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How Long Will FinFETs Last?
By Ann Mutschler - 07 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss how long [getkc id="185" kc_name="FinFET"]s will last and where we will we go next with Vassilios Gerousis, Distinguished Engineer at [getentity id="22032" e_name="Cadence"]; Juan Rey, Sr. Director of Engineering for Calibre R&D at [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor Graphics"]; Kelvin Low, Senior Director, Foundry Marketing at [getentity id="2286... » read more

Rising Threats From Differential Power Analysis
By Ernest Worthman - 03 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

Differential power analysis (DPA) has been a threat vector on the chip landscape for a number of years. It was discovered around the mid 1990s by the teams at [getentity id="22671" e_name="Rambus"]’ Cryptography Research Division, and turned out to be a very effective tool for compromising the ubiquitous SIM card environment. “The most traditional market for DPA has been with smart cards... » read more

Can Cars Be Hack-Proof?
By Ann Mutschler - 03 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

Not many days go by when there isn't a news headline describing the latest hacking attempt — or success — of an automobile or automotive system. Malicious hacking has been around almost since the dawn of connected electronics, but it's happening with increasing sophistication in the automotive sector. Even high-end vehicles suffer security flaws that are too costly or not worthwhile to f... » read more

Lightweight Cryptography For The IoE
By Ernest Worthman - 03 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

This is the age where technology is expected to do more, faster, anonymously, and often invisibly. And it's supposed to use less power, with smaller footprints, unobtrusively and intuitively. And all that needs to be protected with cryptography. That's the goal, at least. But as Simon Blake-Wilson, vice president of products and marketing for [getentity id="22671" e_name="Rambus"]' Cryptogra... » read more

802.XX And The IoE
By Ernest Worthman - 03 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

Ever since the first 802.11 standard was published in 1997, it has evolved to become the de facto protocol for much of the wireless networking across a wide range of devices and implementations. Today the protocol family includes 802.b 802.11a, 802.11g, 802.11n, and 802.11ac, respectively. Some of these will play a very important role in the IoE. There are other 802.xx protocols (such as 802.15... » read more

The Deep And Dark Webs
By Ernest Worthman - 03 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

From time to time we hear a snippet or two about the “other” Web – the dark side of the Internet and the Web. For the most part, until something happens that brings the activity within that arena to the surface (such as the recent Silk Road exposure where anything was available for a price), that segment quietly hums along. But that is about to change. Once the IoE evolution gets tract... » read more

Executive Insight: Sanjiv Kaul
By Ed Sperling - 02 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

Sanjiv Kaul, president and CEO of [getentity id="22016" e_name="Calypto"], sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about dynamic power concerns in finFETs, where software fits in, and why high-level synthesis is now a competitive requirement at advanced nodes. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: What's the biggest problem the semiconductor industry is facing right no... » read more

Making Hardware Design More Agile
By Ed Sperling - 31 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 1

Semiconductor engineering sat down to whether changes are needed in hardware design methodology, with Philip Gutierrez, ASIC/FPGA design manager in [getentity id="22306" comment="IBM"]'s FlashSystems Storage Group; Dennis Brophy, director of strategic business development at [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor Graphics"]; Frank Schirrmeister, group director for product marketing of the System ... » read more

Rethinking Differentiation
By Ed Sperling - 28 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 0

Differentiation is becoming more difficult, more time-consuming, and in some cases much more expensive for chipmakers. The traditional metrics of faster performance, lower power and less area/cost, which are leftovers from the PC era, no longer are a guarantee of success despite the fact that they are still baseline metrics for many designs. Even new metrics such as ecosystem completeness, w... » read more

Software Driving More Hardware Designs
By Ed Sperling - 27 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 2

The influence of software engineers is growing inside of chip and systems companies, reversing a decades-old trend of matching the software to the fastest or most power-efficient hardware and raising as-yet unanswered questions about what will change in SoC design. The shift is particularly evident in chips developed for high-volume markets such as mobile phones and tablets. It's also happen... » read more

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