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How To Extend The ‘Unscalable’ RISC Architectures
By Rupert Baines - 24 Feb, 2022 - Comments: 0

A couple of years ago, Erik McClure (a Microsoft software developer, at the time) published a blog entitled RISC Is Fundamentally Unscalable.  This blog was really quite interesting and made some very good points about the limitations of a pure RISC design. The limitations of a pure RISC design It takes me back: some of my first marketing tasks were around the religious war between RISC ... » read more

2022 Chip Forecast: Mixed Signals
By Mark LaPedus - 22 Feb, 2022 - Comments: 0

Jim Feldhan, president of Semico Research, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about the outlook for the semiconductor market. SE: What was your final 2021 semiconductor forecast? What is your 2022 semiconductor forecast? Feldhan: For 2021, world semiconductor revenues totaled $558 billion and units totaled over 1.1 trillion units. In terms of growth rate, revenues increased 2... » read more

Precision Selective Etch Tools Pave The Way For The Next Technology Inflection
By Tim Archer - 17 Feb, 2022 - Comments: 0

Over the past decade, the need for increasingly smaller, denser, more powerful chips has been driving semiconductor manufacturers to move away from planar structures in favor of increasingly complex three-dimensional (3D) structures. Why? Simply put, stacking elements vertically enables greater density. Use of 3D architectures to support advanced logic and memory applications represents the ... » read more

The Indispensables: The Diverse Electronic System Design Ecosystem
By Bob Smith - 15 Feb, 2022 - Comments: 0

My summer of 2021 reading included a book called “The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware” by Patrick K. O'Donnell. The book told the thrilling and largely forgotten history of the fishermen from Marblehead, Mass., a town 20 miles north of Boston, and their critical role in the Revolutionary War. M... » read more

Simplify DFT For Advanced SoCs
By Ron Press - 08 Feb, 2022 - Comments: 0

The purpose of electronic design automation (EDA) software is to solve SoC design problems and simplify the entire process. For design for test (DFT), this means aiming to streamline the DFT development for today’s large and complex designs. The technologies and methods developed through partnerships between EDA suppliers, foundries, and semiconductor companies should effectively reduce risk,... » read more

ISO/SAE 21434: Secure Hardware Development In Modern Vehicles
By Anders Nordstrom - 03 Feb, 2022 - Comments: 0

Demonstrating the importance of security doesn't get much more memorable than Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek successfully hacking a Jeep and driving it into a ditch. The effects of that drive have been long-reaching, sparking conversations in both the media and automotive industry about the evolving threat landscape as vehicles become increasingly automated. The average car contains over 1... » read more

Building Multipurpose Systems With Dynamic Function Exchange Part Two: Bundling And Managing Resources
By Ed Rebello - 03 Feb, 2022 - Comments: 0

In our previous article, we mentioned that one of the most-common oversights that designers can make is to not fully use available system resources, and we introduced you to the concept of Dynamic Function Exchange (DFX), a design approach that dynamically reallocates unused system resources to other tasks. From a technical standpoint, implementing DFX is relatively straightforward using a c... » read more

eFPGA Saved Us Millions of Dollars. It Can Do the Same for You
By Andy Jaros - 03 Feb, 2022 - Comments: 0

For those of you who follow Flex Logix, you already know that we have an IP business, EFLX eFGPA, and an edge inferencing co-processor chip and board business, InferX. InferX came about because we had many customers ask if they can run AI/ML algorithms in EFLX. The answer was and still is, of course you can – EFLX is an FPGA fabric similar to what FPGA chips use. Our co-founder, Cheng Wang, t... » read more

Mixed Outlook For Silicon Wafers
By Mark LaPedus - 20 Jan, 2022 - Comments: 0

Silicon wafers are a fundamental part of the semiconductor business. Every chipmaker needs to buy them in one size or another, such as 200mm, 300mm and others. Silicon wafer vendors produce and sell bare or raw silicon wafers to chipmakers, who in turn process them into chips. So what’s in store for the silicon wafer market? Sungho Yoon, senior research manager at SEMI, sat down with Se... » read more

Semiconductor Industry Faces Stiff Competition For Talent
By Tim Archer - 20 Jan, 2022 - Comments: 0

For decades, the semiconductor industry has been defined by our ability to innovate. Each time we’ve been faced with seemingly insurmountable technological challenges, we have invented innovative approaches and methods to solve them, and in doing so, we’ve helped to transform how the world works, plays, learns, and connects. Today, we are again faced with a critical new challenge: the gl... » read more

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