Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that the new release of the Cadence® digital full flow—proven with hundreds of completed advanced-node tapeouts—has been enhanced to further optimize power, performance and area (PPA) results across a variety of application areas including automotive, mobile, networking, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI). The flow features multiple industry-first capabilities including unified placement and physical optimization engines plus machine learning (ML) capabilities, enabling design excellence with up to 3X faster throughput and up to 20% improved PPA.
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“Black Swan” Event Triggers Revision to 2020 IC Market Forecast
The recent surge of the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) and its anticipated negative impact on the global economy and IC market definitely fits the definition of a Black Swan event.
OnScale is Providing Free Cloud Core-Hours to Customers to Mitigate Engineering Productivity Loss Related to the Coronavirus Outbreak
OnScale, the global leader in Cloud Engineering Simulation, today announces that it will provide free cloud core-hours to customers to promote customer safety and mitigate any productivity loss due to office shutdowns. OnScale has already officially closed its global offices to protect the health and safety of OnScale employees.
Pathways Toward Realizing the Promise of All-Solid-State Batteries
In a review article published in the March 2020 issue of Nature Nanotechnology, nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego offer a research roadmap that includes four challenges that need to be addressed in order to advance a promising class of batteries–all-solid-state batteries–to commercialization. This article summarizes the team’s work to tackle these challenges over the past three years, which have been reported in several peer-reviewed articles published in various journals.
The Need for IoT Security At the Chip Level
A critical element to successful IoT security chips is public key infrastructure (PKI). All IoT devices with these chips require a strong identity, which will then be used for secure authentication.
Advent of 5G and AI Chip Manufacturing Renews the Need for Advanced Semiconductor Testing Systems
A surge in semiconductor test volumes and stringent test demands from the communication, consumer electronics, automotive and healthcare verticals are expected to revive the semiconductor industry following a sharp decline in revenues for the global semiconductor automated test equipment market in 2019.
Transistor Count Trends Continue to Track with Moore’s Law
Though growth rates in some product categories have slowed, doubling of transistors per chip every two years remains a guideline that the industry continues to follow.
Groovy Key to Nanotubes in 2D
Ultrathin carbon nanotubes crystals could have wonderous uses, like converting waste heat into electricity with near-perfect efficiency, and Rice University engineers have taken a big step toward that goal. The latest step continues a story that began in 2013, when Rice’s Junichiro Kono and his students discovered a breakthrough method for making carbon nanotubes line up in thin films on a filter membrane.
Global Fab Equipment Spending Poised for 2021 Record High
Global fab equipment spending promises to rebound from its 2019 downturn and see a modest recovery this year before a sharp uptick drives record investments in 2021, SEMI reported today in the latest update of its World Fab Forecast report. The report shows a slow recovery in 2020 – 3% year-over-year (YoY) growth to US$57.8 billion – owing in large part to an 18% expected slump in the first half of 2020 from the second half of 2019. The picture should brighten in the second half of this year as a recovery starts to take hold.
Xilinx Launches Industry’s First SmartNIC Platform Bringing Turnkey Network, Storage and Compute Acceleration to Cloud Data Centers
Xilinx, Inc. announced the industry’s first SmartNIC platform delivering true convergence of network, storage and compute acceleration functions on a single device. The Alveo™ U25 SmartNIC is designed to bring the greater efficiency and lower TCO benefits of SmartNICs to cloud service providers, telcos, and private cloud data center operators struggling with increasing networking demands and rising costs.
