Designing a 3nm chip is a highly complex technical task that involves multiple stages from conceptual design to final manufacturing. EDA software plays a crucial role in this process. Below are the typical categories of EDA tools required for designing a 3nm chip and their representative software: Digital Chip Design Tools Logic Synthesis: Converts high-level … Read more
Intelligent connected vehicles have become a key trend leading future development. Among them, chips, as the core components of intelligent connected vehicles, have increasingly highlighted the importance of their functional safety and reliability. How to enhance their assurance has become a focal topic of concern in the industry. Currently, the market scale of intelligent connected … Read more
In the entire semiconductor industry chain, there is a significant gap in areas such as EDA, manufacturing, and key equipment like photolithography machines compared to the world’s advanced levels; in terms of design, the gap in mobile processors is relatively small compared to international standards, while desktop CPUs and GPUs show a clear gap, and … Read more
The northwest wind is howling, and the annual heating season has arrived. Heating pipelines are so important during the winter in the north. The design of the pipelines is aimed at maximizing effective thermal energy under determined energy conditions. Low power design aims to meet functional requirements with minimal power consumption. The low power design … Read more
With the development of the times, people have gradually started to design various types of chips, one of which is the popular low-power chip design. These chips not only help extend the battery life of devices but also reduce the likelihood of overheating and improve system stability. If you want to design low-power chips, then … Read more
The widespread application of edge AI models is driving chip manufacturers to gradually adopt heterogeneous computing architectures, combining general-purpose processors with semi-custom AI accelerators to meet the demands of specific tasks. In an era where artificial intelligence and edge computing are increasingly integrated, chip manufacturers are facing new challenges, including how to efficiently and low-power … Read more
NB-IoT technology is a low-power wide-area network (LPWA) solution defined by the 3GPP standard, characterized by extremely low power consumption, wide coverage, and a large number of connections. Its device coverage can be enhanced by 20dB, and the battery life can exceed 10 years. Given the advantages of NB-IoT and the Ministry of Industry and … Read more
In the past year or two, the open-source instruction set architecture RISC-V has received unprecedented support from the industry due to its advantages such as open-source, free, modular, and scalable. Major companies including Qualcomm, Google, NVIDIA, Samsung, Western Digital, SiFive, PingTouGe, ChipLink, XuanYuan Microelectronics, GigaDevice, and hundreds of others are vigorously supporting the RISC-V ecosystem, … Read more
Chip design and verification are facing increasing challenges. How to address these issues—especially in the context of incorporating machine learning—is a major concern for the EDA industry, which was a common theme among the four keynote speakers at this month’s Design Automation Conference (DAC). This year, DAC returned as an in-person event, featuring keynote speeches … Read more
On December 22, 2023, the “2023 Forum on High-Quality Development of the Civil Explosives Industry” was grandly held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, organized by the China Explosive Materials Industry Association. Zhu Jianyong, General Manager of Rongguisi Chuang, was invited to give a keynote speech titled “Enhancing the Safety and Reliability of Electronic Detonators Based on … Read more