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Blog Review: June 17
By Jesse Allen - 17 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

Can big data help farmers produce bigger crops? From Iowa to Indonesia, Rambus' Aharon Etengoff looks at programs combining sensors, drones, and analytics where narrowing the odds of the next catastrophic crop failure is just the beginning. Forget any preconceptions you might have about the non-profit sector, says ARM's Dominic Vergine. UNICEF's global procurement hub looks and runs like an ... » read more

Consolidation And Innovation
By Ed Sperling - 16 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

Consolidation is happening across the semiconductor industry, in ways that are very apparent and others that aren't so obvious. On the chipmaker side, NXP's acquisition of Freescale, Avago's acquisition of Broadcom and LSI, and Intel's acquisition of Altera are so big that they require approval by multiple governments. Less obvious are moves such as Apple's build out of its processor team, a... » read more

Managing Dynamic Power
By Ann Mutschler - 16 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

Working with finFETs is a study in contrasts. While leakage is now under control for the first time in several process generations due to the advent of different gate technology, dynamic power density caused by tightly packed transistors and higher clock speeds has become the big issue. “FinFET technology helps with reducing static/leakage power so when your logic is not active, you can sh... » read more

SoC Integration Headaches Grow
By Ed Sperling - 16 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

As the number of IP blocks grows, so do the headaches of integrating the various pieces and making sure they perform as planned within a prescribed power envelope. This is easier said than done, particularly at the most advanced process nodes. There are more blocks, more power domains, more states and use-model dependencies, and there is much more contention for memories. There are physical ... » read more

New Directions For EDA
By Brian Bailey - 16 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

DAC is over and everyone is asking – what was the theme this year? It is sometimes difficult to make such a determination because quite often the theme has been there for some time, but suddenly appears more obvious than it did in the past. Some years it is a new product or class of products. The theme also can remain hidden, or disguised. As an example, people have been talking about the ... » read more

Analog’s Day Of Reckoning
By Brian Bailey - 16 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

The numbers being touted by the semiconductor industry for IoT edge devices are staggering. How they are going to be used, who will make them, or indeed who will make money from them are much less certain. The industry seems to be clear about the content of these devices. A small processor, some flash memory or possibly even some of the new memory technologies that are coming along, a radio ... » read more

Confidence Is The New Verification
By Srikanth Jadcherla - 16 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

Everywhere around us the devices we use are getting connected to each other digitally. New devices that sense and quantify the parameters we need to make decisions are also being created. It is estimated that 26 billion connected devices will be installed by 2020, or roughly four per person on the planet! The whole purpose of the connected device is to observe/report and control remotely, of... » read more

IP Integration Challenges Increase
By Ed Sperling - 16 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Chris Rowen, CTO of [getentity id="22032" e_name="Cadence"]'s IP group; Rob Aitken, an [getentity id="22186" comment="ARM"] fellow; Patrick Soheili, vice president of product management and corporate development at [getentity id="22242" e_name="eSilicon"]; Navraj Nandra, senior director of marketing for DesignWare analog and mixed-signal IP at [getentity ... » read more

Mentor, Cadence Join Forces
By Ed Sperling - 15 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

Mentor Graphics and Cadence have agreed to create a single binary interface for their respective simulation and emulation platforms, allowing debug tools from one vendor to run on the other's platforms. The two have invited [getentity id="22035" e_name="Synopsys"] to join their initiative, as well. So far, there is no decision. The move proposes a single API for both [getentity id="22032"... » read more

Using An Embedded Vision Processor To Build An Efficient Object Recognition System
By Synopsys - 15 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

Computer vision is a discipline that was established in the 1960s. With the advent of high-performance mobile computing platforms, we see rapid progress in computer vision capabilities. Machine vision is becoming embedded in highly integrated SoCs and expanding into emerging high-volume consumer applications such as home surveillance, games, and automotive safety. A major challenge in enabling ... » read more

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