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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: March 29
By Jesse Allen - 29 Mar, 2016 - Comments: 0

Photonic-phononic circuit Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed a piezo-optomechanical circuit that converts signals among optical, acoustic and radio waves. At the heart of the piezoelectric optomechanical circuit is an optomechanical cavity, which consists of a suspended nanoscale beam. Within the beam are a series of holes that act like a ha... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 25 Mar, 2016 - Comments: 0

Numbers EDA sales dropped 1.9% in Q4 of 2015, following a spectacular run of 23 consecutive quarters of solid growth, according to EDAC. For the year, the EDA and IP industry posted 5% growth. At the same time, IP revenue grew 9.2% to $702.2 million, making it the first time ever that IP surpassed CAE revenue. Services revenue also grew 5.4% year over year to 107.1 million. A new report f... » read more

Blog Review: March 23
By Jesse Allen - 23 Mar, 2016 - Comments: 0

How exactly does a giant fire behave in space? NASA plans to find out, in the latest top five tech picks from Ansys' Justin Nescott. Plus, never scrape ice off your car again and a pangolin-inspired motorcycle helmet. Cadence's Paul McLellan investigates the growing impact of dark silicon as Dennard scaling breaks down and the number of cores in a chip grows. Mentor's Harry Foster present... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: March 22
By Jesse Allen - 22 Mar, 2016 - Comments: 0

Superconducting memory A group of scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Moscow State University developed a fundamentally new type of memory cell based on superconductors, which they believe will be able to work hundreds of times faster than memory devices commonly used today. The basic memory cells are based on quantum effects in "sandwiches" of supercond... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 18 Mar, 2016 - Comments: 0

Tools Aldec updated its emulation and simulation acceleration software package for high speed prototyping boards, adding a SCE-MI Pipes-based flow for streaming large amounts of data, and a 30% speed increase for all emulation modes. Plus, Aldec's mixed-language FPGA design and simulation platform now includes a complete coverage analysis package for FPGA and ASIC designers with the addition... » read more

Blog Review: March 16
By Jesse Allen - 16 Mar, 2016 - Comments: 0

A bacterium that chows down on plastic could be a boon to reducing our huge piles of plastic waste, in this week's top five tech picks from Ansys' Bill Vandermark. Plus, silicon photonics got one step closer, keeping an eye on new neurons, and getting around with magnets. Can semiconductors be open sourced? Rambus' Aharon Etengoff considers what that would take, the potential impact on the I... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: March 15
By Jesse Allen - 15 Mar, 2016 - Comments: 0

Magnetic computing Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, demonstrated that magnetic chips can operate with the lowest fundamental level of energy dissipation possible under the laws of thermodynamics. "We wanted to know how small we could shrink the amount of energy needed for computing," said Jeffrey Bokor, a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sci... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 11 Mar, 2016 - Comments: 0

Legal A federal court jury favored Synopsys in a 2013 lawsuit alleging that ATopTech violated copyright by copying elements of the command set for Synopsys' PrimeTime static timing analysis product. Synopsys was awarded $30.4 million in damages. ATopTech plans to contest the verdict, stating that other issues in the case remain to be decided. Tools Aldec unveiled the latest version of ... » read more

Blog Review: March 9
By Jesse Allen - 09 Mar, 2016 - Comments: 0

The world's largest floating solar farm will soon be complete – an array of 23,000 solar panels on a reservoir outside London. Also in this week's top five picks by Ansys' Justin Nescott, watching sharks from the sky is a drone's latest task, plus making music with a marble machine. Synopsys' Graham Etchells continues his series with a look at electromigration and its impacts on the FinFET... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: March 8
By Jesse Allen - 08 Mar, 2016 - Comments: 0

Configurable analog chip Researchers at Georgia Tech built a new configurable computing device, the Field-Programmable Analog Array (FPAA) SoC, that uses analog technology supported by digital components and can be built up to a hundred times smaller while using a thousand times less electrical power than comparable digital floating-gate configurable devices. Professionals familiar with F... » read more

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