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One-On-One: Linyong Pang
By Mark LaPedus - 12 May, 2014 - Comments: 1

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss trends in the lithography and photomask business with Linyong “Leo” Pang, the new chief product officer and executive vice president at D2S, which focuses on model-based mask data preparation as well as other mask writing technologies. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: Before you arrived at D2S you were at Luminescent, whic... » read more

Pointing Fingers, Often In The Wrong Direction
By Ed Sperling - 08 May, 2014 - Comments: 0

Every design these days, regardless of whether it’s a processor, an SoC, an ASIC, FPGA or stacked die, relies on a combination of re-used and third-party intellectual property. No company—not even Intel, Apple or Samsung—has the capability of building everything itself within a highly compressed market window. There is a spectrum of IP use and re-use, of course. In some cases, it may i... » read more

IP To Meet 2.5D Requirements
By Ann Mutschler - 08 May, 2014 - Comments: 1

The semiconductor industry is still in the early stages of evolution in the realm of 2.5D, but when these devices do come out, the IP used on them will have to be brand new, according to Javier DeLaCruz, senior director of engineering at eSilicon. “The IP causes the biggest risk that you’re going to have in this implementation,” he said. “Everything else in here for making those ASIC... » read more

Improving LP Verification Efficiency
By Ann Mutschler - 08 May, 2014 - Comments: 1

The addition of low power circuitry can create so many corner cases that many can escape even the best-written testbenches. This has driven the need for so many additional verification cycles to be run that there must be many datacenter managers at semiconductor companies wondering if it is a trick by the power companies to cause an equal amount of power to be consumed by low-power verification... » read more

Can HLS Be Trusted?
By Brian Bailey - 08 May, 2014 - Comments: 1

Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Mike Meredith, solutions architect at Cadence/Forte Design Systems; Mark Warren, Solutions Group director at Cadence; Thomas Bollaert, vice president of application engineering at Calypto; and Devadas Varma, senior director at Xilinx. Part 1 of the discussion looked at the changing market for HLS and the types of customers who are adopting HLS today. Divi... » read more

Powerful Memories
By Brian Bailey - 07 May, 2014 - Comments: 1

Memory consumes more of the surface area of a die than any other component. So what changes have happened over the past few years to reduce the power consumption of memories, and where are the big opportunities for saving power? Let's take a closer look. A Growing Concern One of the key drivers for SoCs is the desire to reduce product costs, reduce form factors, reduce power, increase perfo... » read more

Executive Insight: Wally Rhines
By Ann Mutschler - 05 May, 2014 - Comments: 1

Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Wally Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics, to discuss what is required for EDA to grow, key areas of opportunity for EDA growth and going against the grain. The interview is part of an ongoing series of in-depth interviews with top executives from all segments of the industry. SE: What keeps you awake at night? Rhines: Actually nothing keeps... » read more

Object Security And The IoT
By Ernest Worthman - 01 May, 2014 - Comments: 0

Objects of the IoT will be anything and everything. It is conceivable that, eventually, almost every animate and inanimate object will have a cybernetic umbilical cord to it. IoT “things” take on virtual representations. They have intelligence. They are able to interact with each other as well as mine and store data about what and how objects are being used, what their status is, who and... » read more

Wireless Security Issues Grow
By Ernest Worthman - 01 May, 2014 - Comments: 0

The Internet, as we know it today, is still mostly an information highway. However, even as we speak, more and more once autonomous, physical objects are becoming intelligent. That includes the obvious ones, such as today’s smart communications devices, to the not so evident ones, such as pacemakers, vehicles, audio/video, and environmental sensors. There are microscopic cameras that are swal... » read more

Hiding The Electronic Crumbs
By Ed Sperling - 01 May, 2014 - Comments: 0

Imagine an old Western movie where the posse tracks the outlaws by following footsteps on a dirt trail or looking for broken branches. Now fast forward to the present, where the trail is electronic, the posse is comprised of bad guys, and the loot is frequently encrypted. As any security expert will concede, every security system can be compromised, every chip can be reverse engineered and h... » read more

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