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Ann Mutschler is senior executive editor at Semiconductor Engineering.

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High-Level Gaps Emerge
By Ann Mutschler - 15 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the attributes of a high-level, front-end design flow with Bernard Murphy, CTO at [getentity id="22026" e_name="Atrenta"]; Leah Clark, associate technical director for digital video technology at Broadcom; Phil Bishop, vice president of the system level design system & verification group at [getentity id="22032" e_name="Cadence"]; and Jon McDon... » read more

System Bits: Oct. 14
By Ann Mutschler - 14 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Exotic states of light and matter In research that merges two areas that have only been studied separately, ETH researchers are studying solid-state physics and quantum optics as a potential first step toward quantum computing. Specifically, the physicists are looking between tiny mirrors to a special layer of the semiconductor material gallium arsenide, prepared in such a way that the elec... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Oct. 14
By Ann Mutschler - 14 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Safety first A technology designed for conventional lithium-ion batteries by Stanford University researchers warns the user before it overheats and bursts into flames. The goal was to create an early-warning system to saves lives and property, by detecting problems that occur during the normal operation of a battery, the researchers said. The technology does not apply to batteries damaged i... » read more

Architecture Versus Silicon
By Ann Mutschler - 09 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

For many, if not most designs today, power is everything. Determining where power is being lost is critical to making sure the design is optimized. So where to begin? To this end, it is useful to go back to the fundamentals of what power is and what power consumption is, noted Paul Traynar, software architect at [getentity id="22021" comment="ANSYS/Apache"]. “Power is proportional to capac... » read more

Optimizing Analog For Power At Advanced Nodes
By Ann Mutschler - 09 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

As any engineering manager will tell you, analog and digital engineers seem like they could be from different planets. While this has changed somewhat over time, [getkc id="52" comment="analog"] is still something of a mystery to many in [getkc id="81" kc_name="SoC"] design teams. Throw power management into the mix and things really get interesting. Improvements in analog/mixed-signal tools... » read more

Balancing Implementation Time, Complexity, Schedule
By Ann Mutschler - 09 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Design complexity today is demanding all the creativity a design engineer can muster to figure out the best ways to optimize a design for the power situation the device will be operating under. Advanced techniques are being leveraged, to be sure, but in varying degrees, perhaps in part because these techniques impact the complexity of the design implementation. If there are four or five ... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Oct. 7
By Ann Mutschler - 07 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Crumpled graphene MIT researchers have now found that crumpling a piece of graphene “paper” — a material formed by bonding together layers of the 2D form of carbon — can yield properties that could be useful for creating extremely stretchable supercapacitors to store energy for flexible electronic devices, such as wearable or implantable biomedical sensors. The team said the new, fl... » read more

System Bits: Oct. 7
By Ann Mutschler - 07 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Towards spin-based computing It’s a given that semiconductors process electrical information, while magnetic materials enable long-term data storage. Along these lines, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a way to fuse these two distinct properties in a single material that they believe could pave the way for new ultrahigh den... » read more

High-Level Gaps Emerge
By Ann Mutschler - 06 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the attributes of a high-level, front-end design flow, and why it is needed at present with Leah Clark, associate technical director for digital video technology at [getentity id="22649" e_name="Broadcom"]; Jon McDonald, technical marketing engineer at [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor Graphics"]; Phil Bishop, vice president of the System Level D... » read more

The Missing Link
By Ann Mutschler - 02 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

What continues to fascinate me about the IoT opportunity is the explosion of creative ideas that are being imagined and developed to enable the next big thing. When I imagine the kind of connectivity and control that will need to happen between the Internet and ‘smart’ devices, these things obviously must be very inexpensive, super small, with the ability to harvest their own energy. ... » read more

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