2017: Tool And Methodology Shifts

By Brian Bailey - 26 Jan, 2017 - Comments: 0

As the markets for semiconductor products evolve, so do the tools that enable automation, optimization and verification. While tools rarely go away, they do bend like plants toward light. Today, it is no longer the mobile phone industry that is defining the direction, but automotive and the Internet of Things (IoT). Both of these markets have very different requirements and each creates their o... » read more

Power Management Vs. State Machines

By Rich Wawrzyniak - 23 Jan, 2017 - Comments: 0

In the last several years, contemporary SoCs (systems-on-a-chip) have become very complex silicon solutions. They now consist of hundreds of millions of gates, 100 or more discrete Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) blocks, high-speed data channels, megabytes of volatile and non-volatile embedded memory, increasing amounts of analog/mixed signal functionality, multiple CPU cores and mult... » read more

Border Tax Shakeup

By Ed Sperling - 12 Jan, 2017 - Comments: 0

A border tax is the talk of the financial world. While this has clear implications for car manufacturers, where it's rather easy to tell where parts such an engine block or a braking system were manufactured, it's far less tangible when it comes to electronics in general, and semiconductors in particular. In a complex SoC, IP can be developed in more than one country, and multinational techn... » read more

The Challenges Of Designing 28G And 56G SerDes IP

By Jeff Kaady - 12 Jan, 2017 - Comments: 1

The industry move to 56 Gbps PAM4 is undoubtedly one of the greatest challenges currently facing SerDes IP designers and their customers. To begin with, shifting to 56 Gbps PAM4 immediately causes a loss of 9 dB. While the baud rate is 28 Gbaud, there are now three eyes stacked on top of each other. Nevertheless, there is still demand for 35+ dB reach. This is a significant challenge which requ... » read more

The Multiplier And The Singularity

By Brian Bailey - 12 Jan, 2017 - Comments: 8

In 1993, Vernor Vinge, a computer scientist and science fiction writer, first described an event called the Singularity—the point when machine intelligence matches and then surpasses human intelligence. And since then, top scientists, engineers and futurists have been asking just how far away we are from that event. In 2006, Ray Kurzweil published a book, "The Singularity is Near," in whic... » read more

IoT Will Grow Faster With More Flexible Wireless Design

By Prithi Ramakrishnan - 12 Jan, 2017 - Comments: 0

The fascinating numbers-within-the-numbers for the forecasted growth in Internet of Things (IoT) devices is this: By 2020, it’s estimated there will be nearly 2 billion low-power radio-connected devices, specifically with Bluetooth 5 and 802.15.4 (Zigbee and Thread). Those numbers are compelling because not only is that a quadrupling of the amount of low-power radio devices today, but the val... » read more

How A Complete IP Solution Speeds Time-to-Market And Reduces Risk For 10 Gigabit Ethernet Applications

By Synopsys - 11 Jan, 2017 - Comments: 0

This paper discusses the merits of IP for the growing 10G Ethernet market and introduces Synopsys’ complete DesignWare 10G Ethernet IP solution in the context of the technology and the target market. To read more, click here. » read more

Overcoming The Limits Of Scaling

By Ed Sperling - 29 Dec, 2016 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the increasing reliance on architectural choices for improvements in power, performance and area, with [getperson id="11425" comment=" Sundari Mitra"], CEO of [getentity id="22535" comment="NetSpeed Systems"]; Charlie Janac, chairman and CEO of [getentity id="22674" e_name="Arteris"]; [getperson id="11032" comment="Simon Davidmann"] CEO of [getentit... » read more

Tech Talk: Timing Closure

By Ed Sperling - 29 Dec, 2016 - Comments: 0

Arteris' George Janac talks about timing closure issues in advanced chips and why this has reared its head again for the first time in a decade. Related Stories Timing Closure Issues Resurface Adding more features and more power states is making it harder to design chips at 10nm and 7nm. » read more

EDA, IP Up 7%

By Ed Sperling - 22 Dec, 2016 - Comments: 0

EDA and IP growth increased to $2.094 billion in Q3, a 7% gain over the $1.958 billion reported for the same period in 2015, according to just released data from the Electronic System Design Alliance Market Statistics Service. All geographic regions reported growth last quarter. So did computer-aided engineering, the largest single category, which grew 5.0% to $666.7 million in Q3, up from $... » read more

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