System Bits: July 19


Using carbon nanotubes to leapfrog today’s silicon chips According to Stanford University’s Subhasish Mitra, associate professor of electrical engineering and of computer science, and H.-S. Philip Wong, professor of electrical engineering, the future of supercomputing might actually be really, really small. With support from the National Science Foundation, the two are working with IBM and... » read more

The Week In Review: Design


Tools Synopsys unveiled its next-generation ATPG and diagnostics solution, TetraMAX II. According to the company, the tool is an order of magnitude faster than the previous generation, reducing runtime from days to hours, as well as generating 25% fewer patterns. The new tool is also certified for the ISO 26262 automotive functional safety standard. It has been deployed by STMicroelectronics... » read more

Blog Review: July 13


Synopsys' Mansi Chadha looks back at the history of storage and the evolution of SCSI. Cadence's Paul McLellan highlights some of the latest news from the world of neural networks. Mentor's Darrell Teegarden digs into the challenges of modeling fuel cells and walks through how to build one. Ansys' Justin Nescott features a giant, three-instrument music box in his picks for the week's t... » read more

System Bits: July 12


Simplifying sensor network interactions Given that the IoT consists of millions of sensing devices in buildings, vehicles and elsewhere that deliver reams of data online, and involves so many different kinds of data, sources and communication modes that its myriad information streams can be onerous to acquire and process, scientists at Georgia Tech Research Institute have developed a flexible,... » read more

The Week In Review: Design


Tools Synopsys unveiled a new HAPS adaptor that enables a HAPS FPGA-based Prototyping System to easily connect to a Juno ARM Development Platform. The software development platform includes the Juno Versatile Express board with ARM Cortex-A72, or Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 MPCore, Mali-T624 and reference software through Linaro Linux. Numbers Imagination released financial results for t... » read more

Abundant Change Ahead


There is nobody who would question the amazing ride that semiconductors have been on for the past 50 years. It has been described as the longest running exponential that humankind has ever been a part of—and it is not over yet. Still, the future is very likely to be substantially different from the past. It is almost natural for us to see a trend and assume it will continue. There have bee... » read more

Verification Engine Disconnects


Moving verification data seamlessly between emulation, simulation, FPGA prototyping and formal verification engines may be possible on paper, but it is proving more difficult to implement in the real world. [getkc id="10" kc_name="Verification"] still consumes the most time and money in the design process. And while the amount of time spent on verification in complex designs has held relativ... » read more

Blog Review: July 6


Cadence's Chris Rowen discusses optimizing neural networks for low-energy and high-throughput applications in his latest video. What should you include in an IoT chip? Synopsys' Eric Huang presents the case for building in USB. Mentor's Matthew Hogan takes a look at what's needed for speedy interconnect robustness verification. Rambus' Aharon Etengoff digs into a potential new enterpri... » read more

Executive Insight: Raik Brinkmann


[getperson id="11306" comment="Raik Brinkmann"], president and CEO of [getentity id="22395" e_name="OneSpin Solutions"], sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to discuss where and why formal verification is gaining traction, and how it fits alongside other verification approaches. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: [getkc id="33" kc_name="Formal"] has been around for a whi... » read more

USDOT Smart City Challenge: Columbus Drives Future of Automotive Semiconductor Development


The Smart City Challenge will be an accelerant of automotive semiconductor innovation. The U.S. Department of Transportation has chosen Columbus as the winner of the Smart City Challenge, entitling Ohio’s capital city to $40 million U.S. government funding, along with $10M from Paul Allen’s Vulcan investment firm, and $90M that Columbus raised from private partners, to create a fully integr... » read more

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