Stephen Crosher

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Stephen Crosher is director of SLM Hardware Strategy at Synopsys. He was formerly CEO of Moortec.

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A View Across The Siliconscape
By Stephen Crosher - 09 Feb, 2021 - Comments: 0

What would it look like if you had the magical ability to look inside a chip and cast your eyes across the tumultuous activities within the silicon itself? If you could gaze into the die and see the real-time peaks and troughs of voltage supply, stressed areas with high activity and heat and areas of calm where uneven workloads create idle processor cores. A vision of the chip landscape, seasca... » read more

Completing The Silicon Lifecycle Management Puzzle
By Stephen Crosher - 08 Dec, 2020 - Comments: 0

The year 2020 will be remembered for many reasons. The global pandemic, the political struggles and the extreme weather will occupy our thoughts for many years. There was another event that occurred in 2020 that will also be remembered in a smaller, but very important portion of the world. It’s the year that Synopsys acquired Moortec to complete the silicon lifecycle management (SLM) puzzle. ... » read more

Data Center Hyperscaling
By Stephen Crosher - 09 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

As we move in to 2020 it’s clear that every sector of industry, including the semiconductor industry, will have a responsibility to address growing environmental concerns. We should be aware that as our sector underpins the growth in AI, 5G telecommunications, crypto-currency and high performance compute applications, it is predicted that by 2030 energy consumption attributable to data center... » read more

Avoiding Gloom With Better Knowledge
By Stephen Crosher - 12 Mar, 2020 - Comments: 0

The rate of product development is facing very real challenges as the pace of silicon technology evolution begins to slow. Today, we are squeezing the most out of transistor physics, which is essentially derived from 60-year-old CMOS technology. To maintain the pace of Moore’s law, it is predicted that in 2030 we will need transistors to be a sixth of their current size. Reducing transistor s... » read more

The Future Of Embedded Monitoring, Part 1
By Stephen Crosher - 13 Feb, 2020 - Comments: 0

Shall I compare thee to a…Rolls Royce jet engine? ‘There is a new era dawning whereby deeply embedded sensing within all technology will bring about great benefit for the reliability and performance of semiconductor-based products.’ These were my words during a presentation to an industry audience in China back in September 2015. During that same presentation, somewhat to the consterna... » read more

Finding Hotspots In AI Chips
By Stephen Crosher - 14 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

Things are getting far more complicated as we move down to 7nm & 5nm but the tolerances of some of the physical effects that we have been measuring in the past are much tighter than they were at the older nodes. How do we track all that? What we see is that as we descend through the advanced nodes, say from 16nm down to 12nm, 7nm and more recently 5nm, we see that gate density starts to ... » read more

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