The total shipment of semiconductors this year is expected to exceed the 1 trillion mark. This includes transportation of ICs and optoelectronics, sensors/actuators and discrete (O-S-D) devices.
Austin-based NXP Semiconductors reported that as Texas was shut down for a month due to a grid collapse caused by cold weather, it could cost the company $100 million.
Achronix Semiconductor, a leader in high-performance FPGA and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, and Mobiveil, a fast-growing technology company that focuses on the development of silicon intellectual property (SIP), platforms and solutions for storage, networking, artificial intelligence and enterprises announced the…
Cadence Design System Co., Ltd. announced that it has completed the acquisition of NUMECA International. The addition of NUMECA’s technology and talents has provided support for the Cadence® Intelligent System Design™ strategy and expanded its system analysis product portfolio with…
According to reports, Samsung is considering acquiring NXP Semiconductors, Renesas Electronics or Texas Instruments (TI) to strengthen its position in the automotive chip field. “Korea Times” stated that for the same reason, the company intends to buy Infineon Technologies. The…
What is routing? Creating physical connections to all the logical connections present in the design with the help of metal layers is known as routing. What are the types of routing? PG Route: Power/Ground physical routing is completed during floorplan. Secondary…
What are the CTS inputs? Placement DB CTS Spec File What does the CTS Spec File contain? 1. Inverters or buffers to be defined which will be used to balance the clock tree. 2. CTS Exceptions (End points of clock…
What is placement? Placing of standard cells in the design is known as placement. What are the pre placement sanity checks? Floating pins in netlist Unconstrained Pins Undriven Input Ports Unloaded Output ports Pin direction Mismatch Timing Check Physical constrains…
What are the inputs at the floorplan stage? Synthesized Netlist Timing Library (LIB) Physical Library (LEF- Library Exchange Format) Design Exchange Format (DEF) Unified Power Format (UPF) Standard Design Constraint (SDC) What are the two types of lef and what…
Job Openings (May – 2021) Physical Design Engineer, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN (May 2021) Experience – 5 to 8 Years Job Description: Job Role: Working on 7nm and 5nm designs with various customers for deployment of Aprisa…