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Shining an LED Light on Historical Engineer Nick Holonyak Jr.

Shining an LED Light on Historical Engineer Nick Holonyak Jr.

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) paved the way for the full-spectrum lights and lasers used in a variety of today’s devices, and we have inventor Nick Holonyak to thank.


News Oct 05, 2022 by Biljana Ognenova
Harvard-made Ionic Circuit Computes in Water

Harvard-made Ionic Circuit Computes in Water

Researchers at Harvard claim to have developed the first ionic circuit based on a new ionic transistor technique.


News Oct 04, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Researchers Craft Synaptic Device to Bridge Neuromorphic Compute Hurdles

Researchers Craft Synaptic Device to Bridge Neuromorphic Compute Hurdles

Researchers at KIST have developed high-performance and highly reliable artificial synaptic devices for next-generation neuromorphic systems.


News Oct 03, 2022 by Darshil Patel
NASA Taps SiFive’s RISC-V Core for its Spaceflight Processor

NASA Taps SiFive’s RISC-V Core for its Spaceflight Processor

NASA has selected SiFive’s X280 RISC-V device as the CPU core for its upcoming High-Performance Spaceflight Computer (HPSC) project.


News Sep 09, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Startup SiMa.ai Rolls Out SoC Tuned for Edge AI

Startup SiMa.ai Rolls Out SoC Tuned for Edge AI

A new “software-first” SoC aims to enable unprecedented AI computing at the edge.


News Sep 02, 2022 by Jake Hertz
RISC-V Universe Grows with New GPUs, CPUs, and Development Kits

RISC-V Universe Grows with New GPUs, CPUs, and Development Kits

More companies continue to leverage RISC-V, a free open source instruction set architecture, to push innovation in GPUs and real-time CPU devices.


News Aug 27, 2022 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle
NVIDIA Shares Details on Grace CPU and Hopper GPU at Hot Chips

NVIDIA Shares Details on Grace CPU and Hopper GPU at Hot Chips

At this year’s Hot Chips conference, NVIDIA shed more light on its newest computing flagship processors.


News Aug 24, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Amid Chip Shortages, Companies Bet on RISC-V

Amid Chip Shortages, Companies Bet on RISC-V

The RISC-V architecture continues to gather momentum as organizations make efforts to leverage the open-source ISA technology and innovate with new RISC-V solutions.


News Aug 24, 2022 by Lianne Frith
Digital Polar Radio Approach Shrinks Power for Wi-Fi IoT Devices

Digital Polar Radio Approach Shrinks Power for Wi-Fi IoT Devices

Designing its patented digital polar radio implementation into an SoC and a development kit, InnoPhase brings extreme low power to Wi-Fi IoT systems.


News Jul 29, 2022 by Jeff Child
Siemens EDA Launches Revamped Mixed-signal IC Verification Platform

Siemens EDA Launches Revamped Mixed-signal IC Verification Platform

At this week’s Design Automation Conference (DAC), Siemens EDA rolled out a next generation version of its mixed-signal IC verification tool adding new capabilities.


News Jul 12, 2022 by Jeff Child
SiC Collabs Fuel Advances in EV Traction Inverters and Charging Gear

SiC Collabs Fuel Advances in EV Traction Inverters and Charging Gear

As silicon carbide (SiC) proliferates in EV designs, a series of manufacturer collaborations are fueling innovation in electric vehicle (EV) traction inverters, charging infrastructure, and more.


News Jul 02, 2022 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle
AAC Exclusive: A Chat With IBM Researchers Who Built the New “VTFET” Transistor

AAC Exclusive: A Chat With IBM Researchers Who Built the New “VTFET” Transistor

In December, IBM and Samsung announced a new transistor architecture said to defy conventional FinFETs. We spoke with two of IBM's leading researchers on this project for details.


News Mar 07, 2022 by Ingrid Fadelli
The “Traitorous Eight” and the Rise of Fairchild Semiconductor

The “Traitorous Eight” and the Rise of Fairchild Semiconductor

While Shockley Semiconductor may have been the first company of Silicon Valley, it was Fairchild Semiconductor—founded by eight former Shockley engineers—who proliferated thousands of tech companies.


News Feb 28, 2022 by Tyler Charboneau
Combinational Logic Circuit Design and Simulation Using Gates

Combinational Logic Circuit Design and Simulation Using Gates

Gate-level implementation of logic functions is limited by the gate fan-in. This article examines logic factoring, grouping, and level increases to implement logic functions with limited input gates.


Mega Chip Packs 2.6 Trillion Transistors on One Huge Piece of Silicon

Mega Chip Packs 2.6 Trillion Transistors on One Huge Piece of Silicon

Two years after releasing the "world's largest computer chip," AI computing startup Cerebras Systems is upping the transistor punch from 1.2 trillion to 2.6 trillion.


News Apr 22, 2021 by Jake Hertz
What Is Digital IC Design?

What Is Digital IC Design?

Learn the high-level overview of digital integrated circuit (IC) design.


Google Launches Open-Source OpenTitan Project for Silicon Root of Trust Chips

Google Launches Open-Source OpenTitan Project for Silicon Root of Trust Chips

Google’s OpenTitan is a collaborative venture with tech companies that offers multi-factor security keys and RoT technology, which will be baked into new chips.


News Nov 08, 2019 by Cabe Atwell
Synopsys’ Die-to-Die PHY IP Speeds Up Cloud Computing SoC Designs

Synopsys’ Die-to-Die PHY IP Speeds Up Cloud Computing SoC Designs

The die-to-die PHY IP enables extra-short reach connectivity in multi-chip modules (MCM) for hyper-scale data centers, AI, and networking applications.


News Nov 01, 2019 by Lisa Boneta.
IoT Roundup: New Wireless Protocols Extend Coverage and Memory

IoT Roundup: New Wireless Protocols Extend Coverage and Memory

As smart technology grows, developers are looking for more flexible network protocols. Here are some ways companies are combining, developing, or expanding protocols to broaden IoT applications.


News Oct 10, 2019 by Hannah DeTavis
Synopsys and NSITEXE Partnership Finds Success with Accelerated Processor SoC Development

Synopsys and NSITEXE Partnership Finds Success with Accelerated Processor SoC Development

NSITEXE utilizes Synopsys’ development tools and IP to build a SoC (system-on-a-chip) for autonomous driving.


News Sep 09, 2019 by Gary Elinoff