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Jesse Allen

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

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Power/Performance Bits: July 26
By Jesse Allen - 26 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

Flexible MRAM Researchers from the National University of Singapore, Yonsei University, Ghent University and Singapore's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering embedded a magnetic memory chip on a plastic material, flexible enough to be bent into a tube. The new device operates on magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), which uses a magnesium oxide (MgO)-based magnetic tunn... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 22 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

Tools Synopsys updated its static timing analysis tool to use smart engineering change order (ECO) technology, which the company says reduces memory requirements by 5X and speeds runtime by 2X. The release also allows more scenarios on a single server, or flexible distribution to take advantage of customers' private compute clouds. IP Synopsys released MIPI display and camera interface... » read more

Blog Review: July 20
By Jesse Allen - 20 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

Applied's Er-Xuan Ping addresses the challenges facing materials and processing in a changing memory landscape, and the opportunities that may arise. Cadence's Paul McLellan looks at teaching neural networks to perceive things more like humans do, through German traffic signs. Mentor's Colin Walls digs into managing timing and peripherals in embedded systems. Synopsys' Robert Vamosi ch... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: July 19
By Jesse Allen - 19 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

Atomic storage In the search for ever-smaller storage, a team of scientists at Delft University in the Netherlands built a 1 kilobyte memory where each bit is represented by the position of one single chlorine atom. "In theory, this storage density would allow all books ever created by humans to be written on a single post stamp," said lead scientist Sander Otte. They reached a storage de... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 15 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

Tools Synopsys unveiled its next-generation ATPG and diagnostics solution, TetraMAX II. According to the company, the tool is an order of magnitude faster than the previous generation, reducing runtime from days to hours, as well as generating 25% fewer patterns. The new tool is also certified for the ISO 26262 automotive functional safety standard. It has been deployed by STMicroelectronics... » read more

Blog Review: July 13
By Jesse Allen - 13 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

Synopsys' Mansi Chadha looks back at the history of storage and the evolution of SCSI. Cadence's Paul McLellan highlights some of the latest news from the world of neural networks. Mentor's Darrell Teegarden digs into the challenges of modeling fuel cells and walks through how to build one. Ansys' Justin Nescott features a giant, three-instrument music box in his picks for the week's t... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: July 12
By Jesse Allen - 12 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

Thin transistors Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a way to chemically assemble transistors and circuits that are only a few atoms thick. The team controlled the synthesis of a transistor in which narrow channels were etched onto conducting graphene, with molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) seeded in the blank channels. Both of these m... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 08 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

Tools Synopsys unveiled a new HAPS adaptor that enables a HAPS FPGA-based Prototyping System to easily connect to a Juno ARM Development Platform. The software development platform includes the Juno Versatile Express board with ARM Cortex-A72, or Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 MPCore, Mali-T624 and reference software through Linaro Linux. Numbers Imagination released financial results for t... » read more

Blog Review: July 6
By Jesse Allen - 06 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Chris Rowen discusses optimizing neural networks for low-energy and high-throughput applications in his latest video. What should you include in an IoT chip? Synopsys' Eric Huang presents the case for building in USB. Mentor's Matthew Hogan takes a look at what's needed for speedy interconnect robustness verification. Rambus' Aharon Etengoff digs into a potential new enterpri... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: July 5
By Jesse Allen - 05 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

More storage with electromagnetic switch Scientists at Hokkaido University designed a device that employs both magnetic and electronic signals, potentially doubling the storage capacity of conventional memory devices. In addition to the binary 0/1 method of storing information, this would add an A/B store for the information as well. To do this would require finding a material that can switc... » read more

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