Security Threats To Multitenant FPGAs: A Remote Undervolting Attack That Activates A Trojan Concealed Within A Victim Design 


A technical paper titled “X-Attack 2.0: The Risk of Power Wasters and Satisfiability Don’t-Care Hardware Trojans to Shared Cloud FPGAs” was published by researchers at EPFL, Cyber-Defence Campus (Switzerland), and Northwestern Polytechnical University (China). Abstract: "Cloud computing environments increasingly provision field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for their programmability ... » read more

Which Data Works Best For Voltage Droop Simulation


Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to talk about the need for the right type of data, why this has to be done early in the design flow, and how 3D-IC will affect all of this, with Bill Mullen, distinguished engineer at Ansys; Rajat Chaudhry, product management group director at Cadence; Heidi Barnes, senior applications engineer at Keysight; Venkatesh Santhanagopalan, prod... » read more

Chiplet Heterogeneity And Advanced Scheduling With Pipelining


A technical paper titled “Inter-Layer Scheduling Space Exploration for Multi-model Inference on Heterogeneous Chiplets” was published by researchers at University of California Irvine. Abstract: "To address increasing compute demand from recent multi-model workloads with heavy models like large language models, we propose to deploy heterogeneous chiplet-based multi-chip module (MCM)-based... » read more

An Overview Of Federal Government Semiconductors And Microelectronics Standards Activities (NIST)


A technical paper titled “Semiconductors and Microelectronics Standards, Report of the Semiconductors and Microelectronics Working Group” was published by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Abstract: "This report of the Semiconductors and Microelectronics Working Group of the Interagency Committee on Standards Policy (ICSP) provides an overview of Fe... » read more

Radar-Based SLAM Algorithm (Ulm University)


A technical paper titled “Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Processing in the Field of Autonomous Driving” was published by researchers at Ulm University. Abstract: "Autonomous driving technology has made remarkable progress in recent years, revolutionizing transportation systems and paving the way for safer and more efficient journeys. One of... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


By Jesse Allen, Karen Heyman, and Liz Allan Renesas will acquire Transphorm, which designs and manufactures gallium nitride power devices, for about $339 million. GaN, which is a wide-bandgap technology, is used for high-voltage applications in a slew of markets, including EVs and EV fast chargers, as well as data centers and industrial applications. Cadence acquired Invecas, a provider o... » read more

Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions In Crossbar Array Analog In-Memory Compute Accelerators


A technical paper titled “Ferroelectric Tunnel Junction Memristors for In-Memory Computing Accelerators” was published by researchers at Lund University. Abstract: "Neuromorphic computing has seen great interest as leaps in artificial intelligence (AI) applications have exposed limitations due to heavy memory access, with the von Neumann computing architecture. The parallel in-memory comp... » read more

A Potentially CMOS Compatible Integration Of Reconfigurable FETs Based On Al-Si-Al Heterostructure Sheets


A technical paper titled “Reconfigurable Si Field-Effect Transistors With Symmetric On-States Enabling Adaptive Complementary and Combinational Logic” was published by researchers at TU Vienna and Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. Abstract: "Reconfigurable field-effect transistors (RFETs), combining n-and p-type operation in a single device, have already sho... » read more

The 40-Million-Core Sunway Supercomputer: 5 ExaFlop/s HPL-MxP Benchmark With Linear Scalability


A technical paper titled “5 ExaFlop/s HPL-MxP Benchmark with Linear Scalability on the 40-Million-Core Sunway Supercomputer” was published by researchers at the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology and Tsinghua University. Abstract: "HPL-MxP is an emerging high performance benchmark used to measure the mixed-precision computing capability of leading sup... » read more

Summary Of The Progress In Beta-Phase Gallium Oxide Field-Effect Transistors


A technical paper titled “Progress in Gallium Oxide Field-Effect Transistors for High-Power and RF Applications” was published by researchers at George Mason University and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Abstract: "Power electronics are becoming increasingly more important, as electrical energy constitutes 40% of the total primary energy usage in the USA and is exp... » read more

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