Automakers And Industry Need Specific, Extremely Robust, Heterogeneously Integrated Chiplet Solutions


Chiplets offer great potential for the automotive and industrial sectors, especially as these applications often have high performance requirements but are needed only in small quantities. The modular principle behind chiplets enables efficient design and production: individual components have to be produced only once and can then be flexibly combined to create tailored solutions. This offers m... » read more

Chiplet Interconnects Add Power And Signal Integrity Issues


The flexibility and scalability offered by chiplets make them an increasingly attractive choice over planar SoCs, but the rollout of increasingly heterogeneous assemblies adds a variety of new challenges around the processing and movement of data. Nearly all of the chiplets in use today were designed in-house by large systems companies and IDMs. Going forward, third-party chiplets will begin... » read more

Chiplet-Based NPUs to Accelerate Vehicular AI Perception Workloads


A new technical paper titled "Performance Implications of Multi-Chiplet Neural Processing Units on Autonomous Driving Perception" was published by researchers at UC Irvine. Abstract "We study the application of emerging chiplet-based Neural Processing Units to accelerate vehicular AI perception workloads in constrained automotive settings. The motivation stems from how chiplets technology i... » read more

Critical Design Considerations For High-Bandwidth Chiplet Interconnects (TSMC)


A new technical paper titled "High-Bandwidth Chiplet Interconnects for Advanced Packaging Technologies in AI/ML Applications: Challenges and Solutions" was published by researchers at TSMC. Abstract: "The demand for chiplet integration using 2.5D and 3D advanced packaging technologies has surged, driven by the exponential growth in computing performance required by Artificial Intelligence a... » read more

Outlook 2025: Embracing Chiplets


The semiconductor industry is rapidly evolving, and as we look towards 2025, chiplets are at the forefront of this transformation. The shift from traditional monolithic system-on-chip (SoC) designs to chiplet-based architectures is gaining momentum, driven by the need to meet ever-increasing computing demands. This evolution is not just a trend; it represents a fundamental change in how we appr... » read more

Analysis Of Multi-Chiplet Package Designs And Requirements For Production Test Simplification


In recent years there has been a sharp rise of multi-die system designs. Numerous publications targeting a large variety of applications exist in the public domain. One presentation [2] on the IEEE’s website does a good job of detailing the anecdotal path of multi-die systems by way of chiplet building blocks integrated within a single package [2]. The presentation includes references to a ha... » read more

New Tradeoffs In Leading-Edge Chip Design


Device design begins with the anticipated workload. What is it actually supposed to do? What resources — computational units, memory, sensors — are available? Answering these questions and developing the functional architecture are the first steps in a new design — well before committing it to silicon, said Tim Kogel, senior director of technical product management at Synopsys. Yet eve... » read more

One Chip Vs. Many Chiplets


Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the growing list of challenges at advanced nodes and in advanced packages, with Jamie Schaeffer, vice president of product management at GlobalFoundries; Dechao Guo, director of advanced logic technology R&D at IBM; Dave Thompson, vice president at Intel; Mustafa Badaroglu, principal engineer at Qualcomm; and Thomas Ponnusw... » read more

Shift Left Is The Tip Of The Iceberg


Shift left is evolving from a buzzword into a much broader shift in design methodology and EDA tooling, and while it's still early innings there is widespread agreement that it will be transformative. The semiconductor industry has gone through many changes over the past few decades. Some are obvious, but others happen because of a convergence of multiple factors that require systemic change... » read more

Chiplets for Future Automotive Application


Abstract Autonomous vehicles and associated ADAS systems are driving vehicle electronics content to unprecedented levels. These systems require significant processing power via a centralized system. Chiplets are one solution to distribute functionality on different technologies and can help to secure the supply chain and reduce rising development costs in advanced IC nodes. This traditionally ... » read more

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