Wearable Connectivity, AI Enable New Use Cases


The sensing and processing technology used in smart phones, watches, and rings is starting to be being deployed in a wide variety of wearable devices, ranging from those that fill the gap between sports and med tech, to haptic devices to assist the visually impaired and AR/VR glasses. Emerging applications include payment, building, and factory wearables. Most of these devices process signal... » read more

Automakers Grapple With Fundamental Tech Changes


Automotive OEMs are wrestling with a stack of changes that affect every part of their business and technology, from threats of tariffs and shifting geopolitical alliances, to new vehicle architectures, tighter market windows, and a fundamental reordering of relationships and priorities between OEMs and their suppliers. There is no consistency to these developments or a best path to solving t... » read more

Understanding And Navigating The Complexities of Health Monitoring For Power Supplies


This white paper introduces an innovative solution, which is designed to transform traditional reliability prediction procedures into the industry’s first commercially available embedded power supply health monitoring solution. This approach uses cutting-edge embedded data analytics on real-time telemetry data and a power system reliability model to dynamically recalculate the failure rate of... » read more

Scenario Coverage In Formal Verification


A rapid increase in complexity with heterogeneous assemblies and advanced-node chips is raising all sorts of questions on the formal verification side about the completeness of coverage. Engineers may assume proofs are complete, but in many cases they're black boxes that provide little or no insights into what's actually being proven. This is where scenario coverage comes into play. Ashish Darb... » read more

Verification Experts Vs. Generalists


Experts At The Table: As chips and systems become more complicated, more verification tasks get abstracted. So do we need more specialists who are experts in specific tasks, or do we need more generalists who know how to use the tools but don't necessarily have the depth of understanding? Or do we need some way to balance both? Semiconductor Engineering sat down with a panel of experts, includi... » read more

Effects Of Reduced Refresh Latency On RowHammer Vulnerability Of DDR4 DRAM Chips


A new technical paper titled "Understanding RowHammer Under Reduced Refresh Latency: Experimental Analysis of Real DRAM Chips and Implications on Future Solutions" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, and University of Sharjah. Abstract "RowHammer is a major read disturbance mechanism in DRAM where repeatedly accessing (hammering) a row of... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 4


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=410 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Research Bits: Mar. 4


Fiber computer Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Rhode Island School of Design, and Brown University developed a programmable elastic fiber computer that could be woven into clothing to monitor health conditions and physical activity. Clothing created using the fiber computer was reported as comfortable and machine washable. The single elastic fiber computer cont... » read more

Wafer-Level Test Infrastructure for Higher Parallel Wafer Level Testing of SoC


A new technical paper titled "Design and Implementation of Test Infrastructure for Higher Parallel Wafer Level Testing of System-on-Chip" was published by researchers at Inha University and Teradyne. Abstract "Semiconductor companies have been striving to reduce their manufacturing costs. High parallelism is a key factor in reducing costs during wafer-level testing. Wafer testing is conduct... » read more

Synthesis Of An Ultrathin Vanadium Dioxide Film On A Flexible Substrate, Preserving Film’s Electrical Properties


A new technical paper titled "Strain-free thin film growth of vanadium dioxide deposited on 2D atomic layered material of hexagonal boron nitride investigated by their thickness dependence of insulator–metal transition behavior" was published by researchers at Osaka University and National Institute for Materials Science. Abstract "We report on the preparation of vanadium dioxide (VO2) ul... » read more

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