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Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 19 Mar, 2021 - Comments: 0

Qualcomm finalized its acquisition of data center chip startup Nuvia with a price of $1.4 billion. Nuvia is working on a data center SoC and Arm-based CPU core it claims will lower performance per total cost of ownership by matching high performance with high efficiency and limiting maximum power to that which can be dissipated in an air-cooled environment. Qualcomm said Nuvia’s technology wo... » read more

Blog Review: March 17
By Jesse Allen - 17 Mar, 2021 - Comments: 0

Synopsys' Chris Clark considers the growing number of automotive sensors and the cost/performance tradeoffs between edge computing capability, sensor fusion, sensor degradation, monitoring, and the maintenance of the software over the lifespan of a vehicle. Cadence's Paul McLellan checks out how the process of loading the bootstrap into memory has changed over the years, from hand-entered on... » read more

Deep Learning (DL) Applications In Photomask To Wafer Semiconductor Manufacturing
By eBeam Initiative - 17 Mar, 2021 - Comments: 0

The Survey: 2021 Deep Learning Applications List by eBeam Initiative members is a list of current deep learning efforts that are being used in photomask to wafer semiconductor manufacturing. Examples come from ASML, D2S, Fraunhofer IPMS, Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, imec, Siemens Industries Software, Inc., Siemens EDA, STMicroelectronics, and TASMIT. Published by the eBeam Initiative Membe... » read more

Designing 2.5D Systems
By Brian Bailey - 15 Mar, 2021 - Comments: 0

As more designs hit the reticle limit, or suffer from decreasing yield, migrating to 2.5D designs may provide a path forward. But this kind of advanced packaging also comes with some additional challenges. How you adapt and change your design team may be determined by where your focus has been in the past, or what you are trying to achieve. There are business, organizational, and technical c... » read more

Week In Review: Manufacturing, Test
By Mark LaPedus - 12 Mar, 2021 - Comments: 0

Government policy For the last four years, the U.S. and China have been embroiled in a trade war, especially on the technology front. The U.S. has implemented a number of export control measures and tariffs in the arena. But there might be a thawing in the tense relationship between the two superpowers. “Reports surfaced Thursday indicating the China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA)... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 12 Mar, 2021 - Comments: 0

Tools & IP Codasip unveiled three commercially licensed add-ons to the Western Digital SweRV Core EH1, aiming to allow it to be designed into a wider range of applications. The SweRV Core EH1 is a 32-bit, dual-issue, RISC-V ISA core with a 9-stage pipeline, open-sourced through CHIPS Alliance. The add-ons offer a floating-point unit (FPU) that supports the RISC-V single precision [F] and d... » read more

An Integrated Approach To Power Domain And CDC Verification
By Kurt Takara - 11 Mar, 2021 - Comments: 0

Reducing power consumption is essential for both mobile and data center applications. Yet it is a challenge to lower power while minimally impacting performance. The solution has been to partition designs into multiple power domains which allow selectively reducing voltage levels or powering off partitions. Traditional low power verification validates only the functional correctness of power... » read more

Tradeoffs To Improve Performance, Lower Power
By Ann Mutschler - 11 Mar, 2021 - Comments: 0

Generic chips are no longer acceptable in competitive markets, and the trend is growing as designs become increasingly heterogeneous and targeted to specific workloads and applications. From the edge to the cloud, including everything from vehicles, smartphones, to commercial and industrial machinery, the trend increasingly is on maximizing performance using the least amount of energy. This ... » read more

Nine Effective Features Of NVMe Verification IP For PCIe-Based SSD Storage
By Siemens EDA - 10 Mar, 2021 - Comments: 0

Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) is a new software interface optimized for PCIe Solid State Drives (SSD). This paper provides an overview of the NVMe specification and examines some of its key features. We will discuss its pros and cons, compare it to other conventional technologies, and point out key areas to focus on during its verification. You will learn how NVMe Questa Verification IP... » read more

Blog Review: March 10
By Jesse Allen - 10 Mar, 2021 - Comments: 0

Siemens EDA's Harry Foster checks out how the maturity of verification processes impact bug escapes in FPGA designs and whether safety critical development processes prevent bugs from escaping to silicon. Synopsys' Dennis Kengo Oka examines the weaknesses and vulnerabilities in automotive keyless entry systems and how security researchers hacked the Tesla Model X key fob. Cadence's Paul M... » read more

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