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Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 14 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

Worldwide silicon wafer shipments declined nearly 2.7% to 12,266 million square inches in 2024, with wafer revenue contracting 6.5% to $11.5 billion, according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group. CSIS released a new report, “Critical Minerals and the Future of the U.S. Economy,” with detailed analysis and policy recommendations for building a secure mineral supply chain for semicond... » read more

Signal Integrity Plays Increasingly Critical Role In Chiplet Design
By Ann Mutschler - 13 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

Maintaining the quality and reliability of electrical signals as they travel through interconnects is proving to be much more challenging with chiplets and advanced packaging than in monolithic SoCs and PCBs. Signal integrity is a fundamental requirement for all chips and systems, but it becomes more difficult with chiplets due to reflections, loss, crosstalk, process variation, and various ... » read more

What Exactly Is Multi-Physics?
By Brian Bailey - 13 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

Multi-physics is the new buzzword in semiconductor design and analysis, but the fuzziness of the term is a reflection of just how many new and existing problems need to be addressed simultaneously in the design flow with advanced nodes and packaging. This disaggregation of planar SoCs and the inclusion of more processing elements, memories, interconnects, and passives inside a package has cr... » read more

Optimizing DFT With AI And BiST
By Gregory Haley - 12 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to explore how AI impacts design for testability, with Jeorge Hurtarte, senior director of product marketing in the Semiconductor Test Group at Teradyne; Sri Ganta, director of test products at Synopsys; Dave Armstrong, principal test strategist at Advantest; and Lee Harrison, director of Tessent automotive IC solutions at Siemens EDA. Wh... » read more

Why HPC Chip Designers Are Looking Into Linear Pluggable Optics
By Synopsys - 12 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

This paper delves into the technical complexities and emerging trends in integrating linear pluggable optics within AI chip design. The rapid growth of hyperscale data centers, driven by the demands of LLMs and transformative AI applications, requires innovative solutions optimized for power, latency, and bandwidth. Emerging industry standards are ensuring interoperability between independently... » read more

Hyperconvergence Of Design For Test And Physical Design
By Sri Ganta - 11 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

By Sri Ganta and Hyoung-Kook Kim In today’s highly competitive semiconductor industry, chip-design companies strive for competitive advantages by optimizing designs for PPA (Power, Performance, Area). Along with the functional logic, design cores also comprise DFT (Design for Test) logic that spreads across the design. The DFT logic also must be optimized for PPA, requiring design implemen... » read more

Silent Data Errors Still Slipping Through The Cracks
By Laura Peters - 11 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

Silent data corruption errors in large server farms have become a major concern of cloud users, hyperscalers, processor manufacturers and the test community. Silent data errors (also called silent data corruption errors) are hardware errors that occur when an incorrect computational result from a processor core goes undetected by the system. The data is silently corrupted because neither sof... » read more

Simulation Closes Gap Between Chip Design Optimization And Manufacturability
By Gregory Haley - 11 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

Simulation is playing an increasingly critical and central role throughout the design-through-manufacturing flow, fusing together everything from design to manufacturing and test in order to reduce the number and cost of silicon respins. The sheer density of modern chips, combined with advanced packaging techniques like 3D stacking and heterogeneous integration, has made iterative physical p... » read more

Certified TRNG For Automotive
By Dana Neustadter - 06 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

In today's tech-driven world, security and safety are more critical than ever, especially in the automotive sector. As cars become smarter and more connected, the need for robust cryptographic mechanisms to safeguard data and ensure secure communications grows. For decades, the automotive industry has been implementing numerous strategies to maintain vehicle safety. But now the industry is star... » read more

Automotive Outlook 2025: Ecosystem Pivots Around SDV
By Ann Mutschler - 06 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

The automotive industry is deep in the throes of a massive shift to software-defined vehicle architectures, a multi-year effort that will change the way automotive chips are designed, where they are used, and how they are sourced. Creating a new vehicle architecture is no small feat. OEMs need to figure out who to partner with and which aspects of their current architecture to include. This ... » read more

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