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Ann Mutschler

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Ann Mutschler is senior executive editor at Semiconductor Engineering.

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Design For Always-On
By Ann Mutschler - 06 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

Designing for low power is such an interesting area because, while it might be frustrating, one size — or approach, in this case — does not fit all. It is a balancing act to weigh the design objectives against what is possible in the process. NXP, which launched a series of low power MCUs today aimed at the sensor-processing market, has been focusing on optimizing power consumption f... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Nov. 4
By Ann Mutschler - 04 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

Leveraging error-prone chips MIT researchers reminded that as transistors get smaller, they also grow less reliable, and that while increasing the operating voltage can help, there is a corresponding increase in power consumption. As such, some researchers and hardware manufacturers are exploring the possibility of letting chips botch the occasional computation. The team has devised a system t... » read more

System Bits: Nov. 4
By Ann Mutschler - 04 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

Turning loss to gain By reexamining longstanding beliefs about the physics of lasers, Princeton University engineers have shown that by carefully restricting the delivery of power to certain areas within a laser could boost its output by many orders of magnitude. The team believes this finding could enable more sensitive and energy-efficient lasers, as well as potentially more control over ... » read more

Filling In The Gaps For Mixed-Signal Verification
By Ann Mutschler - 31 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss mixed-signal verification with Haiko Morgenstern, Mixed-Signal Verification Group Staff Engineer at Infineon; Dr. Gernot Koch, CAD Manager at Micronas; Pierluigi Daglio, AMS Design Verification Flows Manager at STMicroelectronics; and Helene Thibieroz, AMS marketing manager at [getentity id="22035" comment="Synopsys"]. What follows are excerpts of t... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Oct. 28
By Ann Mutschler - 28 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

More powerful, sensitive wearables With their special electronic and optical properties, nanomaterials such as graphene and molybdenum sulfide have created excitement among UCLA scientists for their potential to revolutionize transistors and circuits. Research is underway there that has the potential to increase the efficiency and capabilities of the 2D layered semiconductors used in high-s... » read more

System Bits: Oct. 28
By Ann Mutschler - 28 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Sensing objects without looking at them In a technique known as “interaction-free measurement,” Yale engineers have created a chip-scale device that senses the presence of an object without interacting with it by using the wave-particle duality of single photons. This work could help propel the field of quantum information processing. The researchers explained that the device uses silic... » read more

Filling In The Gaps For Mixed-Signal Verification
By Ann Mutschler - 24 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss mixed-signal [getkc id="10" kc_name="Verification"] with Haiko Morgenstern, Mixed-Signal Verification Group Staff Engineer at Infineon; Dr. Gernot Koch, CAD Manager at Micronas; Pierluigi Daglio, AMS Design Verification Flows Manager at STMicroelectronics; and Helene Thibieroz, AMS marketing manager at [getentity id="22035" comment="Synopsys"]. What... » read more

Advanced Nodes Drive Changing EDA Requirements
By Ann Mutschler - 23 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

With new technical requirements of today’s bleeding edge manufacturing processes propelling the ecosystem of semiconductor foundries, EDA tool suppliers and IP developers, work is being done behind the scenes like a well-conducted orchestra to make sure customer designs can flow through a foundry when the time comes. One of the areas in the design process where new processes are felt acute... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Oct. 21
By Ann Mutschler - 21 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Sound power While medical researchers would like to plant tiny electronic devices deep inside our bodies to monitor biological processes and deliver pinpoint therapies or relieve pain, so far engineers have been unable to make such devices small and useful enough. Providing power to the implants has been one stumbling block, and the use of wires or batteries to deliver power make implants ... » read more

System Bits: Oct. 21
By Ann Mutschler - 21 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Simplified superconducting circuits Computer chips with superconducting circuits, which means they have no electrical resistance, are said to be 50 to 100 times as energy-efficient as today’s technology. Superconducting chips are also said to have greater processing power: Superconducting circuits that use so-called Josephson junctions have been clocked at 770 gigahertz, or 500 times the spe... » read more

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