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

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Blog Review: Jan. 23
By Jesse Allen - 23 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Synopsys' Taylor Armerding investigates what's happened with the Stuxnet malware since 2010, when it destroyed hundreds of centrifuges at an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility. Cadence's Paul McLellan provides an update on the current state of EUV and what's needed to make high-volume manufacturing possible. In a video, Mentor's Colin Walls explains software's role in embedded system pow... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Jan. 22
By Jesse Allen - 22 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Efficient neural net training Researchers from the University of California San Diego and Adesto Technologies teamed up to improve neural network training efficiency with new hardware and algorithms that allow computation to be performed in memory. The team used an energy-efficient spiking neural network for implementing unsupervised learning in hardware. Spiking neural networks more closel... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 18 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

M&A Rambus acquired the assets of Diablo Technologies. Founded in 2003, Diablo Technologies specialized in NVDIMM technologies, but was hit with a patent lawsuit by Netlist in 2013. While Diablo won the lawsuit and several subsequent appeals, it declared bankruptcy in December 2017. Rambus says the technology will provide a foundation for integrating existing DRAM and Flash along with emer... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 16
By Jesse Allen - 16 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Mentor's Harry Foster takes a look at how quickly FPGAs are adopting recent verification techniques, with formal gaining at a rapid pace. Cadence's Paul McLellan checks out the details of two new RISC-V based cores: Western Digital's open source SweRV and Esperanto's Maxion. Synopsys' Taylor Armerding digs into a recent cybersecurity report from the U.S. government and finds a troubling n... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Jan. 14
By Jesse Allen - 14 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Optical memory Researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Exeter, and University of Münster propose an all-optical memory cell that can store more optical data, 5 bits, in a smaller space than was previously possible on-chip. The optical memory cell uses light to encode information in the phase change material Ge2Sb2Te5. A laser causes the material to change between ordered and... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 11 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

M&A QuickLogic acquired SensiML Corporation. Founded in 2017 as a spin-off from Intel, SensiML provides a Software-as-a-Service suite for developing pattern matching sensor algorithms optimized for ultra-low power consumption using machine learning. Details of the deal were not disclosed, though QuickLogic will fund it with shares of common stock. IP CEVA debuted an all-purpose, hybrid... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 9
By Jesse Allen - 09 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Paul McLellan considers the challenges facing copper interconnects as resistance gets harder to deal with and the pros and cons of potential replacement materials. Mentor's Harry Foster digs into how FPGA design and verification engineers spend their time, and why the time designers spend designing has increased. Synopsys' Taylor Armerding contends that the way we use passwords ... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Jan. 8
By Jesse Allen - 08 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Ferrimagnetic memory Engineers at the National University of Singapore, Toyota Technological Institute, and Korea University propose a new type of spintronic memory that is 20 times more efficient and 10 times more stable than commercial ones. In spintronic devices, data is stored depending on up or down magnetic states. Current devices based on ferromagnets, however, suffer from a few issu... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 04 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Arm debuted two new image signal processors, Mali-C52 and Mali-C32. Both are capable of processing for high dynamic range (HDR), noise reduction, and color management at 4k resolution at 60fps. They can process 600 megapixels/sec. The Mali-C52 can be configured either for image quality or area for a range of applications, while the C32 is optimized for area and lower-power, cost-sensitive appli... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 2
By Jesse Allen - 02 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Paul McLellan listens in as Uhnder CEO Manju Hegde explains the most critical issues impacting sensor development for autonomous vehicles and why new radar systems are needed to fill in the gaps. Synopsys' Fred Bals shares key points from the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's investigation into the massive Equifax data breach that show how relatively small secu... » read more

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