tag: design

Tech Talk: Power Optimization
By Ed Sperling - 15 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

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

Design For IoT
By Ann Mutschler - 11 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

In our already mind-bogglingly connected world where you can control your BMW with a Samsung smartwatch or monitor and pay your parking meter with a credit card on your smartphone, the semiconductor design community is mulling over the opportunities from design kits to embedded software as far as the best ways to equip design teams for the [getkc id="76" comment="Internet of Things"] (IoT) era.... » read more

Tech Talk: Near Threshold Computing 2
By Ed Sperling - 27 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

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
By Ed Sperling - 07 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 1

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

Executive Insight: Satish Bagalkotkar
By Ed Sperling - 23 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 1

Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Satish Bagalkotkar, president and CEO of design services company Synapse Design to talk about massive shifts in the semiconductor industry and his vision of how these changes will alter the landscape, from chipmakers to design services to what gets built and how it will get used. What follows are excerpts of that interview. SE: What worries you most? ... » read more

Does IoT Change Design?
By Neil Hand - 27 Jun, 2014 - Comments: 0

Over the past few months, and especially at DAC, I have been struck by the amount of interest in IoT and its impact on semiconductor design. In this post I will look at how IoT impacts the life of system designers — and explore if it really changes anything. Important source of semiconductor growth IoT is clearly important to investors, semiconductor makers, IP and EDA because it expands ... » read more

Low-Power SoC Design
By Anand Iyer - 08 May, 2014 - Comments: 1

Over the last decade, power has become the primary design constraint for all SoC designs. While power reduction started in mobile market segments due to the battery considerations, it quickly has become equally important to powerline applications due to the cooling costs. Today, CPUs define a power constraint called Thermal Design Power (TDP) for the market it operates. One of the definition... » read more

Risk Vs. Reward
By Ed Sperling - 19 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

One of the most persistent business myths is that deep pockets in challenging times always win in the end. While that has proven a successful model in many industries where the barrier to entry is enormous and rising, in the technology world the outcome isn’t always what you’d expect even with those same variables. In fact, the history of technology is littered with former business giant... » read more

Over 65% Smartphone RF Switches SOI, Says Yole; Power Amps Next
By Various Writers - 14 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Adele Hars The industry research firm Yole Développement says that more than 65 percent of substrates used in fabricating switches for handsets are SOI-based. This is a high-growth part of the market, putting up double-digit increases. Like a standard SOI wafer, an RF SOI substrate has an active (“top”) layer on which CMOS transistors are built, with an isolating (“BOx”) ... » read more

FinFET Isolation: Bulk vs. SOI
By Various Writers - 15 May, 2013 - Comments: 1

Terry Hook of IBM recently contributed an article to ASN about FinFET isolation issues on bulk vs. SOI.  It generated immense interest, and created lots of discussion on various LinkedIn groups.  In case you missed it, here it is again. (This article is based on an in-depth presentation Terry gave at the SOI Consortium's Fully-Depleted Tech Workshop, held during VLSI-TSA in Taiwan, April 2... » read more

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