Perspectives
Digital systems engineering and perspectives on chip design
Today we are in the age of Digital Convergence seeing a major change in the way digital electronics systems are designe…
Wireless
Libelium opens the new ‘kitchen’ for electronics enthusiasts
Hardware design specialist Libelium opens a new community site for electronics enthusiasts offering a wide range of tut…
Wireless
Video review of the OpenPICUS first Webserver application
In march we had an article covering the Italian project made to fill the gap between Embedded Low Cost and Wireless. T…
Verification
Peer code review of RTL, Test bench, Test Cases for 100% Verification closure
The topic of "peer code review" is a widely discussed topic in the context of design verification. I remember…
Intel
Infineon wireless unit to be a "seperate legal entity"?
From the open forum that happened at Infineon today it was made clear that the carved out wireless division will be a s…
Video Lectures
IIT Video Lectures Available for all on YouTube
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and IITs, the premier engineering colleges of India, have earlier joined hands t…
Lighting
Join the YES campaign of "Just One Light" initiative
Say YES for changing ONE light to LED at home. Get your organization to say YES to change ONE light per employee to LED…
Intel
Intel buys Infineon wireless
As per the management email sent to Infineon employees this morning, Infineon and Intel have signed the contracts relat…
Intel
Intel's acquisition of Infineon's wireless business
Linley Gwennap says "Making it clear that money is no object in its quest to become a major player in the smartph…
Motivational speaking
Motivational Speaker - John Foley ( Former Blue Angel)
Our company today hosted a renowned motivational speaker Mr. John Foley of Blue Angels fame. The title of the talk be…
Jobs
Job openings @ Infineon Technologies India Pvt Ltd
Infineon Technologies India Pvt Ltd has some openings for full time and contract positions. If you are interested in ap…
Press Release
Femtocell-enabled home energy management solution
ip.access, the leading developer of femtocell and picocell solutions, and AlertMe.com, the pioneer in home energy mana…
mentor graphics
High-Level Synthesis Blue Book
The High Level Synthesis Blue Book is a comprehensive guide for designing hardware using C++. It is targeted to RTL…
Mobile Phone
High-def iPhone 4
This new model available in black or white from June 24 has an unchanged pricing at $199 for the 16GB model and $299 fo…
SNUG
SNUG India 2010 Registrations Open
The conference schedule and the registration links can be found here . With a program that is focused on helping you de…
Physical Design
Clock network design
In this blog post, we will discuss some of the challenges and techniques involved in designing a clock network for a ve…
Physical Design
IR drop driven placement
The objective here is to explore placement techniques which can lead to reduction in IR drop. One way to do this is to …
SPICE
Clock skew variation estimation
Clock skew variation estimation is an important topic in the design and analysis of high-performance digital circuits. …
Physical Design
Impact of dummy fill on timing
How can you quantify the impact of dummy fill on post-layout timing? Dummy fill can be inserted into a layout using SO…
Timing
The effect of whitespace and aspect ratio on wirelength and timing
Whitespaces (empty space) are inserted in layouts in order to increase the routing resources of the chip. Have you ever…
Statistical Timing Analysis
Investigation on timing analysis inaccuracies
Timing analysis inaccuracies due to crosstalk, multiple gate input switching, supply voltage variation, temperature, ma…
Physical Design
Distributions in statistical timing
How do you observe and highlight the impact of assumptions on gate-length variability distributions (if any) on final d…
Wire Length Models
Effect of WLM and target frequency on performance
How do you quantify the effect of WireLength Models (WLM) and target frequency on the post-routing timing results?
Power Supplies
Dynamic power supply
Power gating adds enabling signals to a power supply network; dynamic power supply management adjusts supply voltage ac…
Interview Questions
Clock tree theory
Constructing a zero-skew clock tree can be formulated as constructing a path-length balanced tree (assuming path delay …
Symmetrical Clock Routing
Statistical clock tree design
Clock skew is a function of process variation, i.e., delay from the clock source to a leave of the clock tree is a stat…
Physical Design
Clock driver input alignment
Modern clock networks include several drivers in which delays are affected by the timing of their input signal transiti…
Re-Timing
Re-timing tackles long combinational logic paths
Re-timing reduces longest combinational logic paths by relocating some of the flip-flops, both logically and physically…
Technology Mapping
Transistor level technology remapping
This is a process of combining several cells to form new library cells, and to optimize a transistor level netlist. Thi…
Sizing
Transistor sizing / multi-Vt design
This task usually starts with a placed and routed design, then generating a transistor level netlist for it and further…
Statistical Timing Analysis
Process variation extraction
Process variation extraction needs to be design specific, and based on random field simulation, as mechanical engineeri…
Interviews
Interview with Anuj Valmiki, VLSI Design Manager
Anuj, who's worked on video chips for nearly 20 years, is a great role model for all practicing engineers. He'…
Interview Questions
Backend physical design Interview Questions
Updated 28 Aug 2023: I have listed below a set of common interview questions asked mainly in interviews related to phys…
Technical Leadership
Insulting leadership practices
Here are five of the most insulting leadership practices , the ones that virtually guarantee a business will end up wi…
Top 10
RTL synthesis and other backend Interview Questions (with answers)
Q1: How would you speed up an ASIC design project by parallel computing? Which design stages can be distributed for pa…
Semicoductor
Quantum chips will replace silicon chips anyways
Physicists at McGill University in the US now have a system where they can measure the energy involved in adding elect…
University
University of Washington: Fall Lecture Series
Each fall, the UW College of Engineering partners with the UW Alumni Association to present a series of free lectures …
Skills
Ways to improve your Interview Skills
With so much useful advise and talented career experts out there with often differing opinions, you will most likely en…
Technical
Challenges of a Fabless Semiconductor Startup Company in Consumer Electronics
Consumer electronics remains one of the fastest growing business markets in today's world and provides many opportu…
University
Researchers Create Logic Circuits From DNA
Researchers at Duke University recently used DNA to craft tiny chips used in computers and electronic circuits . By mi…
Test
Wilder Technologies Launches Line of Test Adaptor Products for Test & Measurement Companies
Vancouver, WA -- Wilder Technologies has released a new family of test adaptor products for the test & measurement …
Wireless
Cambridge Wireless is Unlocking New Semiconductor Opportunities in Connectivity 20th May 2010, Cambridge, UK
Cambridge Wireless has announced the second meeting of the popular semiconductor Special Interest Group meeting taking …
Wireless
Access Wireless Sensor Networks from portable computing devices
Libelium, a technology leader in distributed wireless networks, announced a new Bluetooth module for its Waspmote wirel…