Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that AMD is deploying Synopsys’ Fusion Compiler™ RTL-to-GDSII product for its full-flow, digital-design implementation. Based on an evaluation process, the Fusion Compiler product delivered industry-leading performance, power and area (PPA) metrics. This work has additionally resulted in an expanded collaboration between Synopsys and AMD to optimize Synopsys applications on AMD EPYC™ processors, targeted to deliver marked runtime acceleration benefits when deploying the Fusion Compiler RTL-to-GDSII product across servers powered by AMD EPYC processors. These advancements will be made available to all users in upcoming service packs.
Semiconductors
Qualcomm Executive Joins Si2 Board of Directors
Pankaj Kukkal, vice president of Engineering at Qualcomm Inc., has been elected to the Silicon Integration Initiative board of directors. Si2 is a leading research and development joint venture that provides standard interoperability solutions for integrated circuit design tools.
Creating Custom Light Using 2D Materials
Researchers from UNIGE and the University of Manchester have discovered structures based on two-dimensional materials that emit tailor-made light in any color you could wish for.
KIST Unveils the Mystery of van der Waals Magnets, A Material for Future Semiconductors
Drs. Chaun Jang, Jun Woo Choi, and Hyejin Ryu of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, President Lee Byung Gwon) have announced that their team at KIST’s Center for Spintronics successfully controlled the magnetic properties of FGT (Fe3GeTe2) in a joint research project with Dr. Se Young Park and his team at the Center for Correlated Electron Systems at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS). Fe3GeTe2 has recently attracted attention as a material for next-generation spintronic semiconductors.
Renesas Electronics and 3db Access to Collaborate and Bring Secure Ultra-Wideband Solutions to Market
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and 3db Access AG, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in secure ultra-wideband (UWB) low power chips, jointly announced that Renesas will license 3db UWB technology and will collaborate to bring best-in-class secure access solutions to the connected smart home, Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, mobile computing, and connected vehicle applications. The collaboration combines each company’s technical leadership in performance, size reduction, ultra-low power consumption, and security to deliver breakthrough multi-receiver UWB solutions to the global market.
Five Semiconductor Companies Hold 53% of Global Wafer Capacity
Leaders in memory IC and foundry production maintain strongest capacity presence.
SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium Europe to Explore Tech’s Role in Meeting Region’s Most Pressing Needs
“ISS Europe is a powerful forum for identifying collaboration opportunities to strengthen Europe’s competitive advantage in the digital economy,” said Laith Altimime, president of SEMI Europe. “With the emergence of 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), quantum computing and other leading-edge technologies, the semiconductor industry is well-positioned to help drive the digital transformation for Europe’s societal and economic prosperity.”
David K. Lam to Unveil “Security Lithography” Advances to Thwart IC Counterfeiting at SPIE
Silicon Valley Hall of Famer and Founder of Lam Research to present unsurpassed levels of on-chip security enabled by Multicolumn E-beam Lithography (MEBL)
Powering the Future: Smallest All-Digital Circuit Opens Doors to 5nm Next-Gen Semiconductor
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Socionext Inc. have designed the world’s smallest all-digital phase-locked loop (PLL). PLLs are critical clocking circuits in virtually all digital applications, and reducing their size and improving their performance is a necessary step to enabling the development of next-generation technologies.
Moving Precision Communication, Metrology, Quantum Applications From Lab to Chip
The field of photonic integration — the area of photonics in which waveguides and devices are fabricated as an integrated system onto a flat wafer — is relatively young compared to electronics.
