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

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Research Bits: Dec. 5
By Jesse Allen - 05 Dec, 2022 - Comments: 0

Protonic programmable resistors for AI Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed an analog deep learning processor based on protonic programmable resistors arranged in an array. In the processor, increasing and decreasing the electrical conductance of protonic resistors enables analog machine learning. The conductance is controlled by the movement of protons... » read more

Blog Review: Nov. 30
By Jesse Allen - 30 Nov, 2022 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Sangeeta Soni explores how the configuration space for CXL 1.1 and CXL 2.0 varies and discusses newly introduced registers for the CXL-compliant devices and how they are discovered during the CXL enumeration flow. Siemens EDA's Harry Foster continues examining trends in FPGA verification effort by looking at where both design and verification engineers spend their time. Synopsys... » read more

Blog Review: Nov. 23
By Jesse Allen - 23 Nov, 2022 - Comments: 0

Siemens EDA's Harry Foster looks at multiple data points to get a sense of effort spent in FPGA verification and increasing demand for FPGA verification engineers. Synopsys' Rimpy Chugh, Himanshu Kathuria, and Rohit Kumar Ohlayan argue that the quality of the design and testbench code is critical to a project’s success and that linting offers a comprehensive checking process for teams to s... » read more

Research Bits: Nov. 21
By Jesse Allen - 21 Nov, 2022 - Comments: 0

Graphene heater for phase-change switches Researchers from the University of Washington, Stanford University, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, University of Maryland, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology designed an energy-efficient, silicon-based non-volatile switch that manipulates light through the use of a phase-change material and graphene heater. Aiming to reduce the power consum... » read more

Blog Review: Nov. 16
By Jesse Allen - 16 Nov, 2022 - Comments: 0

Siemens EDA's Jake Wiltgen explains the difference between transient and permanent faults when designing to the ISO 26262 standard, including where they come from and key ways to protect against them. Synopsys' Vikas Gautam points to how the economics of designing large SoCs is driving chiplet-based designs and the need for die-to-die standards such as UCIe, along with the key protocol verif... » read more

Research Bits: Nov. 15
By Jesse Allen - 15 Nov, 2022 - Comments: 0

Low temperature 3D bonding Scientists from Osaka University developed a new method for the direct three-dimensional bonding of copper electrodes using silver layers. The method works at low temperatures and does not require external pressure. "Our process can be performed under gentle conditions, at relatively low temperatures and without added pressure, but the bonds were able to withstand... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 11 Nov, 2022 - Comments: 0

Chip design Fraunhofer IIS/EAS implemented the Bunch of Wires (BoW) standard-based interface IP from the Open Compute Project (OCP) on Samsung's 5nm technology. The effort is intended to make chiplets more feasible for products with small and medium-sized production runs and determine the need for additional uniform standards in the future, such as for die-to-die bonding. “As part of t... » read more

Blog Review: Nov. 9
By Jesse Allen - 09 Nov, 2022 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Claire Ying finds that the latest update to CXL, which introduced memory-centric fabric architectures and expanded capabilities for improving scale and optimizing resource utilization, could change how some of the world’s largest data centers and fastest supercomputers are built. Synopsys' Gervais Fong and Morten Christiansen examine the latest updates in the USB 80Gbps specifica... » read more

Research Bits: Nov. 7
By Jesse Allen - 07 Nov, 2022 - Comments: 0

ADC side-channel attacks Researchers at MIT propose two ways to protect analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) from power and electromagnetic side-channel attacks. The researchers first investigated the side-channel attacks that could be used against ADCs. Power attacks usually involve an attacker soldering a resistor onto the device’s circuit board to measure its power usage. An electromagn... » read more

Startup Funding: October 2022
By Jesse Allen - 02 Nov, 2022 - Comments: 1

Investors poured $3.5 billion into 113 startup companies in October 2022, especially new battery technology, AI hardware, and faster memory access. Battery technology dominated the fundraising in October thanks to the U.S. Department of Energy and four funding rounds that exceeded $200M. The DOE awarded sizeable grants to help 20 companies, including six startups, build out battery material ... » read more

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