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Security From The Ground Up
By Thomas Ensergueix - 17 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

Silicon and system design are complex and costly enough in the ultra-deep sub-micron era. Now factor in security. Virtually every end application requires some level of security, and, as the cybersecurity threat rises, the importance and value of trust and assurance rises as well. This is even more evident in “high-security” use cases such as smart cards used to enter buildings, SIM card... » read more

Power Management And Integration Of IPs In SoCs: Part 1
By Progyna Khondkar - 09 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

IPs – whether in the form of soft or hard macros – are the epicenter of today’s SoC designs. Integration of IP with low power designs and conducting power aware (PA) verification are always complex and cumbersome. Because most of these IPs are self-contained, pre-verified at the block level, and must be preserved in their totality when integrated or verified at the SoC level. Until UPF... » read more

What’s Holding Back Aging Simulation?
By Andre Lange - 09 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

Aging simulation supplies information about the long-term behavior before an IC enters into production, providing an important early evaluation of the reliability required by the application and specification. Re-designs due to reliability issues, and over-design with excessive safety margins, are avoided in this way. In addition, the long-term stability can be demonstrated to the customer. ... » read more

2.5D Architecture Answers AI Training’s Call for “All of the Above”
By Frank Ferro - 09 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

The impact of AI/ML grows daily impacting every industry and touching the lives of everyone. In marketing, healthcare, retail, transportation, manufacturing and more, AI/ML is a catalyst for great change. This rapid advance is powerfully illustrated by the growth in AI/ML training capabilities which have since 2012 grown by a factor of 10X every year. Today, AI/ML neural network training mod... » read more

IoT Debugging Crosses The Hardware-Software Divide
By Paul Hill - 09 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

By Paul Hill and Gordon MacNee Debugging is an important part of embedded design; one that necessarily crosses the hardware/software divide. At a system level, the functionality of an embedded design is increasingly defined by firmware, so avoiding bugs requires engineers with specific disciplines to work closely together during the design phase of a project. It can also mean resisting the u... » read more

Data Center Hyperscaling
By Stephen Crosher - 09 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

As we move in to 2020 it’s clear that every sector of industry, including the semiconductor industry, will have a responsibility to address growing environmental concerns. We should be aware that as our sector underpins the growth in AI, 5G telecommunications, crypto-currency and high performance compute applications, it is predicted that by 2030 energy consumption attributable to data center... » read more

Accelerated Life Testing For Failure Prediction
By Chris South - 09 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

By Theresa Duncan and Chris South Product reliability is essential for success, especially for electronic products like printed circuit boards (PCB). Accelerated life testing (ALT) is an expedient and cost-effective solution to determine the reliability and robustness of an electronic product or component. ALT uncovers potential failure risks and quantifies the life characteristics of a p... » read more

Easier Bond Finger Solder Mask Openings
By Tyler Lockman - 09 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

If you design wire bond packages, you’re familiar with the need for the bond fingers and rings on the package substrate layers to be exposed through the solder mask layer. If they aren’t, it becomes… rather difficult… to bond the wire to them, after all! We talked about general-purpose bounding shapes a few weeks ago in “A Boundless Bounty of Bounding Shapes”. Bond fingers have a... » read more

Simulation: Balancing Speed And Debug
By Rohit Narkar - 09 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 2

There’s an old saying about simulation: “It’s all about the need for speed.” Simulation is the core technology for functional verification of semiconductors, and the demand for higher runtime performance never ebbs. Larger chips require more complex testbenches and much larger test suites since verification grows exponentially with increase in design size. With the diminishing return an... » read more

A New Era In Flexible, Affordable Design
By Phil Burr - 09 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

Socionext has always prided itself on flexibility. The company was formed in 2015 as part of the merger of the LSI businesses of Fujitsu and Panasonic. So not only did the company successfully merge engineering teams, it’s grown and expanded its offerings of advanced systems-on-chips (SoCs) over the years. As such, Socionext’s philosophy is rooted in doing more than just listening carefu... » read more

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