Chip Industry Week in Review


The IEEE ISSCC conference was held this week in San Francisco. Among the highlights: IBM detailed an AI accelerator based on its new inferencing dataflow architecture. CEA-Leti presented a chip-scale, ultra-fast, battery-operated EPR spectrometer. QuTech introduced a cryo-CMOS SoC with NV centers in diamond. UTokyo showed its low-jitter PLL architecture for beyond 5G/6G. Imec d... » read more

Technical Paper Round-Up: July 26


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=41 /] Semiconductor Engineering is in the process of building this library of research papers. Please send suggestions (via comments section below) for what else you’d like us to incorporate. If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a good fit f... » read more

HW/SW Co-Design to Configure DNN Models On Energy Harvesting Devices


New technical paper titled "EVE: Environmental Adaptive Neural Network Models for Low-Power Energy Harvesting System" was published by researchers at UT San Antonio, University of Connecticut, and Lehigh University. According to the abstract: "This paper proposes EVE, an automated machine learning (autoML) co-exploration framework to search for desired multi-models with shared weights for... » read more