Security Tradeoffs: A Difficult Balance


Experts At The Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss hardware security challenges, including new threat models from AI-based attacks, with Nicole Fern, principal security analyst at Keysight; Serge Leef, AI-For-Silicon strategist at Microsoft; Scott Best, senior director for silicon security products at Rambus; Lee Harrison, director of Tessent Automotive IC Solutions at Sieme... » read more

GaN-on-Si Technology Powers The Future Of Wireless


Mobile data traffic continues to grow. Constant video streaming is on the rise in applications like TikTok, Netflix, and Instagram, while emerging AI-enhanced mobile apps are set to further boost data consumption by offering highly personalized experiences and advanced features like augmented reality and voice processing in real-time. Ericsson estimates that mobile data traffic, excluding fixed... » read more

Solving The Mixed Criticality Challenge In Automotive Controllers


Car users want immersive and interactive in-vehicle experiences, especially as autonomous driving technology takes over more of our driving responsibilities. To satisfy this demand, automotive manufacturers are deploying multiple display environments in their cars, from cockpits to heads-up displays and from central infotainment screens to rear-seat entertainment. All of these displays are powe... » read more

Cache-Coherent Symmetric Multiprocessing With LX8 Controllers On HiFi DSPs


Overview This document motivates the need for a cache-coherent multicore, symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) with applications to embedded control and audio processing. It describes the current state of the art in the employment of multiple embedded processors and audio DSPs in an SoC, with a discussion of related problems that current designs face. This is followed by an introdu... » read more

Enhancing Dexterous Humanoid Robot Hands With Superior Touch ICs


New Paths to Human-Level Dexterity Humanoid robots and other general-purpose robotic platforms have made astonishing progress in locomotion and perception. Some can now run, jump, and even perform flips, while advanced computer vision enables object recognition at scale. Yet true human-level dexterity requires more than just bipedal agility or high-resolution cameras: it demands a refined s... » read more

PUFs In A Post-Quantum World


With the looming threat of quantum computing on the horizon, the security landscape is changing. Explore the emerging threat and its implications for current cryptographic standards. This white paper provides an in-depth analysis of quantum computing's impact on security and explains how PUF technology can help you maintain robust security in the quantum era. Why Read This? Quantum Comp... » read more

10Base-T1S Ethernet And The Use Of MACsec For Link Security


10Base-T1S (henceforth in this blog referred to as T1S) is a relatively new standard for a 10Mbit/s single-pair Ethernet over an unshielded, single-twisted pair that was introduced with the IEEE 802.3cg-2019 specification. It brings Ethernet technology into the low-cost, edge applications space, enabling connection of “edge nodes” (remote sensors, actuators, light controls, etc.) to a “he... » read more

Shrinking LLMs With Self-Compression


Language models are becoming ever larger, making on-device inference slow and energy-intensive. A direct and surprisingly effective remedy is to prune complete channels whose contribution to the task is negligible. Our earlier work introduced a training-time procedure – Self-Compression [1, 4] – that lets back-propagation decide the bit-width of every channel, so unhelpful ones fade away. T... » read more

AI Pushes High-End Mobile From SoCs To Multi-Die


Advanced packaging is becoming a key differentiator for the high end of the mobile phone market, enabling higher performance, more flexibility, and faster time to market than systems on chip. Monolithic SoCs likely will remain the technology of choice for low-end and midrange mobile devices because of their form factor, proven record, and lower cost. But multi-die assemblies provide more fle... » read more

Driving The Future: How Rust And Virtual ECUs Are Transforming AUTOSAR Classic Automotive Software


By Nicolas Amringer and Stefan Pruisken The landscape of automotive software is undergoing significant transformation, driven by growing system complexity, stringent safety standards, and the need for streamlined development cycles. Virtual ECUs (vECUs) have become indispensable for accelerating both development and validation processes. In this context, the adoption of Rust within AUTOSAR C... » read more

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