Chip Industry Week In Review


The Design Automation Conference morphed into the Chips to Systems Conference, reflecting an industry shift from monolithic SoCs to assemblies of chiplets in various flavors of advanced packaging. The change drew a slew of students and a resurgent buzz, fueled by discussions about heterogeneous integration, reliability, and ways to leverage AI/ML to speed up design and verification processes. ... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: November 6


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=162 /] More Reading Technical Paper Library home » read more

Benefits Of Using Wireless Communication Technologies In Power Electronics Systems Employing AGDs


A technical paper titled “Wireless Control of Active Gate Drivers for Silicon Carbide power MOSFETs” was published by researchers at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Abstract: "Active Gate Drivers (AGDs) enhance controllability and monitoring of switching devices, especially for fast switching Silicon Carbide (SiC) power Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transis... » read more

Research Bits: Aug. 23


Algae-powered microprocessor Engineers from the University of Cambridge, Arm Research, Scottish Association for Marine Science, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology used a widespread species of blue-green algae to power an Arm Cortex M0+ microprocessor continuously for over a year. The algae, Synechocystis, is non-toxic and harvests energy from photosynthesis. The tiny electri... » read more