2023年2月24日

Keysight收购Cliosoft;Renesas的单芯片发射器;Arteris的下一代NoC;RISC-V验证。Keysight Technologies收购Cliosoft，将IP数据管理和设计数据添加到Keysight的EDA产品组合中。“更大的愿景是我们将如何管理硅的生命周期，从规格到胶带。因此，你可以有一个数据管理和IP管理层，以及对数据的可见性，这与Keysight的设计和测试软件相关联，”Cliosoft营销副总裁Simon Rance说。“更大的愿景是如何扩展到芯片甚至更大的领域，直到你拥有一个实体产品。”瑞萨发布了一款单芯片发射器(Tx)，可以直接测量直流和交流电力传输组件，并具有自适应零电压开关(ZVS)，以减少电磁干扰(EMI)。用于移动设备充电，该公司本周在旧金山举行的国际固态电路会议(ISSCC)上展示了其进展。 The chip handles 15W with a Qi power receiver (PRx) and up to 40W with proprietary PRx solutions. It can also detect when metal foreign metal object is in the system between the transmitter and receiver, which could be unsafe. Renesas also worked with AMD on the design of 5G active antenna systems (AAS) radios, which have full RF and digital front-end. Arteris launched its next-generation FlexNoC 5 IP, a physically aware network-on-chip (NoC) that helps teams shorten or eliminate some of the manual steps and iterations in placing the IP. FlexNoC 5 also expands support for Arm AMBA 5 protocols and IEEE 1685 IP-XACT, including a connectivity flow with Arteris Magillem for NoC integration with other SoC IP blocks. RISC-V processors, which until several years ago were considered auxiliary processors for specific functions, now have support for an entirely different type of role — high-performance computing . Ambarella’s new automotive AI central domain controller CV3-AD685 system-on-chip (SoC) will be using Samsung Foundry’s 5nm process technology . The CV3-AD685 will be used in ADAS. Ventana Micro is using Imperas’s simulation tools for RISC-V processor verification. Keysight Technologies and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on Open RAN (O-RAN), 6G Technology, research, development, and education. IP reuse via chiplets appears to be an effective and feasible solution, and a potentially low-cost alternative to shrinking everything to the latest process node. Common IP or technology that already has been silicon-proven can be used. Here’s how this works. Research Siemens Digital Industries Software is sponsoring a multi-year Academic Chair at Centrale Nantes University (”Centrale Nantes”) which helps the university continue its research into Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). Centrale Nantes will also continue its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation research to enhance Siemens’ Simcenter software. Siemens relationship with Centrale Nantes began with Siemens’ 2020 acquisition of Nextflow Software, which had a relationship with Centrale Nantes and used its research. Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory are using smaller devices, called Waggle devices, to collect local climate data around the world. The devices are powered by NVIDIA Jetson-driven edge computing, which NVIDIA describes in a blog . Upcoming Events SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning, February 26 – March 2 DVCON U.S. 2023 (Design & Verification), February 27 – March 2 SPIE: Advances in Patterning Materials and Processes XL, February 27 – March 1 International Semiconductor Executive Summit. March 7 – 8 Wide-Bandgap Developer Forum, March 9 19th Annual Device Packaging Conference (DPC 2023), March 13 – 16 Embedded World 2023, March 14 – 16 IRPS 2023 – International Reliability Physics Symposium, March 26 – 30 International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), March 26 – 29 Tiny ML Summit 2023, March 27 – 29 MEMCon 2023, March 28 – 29 SNUG Silicon Valley (Santa Clara, California), March 29 – 30 Further reading Special Report — Taming Corner Explosion In Complex Chips Is RISC-V Ready For Supercomputing? Disaggregating And Extending Operating Systems Chiplets Taking Root As Silicon-Proven Hard IP Tech Talk — Where Power Is Spent In HBM Leveraging Data To Improve Productivity Dealing With Performance Bottlenecks In SoCs Will AI Take My Job? If you’d like to receive Semiconductor Engineering newsletters and alerts via email, subscribe here .