3D Heterogenous Integration: Design And Verification Challenges


Next-generation semiconductor products increasingly rely on vertical integration technologies to drive system density, speed, and yield improvement. Due to the increased coupling effects across multiple physics, co-simulation and co-analysis of these phenomena are critical for a robust chip-package-system design. Advanced 2.5D/3D-IC systems are constructed with multiple dice, interposers, packa... » read more

Blog Review: Nov. 8


Siemens' Todd Westerhoff takes a look at the three stages of power integrity analysis for PCBs, challenges to board-level signal integrity, and best practices for getting the most accurate estimate of design performance. Synopsys' William Ruby provides a brief overview of the evolution of low-power design techniques and finds opportunities to reduce power and to make chip designs more energy... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


By Susan Rambo, Gregory Haley, Jesse Allen, and Liz Allan President Biden issued an executive order on the “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.” It says entities need to report large-scale computing clusters and the total computing power available, including “any model that was trained using a quantity of computing power greater than 1,026 inte... » read more

Blog Review: November 1


Cadence’s Rich Chang finds that although UVM has being used for testbench creation for more than a decade, it is still challenging to debug problems that are inside of UVM testbench. Siemens’ Keith Felton suggests that early analysis in complex advanced packaging flows can enable designers to spot potential issues early to avoid built-in constructs that cause design failures and require ... » read more

What Will That Chip Cost?


In the past, analysts, consultants, and many other experts attempted to estimate the cost of a new chip implemented in the latest process technology. They concluded that by the 3nm node, only a few companies would be able to afford them — and by the time they got into the angstrom range, probably nobody would. Much has changed over the past few process nodes. Increasing numbers of startups... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


By Susan Rambo, Karen Heyman, and Liz Allan The Biden-Harris administration designated 31 Tech Hubs across the U.S. this week, focused on industries including autonomous systems, quantum computing, biotechnology, precision medicine, clean energy advancement, and semiconductor manufacturing. The Department of Commerce (DOC) also launched its second Tech Hubs Notice of Funding Opportunity. ... » read more

Anatomy Of A System Simulation


The semiconductor industry has greatly simplified analysis by consolidating around a small number of models and abstractions, but that capability is breaking down both at the implementation level and at the system level. Today, the biggest pressure is coming from the systems industry, where the electronic content is a small fraction of what must be integrated together. Systems companies tend... » read more

Blog Review: October 25


Synopsys’ Graham Allan looks at enhancements in the LPDDR5X standard, such as a speed increase from 6.4Gbps to 8.5Gbps using the same 1.1V core voltage as LPDDR5 alongside better signal integrity, reliability, and battery efficiency. Cadence’s Krunal Patel examines the essential components and operation of MACsec, a security protocol to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data tr... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


By Susan Rambo, Gregory Haley, and Liz Allan SRC unfurled its Microelectronics and Advanced Packaging (MAPT) industry-wide 3D semiconductor roadmap, addressing such topics as advanced packaging, heterogeneous integration, analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, energy efficiency, security, the related foundational ecosystem, and more. The guidance is the collective effort of 300 individuals ... » read more

Blog Review: October 18


Siemens' Stephen Chavez suggests including analog mixed signal analysis and board level parasitics within the design process from the earliest electrical design stage and throughout final release of the PCB design. Synopsys’ Filip Thoen, Leonard Drucker, and Vivek Prasad highlight how the complexities and interdependencies of multi-die systems create new challenges for software bring-up, a... » read more

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