Paul Dempsey has been a technology journalist for 20 years. His work has also appeared in EETimes, Red Herring and specialist journals published by the Financial Times.
Luke Collins is a freelance technology journalist with 22 years’ experience. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronics Times in the UK, and co-founded the IP9x series of conferences.
Chris Edwards has spent two decades covering electronics and EDA. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Engineering Times UK and electronics editor of the IET's Engineering & Technology.
At IEDM, TSMC is at the top of several papers that examine how 2D materials might be put into action as successors to silicon, alongside work from a variety of institutions on power integration and thermal management.
The start-ups virtualization platform has already been gaining traction in comms and security.
Tessent Multi-die extends the capabilities of the DFT suite in line with new standards intended to enable widespread adoption of interposer and stacked die strategies.
Nvidia revealed at its Fall GTC work the company has done on a bidirectional energy-saving chiplet interconnect that could hit the equivalent of 50Gbit/s per line.
Agile Analog has launched its own digital standard cell library, designed to be used in the control circuits for analog blocks that form the IP company’s main offering.
Cadence has brought the inputs for its AI-driven tools under the umbrella of a big-data collection platform and added functional verification to the list of products that use machine learning.
X-Fab is using IHP technology to add a 130nm silicon germanium process to its offering.
The system-in-package and module trends in system design promote bringing together physical (DRC) and electrical (LVS) verification.
Equivalence checking supports the efficient reuse of designs that reside on out-of-date silicon but remain valid in their own right.
5G IC designs have needed aggressive innovation across many elements and more use of FD-SOI that both pose parasitic extraction challenges.