The Week In Review: IoT

By Jeff Dorsch - 28 Jul, 2017 - Comments: 0

Finance August Home received $25 million in Series C funding, bringing its total funding to $75 million. Existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Comcast Ventures, Maveron, and Qualcomm Ventures were joined by AGL, Liberty Mutual, and SPDG. The Internet of Things startup will use the money to expand operations and to extend its offerings in home access products and services. Prospera, ... » read more

What Does An IoT Chip Look Like?

By Ed Sperling - 19 Jul, 2017 - Comments: 4

By Ed Sperling and Jeff Dorsch Internet of Things chip design sounds like a simple topic on the face of it. Look deeper, though, and it becomes clear there is no single IoT, and certainly no type of chip that will work across the ever-expanding number of applications and markets that collectively make up the IoT. Included under this umbrella term are sensors, various types of processors, ... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: July 18

By Jesse Allen - 18 Jul, 2017 - Comments: 0

Ad hoc "cache hierarchies" Researchers at MIT and Carnegie Mellon University designed a system that reallocates cache access on the fly, to create new "cache hierarchies" tailored to the needs of particular programs. Dubbed Jenga, the system distinguishes between the physical locations of the separate memory banks that make up the shared cache. For each core, Jenga knows how long it would t... » read more

Using An Integrated Subsystem To Accelerate Data Fusion In Your SoC

By Rich Collins - 13 Jul, 2017 - Comments: 0

The fusion of sensor data, voice, audio and biometrics is constantly increasing the processing requirements for applications in mobile, automotive and IoT markets. Next-generation digital sensors require higher bandwidths, and more advanced voice detection and speech recognition algorithms are driving the development of progressively more complex embedded ICs. Sensor fusion to data fusion T... » read more

CMOS Image Sensors (CIS): Past, Present & Future

By Sofiane Guissi - 15 Jun, 2017 - Comments: 6

Over the last decade, CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) technology has made impressive progress. Image sensor performance has dramatically improved over the years, and CIS technology has enjoyed great commercial success since the introduction of mobile phones using onboard cameras. Many people, including scientists and marketing specialists, predicted 15 years earlier that CMOS image sensors were going t... » read more

Tech Talk: Neural Networks

By Ed Sperling - 08 Jun, 2017 - Comments: 0

Megha Daga, senior technical marketing manager at Cadence, talks with Semiconductor Engineering about convolutional neural networks, including the bandwidth and compute challenges associated with them. » read more

Will Higher Production Costs Hamper IoT Growth?

By Joanne Itow - 22 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

No question, 2017 is expected to be a good year for the semiconductor industry. Semiconductor revenues for 2017 are expected to increase more than 9% this year. A 6% increase in unit sales, as well as higher average selling prices for memory products, will help drive the revenue growth rate to its highest level since 2010. Wafer demand is forecast to grow by almost 8%. The higher revenue growth... » read more

Synthetic Sensors: Towards General-Purpose Sensing (Carnegie Mellon Univ)

By Technical Paper Link - 16 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

Source: Carnegie Mellon University, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Gierad Laput, Yang Zhang, Chris Harrison Although ubiquitous sensors seem almost synonymous with the IoT, some Carnegie Mellon University researchers say sensing with a single, general purpose sensor for each room may be better. The team has developed a plug-in sensor package that monitors multiple phenomena — sou... » read more

The Week In Review: IoT

By Jeff Dorsch - 12 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

Conferences The Internet of Things World conference is on tap next week at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley. There will be more than 250 exhibitors on the show floor, with 11,000 attendees expected. More than 400 speakers will make presentations over three days, May 16-17-18. ON Semiconductor will have a number of IoT-related products to demonstrate at its booth, including i... » read more

The Future of Testing

By Jeff Dorsch - 08 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

In our previous test blog posts, we looked at the history of automated test equipment for semiconductors and for printed circuit boards. This month, we look ahead to the test technologies that are emerging. The chip ATE field has essentially boiled down to Advantest, Teradyne, and Xcerra (LTX-Credence), while the board test market is dominated by Teradyne and Keysight Technologies (formerly ... » read more

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The Week In Review: IoT

What Does An IoT Chip Look Like?

Power/Performance Bits: July 18

Using An Integrated Subsystem To Accelerate Data Fusion In Your SoC

CMOS Image Sensors (CIS): Past, Present & Future

Tech Talk: Neural Networks

Will Higher Production Costs Hamper IoT Growth?

Synthetic Sensors: Towards General-Purpose Sensing (Carnegie Mellon Univ)

The Week In Review: IoT

The Future of Testing