2021-09-08 - Renesas Electronics Corp.

Renesas enhances Lab on the Cloud environment

Renesas has expanded its popular Lab on the Cloud environment to simplify the configuration and testing process and speed time…

2021-09-06 - Mark Waller

Analog layout: Why wells, taps, and guard rings are crucial

Here are the key examples of well, taps and guard rings, and why these structures are essential to the layout…

2021-08-19 - Kevin McDermott

Enabling industrial-grade open verification for RISC-V

Here's a look at an open-source IP with industrial-grade verification and open methodology to support verification of an open-source CV32E40P…

2021-07-14 - Kedar Patankar

Common silicon issues in analog IP integration

Even novel process enhancements are coming up short in the face of massive gate counts placed side by side with…

2021-07-08 - Kedar Patankar

Chip design converges with packaging and PCB in SoC era

SoC developers must become system developers to properly integrate analog and digital IP in silicon and handle extraordinary complexity and…

2021-06-18 - Deekshith Krishnegowda, Marvell Semiconductor

Avoid setup- or hold-time violations during clock domain crossing

To avoid data loss, designers need to ensure that setup- or hold-time violations don't occur during clock domain crossing.

2021-06-04 - Deepak Shankar, Anupurba Mukherjee, and Tom Jose, Mirabilis Design Inc.

FPGAs for SoC design verification

Using FPGAs to verify the SoC design is a powerful tool and is becoming a very important part of semiconductor…

2021-05-31 - Benoit de Lescure

Network-on-chip architecture displaces a crossbar approach

When the number elements on an SoC grows, a crossbar approach for interconnect doesn't work and network-on-chip architecture is required.

2021-05-24 - Jeff Hockert

Optical interconnects can meet data center challenges

Data center networks can be revolutionized with optical I/O directly designed in server chips and packages.

2021-04-19 - Richard Quinnell

Print active electronic components and their interconnection

Roller-based techniques and tools can now fabricate active electronic components as well as their interconnection.