DRAM Choices Are Suddenly Much More Complicated


Chipmakers are beginning to incorporate multiple types and flavors of DRAM in the same advanced package, setting the stage for increasingly distributed memory but significantly more complex designs. Despite years of predictions that DRAM would be replaced by other types of memory, it remains an essential component in nearly all computing. Rather than fading away, its footprint is increasing,... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: October 3


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=150 /] Related Reading Technical Paper Library home » read more

LLM-Assisted Generation Of Formal Verification Testbenches: RTL to SVA (Princeton)


A technical paper titled “From RTL to SVA: LLM-assisted generation of Formal Verification Testbenches” was published by researchers at Princeton University. Abstract: "Formal property verification (FPV) has existed for decades and has been shown to be effective at finding intricate RTL bugs. However, formal properties, such as those written as System Verilog Assertions (SVA), are time-con... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: Sept 19


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=141 /] More Reading Technical Paper Library home » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


By Gregory Haley, Jesse Allen, and Liz Allan TSMC told equipment vendors to delay deliveries of the most advanced tools due to uncertain demand, according to Reuters. The news drove down stock prices of all the major equipment providers. On the other hand, TSMC said advanced packaging shortages will constrain AI chip shipments for the next 18 months, according to NikkeiAsia. The United St... » read more

Formal Verification Of a Sequestered Encryption Architecture


A technical paper titled “Security Verification of Low-Trust Architectures” was published by researchers at Princeton University, University of Michigan, and Lafayette College. Abstract: "Low-trust architectures work on, from the viewpoint of software, always-encrypted data, and significantly reduce the amount of hardware trust to a small software-free enclave component. In this paper, we... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: May 23


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=104 /] If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a good fit for our global audience. At a minimum, papers need to be well researched and documented, relevant to the semiconductor ecosystem, and free of marketing bias. There is no cost involved for us... » read more

RL-Guided Detailed Routing Framework for Advanced Custom Circuits


A technical paper titled "Reinforcement Learning Guided Detailed Routing for Custom Circuits" was published by researchers at UT Austin, Princeton University, and NVIDIA. "This paper presents a novel detailed routing framework for custom circuits that leverages deep reinforcement learning to optimize routing patterns while considering custom routing constraints and industrial design rules. C... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: May 16


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=103 /] If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a good fit for our global audience. At a minimum, papers need to be well researched and documented, relevant to the semiconductor ecosystem, and free of marketing bias. There is no cost involved for us... » read more

Toolbox For Designing Heterogeneous Quantum Systems


A new technical paper titled "Microarchitectures for Heterogeneous Superconducting Quantum Computers" was published by researcher at: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Princeton University, University of Chicago, Rutgers University, MIT, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Infleqtion. Abstract: "Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Computing (NISQ) has dominated headlines in recent years, ... » read more

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