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Low Power Drives New Architectures
By Ed Sperling - 08 Sep, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee Power became the driving discussion at several major events last month. The global cries for energy reduction, which have been mainstream since the early 1970s on the political level, have now moved to being real economic realities for component and systems suppliers. Chipmakers are finding that lower power makes good economic sense—lower cost of packaging, lower cost... » read more

Let The Mobile Games Begin
By Ed Sperling - 30 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee Mobile devices today are optimized for low- to mid-bandwidth data transmission, which is sufficient for e-mail, batch downloads of applications and music, and playback of encoded/compressed streaming video. But in coming months they will add another feature—image capture and processing and advanced graphics processing. This adds a whole new wrinkle to mobile devices, ... » read more

5 Ways To Cut Power
By Ed Sperling - 16 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low energy consumption with minimal leakage has emerged as the most competitive element in an IC design, regardless of whether it involves a plug, a battery, or whether it’s powered by a gasoline engine. While components on an SoC aren’t always power-aware, they’ll have to be in the future as consumers focus first on energy efficiency. With rising fuel costs, a concern ... » read more

Tri-Gate’s Fallout
By Ed Sperling - 26 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By David Lammers Intel Corp. dropped a rock into the pond of transistor technology when it announced its 22nm tri-gate technology in San Francisco earlier this month. The ripples continue to move out from that event, with impacts on IDMs, foundries, and fabless semiconductor companies being closely studied. Now that Intel has come out of the closet with its tri-gate technology, “the found... » read more

High Performance And Low Power
By Ed Sperling - 14 Apr, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee As mobile platforms become a larger part of the component spectrum, their need for optimization beyond low power has moved to the forefront. Traditionally, standard "line-cord" based products in both the consumer and commercial sectors have used the "G" label processes from semiconductor foundries. These processes had the highest-yielding combination of design rules, d... » read more

3D ICs: No Simple Answers
By Ed Sperling - 31 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee Just how ready is the semiconductor industry for stacked die? That was the subject of a recent panel discussion involving ARM, Atrenta, Xilinx, Samsung and Mentor Graphics. The reasoning behind 3D stacking is becoming clearer at each node. I/O count and delay times are forcing different configurations, but the time frames for these changes and the gating constraints are... » read more

Widening The Channels
By Ed Sperling - 17 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Wide I/O—both as a specific memory standard and as a generic approach for on-chip networking—has been looked at for the past couple of chip generations as a way of improving SoC performance. Increasingly, it also is being used as a key strategy for reducing energy consumption. Wide I/O refers to a number of different approaches in on-chip networking, ranging from through-... » read more

Healthy Living Electronics Dominated By Power
By Ed Sperling - 10 Feb, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee The theme for this years ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference) is “Electronics for Healthy Living.” In addition to the new microprocessors, memory and data converter technologies, the focus and keynotes are directed toward health-care products. The common theme between all the talks is that health-care is being driven by mobility, information flow, a... » read more

What’s A Cell Phone?
By Ed Sperling - 27 Jan, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Just because a smart phone is sold by Verizon or AT&T mobile no longer means that it will be used primarily as a phone. That distinction may sound trivial, but it has deep implications for the components that are used inside of these devices, how they’re used, and who wins the designs. Shifts such as this can also lead to broad changes in who buys the tools to develop t... » read more

Moving To Open-Source Software
By Ann Mutschler - 23 Sep, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler With the typical cost of software accounting for 40% to 60% of an SoC, semiconductor OEMs are under more pressure than ever to meet margins. As a result, they are drawing on their ecosystem partners to provide a more complete foundation including hardware, software, FPGA prototypes, verification IP and virtual models, as well as an increasing demand for open source so... » read more

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