Hardware Models For Software
Shift left, while a relatively new term, has become important in all parts of the SoC design flow, but its impacts are wide ranging and many still ill defined. It basically means that tasks have to be...
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Consolidation’s Aftermath
The recent spate of industry consolidation continues to have repercussions across the semiconductor industry. Some of those effects will subside once the deals are either approved or nixed by...
View ArticleBehind The Intel-Altera Deal
Intel completed its $16.7 billion acquisition of Altera this week, wrapping up what is arguably the semiconductor industry’s most important M&A transaction of 2015. Time and numbers will tell...
View ArticleThe Week In Review: Design/IoT
Intel completed its $16.7 billion acquisition of Altera this week. Check out our analysis of why this may be the most important M&A deal of 2015 for the semiconductor industry, and the challenges...
View ArticleBlog Review: Jan. 13
Is it time for one of the Seven Wonders to return? In this week’s top engineering and tech picks, Ansys’ Justin Nescott highlights a project to rebuild the Colossus of Rhodes. Plus, new tech for cars...
View ArticleAdvanced Packaging Is Real. Now What?
For the past five years, it’s been clear that 2.5D, fan-outs and other forms of system-in-package were on the horizon. Exactly when they would arrive no one knew. The most common prediction was that...
View ArticleBlog Review: Jan. 20
How far can you go on solar power? 493 million miles, at least if you’re the Juno spacecraft. Plus, winemaking gets a boost from submarine technology, in this week’s top tech picks from Ansys’ Bill...
View ArticleBlog Review: Feb. 17
While there have been successes for 3D-IC, the technology has stalled trying to move into the mainstream market, says Mentor’s Michael White. So what has kept it from crossing the chasm? Synopsys’...
View ArticleThe Big Shift
The number of chipmakers that truly can differentiate their products by moving to the next process node is falling, and that pool will continue to shrink even further over the next few years. Processor...
View ArticleBlog Review: March 16
A bacterium that chows down on plastic could be a boon to reducing our huge piles of plastic waste, in this week’s top five tech picks from Ansys’ Bill Vandermark. Plus, silicon photonics got one step...
View ArticleHow Many Cores?
New chip architectures and new packaging options—including fan-outs and 2.5D—are changing basic design considerations for how many cores are needed, what they are used for, and how to solve some...
View ArticleBlog Review: April 13
A Lam Research staff writer discusses the transformational effects of NAND flash memory and looks at the challenges of the next step: building 3D NAND structures. With the recent reports of people...
View ArticleBlog Review: April 27
In a video, Cadence’s Chris Rowan looks at the future of neural networks, particularly the shift from cloud-based to embedded devices and what we can increasingly expect from them. Waiting for RTL?...
View ArticleRethinking Processor Architectures
The semiconductor industry’s obsession with clock speeds, cores and how many transistors fit on a piece of silicon may be nearing an end for real this time. The IEEE said it will develop the...
View ArticlePower-Centric Chip Architectures
As traditional scaling runs out of steam, new chip architectures are emerging with power as the starting point. While this trend has been unfolding for some time, it is getting an extra boost and sense...
View ArticleARM Buys Apical
ARM completed its acquisition of Apical Ltd. for $350 million in cash. Apical provides embedded computer vision and imaging technology, which ARM said has been utilized in more than 1.5 billion...
View ArticleMenta Embeds FPGA Programmability
What constitutes a startup can be a matter of the market segment you are going after and the type of product that you are building. Within EDA, we often think of the lifetime of a company being just a...
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CPU, GPU, or FPGA?
Nvidia’s new GeForce GTX 1080 gaming graphics card is a piece of work. Employing the company’s Pascal architecture and featuring chips made with a 16nm finFET process, the GTX 1080’s GP104 graphics...
View ArticleThe Road To 5nm
There is strong likelihood that enough companies will move to 7nm to warrant the investment. How many will move forward to 5nm is far less certain. Part of the reason for this uncertainty is...
View ArticleBlog Review: June 29
Ansys’ Justin Nescott checks out the world’s first electric highway for trucking in this week’s top five tech picks. Plus, some cool houses, Boston Dynamics’ giraffe-bot, and a drum kit in a backpack....
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