Smarter Things

By Ed Sperling - 28 Feb, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling SoC design has largely been a race to the next process node in accordance with Moore’s Law, but it’s about to take a sharp turn away from that as the Internet of Things becomes more ubiquitous. There has been much made about the Internet of Things over the past couple of years—home networks that involve smart refrigerators sending reminders to consumers that the milk is... » read more

New Issues In Signoff

By Ed Sperling - 14 Feb, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Signoff has always been a challenge at every stage of an SoC design flow. No matter how good a design looks, or how well a prototype works, there are still problems that can crop up at any stage of the design flow all the way into manufacturing that can leave engineering teams shaking their heads. Even at mainstream process nodes, respins are common. At advanced nodes—part... » read more

Changes Ahead

By Ed Sperling - 17 Oct, 2012 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design talks with GlobalFoundries EVP Mike Noonen about future challenges in IC manufacturing, the future of stacked die and ecosystem challenges ahead. [youtube vid=Wdp9JYvBeSk] » read more

SoC Platforms Gain Steam

By Ed Sperling - 26 Jul, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Platforms are attracting far more attention from makers of SoCs because they are pre-verified and can speed time to market, but the shift isn’t so simple. It will spark major changes in the way companies design and build chips, causing significant disruption across the entire SoC ecosystem. Platforms are nothing new in the processor and software world. Intel, IBM AMD, and N... » read more

Future Foundry Issues

By Ed Sperling - 13 Jul, 2012 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design talks with Luigi Capodieci, fellow at GlobalFoundries, about EUV, the challenges at 20nm and beyond, and the future of the foundry model. [youtube vid=YXov4y0kpfU] » read more

All Indicators Point North

By Ed Sperling - 28 Jun, 2012 - Comments: 0

Designing and producing chips has always been difficult, but the number of things that conspire to make it harder at 20nm is the longest in the history of the semiconductor industry. The list will grow longer still at 14nm and beyond, not to mention so expensive that one mistake will kill a company. While system engineers and architects look at the challenges on the front end, the problems ... » read more

What’s Really Going On?

By Ed Sperling - 15 Dec, 2011 - Comments: 0

At the end of the year it’s common to make predictions about what’s coming next year or to look back at the events that have transpired over the past 12 months. It’s becoming more difficult to do both. To begin with, there’s the question of re-aggregation or disaggregation. While most industries swing back and forth between aggregation and disaggregation, that process has become inc... » read more

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