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In its Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report, IC Insights breaks down the world’s installed monthly IC wafer capacity by geographic region (or country). Figure 1 shows the installed IC capacity by region as of December of 2019. To clarify what the data represents, each regional…

Produce your own physical chips. For free. In the Open.

Did you ever dream about creating your own physical chip? Do it today. For free. Fully open source.

openhwgroup/cva6: The CORE-V CVA6 is an Application class 6-stage RISC-V CP

The CORE-V CVA6 is an Application class 6-stage RISC-V CPU capable of booting Linux - openhwgroup/cva6

Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Foundry's 130nm node

Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Technology Foundry's 130nm node. - google/skywater-pdk

What’s After PAM-4?

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How Is the Laplace Transform Used in Circuit Design?

In this article, we briefly review how the Laplace transform can help us solve circuits involving damped and steady-state sinusoidal signals.

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What Is the z-Transform?

This Frequent Engineering Question gives a quick overview of an important mathematical technique used in digital signal processing, calculating the z-transform.

x86 instruction listings

The x86 instruction set refers to the set of instructions that x86-compatible microprocessors support. The instructions are usually part of an executable program, often stored as a computer file and executed on the processor.

Compute-In Memory Accelerators Up-End Network Design Tradeoffs

Compute paradigm shifting as more data needs to be processed more quickly.

5/3nm Wars Begin

New transistors structures are on the horizon with new tools and processes, but there are lots of problems, too.

Digital Design of a Leading Zero Counter using Recursion in Verilog | Linke

Discover 100 collaborative articles on domains such as Marketing, Public Administration, and Healthcare. Our expertly curated collection combines AI-generated content with insights and advice from industry experts, providing you with unique perspectives and up-to-date…

Diving Deep Into The Nvidia Ampere GPU Architecture

When you have 54.2 billion transistors to play with, you can pack a lot of different functionality into a computing device, and this is precisely what

Open sourcing the AI Model Efficiency Toolkit

Qualcomm open sources the AI Model Efficiency Toolkit on GitHub, providing a simple library plugin for AI developers.

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Sony’s first AI image sensor will make cameras everywhere smarter

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Fujitsu Begins Shipping Supercomputer Fugaku - Fujitsu Global

Fujitsu Limited today announced that it began shipping the supercomputer Fugaku, which is jointly developed with RIKEN and promoted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology with the aim of starting general operation between 2021 and 2022. The first…

BiST Vs. In-Circuit Sensors

Hybrid solutions emerging as reliability concerns increase and coverage becomes more difficult.

Caveat Emptor: Counterfeit Intel CPUs Are Popping Up in China

There's a new wave of counterfeit Intel CPUs popping up in China, and chips like the 7700K appear especially "popular" for re-use.

The Antenna Theory Website

An intuitive tutorial of antennas and antenna theory. This website is designed to present a comprehensive overview of antennas, from design, to measurement and theory. Unnecessarily complicated math is avoided throughout.

Making SPICE available for everyone

SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) is an open-source analog electronic circuit simulator. | SPICE is undoubtedly one of the most popular modeling libraries available, and Japanese e-commerce company MoDeCH is seeking to make the power of SPICE available…

Introduction to Image Sensor Technology, from Photons to Electrons

This article, the first in a series, discusses light-sensitive electronic devices called photodiodes and compares CCD and CMOS sensors.

TSMC Details 5 nm

TSMC details its 5-nanometer node for mobile and HPC applications. The process features the industry's highest density transistors with a high-mobility channel and highest-density SRAM cells.

Introduction to Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Technology

Learn the basics of the ultra-wideband short-range wireless protocol, a technology that can be found in cutting-edge devices.

Getting started with the NVIDIA Jetson Nano - PyImageSearch

In this tutorial, you will learn how to get started with your NVIDIA Jetson Nano, including installing Keras + TensorFlow, accessing the camera, and performing image classification and object detection.

How to Increase Slew Rate in Op Amps

Learn how to get faster composite op-amp dynamics by raising the slew rate.

BBVA | The digital bank of the 21st century

The latest banks and financial services company and industry news with expert analysis from the BBVA, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria.

Semiconductor Foundry Revenue Per Wafer Trends

The success and proliferation of integrated circuits has largely hinged on the ability of IC manufacturers to continue offering more performance and functionality for the money. Driving down the cost of ICs (on a per-function or per-performance basis) is inescapably tied to a…

RISC-V Stumbling Blocks

Recently, I’ve started to explore RISC-V. I experienced the journey as pretty refreshing, particularly because I’ve been working on x86 low-level software almost exclusively for about 10 years.

After 36 years as a paid product, the Micro-Cap Circuit Simulator is now fr

Ultimate Guide to Switch Debounce (Part 4) – EEJournal

Previously, as they used to say at the start of a new episode in a TV series, we discussed the history behind the use of hardware vs. software to debounce our switches. We also perused and pondered…

Making Light More Reliable

Silicon photonics is a promising technology, but it may take a while.

How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet

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At DesignCon 2020, ANSYS sponsored a series of very high-quality…

64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review

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Memory Bandwidth Napkin Math

An exploration into C++ memory throughput performance.

Here's Some DDR5-4800: Hands-On First Look at Next Gen DRAM

OmniVision unveils 48MP image sensor for 4K video performance

OmniVision Technologies has announced at CES 2020 the OV48C, a 48 megapixel (MP) image sensor with a large 1.2 micron pixel size to enable high resolution and low light performance for flagship smartphone cameras.

The Linley Group - Tomahawk 4 Switch First to 25.6Tbps

The authoritative information platform to the semiconductor industry.

SILVACO Technical Library

The Silvaco Technical Library includes Application Notes, issues of the Simulation Standard Journal, Presentations, Published Papers, and Whitepapers.

A Look at Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine: Half Square Foot Silicon Chip

A look at Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE), a chip the size of a wafer, packing over 400K tiny AI cores using 1.2 trillion transistors on a half square foot of silicon.

Part 1 - An Overview of AMD's GPU Architectures

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Why the Memory Subsystem is Critical in Inferencing Chips

Good inferencing chips can move data very quickly

Enhancing IO Ring Checks For Consistent, Customizable Verification

Making sure IO rings comply with IP and SoC design rules.

Electromagnetic Challenges In High-Speed Designs

Runaway complexity is making it more difficult and critical to deal with signal integrity in a system context.

It’s a Cascade of 14nm CPUs: AnandTech’s Intel Core i9-10980XE Review