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Blog Review: Sept. 25


Cadence’s Mamta Rana digs into how PCIe 6.1 ECN builds on the FLIT-based architecture introduced in PCIe 6.0, further optimizing flow control mechanisms to handle increased data rates and improved efficiency but making verification of shared credit updates essential. Siemens’ Nicolae Tusinschi provides a primer on formal verification, including what makes it different from simulation, pr... » read more

Research Bits: Sept. 24


Modeling negative capacitance Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed an open-source 3D simulation framework capable of modeling the atomistic origins of negative capacitance in ferroelectric thin films at the device level. When a material has negative capacitance, it can store a greater amount of electrical charge at lower voltages. The team believes the FerroX fra... » read more

Blog Review: Sept. 18


Siemens’ Kyle Fraunfelter explores the similarities between hurricane forecasting and semiconductor manufacturing to argue for the value of integrating real-time wafer fabrication measurements into the digital twin models used to simulate the semiconductor fabrication process. Cadence’s Rohini Kollipara introduces Display Stream Compression (DSC), which can enable higher resolutions and ... » read more

Research Bits: Sept. 17


DNA data storage plus compute Researchers from North Carolina State University and Johns Hopkins University created a DNA-based device that can perform both data storage and computing functions. “Specifically, we have created polymer structures that we call dendricolloids – they start at the microscale, but branch off from each other in a hierarchical way to create a network of nanoscal... » read more

Blog Review: Sept. 11


Cadence's Neha Joshi introduces the IEEE 1801 standard, also known as UPF (Unified Power Format), which offers a uniform framework for defining power domains, power states, and power intent to ensure consistency across diverse tools and phases of the design process. Siemens' John McMillan warns that known good die may not behave the same in 3D-ICs as they do standalone and suggests that mult... » read more

Research Bits: Sept. 9


All-silicon polarization multiplexer Researchers from the University of Adelaide and Osaka University propose an ultra-wideband integrated terahertz polarization (de)multiplexer implemented on a substrateless silicon base, which they tested in the sub-terahertz J-band (220-330 GHz) for 6G communications. “Our proposed polarization multiplexer will allow multiple data streams to be transmi... » read more

Blog Review: Sept. 4


Synopsys' Jyotika Athavale and Randy Fish sit down with Google's Rama Govindaraju and Microsoft's Robert S. Chappell to discuss silent data corruption and why a solution will require chip designers and manufacturers, software and hardware engineers, vendors, and anyone involved in computer data to collaborate and take the issue seriously. Siemens' Karen Chow and Joel Mercier explain the rela... » read more

Research Bits: Sept. 3


3D printing of specialized antennas, sensors Researchers from the National University of Singapore developed a 3D printing technique that can be used to create three dimensional, self-healing electronic circuits. Called tension-driven CHARM3D, the technique enables the 3D printing of free-standing metallic structures without requiring support materials and external pressure. It uses Field�... » read more

Blog Review: Aug. 28


Synopsys' Jon Ames checks out how the Ultra Ethernet Consortium aims to revolutionize networking by optimizing Ethernet for the rapidly evolving AI and HPC workloads by addressing critical issues like tail latency that are encountered by machine learning algorithms in large compute clusters. Cadence's Kos Gitchev introduces the DDR5 Multiplexed Rank DIMM (MRDIMM), a memory module technology ... » read more

Research Bits: Aug. 27


Ammonia-free GaN Researchers from Nagoya University discovered a way to grow gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors without using ammonia. The process is both more environmentally friendly and allows for high-quality growth of crystals at a lower cost. Metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) is the most common technique for GaN production, which uses ammonia (NH3) gas as the source of... » read more

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