3D IC Supply Chain: Still Under Construction

By Barbara Jorgensen - 25 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 1

By Barbara Jorgensen and Ed Sperling Stacked die, which promise high levels of integration, a tiny footprint, energy conservation and blinding speed, still have some big hurdles to overcome. Cost, packaging and manufacturability continue to make steady progress, with test chips being produced by all of the major foundries. But in a disaggregated ecosystem, the supply chain remains a big st... » read more

De-Mystifying The SoC Supply Chain

By Ed Sperling - 27 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Barbara Jorgensen At the heart of every supply chain operation is the desire to mitigate risk. In theory, a supply chain allows a customer to leverage the best of the best in technology, logistics or production at a lower cost than DIY (do it yourself.) The system on chip (SoC) supply chain is no different—there’s a whole ecosystem in the semiconductor industry that supports design, pro... » read more

The Week In Review: June 21

By Ed Sperling - 21 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Mentor Graphics rolled out emulation-ready verification IP for MIPI camera and display-based protocols. The VIP enables stimuli generated by UVM and SystemC-based environments and applies them to a design under test (DUT) running in the emulator. Synopsys introduced a tool for implementing and verifying functional engineering change orders, including matching, visualization ... » read more

Experts At The Table: Changes In The Ecosystem

By Ed Sperling - 20 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design sat down with Michael Buehler-Garcia, director of design solutions marketing at Mentor Graphics; Seow Yin Lim, group director for marketing at Cadence; Kevin Kranen, director of strategic alliances at Synopsys, and Tom Quan, director at TSMC. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SMD: What’s changing in the ecosystem and ho... » read more

Manufacturing Ecosystem Challenges

By Ed Sperling - 19 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

What are the challenges facing semiconductor manufacturers and designers at the leading edge of Moore's Law? Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design asked Kevin Kranen of Synopsys, Seow Yin Lim of Cadence, Michael Buehler-Garcia of Mentor Graphics and Tom Quan of TSMC. [youtube vid=d6-zMJSxnpg] » read more

Executive Briefing: Stacking The Odds

By Ed Sperling - 29 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

Open-Silicon CEO Naveed Sherwani talks with System-Level Design about progress on 2.5D and 3D stacked die, why this approach is inevitable, when it will begin and what markets will use it first. [youtube vid=mzwpgDKuIok] » read more

Beyond Software: The Virtual-Machine Supply System

By The SE Staff - 25 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

It’s no secret that EDA and IP companies have had to expand their coverage into the larger system market, thanks to changes in the semiconductor supply chain. Around 2000, the industry was very fragmented. Mobile-chip and IP vendors worked with handset makers, who then partnered with operating-system (OS) suppliers and finally network operators. The next 12 years resulted in various combinati... » read more

Supply Chain Catch-Up

By Ed Sperling - 18 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

There always will be a few big companies marching to the latest process node available to them. The problem these days isn’t their commitment to pushing forward. It’s the baggage train following them. It’s getting longer, more diverse, and in some cases, it’s falling out of sync. The foundries are out in front with 14nm finFETs, and they’re already working on 10nm transistors—pos... » read more

Inside The System-Level Supply Chain

By Ed Sperling - 31 Jan, 2013 - Comments: 0

System-Level Design sat down to discuss supply chain issues with Bill Chown product marketing director for the system-level engineering division at Mentor Graphics and a longtime participant in a number of standards efforts across the semiconductor design industry. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SLD: What’s happening with system engineering as chip design/manufacturing mo... » read more

Changes In The Supply Chain

By Ed Sperling - 31 Jan, 2013 - Comments: 0

Runaway complexity in design, implementation, verification and manufacturing is being mirrored across an increasingly complex supply chain. Now the question is what to do about it. Complexity is being driven by the continued shrinking of feature sizes and the clamor for more functionality to leverage the real estate that becomes available with each new process node. But the increased density... » read more

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