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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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Blog Review: June 23
By Jesse Allen - 23 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 0

Synopsys' Manuel Mota shows how splitting SoCs into smaller dies for advanced packaging and using die-to-die interfaces to enable high bandwidth, low latency, and low power connectivity can benefit hyperscale data centers. Siemens EDA's Chris Spear explains the relationship between classes and objects in SystemVerilog with a handy visualization and notes the difference between SystemVerilog ... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: June 22
By Jesse Allen - 22 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 0

Terahertz silicon multiplexer Researchers from Osaka University and University of Adelaide designed a silicon multiplexer for terahertz-range communications in the 300-GHz band. “In order to control the great spectral bandwidth of terahertz waves, a multiplexer, which is used to split and join signals, is critical for dividing the information into manageable chunks that can be more easily... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 18 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 0

Rambus is making a push for Compute Express Link (CXL) with two acquisitions and the launch of its CXL Memory Interconnect Initiative. The initiative aims to define and develop semiconductor solutions for advanced data center architectures, with initial research and development focusing on solutions to support key memory expansion and pooling use cases. CXL is an open interconnect specificat... » read more

Blog Review: June 16
By Jesse Allen - 16 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 0

Arm's Adrian Herrera explores the latest version of AMBA ATP Engine, an open-source implementation of the AMBA Adaptive Traffic Profiles (ATP) synthetic traffic framework specification, which adds the ability to program AMBA ATP traffic generation from Linux environments. Cadence's Paul McLellan finds out just how effective glitching chips is by delivering incorrect voltages and clock freque... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: June 15
By Jesse Allen - 15 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 0

Low-loss photonic IC Researchers at EPFL built a photonic integrated circuit with ultra-low loss. The team focused on silicon nitride (Si3N4), which has orders of magnitude lower optical loss compared to silicon. It is used in low-loss applications such as narrow-linewidth lasers, photonic delay lines, and nonlinear photonics. In applying the material to photonic ICs, they took advantage... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 11 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 0

Siemens Digital Industries Software acquired Pro Design's proFPGA product family of FPGA desktop prototyping technologies. Through a prior OEM relationship, proFPGA technology is already part of the Xcelerator portfolio; Siemens noted that the acquisition will allow for fuller integration with its Veloce hardware-assisted verification system. Pro Design will continue to operate as an independen... » read more

Blog Review: Jun 9
By Jesse Allen - 09 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 0

Arm's Partha Maji introduces a collaboration with the University of Cambridge to advance Bayesian statistics and probabilistic machine learning, which could play a vital role in safety-critical AI applications. Siemens' Thomas Dewey looks at a way to improve autonomous driving capabilities by enabling vehicles to train on past hazardous situations to provide and early warning for when they m... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: June 7
By Jesse Allen - 07 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 0

Commercializing photonic MEMS Researchers from the University of California Berkeley, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology, SUSS MicroOptics, TSI Semiconductors, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, KAIST, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and Korea Polytechnic University demonstrated a path for commercial fabrication of photonic MEMS. Photonic MEMS... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 04 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 0

Siemens Digital Industries Software acquired Nextflow Software, a provider of advanced particle-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solutions. Nextflow Software will become part of the Simcenter software portfolio, providing rapid meshless CFD capabilities to accelerate the analysis of complex transient applications in the automotive, aerospace, and marine industries such as gear box lubri... » read more

Startup Funding: May 2021
By Jesse Allen - 02 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 0

Big investment poured into AI hardware companies this month, with a focus on edge applications. Companies are experimenting with different architectures, including analog-focused devices and those that are capable of withstanding the harsh conditions of space. IP and EDA startups in China also drew funding as the country tries to create a full chip design ecosystem. Plus, PCB assembly, photonic... » read more

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