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Jesse Allen is the Knowledge Center administrator and a senior editor at Semiconductor Engineering.

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The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 11 Aug, 2017 - Comments: 0

M&A Mentor acquired Valydate, provider of the VERA schematic integrity analysis tool. Founded in 2010, the Canadian company also offered signal and power integrity and static timing analysis services. Valydate's technology will be integrated with Mentor's Xpedition PCB design flow, though former Valydate CEO Michael Alam says it will continue to serve all EDA environments. Tools Aldec ... » read more

Blog Review: Aug. 9
By Jesse Allen - 09 Aug, 2017 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Paul McLellan digs into a recently discovered vulnerability in the Broadcom Wi-Fi chip used in many smartphones and why it should be a wakeup call for SoC designers. Mentor's Craig Armenti considers whether work-in-process design data management is an asset or a liability. Synopsys' Thomas M. Tuerke notes that in code, as in medicine, proper hygiene is should be treated as a con... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Aug. 8
By Jesse Allen - 08 Aug, 2017 - Comments: 0

Energy-efficient neural nets Researchers from MIT developed new techniques for more energy-efficient neural networks, offering as much as a 73% reduction in power consumption over the standard implementation of neural networks, and as much as a 43% reduction over the best previous method for paring the networks down. First, they developed an analytic method that can determine how much power... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 04 Aug, 2017 - Comments: 0

M&A Invecas will acquire Lattice Semiconductor's HDMI design team and Simplay Labs subsidiary, which oversees standards compliance and interoperability testing services. Invecas supplies foundation, analog, and interface IP optimized for GlobalFoundries processes. The deal is expected to close later this month. Last year, Lattice announced it would be acquired by Chinese private equity fir... » read more

Blog Review: Aug. 2
By Jesse Allen - 02 Aug, 2017 - Comments: 0

In a video, Cadence's Marc Greenberg describes the post-package repair capability in LPDDR4 and why it's important for future LP/DDR5 memories. Synopsys' Kiran Vittal looks at formal, machine learning, and when computers beat humans at games. Mentor's Matt Knowles digs into how cell-aware diagnosis works and why it can find tricky finFET defects. ARM's Freddi Jeffries digs into why com... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Aug. 1
By Jesse Allen - 01 Aug, 2017 - Comments: 1

Concentrating photovoltaics Engineers at Penn State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign tested a new concentrating photovoltaic solar system, which they say can produce over 50% more energy per day than standard silicon solar cells. In contrast to silicon solar panels, which currently dominate the market at 15 to 20 percent efficiency, concentrating photovoltaics (... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 28 Jul, 2017 - Comments: 0

IP Synopsys unveiled High Bandwidth Memory 2 (HBM2) IP. The package includes PHY, controller and verification IP and supports data rates up to 2400Mb/s, 20% faster than the JEDEC standard specification. The controller supports pseudo-channel operation in either lock step or memory interleaved mode, and the PHY offers four trained power management states and fast frequency switching. Cadence... » read more

Blog Review: July 26
By Jesse Allen - 26 Jul, 2017 - Comments: 1

Mentor's Dan Driscoll digs into designing for safety and security on the Xilinx UltraScale+ MPSoC and the different mechanisms that support subsystem isolation. Cadence's Paul McLellan listens in on a talk by Bosch's Volkmar Denner on the future of communications and AI in connected autos. Synopsys' Robert Vamosi points to a recently-discovered vulnerability that could be present in thous... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: July 25
By Jesse Allen - 25 Jul, 2017 - Comments: 0

Sodium-ion cathode Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas and Seoul National University developed a manganese and sodium-ion-based cathode material they hope could lead to lower-cost rechargeable batteries. In a typical lithium-ion battery, the cathode is made of lithium, cobalt, nickel and oxygen. "Lithium is a more expensive, limited resource that must be mined from just a fe... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 21 Jul, 2017 - Comments: 0

Tools Mentor released the latest version of its FloTHERM CFD software for electronics cooling simulation, adding a new design window to create and solve variants of a model with features to improve scenario definition and design space exploration. Other enhancements include support for Phase Change Materials, more abilities for PCB designs, and an improved parallel solver. Markets IC Insig... » read more

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