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What Does It Cost You When Your SoC is Late to Market?

If your chip is late to market, it is costing you far more than you know.
 
Arteris conducted a survey of all its chip design customers to gain a more accurate grasp of the major concerns they have in their day-to-day operations and to gain a better understanding of what

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Low-Power VLSI Design Methodology

Low Power Design is the today’s need in VLSI. Why? Well, ask yourself ! You go to gadget shop, looking for a new cell-phone. Apart from the price, what are the qualitative things that you would be most concerned about?
 

Features including the speed of the processor
Battery back-up
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Selecting an embedded MCU for SoC

This is a guest post by Dolphin Integration which provides IP core, EDA tool and ASIC/SoC design services

 
When a SoC integrator has to select a microcontroller for his application, most of the time, he refers to his own previous experiences rather than on a rational assessment as no standard benchmarking

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Flip Chip Market and Technology Trends

Yole Développement announces its Flip Chip Market and Technology Trends report. Yole Développement’s analysis updates the business status of the Flip-Chip market including data for TIM, underfills, substrates and Flip-Chip bonders. Discover fully updated 2010 – 2018 market forecast, detailed technology roadmap and bottom up approach, plus a strong focus

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Getting the Most out of IC Design Houses

Failure analysis

In the field of IC Design, there are many companies that have unique focus and experience in designing integrated circuits, as well as being involved in the other aspects of IC design house elements, such as packaging, testing, validation, et cetera.
 
It may seem like a simple choice to

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TSV is a business…Looking for wider adoption!

Technical drawing of a silicon chip showing TSV structure with parallel lines and rectangles.

3D Through Silicon Vias (TSV) is in MEMS, CMOS Image Sensors and high-end applications. When will it be used for mainstream consumer applications?… All results are part of the new report released by Yole Développement (Yole): 3DIC & 2.5D TSV Interconnect for Advanced Packaging – 2014 Business Update. This technology

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The Future of Power Management ICs – PMICs [infographic]

This is a guest post by Vidatronic which is a fabless semiconductor and systems company specializing in the design of advanced-architecture, energy-efficient power management solutions.

In the last few decades, technology has been growing at a spectacular rate. So, it only makes sense that the parts that make up our technology

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Introduction to IP Lifecycle Management

This is a guest post by Methodics that delivers state-of-the-art semiconductor data management (DM)  for analog, digital and SoC  design  teams.

No doubt that by now you have noticed that IP Lifecycle Management is a key Focus for Methodics and is a cornerstone of our platform for IP creators and SoC Integrators. Also

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Challenges in Measuring Theta jc for High Thermal Performance Packages

Examining a microchip

This is a guest post by Jesse Galloway and Ted Okpe of Amkor Technology. Article reprinted from May 2014 Electronics Cooling magazine.

One of the more challenging thermal resistance measurements to make for electronic packages is the junction-to-case resistance called Theta jc. The equation for Theta jc, equation (1), is straightforward.

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Can you reduce cost and development cycle of your next ASIC?

find asic vendors

Have you ever wondered about the possibility of minimizing risk, design time and production cost simply by working with different IC design or verification companies? Or whether you could make your current ASIC cheaper by changing your FAT (foundry, assembly, test) providers?
 
Actually it’s something you can do right

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