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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: June 7
By Jesse Allen - 07 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

Tiny lasers on silicon A group of scientists from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the University of California, Santa Barbara, Sandia National Laboratories, and Harvard University were able to fabricate tiny lasers directly on silicon. To do this, they first had to resolve silicon crystal lattice defects to a point where the cavities were essentially equivalent to those gr... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 03 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

Tools Mentor Graphics uncorked the latest version of its Catapult high-level synthesis platform, adding a formal-based C Property Checker tool to automatically identify and formally prove hard-to-find issues like uninitialized memory, divide by 0, and array bounds errors in the users' HLS C++/SystemC model. IP ARM unveiled the Cortex-A73 and Mali-G71 processors. According to ARM, the g... » read more

Blog Review: June 1
By Jesse Allen - 01 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

You have probably heard a lot about Portable Stimulus recently. Mentor's Tom Fitzpatrick talks about one proposal that the standards group is considering and the overlap between it and the second proposal. Cadence's Paul McLellan takes a look at 3D Xpoint and where it fits in the memory hierarchy. Synopsys' Anand Shirahatti, Mohd Adil Khan, and Jamshed Alum introduce scaled flow control c... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: May 31
By Jesse Allen - 31 May, 2016 - Comments: 0

Solar thermophotovoltaics A team of MIT researchers demonstrated a device based on a method that enables solar cells to break through a theoretically predicted ceiling on how much sunlight they can convert into electricity. Since 1961 it has been known that there is an absolute theoretical limit, called the Shockley-Queisser Limit, to how efficient traditional solar cells can be in their ... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 27 May, 2016 - Comments: 0

Mergers & Acquisitions Synopsys made a couple of announcements this week related to its TCAD business. First, they acquired Gold Standard Simulations, which clearly became a major factor in the release of a pre-wafer simulation solution to help semiconductor manufacturers reduce process node development time. The new solution aims to provide a comprehensive process, transistor and circui... » read more

Blog Review: May 25
By Jesse Allen - 25 May, 2016 - Comments: 0

As a prelude of drone delivery, shipping company DHL set up a carbon fiber tilt-rotor to ferry packages between two villages in the Alps, in this week's top five tech picks from Ansys' Bill Vandermark. Plus, IBM's phase-change memory, see-through wood that's stronger than glass, and perhaps a Babel fish. There have been considerable investments in new memories, but getting to them won't be a... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: May 24
By Jesse Allen - 24 May, 2016 - Comments: 0

Reducing MRAM chip area Researchers from Tohoku University developed a technology to stack magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) directly on the via without causing deterioration to its electric/magnetic characteristics. The team focused on reducing the memory cell area of spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) in order to lower manufacturing costs, making them more compe... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 20 May, 2016 - Comments: 1

Acquisitions ARM acquired embedded computer vision and imaging technology company [getentity id="22917" comment="Apical"] for $350 million in cash. According to ARM, the company's technology has been utilized in more than 1.5 billion smartphones and in about 300 million other consumer and industrial devices. Synopsys acquired [getentity id="22916" comment="Simpleware"], a provider of soft... » read more

Blog Review: May 18
By Jesse Allen - 18 May, 2016 - Comments: 0

Lead-absorbing bots may be the future of cleaning up polluted industrial wastewater, in this week's top five tech picks from Ansys' Justin Nescott. Plus, the Hyperloop is getting closer, and two years of Curiosity. In his latest podcast, Synopsys' Robert Vamosi chats with Chris Clark about the current automotive security landscape and what gaps exist when it comes to standards. From an ED... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: May 17
By Jesse Allen - 17 May, 2016 - Comments: 0

Shrinking perovskites Researchers from Imperial College London, Oxford University, Diamond Light Source, Pohang University of Science and Technology in Korea, and Rutgers University have discovered a material that can be chemically tailored to either expand or contract in a precise way and over a wide temperature range. This could lead to new composite materials that do not expand when heate... » read more

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