Advancing the Future of Hearing Aids


Hearing, one of the fundamental senses, profoundly affects our ability to communicate, engage with our environment, and maintain connections with others. Despite the long-standing presence of hearing aids in the market, accessibility to essential hearing aids has historically lagged, leaving many individuals isolated due to untreated hearing. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), ov... » read more

Technology of the Connected Home and Building Delivers On Safety, Comfort and Convenience


Devices for the home and office are increasingly differentiated by their intelligence and connectivity. Products that can sense their environment, detect users and other people, understand behavior, and respond in a way that humans find intuitive, provide higher value in the form of greater comfort, convenience and safety. This new generation of equipment for the smart home and building is made... » read more

Blog Review: June 5


Cadence's Neelabh Singh provides an overview of the low power entry and exit flows in USB4 Version 2.0 link speed and how they have been simplified by making low power entry uni-directional and removing the need for certain handshakes for low power exit of the re-timers. In a podcast, Siemens' Steph Chavez chats with Daniel Beeker of NXP about the foundational importance of power distributio... » read more

Opportunities Grow For GPU Acceleration


Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the impact of GPU acceleration on mask design and production and other process technologies, with Aki Fujimura, CEO of D2S; Youping Zhang, head of ASML Brion; Yalin Xiong, senior vice president and general manager of the BBP and reticle products division at KLA; and Kostas Adam, vice president of engineering at Synopsys. W... » read more

The Crisis of Convergence: OT/ICS Cybersecurity 2023


In 2023, many forces came into play that led to unprecedented cybersecurity challenges in the OT/ICS domain. Not only did the issues of IT-OT convergence and Ransomware-as-a-Service persist, but geopolitical tensions precipitated increased state-sponsored and civilian hacker activities as well. In this report, TXOne Networks worked with Frost & Sullivan to survey 405 key IT and OT security ... » read more

Why IC Design Safety Nets Have Limits


Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss different responsibilities in design teams and future changes in tools with Ashish Darbari, CEO at Axiomise; Ziyad Hanna, corporate vice president R&D at Cadence; Jim Henson, ASIC verification software product manager at Siemens EDA; Dirk Seynhaeve, vice president of business development at Sigasi; Simon Davidmann, formerly... » read more

Research Bits: June 4


Ultra-pure silicon Researchers from the University of Manchester and University of Melbourne developed a technique to engineer ultra-pure silicon that could be used in the construction of high-performance qubit devices that extend quantum coherence times. The highly purified silicon chips house and protect the qubits so they can sustain quantum coherence much longer, enabling complex calcul... » read more

MCU Changes At The Edge


Microcontrollers are becoming a key platform for processing machine learning at the edge due to two significant changes. First, they now can include multiple cores, including some for high performance and others for low power, as well as other specialized processing elements such as neural network accelerators. Second, machine learning algorithms have been pruned to the point where inferencing ... » read more

Ensuring Your Power And Ground Nets Are Correctly Connected


In most chip designs, the power and ground nets are likely your largest and most important nets. If any devices are not properly connected, then you cannot expect them to function as expected. Amongst the many problems that can occur to power and ground involves the connections to the well areas of your design that power all the bulk connections to your devices. Well regions connectivity is oft... » read more

Chip Design Digs Deeper Into AI


Growing demand for blazing fast and extremely dense multi-chiplet systems are pushing chip design deeper into AI, which increasingly is viewed as the best solution for sifting through scores of possible configurations, constraints, and variables in the least amount of time. This shift has broad implications for the future of chip design. In the past, collaborations typically involved the chi... » read more

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