Ramsay Allen

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Ramsay Allen is a senior product marketing manager in the Synopsys EDA Group. Before joining Synopsys he was the marketing manager at Moortec Semiconductor Ltd, which developed embedded in-chip monitoring solutions. Moortec was acquired by Synopsys in November 2020 and integrated into Synopsys' SLM platform. He holds a BSc degree from the University of Plymouth.

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Thermal Issues And Modern SoCs: How Hot Is Hot?

By Ramsay Allen - 16 Mar, 2018 - Comments: 0

A Q&A with Moortec CTO Oliver King. What are the thermal issues of modern SoCs? Gate density has been increasing with each node and that pushes up power per unit area, and I think that has become an even bigger issue with FinFET processes where the channels are more thermally isolated than the planar processes before them. In the last few planar nodes, leakage was an issue which led ... » read more

Understanding Your Chip’s Age

By Ramsay Allen - 08 Feb, 2018 - Comments: 1

A Q&A with Moortec CTO Oliver King. Why is understanding your chip's age important? Semiconductor devices age over time, we all know that, but what is often not well understood are the mechanisms for aging or the limits that will cause a chip to fail. In addition, there is bound to be a requirement for a minimum lifetime of a device which will depend on application but could be two or... » read more

Why Pinpoint Accuracy Is Important When Monitoring Conditions On Chip

By Ramsay Allen - 11 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 0

A Q&A with Moortec CTO Oliver King. Why is there an increasing requirement for monitoring on chip? Since the beginning of the semiconductor industry, we have relied on a doubling of transistor count per unit area every 18 months as a way to increase performance and functionality of devices. Since 28nm, this has broken. As such, designers now need to find new ways to continue increasing... » read more

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