(Source: AI Jiwei) Chip design is hailed as the most intricate yet grandest engineering endeavor in human history. After decades of development, advanced chip developers can integrate hundreds of billions of transistors into chips smaller than a fingernail. Their ability to achieve this goal relies on Electronics Design Automation (EDA) tools, commonly known as EDA … Read more
In large chip designs, “Active, programmable droop mitigation” is a dynamic and configurable power management technology aimed at real-time monitoring and suppression of voltage droop caused by load transients or current fluctuations during chip operation, thereby ensuring chip stability and performance. Its core objective is to maintain the precision of supply voltage in extreme performance … Read more
Click the blue research report sharing platform above and follow us to find us. Thank you! On the evening of May 11, I met with Dr. Li Yuan, an alumnus from Tsinghua’s class of ’89. I have been following Dr. Li’s work on AI chips (see the link for breakthroughs in deep learning AI chips … Read more
1Introduction In recent years, the rise of RISC-V has drawn attention from the IC industry towards this rapidly developing architecture. However, when it comes to this young architecture, the first things that come to mind are its weak ecosystem and hardware fragmentation. From the very beginning, RISC-V aimed to provide a highly modular and extensible … Read more
#Love Technology# “One of the biggest benefits of this year’s performance boost is voice synthesis. We have enhanced the voice synthesis capabilities in iOS 13, providing more natural language processing features, all thanks to machine learning and the neural engine.” This article is translated from Wired. ———————— This content is authorized to be reprinted from … Read more
Design Discrepancies, Moving On During module integration, the frontend blames the backend for conservative timing constraints, while the backend complains about the frontend’s redundant logic…Every step in chip design can lead to “signal conflicts” between departments. “The power consumption of arguments is far greater than chip leakage.” Moving on does not mean abandoning one’s position, … Read more
Source: Content from Synopsys Zhihu, thank you! Chips, as the core components of modern electronic products, have always played the role of the “brain”. Their technological content and capital investment are extremely intensive, with production lines costing tens to hundreds of billions of dollars.The complete process of chip manufacturing includes several main stages: chip design, … Read more
How many steps are needed to put an elephant in the fridge? Three steps: open the fridge door, put in the elephant, and close the door. So how many steps are needed to create a chip? Also three: design the chip, manufacture the chip, and finally package and test the chip. However, is making a … Read more
Click the blue text to follow us In the NHK documentary “The Story of the Electronic Nation,” a senior engineer mentioned: “During the two to three months leading up to each chip tapeout, I was filled with anxiety and couldn’t sleep. I constantly worried about what might go wrong… When the chip finally arrived and … Read more
In the past two years, opportunities for industry development have emerged from chip design to upstream materials and equipment, and down to downstream distributors. Among them, KeTong Technology is one of the domestic electronic component distributors and has performed exceptionally in the market. The company closely collaborates with several leading chip manufacturers globally, covering major … Read more