Semiconductor Engineering

AI’s Impact On Engineering Jobs May Be Different Than Expected

Workflows and the addition of new capabilities are happening much faster than with previous technologies, and new grads may ...
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Does Your RISC-V Core Meet The Standard?

Verifying an extensible processor is more than a one-step process, especially when software compatibility is important.
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Opening The Door To STCO: Hierarchical Device Planning

A cornerstone of effective STCO is the ability to conduct multi-domain analyses—for example, signal integrity, power ...
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Multi-Die Assemblies Require More Detailed Test Plan Earlier

Understanding connectivity issues and interactions are only part of the problem; ECOs can cause unexpected problems in other ...
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Ultra-low-bit LLM Inference Allows AI-PC CPUs And Discrete Client GPUs To Approach High-end GPU-Level (Intel)

A new technical paper titled “Pushing the Envelope of LLM Inference on AI-PC and Intel GPUs” was published by researcher at ...
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Benchmark For AI-Aided Chip Design That Evaluates LLMs Across 3 Critical Tasks (UCSD, Columbia)

Researchers at UCSD and Columbia University published “ChipBench: A Next-Step Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Performance in AI-Aided Chip Design.” Abstract “While Large Language Models (LLMs) show ...
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Building Trust At The Silicon Level: Secure Storage Solution For OTP IP

Synopsys’ Secure Storage Solution for OTP IP introduces a multi-layer security architecture that pairs antifuse OTP ...
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Autonomous Driving: Motion Planner Executed on Automotive-Grade Embedded HW (TU Munich)

A new technical paper titled “Towards Safe Autonomous Driving: A Real-Time Motion Planning Algorithm on Embedded Hardware” was published by researchers at TU Munich. Abstract “Ensuring the functional ...
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Balancing Training, Quantization, And Hardware Integration In NPUs

Evolving challenges and strategies in AI/ML model deployment and hardware optimization have a big impact on NPU architectures ...
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Addressing Critical Tradeoffs In NPU Design

AI/ML are driving a steep ramp in neural processing unit (NPU) design activity for everything from data centers to edge ...
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Research Bits: Jan. 27

Researchers from Politecnico di Milano, Peking University, and Hewlett Packard Labs developed a Closed-Loop In-Memory ...
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Semiconductor Supply Chain Security Using Side-Channel Power Measurements and Generative Adversarial Networks (Cornell)

Band Power Side-Channel Detection for Semiconductor Supply Chain Integrity at Scale” was published by researchers at Cornell ...