“Digital convergence” is creating demand for functionally complex ICs in six-nine month design cycles at mass-market costs. On the one hand, increased capital investments in the late 1990s have seen ...

Looking back over the past 10 years or so, semiconductor process technology more or less kept pace with the demand for functionality in large-scale processor-based ICs. When the next-generation ...

Getting the most from system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs requires optimal design of the logic surrounding the embedded processor. As SoCs have increased in complexity, optimizing the interfaces between ...

There is a new job on the semiconductor industry horizon, and its title is systems architect. Custom chip designers like Sondrel acknowledge a growing need for systems architects to coordinate every ...