HW Security: Pager, Walkie-talkie And Other Battery-Power System Attacks (U. of Florida)
By Technical Paper Link - 31 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "When Everyday Devices Become Weapons: A Closer Look at the Pager and Walkie-talkie Attacks" was published by researchers at University of Florida. Abstract "Battery-powered technologies like pagers and walkie-talkies have long been integral to civilian and military operations. However, the potential for such everyday devices to be weaponized has largely been un... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 31 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

Chinese startup DeepSeek rattled the tech world and U.S. stock market with claims it spent just $5.6 million on compute power for its AI model compared to its billion-dollar rivals in the U.S. The announcement raised questions about U.S. investment strategies in AI infrastructure and led to an initial $600 billion selloff of NVIDIA stock. Since its launch, DeepSeek reportedly was hit by malicio... » read more

What’s Missing From Predictions
By Brian Bailey - 30 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 1

At this point everyone has made their predictions for the year, but there is one thing many people get wrong. Predictions are not about innovation. They are about pain and what is causing it. This industry is risk-averse, and everyone wants to continue doing what they are doing. But there comes a point when it's so painful to continue that something has to change. Having something that is... » read more

Complete Transistor Level Electrical Checks With Formal Analysis
By Almitra Pradhan - 30 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

Nothing is worse for a design team than a chip that fails to work in the bringup lab. Electrical problems are historically a major cause of such failures. Power leaks, power-ground DC paths, missing level shifters, and design flaws such as high fanout lead to unexpected power consumption, incorrect functionality, and even total meltdown. Designers learned years ago that pre-silicon electrical c... » read more

From DIY To Advanced NoC Solutions: The Future Of MCU Design
By Andy Nightingale - 30 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

The evolution of microcontrollers (MCUs) has significantly transformed embedded systems, shifting from simple, standalone processors to complex, multifunctional units that rival traditional systems-on-chip (SoCs). These advancements are fueled by the demand for increased computational efficiency, cutting-edge features like AI and machine learning (ML) integration, and the need to address growin... » read more

Chip Architectures Becoming Much More Complex With Chiplets
By Ed Sperling and Ann Mutschler - 30 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

The migration from monolithic SoCs to chiplet-based designs is creating a confusing array of options and tradeoffs for design teams working at the leading edge, and the number of choices is only going to increase as third-party chiplets begin pouring into the market. That hasn't dampened the appetite for chiplets, however, which are deemed essential for future generations of semiconductors f... » read more

Gold In The Machine: Scaling Infrastructure For The Age Of AI
By Jenn Mullen - 30 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

During the gold rush, hopeful prospectors flooded the west to make their fortunes in gold. Today, technology pioneers are looking to stake their claim in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI). Price Waterhouse Cooper (PWC) estimates that 45% of total global economic gains by 2030 will be driven by AI as more sectors embrace the productivity and product enhancement benefits of AI. PWC’s ... » read more

AI Infrastructure At A Crossroads
By Ramin Farjadrad - 30 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

By Ramin Farjadrad and Syrus Ziai There is a big push to achieve greater scale, performance and sustainability to fuel the AI revolution. More speed, more memory bandwidth, less power — these are the holy grails. Naturally, the one-two punch of StarGate and DeepSeek last week has raised many questions in our ecosystem and with our various stakeholders. Can DeepSeek be real? And if so, w... » read more

Chiplets Still A Challenge With UCIe 2.0
By Brian Bailey - 30 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

Plug-and-play chiplets are a popular goal, but does UCIe 2.0 move us any closer to that becoming a reality? The problem is that the current drivers of the standard are not after interoperability in the way that plug-and-play requires. Released in August 2024, UCIe 2.0 touts higher bandwidth density and improved power efficiency, as well as new features supporting 3D packaging, a manageable s... » read more

Design Customization Puts Heavy Burden On Verification
By Ann Mutschler - 30 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

Experts At The Table: The pressure on verification engineers to ensure a device will function correctly has increased exponentially as chips become more complex and heterogeneous. Semiconductor Engineering sat down with a panel of experts, including Josh Rensch, director of application engineering at Arteris; Matt Graham, senior group director for verification software product management at Cad... » read more

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