Tech Talk: Set-Top Power


Broadcom's John Redmond, associate technical director for digital video technology, talks with Semiconductor Engineering about what the next-generation set-top boxes will look like and how they will save power. The video was shot at Cadence's Low Power Summit. [youtube vid=Ov2GFrUTzts] » read more

Tech Talk: Power Sign-Off


Calvin Chow, area technical manager at Ansys, talks about power sign-off for complex SoCs at advanced nodes, including early stage prototyping, the importance of context, accurate power modeling of sub-blocks, and simulation of power-delivery networks. [youtube vid=MN4TjZ3dHVk] » read more

Tech Talk: Power Optimization II


Solaiman Rahim, senior director of engineering at Atrenta, talks with Semiconductor Engineering about where to put your efforts to reap the greatest rewards in power reduction and optimization. This is the second of two parts. [youtube vid=OWyzIyEH_pQ] Part one can be viewed here. » read more

Tech Talk: Power Optimization


Solaiman Rahim, senior director of engineering at Atrenta, talks with Semiconductor Engineering about where to put your efforts to reap the greatest rewards in power reduction and optimization. [youtube vid=czK60j65JLo] » read more

Tech Talk: Near Threshold Computing 2


ARM Fellow Rob Aitken walks through the details of near-threshold computing and why it's such an important consideration at established process nodes. [youtube vid=lvfu54_JwEg] » read more

Tech Talk: Near Threshold Computing


ARM fellow Rob Aitken talks about what is NTC, why it has taken so long to catch on, and the enormous energy savings possible using this technique at established process nodes. [youtube vid=Ersdl81yTnM] » read more

Tech Talk: Debugging IP


Just because IP is standard doesn't mean it will function as expected in a complex SoC. Ravindra Aneja, senior technical marketing manager at Atrenta, looks at what needs to be done to make sure everything works together. [youtube vid=wlDabbrF2zU] » read more

Tech Talk: Power, Performance And Area In 2.5D


The cost will be comparable at first, but the only way to improve power, performance AND area at the same time will be with a different architectural approach. [youtube vid=XAbE7jpjuMA] » read more

Tech Talk: Dealing With The Unknowns


Rebecca Lipon, senior product marketing manager for verification at Synopsys, discusses the problematic X's and where verification teams typically make mistakes in trying to eliminate the false X's from their designs. Power emerges as the biggest problem. [youtube vid=Iym4ITWJJrs] » read more

Tech Talk: 16nm-14nm Effects And Challenges


Arvind Shanmugavel from Apache Design talks with Semiconductor Engineering about electromigration, electrostatic discharge and thermal effects caused by increasing power density in finFETs.   [youtube vid=GOra5uYyIr8] » read more

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