Future Facilities core drives Cadence thermal suite
Cadence has introduced a platform for performing thermal and thermal-stress analysis of subsystems, from 2.5D and 3DICs to PCBs and complete electronic assemblies.
Tech Design Forum Briefing
Briefing Authors
Paul Dempsey
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
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
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.
Take a deeper dive into BCI-ROM
A new paper looks at examples for using The Boundary Condition Independent Reduced Order Model (BCI-ROM) in its VHDL-AMS implementation for electro-thermal analysis.
DVCon gears up for March in San Jose
Workshops on portable stimulus, functional safety, verification of RISC-V processors, and design with chiplets and large language models will feature at the upcoming 2024 DVCon US.
Flow stability and chip reliability top the papers at DVCon Europe
The two best papers at the recent DVCon Europe underlined two of the issues that now face chip-implementation teams: efficient flows and reliability.
Sustainability work puts numbers on chipmaking production at IEDM
Shifting to low-carbon generation for electricity would do much to cut the carbon footprint of semiconductor processes according to work shown at this year’s IEDM.
FD-SOI processes lead to double-decker monolithic 3D
At IEDM, CEA-Leti described a process that avoids the thermal problems of implementing CMOS transistors in the metal stack using monolithic integration.
Applied and CEA-Leti team up for novel materials R&D
Applied Materials and CEA-Leti have expanded their collaboration with the creation of a joint lab to develop materials useful for sensors, RF communications, and power devices, and with a focus on heterogeneous integration.
Zero ASIC open sources system simulation/emulation platform
Start-up launches platform on path to the specification, emulation and simulation of large chiplet-based designs.
EMA spins off IP, content and services activities
EMA Design Automation to launch sister company, Accelerated Designs, to help clients streamline processes, cut manual effort, and connect data.
Benchmarking the maturity of AI in EDA
Solido discusses how it has leveraged AI for SPICE level efficiency and the benchmarks it has used.