Verification Futures heads to the US in September
Tessolve is bringing its Verification Futures conference to the US with an event scheduled for mid-September.
Author Archives: Chris Edwards
Backside power shows promise but more complex manufacturing
Backside power delivery could lead to improvements in chip density and more straightforward place-and-route phases according to work presented at this year’s VLSI Symposium.
Ferroelectric memory moves closer with VLSI experiments
Ferroelectric memory may be able to stage a comeback thanks to materials innovations as work presented at VLSI Symposium have shown, though there is still plenty to do.
‘Two wafers are better than one’ for 3D flash
Western Digital's head of technology set out at the recent VLSI Symposium the ways in which flash makers can scale without costs accelerating.
AI’s possible roles in verification covered at VF2023
The recent Verification Futures Europe conference looked at what AI, from decision trees to foundation models, could do to speed up RTL checks.
UK consortium tapes out cryo-SRAM
A UK cryogenic-CMOS research project has taped out its first demonstrator chip for core memory IP expected to be able to operate at close to absolute zero.
Co-design underpins infrastructure acceleration at Google
At the recent VLSI Symposium, Google vice president Parthasarathy Ranganathan described the importance of co-design and the software stack in its data-center designs.
Air-filled waveguides to cut losses in mass-market radar
AT&S and Imec partnered to develop a way of putting low-loss waveguides into conventional PCBs to support D-band automotive radar and 6G modules.
Semidynamics adds flexible vectors to RISC-V cores
Semidynamics has released a customizable vector unit with out-of-order execution support to accompany its 64bit RISC-V processor cores.
X-Fab introduces BCD-on-SOI at 110nm
X-Fab Silicon Foundries claims to be the first with a foundry offering for 110nm BCD-on-SOI technology, aimed primarily at automotive designers.