Challenges In Managing Chiplet Resources


Managing chiplet resources is emerging as a significant and multi-faceted challenge as chiplets expand beyond the proprietary designs of large chipmakers and interact with other elements in a package or system. Poor resource management in chiplets adds an entirely new dimension to the usual power, performance, and area tradeoffs. It can lead to performance bottlenecks, because as chiplets co... » read more

First-Time Silicon Success Plummets


First-time silicon success is falling sharply due to rising complexity, the need for more iterations as chipmakers shift from monolithic chips to multi-die assemblies, and an increasing amount of customization that makes design and verification more time-consuming. Details from a new functional verification survey[1] highlight the growing difficulty of developing advanced chips that are both... » read more

Achieving Lower Power, Better Performance, And Optimized Wire Length In Advanced SoC Designs


In system-on-chip (SoC) design, wire length refers to the total physical distance of interconnects within a network-on-chip (NoC). It is a critical parameter that influences performance, power consumption, and manufacturing costs. Today’s SoCs incorporate numerous IP blocks connected by multiple complex NoCs and require efficient management of wire lengths. Excessive wire length increases lat... » read more

A Novel Approach For HW/SW Co-Verification


The complexity of system on chips (SoCs) continues to grow rapidly. Accordingly, new standards and methodologies are introduced to overcome these verification challenges. The Portable Test and Stimulus Standard (PSS) from Accellera is one of the standard examples used to pursue such challenges. In this paper we will show a methodology to use PSS to orchestrate the process of HW/SW co-verificati... » read more

Digital Twins For Design And Verification Workflows


Experts At The Table: AI is starting to impact several parts of the EDA design and verification flows, but so far these improvements are isolated to a single tool or small flows provided by a single company. What is required is a digital twin of the development process itself, on which AI can operate. Semiconductor Engineering sat down with a panel of experts, including Johannes Stahl, senior d... » read more

Virtualizer Native Execution Accelerates Software Defined Product Development for Arm Solutions


This whitepaper highlights advancements in virtual prototyping with near native execution performance. The adoption of Arm processor architecture in automotive and data centers is driven by software complexity and ECU consolidation. This shift elevates virtualization performance requirements, supported by Arm's mature software ecosystem. Key Takeaways: Adoption of and convergence of bot... » read more

Dynamic Characterization Of A Power Semiconductor Bare Chip


Power semiconductor devices are used in a variety of forms, such as being packaged in Surface Mount Devices (SMDs) or power modules, and they find broad applications. Power semiconductor bare chips are loaded into these packages. It is desirable to characterize the bare chip before placing it in a package or a power module to expedite development. However, the small size, fragile structure, and... » read more

Accelerate And Derisk RISC-V- Based SoC Designs


How to accelerate and derisk RISC-V-based SoC designs using silicon-proven network-on-chip IP and SoC integration automation software. This technology seamlessly connects any IP from multiple vendors and shortens design cycles and time to revenue. Maximize overall efficiency for the best product design, leveraging the best NoC IP and expert support. Read more here. » read more

The Evolving Role Of AI In Verification


Experts At The Table: The pressure on verification engineers to ensure the functional correctness of devices has increased exponentially as chips have gotten more complex and evolved into SoC, 3D-ICs, multi-die chiplets and beyond. Semiconductor Engineering sat down with a panel of experts, which included Josh Rensch, director of application engineering at Arteris; Matt Graham, senior group dir... » read more

Blog Review: Mar. 26


Siemens' Bianca Ward argues that sustainability must be considered starting from the design phase to reduce the energy consumption of ICs as well as the production processes used to manufacture them. Synopsys' Adrien Tozzoli looks at how physical optics simulation can be improved by using beam synthesis propagation, a method that decomposes the optical field into a collection of beamlets to ... » read more

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