Blog Review: Aug. 21

Cadence’s Reela Samuel explores the critical role of PCIe 6.0 equalization in maintaining signal integrity and solutions to mitigate verification challenges, such as creating checkers to verify all symbols of TS0, ensuring the correct functioning of scrambling, and monitoring phase and LTSSM state transitions.

Siemens’ John McMillan introduces an advanced packaging flow for Intel’s Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) technology, including technical challenges, design methodologies, and the integration of EMIBs in system-level package designs.

Synopsys’ Dustin Todd checks out what’s next for the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, including the establishment of the National Semiconductor Technology Center and the allocation of $13 billion for research and development efforts.

Keysight’s Roberto Piacentini Filho explores the challenges of managing the large design files and massive volumes of data involved in a modern chip design project, which can take up as much as a terabyte of disk space and involve hundreds of thousands of files.

Arm’s Sandeep Mistry shows how ML models developed for mobile computer vision applications and requiring tens to hundreds of millions of multiply-accumulate (MACs) operations per inference can be deployed to a modern microcontroller.

Ansys’ Aliyah Mallak explores an effort to manufacture biotech products in microgravity and how simulation helps ensure payloads containing delicate, temperature-sensitive spore samples and bioreactors make it safely to the International Space Station or low Earth orbit safely.

Micron Technology’s Amit Srivastava, ULVAC’s Brian Coppa, and SEMI’s Mark da Silva suggest tackling corporate sustainability goals with a bottom-up approach that leverages various sensing technologies, at the cleanroom, sub-fab, and facilities levels for both greenfield and brownfield device-making facilities, to enable predictive analytics.

And don’t miss the blogs featured in the latest Manufacturing, Packaging & Materials newsletter:

Amkor’s JeongMin Ju shows how to prevent critical failures in copper RDLs caused by overcurrent-induced fusing.

Synopsys’ Al Blais discusses curvilinear checking and fracture requirements for the MULTIGON era.

Lam Research’s Dempsey Deng compares the parasitic capacitance of a 6F² honeycomb DRAM device to a 4F² VCAT DRAM structure.

Brewer Science’s Jessica Albright covers debonding methods, thermal, topography, adhesion, and thickness variation.

SEMI’s John Cooney reviews a fireside chat between the President of SEMI Americas and the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment on securing supply chains.