John Blyler

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John has over 40+ years of combined technical and editorial experience in the semiconductor, electronics, and system engineering spaces. He was the editor-in-chief of Chip Design and Semi-Manufacturing Design (SemiMD) magazines. His works have appeared in numerous professional and trade journal publications and in several text books published by Wiley, Elsevier and the IEEE. John teaches systems engineering as an affiliate professor at Portland State University and an online lecturer at Univ. of California at Irvine. He holds a BS in Engineering Physics from Oregon State Univ. and an MS in Electronic Engineering from Cal. State Univ., Northridge.

AI is changing the way that EDA and IP industries design semiconductor chips. (Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash)
Design
EDA and IP Industries Face Dickensian Quandary – Will Value Win Over Complacency?

Fundamental changes are changing the value of EDA and IP, but not for the better. Will AI be the game changer?

Design
AI Use Cases in Semiconductor Manufacturing and the Theory of Adjacent Possible

Keynote speaker at SEMI Pac NW event discussed specific AI use case examples in manufacturing before finishing with TAP and a Cambrian explosion.

John Blyler interview Nikos Zervas, CEO of CAST IP, on the future of IP Royalties. Are they a thing of the past?
Design
IP Royalties Out – Commoditization in?

John Blyler interview Nikos Zervas, CEO of CAST IP, on the future of IP Royalties. Are they a thing of the past?

- Interview (Pt. 1) with Nikos Zervas, CEO of CAST IP, at IOT DevCon 2017, concerning Semiconductor IP Cost and Security in the Internet-of-Things (IOT).
Design
Semiconductor IP Cost and Security in the Internet-of-Things (IOT)

“IP Cost and Security in IOT” – Interview (Pt. 1) with Nikos Zervas, CEO of CAST IP, at IOT DevCon 2017.

John Blyler interview CAST IP CEO Nikos Zervas at DVCon 2016, about the business verses technical issues of semi IP.
Design
 The Business versus the Technical side of Semiconductor IP

What are the business vs technical challenges of semi IP for price-sensitive, low-volume but still critical designs? CAST IP CEO Nikos Zervas answers these questions and more in this interview with John Blyler at DVCon Mar 2016. Originally published on…

imec's fully functional 8-bit organic microprocessor featuring some 4,000 organic thin-film transistors processed directly onto a flexible foil.
Design
Organic Processors Offer Microwatt Applications

Printing low power-low performance microprocessors onto organic materials will open a wide range of cost effective alternatives to silicon-based embedded devices, but resolution remains a problem.

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