff Miller, product manager at Tanner EDA. What foll... » read more

Tsinghua Makes $23B Bid For Micron
By Ann Mutschler - 14 Jul, 2015 - Comments: 1

In what would likely be the largest takeover of a U.S. company by a Chinese firm, China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup has put in a bid to buy memory giant Micron Technology for $21 a share or $23 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. The deal is expected to be receive high scrutiny. Tsinghua Unigroup is the largest state-owned chip design company in China, according to Henry Guo, ... » read more

System Bits: July 14
By Ann Mutschler - 14 Jul, 2015 - Comments: 0

Missing magnetism of plutonium found In a discovery by two national labs that could hold great promise for materials, energy and computing applications, plutonium’s magnetism has been confirmed, which scientists have long theorized but have never been able to experimentally observe. According to Oak Ridge National Lab and Los Alamos National Lab, plutonium was first produced in 1940. Its ... » read more

Divide And Conquer: A Power Verification Methodology Approach
By Ann Mutschler - 09 Jul, 2015 - Comments: 0

It’s no secret that the power verification challenge has grown by leaps and bounds in the recent past, especially considering design complexity and the sharp rise in the number of power domains in an SoC. As a result, SoC teams want to apply a rigorous [getkc id="10" kc_name="Verification"] flow, observed Gabriel Chidolue, verification technologist at [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor G... » read more

Speeding Up Analog
By Ann Mutschler - 09 Jul, 2015 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss analog design and how to speed it up with Kurt Shuler, vice president of marketing at Arteris; Bernard Murphy, CTO at Atrenta; Wilbur Luo, senior group director, product management for custom IC and PCB at Cadence; Brad Hoskins, director, IC design, microcontrollers at Freescale; and Jeff Miller, product manager at Tanner EDA. What follows are excer... » read more

Verification Quality Comes Into Focus
By Ann Mutschler - 09 Jul, 2015 - Comments: 0

Across the board, when I talk with people about power management verification or any verification actually, the topic of quality always comes up. The first plan of attack is to look at coverage: how it is managed, how to perform coverage in a more constructed way. Ellie Burns at Mentor Graphics mentioned that because UPF can define all of the states of the system, the states of the power man... » read more

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