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    Mobile SoCs: Two Cores are Better Than Four? 

    by
    Paul McLellan
    Published on 01-20-2013 06:00 AM  Number of Views: 4819 
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    I came across an interesting white-paper from ST Ericsson on two topics: multi-processors in mobile platforms and FD-SOI. FD-SOI is the ST Microelectronics alternative to FinFETs for 20nm and below. It stands for Fully-Depeleted Silicon-on-Insulator. But I'm going to save that part of the white-paper for another blog entry and focus on the mobile stuff here. By the end of this blog entry you will see why these two seemingly ...
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    Yawn… New EDA Leader Results Are Coming 

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    Randysan
    Published on 01-18-2013 02:00 PM
    1. Categories:
    2. EDA,
    3. Cadence,
    4. Mentor Graphics,
    5. Synopsys
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    We will soon start to see the quarterly financial reporting installments of the “Big 3” public EDA companies. I predict they will be as boring as usual. I am not sure if I would want it any differently though.

    Back in the 90s there were times when it was truly interesting to wait to see what Cadence, Mentor, or later Synopsys, might announce. I still have my brass-plated ...
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    All Things Resistive 

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    Christie Marrian
    Published on 01-16-2013 03:03 AM
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    A quick re-introduction of ReRAM-Forum.com which is dedicated to all things related to resistive RAM, broadly characterized as ReRAM (or RRAM) and CBRAM. The technology is seen as the ‘next generation’ non-volatile memory solution and is being developed by companies large and small for a variety of applications in storage, memory and more ...
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    Predictions are hard, especially about the future 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 01-11-2013 09:26 AM
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    I was asked to make some predictions about the EDA, semiconductor and electronic systems markets for 2013. I decided that it would be more fun to make some plausible predictions, some of which will be right, rather than go for anodyne predictions ("Cadence will acquire a couple of startups") which are uninformative, ...
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    Will Google Go Thermonuclear? 

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    Ed McKernan
    Published on 01-06-2013 06:30 PM  Number of Views: 2399 
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    “It’s not like we started it,” said Larry. “After all the idea of going Thermonuclear was first broached by Steve to Eric at their outdoor café meeting in Palo Alto way back in 2010. We’re just following by example and as Steve was wont to quote Picasso; “good artist copy, great artist steal” so why not go Thermonuclear with our Android partners before they get too large and unmanageable. ...
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    Online Schematic Capture and SPICE Circuit Simulation 

    by
    daniel_payne
    Published on 01-04-2013 09:33 PM
    1. Categories:
    2. EDA
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    I love all things SPICE so when I read a tweet tonight from @PartSim I just had to try out their Schematic Capture and SPICE circuit simulator in a browser. The site is www.partsim.com and all you need is a web browser and short registration process, then it's off to the Examples where I found a simple CMOS inverter and then extended it to be two inverters:


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    Apple's Next Threat 

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    Randysan
    Published on 01-03-2013 07:30 PM  Number of Views: 6183 
    1. Categories:
    2. Semi IP
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    It seems only appropriate that at the beginning of the year we should look at who is going to be the next significant threat to Apple’s profitability machine. During Apple’s meteoric rise over the past 9 years (APPL share price: Jan-2004 @ $11 vs. Jan-2013 @ $550) different companies have been put up as Apple’s next significant threat or competitor. At various times we ...
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    The Semiconductor Landscape - II 

    by
    Pawan Fangaria
    Published on 01-01-2013 07:15 PM
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    It has been a year since my article Semiconductor Landscape in Jan 2012 I wanted to look back into the major events over the year and then anticipate what’s in store going forward. What has happened over the year is much more than what I could foresee. Major consolidation in EDA space – Synopsys acquired Magma, SpringSoft, Ciranova, Eve; consolidation in semiconductor space – IBM acquired ...
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    Happy New Year from SemiWiki! 

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    Daniel Nenni
    Published on 01-01-2013 05:05 PM
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    It was an amazing year for SemiWiki and I would like to sincerely thank all who participated. SemiWiki traffic doubled again which is amazing in itself. SemiWiki membership more than tripled as we continue to add vertical markets (EDA, IP, Services, Foundry). More people are blogging on SemiWiki and the Forums and Wikis are coming to life. With millions ...
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    Phablet, e-reader, Nexus 

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    daniel_payne
    Published on 12-29-2012 04:35 PM
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    In November and December I upgraded three devices and share my opinions on the utility of each:


    • Samsung Galaxy Note (aka Phablet = Phone + Tablet)
    • Kindle Paperwhite (e-reader)
    • Google Nexus 7 (Tablet)

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