Next Generation Memories
Today’s systems integrate processors, graphics, as well as memory and storage, often referred to as the memory/storage hierarchy. In the first tier of today’s hierarchy, SRAM is integrate...
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Memory
Without memory, digital electronic circuits would be restricted to designs where the outputs are combinatorial expressions of the inputs. Memory provides state storage which is the basis of all forms...
Creating Tests the PSS Way in SystemVerilog
Portable Stimulus is one of the latest hot topics in the verification space. Mentor, and other vendors, have had tools in this space for some time, and Accellera just recently released the Portable T...
Evolution of Verification Engineers
Excerpts from a conversation of the verification experts on the topic ’Evolution of verification engineers’ : Is this going to be the golden age for verification engineers, or will verification...
System Design with Chiplets
Soft IP is a synthesizable RTL in the form of gate level netlist which is tied to a specific technology node. Hard IP is a routed netlist GDSII which is tied to a specific technology. But Chiplet is ...
Automotive ICs with On-Chip Sensors
Automotive Chips are different from the regular chips used in other applications like smart phones, music systems, laptops, etc. One needs to consider the extreme environmental conditions of engine c...
India – The new hub for chip design
Texas Instruments India MD Santosh Kumar says the complexity of chips is rising so much given the new requirements that the need for validation and verification talent has grown significantly. The US...
AJIT – ‘Made in India’ Microprocessor
Engineers from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) have developed a microprocessor called AJIT, the first to be conceptualised, designed, developed and manufactured in India. T...
India’s Chips – How Good is Desi?
In India, we VLSI engineers mostly work as either front-end TB programmers or back-end EDA experts. Though we engineers lead the semiconductor industry worldwide with the more adoption rate of th...
Is Moore’s law dying?
Every electronic engineer who wants to grow as a Chip Design expert in the semiconductor industry start’s his career with this big question ‘Is Moore’s law dying?’, but ends-up completing his...
