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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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The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 16 Oct, 2015 - Comments: 0

M&A Continuing to seek economies of scale in the IP industry, VeriSilicon and Vivante are combining forces. "This transaction creates an extensive semiconductor IP portfolio that will now include GPU cores, vision image processors, digital signal processors, video codecs, mixed signal IP and foundry foundation IP," said Wayne Dai, VeriSilicon chairman, president and CEO. The merged compa... » read more

Blog Review: Oct. 14
By Jesse Allen - 14 Oct, 2015 - Comments: 1

Rambus' Aharon Etengoff explores how new optical interfaces are aiding the burgeoning field of optogenetics, which combines genetic targeting of specific neurons or proteins with optical technology to study living neural circuits. Anand Shirahatti, Divyang Mali, and Naveen G of Synopsys team up to explain three features that make the MIPI UniPro mobile interconnect stand out, along with the ... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Oct. 13
By Jesse Allen - 13 Oct, 2015 - Comments: 0

Cooling down FPGAs Georgia Institute of Technology researchers found a way to put liquid cooling a few hundred microns away from where the transistors are operating by cutting microfluidic passages directly into the backsides of production FPGAs. The research, backed by DARPA, is believed to be the first example of liquid cooling directly on an operating high-performance CMOS chip. To ... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 09 Oct, 2015 - Comments: 0

Imec and Cadence completed the first tapeout of a 5nm test chip. Using a processor design, the companies taped out a set of designs using EUV lithography as well as Self-Aligned Quadruple Patterning for 193i lithography, where metal pitches were scaled from the nominal 32nm pitch down to 24nm to push the limit of patterning. Tools Synopsys folded in recent acquisition Atrenta's testabilit... » read more

Blog Review: Oct. 7
By Jesse Allen - 07 Oct, 2015 - Comments: 0

Ansys' Sunil Nakum takes a look at backing up the brain and concludes that we would need to keep following Moore's Law for a long time given the current approaches and leave several questions unanswered. There is a battle brewing between high-efficiency LED lighting and vintage-style Edison bulbs. With the latest lighting fad, Mentor's John McMillan asks, is style and nostalgia beating high-... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Oct. 6
By Jesse Allen - 06 Oct, 2015 - Comments: 0

Portabella batteries Researchers at the University of California, Riverside created a new type of lithium-ion battery anode using portabella mushrooms, which are inexpensive, environmentally friendly and easy to produce. The current industry standard for rechargeable lithium-ion battery anodes is synthetic graphite, which comes with a high cost of manufacturing because it requires tedious pu... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 02 Oct, 2015 - Comments: 0

EDA industry revenue increased 8.5% for Q2 2015 to $1906.5 million, according to the latest report from the EDA Consortium. The four-quarters moving average, which compares the most recent four quarters to the prior four quarters, also increased by 8.5%. IP showed continued strength, with revenue totalling $611.7 million in Q2 2015, a 15% increase compared to Q2 2014; the four-quarters moving a... » read more

Blog Review: Sept. 30
By Jesse Allen - 30 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

In an increasingly networked world, NXP's Lars Reger advocates for a change of perspective: one which places data protection and the security of end customers and users at the heart. Differential power analysis has been on the mind of Rambus' Aharon Etengoff recently as increasing numbers of SIM cards are being cracked, plus some counter measures that can be used. Even wondered about the ... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Sept. 29
By Jesse Allen - 29 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

Optical rectenna Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology demonstrated the first optical rectenna, a device that combines the functions of an antenna and a rectifier diode to convert light directly into DC current. Based on multiwall carbon nanotubes and tiny rectifiers fabricated onto them, the optical rectennas could provide a new technology for photodetectors that would operate... » read more

The Week In Review: Design/IoT
By Jesse Allen - 25 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

M&A Dialog will acquire Atmel in a cash and stock transaction for total consideration of approximately $4.6 billion. Dialog anticipates achieving projected annual cost savings of $150 million within two years. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of calendar 2016. IP Synopsys announced a portfolio of IP optimized for the IoT, which includes power- and area-effi... » read more

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