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
With the stagnation of Moore’s Law and system-level enterprises beginning to attempt to create their own chips, EDA and IP vendors seem to know that their spring has arrived—because their customer base has expanded. However, for EDA/IP vendors, there remains a massive obstacle in front of them: the complexity and high threshold of chip design … Read more
Integrated Chips are technologies that integrate several chiplets through semiconductor micro-nano processes to create chips and systems with higher integration and richer functions than single chips. As the development of Moore’s Law gradually slows, integrated chips and chiplet technologies are playing an increasingly important role in the manufacturing and design of high-performance chips, serving as … Read more
Source: Wangcai Chip Original Author: Milly This article introduces the principle of chip tape-out and the success of the first ultra-large-scale asynchronous circuit chip tape-out. What Is Chip Tape-Out Chip tape-out is the process of manufacturing chips through a series of process steps, much like an assembly line. Tape-out: In English, Tape Out. In the … Read more
The chip design industry is a typical high-investment, high-reward industry, but it is also a very risky one. If the designed chip does not meet expectations, the huge investment goes down the drain. Below, we will discuss the cost structure of a chip and how the price of a chip is defined. The cost of … Read more