Connection Perfection

By Ramsay Allen - 07 Nov, 2023 - Comments: 0

Whether you are a DFT engineer or a SoC designer, connectivity validation will no doubt be a top priority when taking steps to guarantee the functionality and reliability of your device. SoC designs continue to grow in both size and complexity to meet the ever-growing performance and power demands associated with modern technology. To keep up with this fast-paced evolution, the corresponding D... » read more

Ensuring A Connected World With FiRA-Certified Solutions

By Alejandro Escobar Calderon - 07 Nov, 2023 - Comments: 0

In our rapidly evolving technological landscape, wireless standards play a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless operation of various wireless devices and networks. As the demand for reliable and high-performance wireless technologies continues to grow, the role of test vendors in certifying compliance with these standards becomes increasingly important. Wireless standards serve as the found... » read more

The Power Of AI To Drive Productivity Gains

By Regan Mills - 07 Nov, 2023 - Comments: 0

Tuberculosis (TB) has been around for at least 9000 years, and people have been trying to find a cure or treatment for hundreds of years, but it remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world, killing more than 1.5 million people per year. Despite all of the motivation and effort, there has been only partial progress in fully eradicating the disease but a company in South Korea, ... » read more

Tiny Dots, Big Impact: The Luminous World of Quantum Dots

By Xia Stammer - 07 Nov, 2023 - Comments: 0

In the early ’80s, Alexey Ekimov and Louis E. Brus independently researched semiconductor clusters, leading to the discovery of quantum dots (QDs). QDs are nanoscale semiconductor particles with unique optical and electronic properties. In 1993, Moungi Bawendi improved quantum dot production, making them nearly perfect for various applications. By the late ’90s and early 2000s, quantum d... » read more

Automated Constraint Management For Faster Designer Productivity

By Synopsys - 07 Nov, 2023 - Comments: 0

Constraints management helps shorten the designer’s manual constraints transformation effort across the design cycle with automated constraints management flows. The management of constraints refers to tasks that are not associated with verifying the correctness of constraints, nor associated with the generation of constraints, but with the transformation of constraints from one form to anoth... » read more

X-ray And Acoustic Inspection

By Nordson Test And Inspection - 07 Nov, 2023 - Comments: 0

X-ray and acoustic imaging are two very complimentary tools for non destructively inspecting the quality of electronics components. Both techniques give information on different aspects of component integrity. Click here to read more of this application note from Nordson's Test and Inspection division. » read more

Coding And Debugging RISC-V

By Ann Mutschler - 06 Nov, 2023 - Comments: 0

As monolithic device scaling continues to wind down and evolve toward increasingly heterogeneous designs, it has created an inflection point for chip architects to create customized cores that are much more energy efficient and faster than off-the-shelf processors. Zdeněk Přikryl, CTO of Codasip, talks about where RISC-V fits into this picture, using a modular ISA and custom instruction layer... » read more

Understanding Memory Protection Units

By Ashwin Kumar - 06 Nov, 2023 - Comments: 0

Let’s talk about the various security measures we take to protect our homes. We use locks, install security cameras to detect any suspicious activities, etc., all to safeguard our loved ones and valuable possessions. In similar sense, the tiny microcontrollers inside our devices have protection units (PU) that safeguard the precious resource: memory. One of the most important types of prote... » read more

Research Bits: November 6

By Jesse Allen - 06 Nov, 2023 - Comments: 0

Fast superatomic semiconductor Researchers from Columbia University created a fast and efficient superatomic semiconductor material based on rhenium called Re6Se8Cl2. Rather than scattering when they come into contact with phonons, excitons in Re6Se8Cl2 bind with phonons to create new quasiparticles called acoustic exciton-polarons. Although polarons are found in many materials, those in Re6Se... » read more