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Weighing Wafers Simplifies Metrology
By Jiangtao Hu - 21 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 2

Building semiconductors is an incredibly exacting process, with critical dimensions posing significant equipment challenges – and with the possibility that small process excursions can cause the yield to decrease. For this reason, it has always been important to measure and monitor the most critical process steps to ensure that no further processing is done on a faulty lot and so that equipme... » read more

A New Playbook For The AI Era
By Ellie Yieh - 21 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

It’s Q4 in Silicon Valley, which means that most tech enterprises are in strategic planning mode, taking stock of where they are today and charting a course for where they want to be over the next few years. This year’s Q4 planning cycle needs to be a little different: the opportunities before us are an order of magnitude larger. So are the challenges. To get to where we need to be, our�... » read more

Finding Hotspots In AI Chips
By Stephen Crosher - 14 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

Things are getting far more complicated as we move down to 7nm & 5nm but the tolerances of some of the physical effects that we have been measuring in the past are much tighter than they were at the older nodes. How do we track all that? What we see is that as we descend through the advanced nodes, say from 16nm down to 12nm, 7nm and more recently 5nm, we see that gate density starts to ... » read more

Building Access Control With Free Topology
By Jen Bernier-Santarini - 14 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

For facilities managers of large buildings and campuses, security and access control are huge challenges. Authorized persons come and go so privileges must be granted and revoked; different employees, students and visitors may all have different levels of privilege/access; the access cards themselves must be authenticated; and the list goes on. This is in the face of ever-escalating security th... » read more

Should We Even Be Talking About 6G?
By Sarah Yost - 12 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

Friends and coworkers have been sending me a lot of articles lately about 6G, with snappy headlines that seem to suggest that 5G is already a thing of the past. As a marketing manager working on cellular technology, they want to know what I think. On the one hand, I’m excited to see that the hype surrounding 5G is shining a spotlight on wireless communications research and that visionaries ar... » read more

Building Powertrains To Meet EV Demand
By Peter Hodgins - 12 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

Throughout history, customer demand has always been a driving factor in companies’ product portfolios around the world. Today, the demand for a cleaner earth is unparalleled, with individuals wanting products and services that minimize harm to the environment. This amazing transition in customer demand is apparent everywhere. The food industry is experiencing a rise in vegan requests, the ... » read more

Software Support Scenarios
By Kevin Robinson - 12 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

Do you need support for your software? Let’s look at 3 scenarios to explore the question. Using software that is single version Using software that is developed in house Using Software as a Service. These are not the only models or cases out there but will allow us to explore some of the main factors involved. Using software that is single version: Maybe it is a pa... » read more

Modeling AI Inference Performance
By Geoff Tate - 07 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

The metric in AI Inference that matters to customers is either throughput/$ for their model and/or throughput/watts for their model. One might assume throughput will correlate with TOPS, but you’d be wrong. Examine the table below: The Nvidia Tesla T4 gets 7.4 inferences/TOP, Xavier AGX 15 and InferX 1 34.5. And InferX X1 does it with 1/10th to 1/20th of the DRAM bandwidth of the ... » read more

A Glossary For Chip And Semiconductor IP Security And Trust
By Sergio Marchese - 25 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 1

A significant portion of electronic system vulnerabilities involves hardware. In 2015 the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE-MITRE) database recorded 6,488 vulnerabilities. A considerable proportion (43%) can be classified as software-assisted hardware vulnerabilities (see Fig. 1). The discovery of Meltdown and Spectre in January 2018 has sparked a series of investigations into hardware ... » read more

HW/SW Co-Verification For Hybrid Systems
By Wojtek Lewandowski - 24 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

Heterogeneous SoC architectures such as Zynq have become very popular recently due to the combination of programmable logic (FPGA) and processing system (ARM) integrated into a single chip. Developing a design using such hybrid systems causes complexity in design verification stages. To help address this complexity, Aldec introduced support for QEMU for co-verification in our HES.Proto-AXI host... » read more

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