New End Markets, More Demand For Complex Chips

By Ed Sperling - 16 May, 2022 - Comments: 0

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss economic conditions and how that affects chip design with Anirudh Devgan, president and CEO of Cadence; Joseph Sawicki, executive vice president of Siemens EDA; Niels Faché, vice president and general manager at Keysight; Simon Segars, advisor at Arm; and Aki Fujimura, chairman and CEO of D2S. This discussion was held in front... » read more

Lots Of Data, But Uncertainty About What To Do With It

By Ed Sperling - 09 May, 2022 - Comments: 0

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to talk about silicon lifecycle management in heterogeneous designs, where sensors produce a flood of data, with Prashant Goteti, principal engineer at Intel; Rob Aitken, R&D fellow at Arm; Zoe Conroy, principal hardware engineer at Cisco; Subhasish Mitra, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University... » read more

Silicon Lifecycle Management’s Growing Impact On IC Reliability

By Ed Sperling - 12 Apr, 2022 - Comments: 0

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to talk about silicon lifecycle management, how it's expanding and changing, and where the problems are, with Prashant Goteti, principal engineer at Intel; Rob Aitken, R&D fellow at Arm; Zoe Conroy, principal hardware engineer at Cisco; Subhasish Mitra, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University; a... » read more

Unsolved Issues In Next-Gen Photomasks

By Mark LaPedus - 17 Feb, 2022 - Comments: 0

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss optical and EUV photomasks issues, as well as the challenges facing the mask business, with Naoya Hayashi, research fellow at DNP; Peter Buck, director of MPC & mask defect management at Siemens Digital Industries Software; Bryan Kasprowicz, senior director of technical strategy at Hoya; and Aki Fujimura, CEO of D2S. What f... » read more

Preparing For 3D-ICs

By Ed Sperling - 16 Feb, 2022 - Comments: 1

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the changes in design tools and methodologies needed for 3D-ICs, with Sooyong Kim, director and product specialist for 3D-IC at Ansys; Kenneth Larsen, product marketing director at Synopsys; Tony Mastroianni, advanced packaging solutions director at Siemens EDA; and Vinay Patwardhan, product management group director at Cadence... » read more

Photomask Challenges At 3nm And Beyond

By Mark LaPedus - 25 Jan, 2022 - Comments: 1

Setting Ground Rules For 3D-IC Designs

By Ed Sperling - 12 Jan, 2022 - Comments: 0

Challenges With Stacking Memory On Logic

By Ed Sperling - 22 Dec, 2021 - Comments: 1

Business, Technology Challenges Increase For Photomasks

By Mark LaPedus - 16 Dec, 2021 - Comments: 0

What’s Missing For Designing Chips At The System Level

By Ed Sperling - 01 Nov, 2021 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to talk about design challenges in advanced packages and nodes with John Lee, vice president and general manager for semiconductors at Ansys; Shankar Krishnamoorthy, general manager of Synopsys' Design Group; Simon Burke, distinguished engineer at Xilinx; and Andrew Kahng, professor of CSE and ECE at UC San Diego. This discussion was held at the Ansys IDEAS co... » read more

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