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Why Investments At Advanced Nodes Matter
By Ed Sperling - 18 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

Despite all the talk about rising costs of development, uncertainties about lithography and talk about the death of Moore’s Law, a record number of companies are developing chips at 16nm/14nm. That may sound surprising, but asking why that’s happening is probably the wrong question. The really critical question is what they’re going to do with those chips. What’s become quite evident... » read more

EDA Vendors Prepare For 7nm
By Ann Mutschler - 18 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

It’s not too early to begin looking at design tools for the 7nm, even though the node is not expected to be production-ready until later this decade. While still in the early stages, foundries already in development with leading EDA companies, even though the water remains murky at this point. “7nm right now is in early definition, so we don't know exactly what it will be,” observed... » read more

How Reliable Is Your IP?
By Ed Sperling - 12 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

Almost everyone who has bought a new smartphone, car, home electronics device or appliance either has experienced technical glitches that require a replacement or repair, or they know someone who has experienced these problems. The good news is that only a very small fraction of the electronic glitches or failures can be contributed to hardware design. Most of it is due to manufacturing vari... » read more

How To Reduce Implementation Headaches In FinFET Processes
By Leah Schuth - 11 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

In this era of compressed market windows and shrinking or changing technology, today’s engineers are always looking for ways to improve their overall product performance, power and area (PPA), while also decreasing their SoC design effort. The goal is to ease time-consuming and labor-intensive implementation tasks that will yield a reduction in design time, without sacrificing accuracy and op... » read more

Advances In Power Management For Physical IP In 28nm And FinFET Process Nodes
By Navraj Nandra - 11 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

Engineering techniques to reduce power consumption by lowering the supply voltage and slowing the clock speed have reached practical limits of the semiconductor technologies. Newer solutions, which not only reduce power but also actively manage the power during the course of the SoC (system on chip) activity, are emerging. This article describes these innovations from the foundation intellectua... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Ed Sperling - 05 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

Tools Mentor Graphics unveiled a hypervisor with configuration, debugging and hardware support. The solution is aimed at a variety of vertical markets, ranging from industrial and medical to consumer electronics. NXP uncorked a passive Inter-Integrated Circuit (I²C) solution for near-field communications tagging, allowing appliances, wearables and consumer electronics to use existing NFC-... » read more

Different Approaches Emerge For Stacking Die
By Ed Sperling - 21 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 1

The concept of stacking die to shorten wires, improve performance, and reduce the amount of energy required to drive signals has been in research for at least the past dozen years at both IBM and Intel. And depending upon whom you ask, it could be another 2 to 10 years before it becomes a mainstream packaging approach—if it happens at all. At least part of the confusion stems from how you ... » read more

Executive Insight: Jack Harding
By Ed Sperling - 18 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

SE: What’s worrying you these days? Harding: One thing that bothers me is the cost of chip development on a per-chip basis. We seduce ourselves into thinking everything is wonderful because the cost per transistor is dropping in chunks. Gate costs are going down at every node. If you look at the secular trend, we’ve done a pretty good job putting a lot of stuff in a small space. In my bu... » read more

The Week In Review
By Ed Sperling - 15 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

Applied Materials announced its fiscal Q3 results. Net sales for the quarter were $2.27 billion compared with $1.98 billion in the same period in 2013, a 15% increase. Net income was $301 million for the period, compared with $168 million in 2013. On a non-GAAP basis, net income was $349 million, compared with $222 million in Q3 2013. The company expects fiscal Q4 net sales to be flat, plus or ... » read more

Ion Implanter Market Heats Up
By Mark LaPedus - 14 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

The ion implanter market has been a stable, if not a sleepy, business. The last big event took place in 2011, when Applied Materials re-entered the ion implanter market by acquiring Varian, the world’s leading supplier of these tools. The acquisition gave Applied Materials a commanding 80% share of the implanter business, with the other players fighting for the crumbs. But after year... » read more

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