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How 14nm Chips Outperform 5nm: Disassembly of Huawei’s New Smartphone Reveals the Path for Domestic Chips

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How 14nm Chips Outperform 5nm: Disassembly of Huawei's New Smartphone Reveals the Path for Domestic Chips

How 14nm Chips Outperform 5nm: Disassembly of Huawei’s New Smartphone Reveals the Path for Domestic Chips In recent years, the global chip industry has seen intense competition. Against the backdrop of the U.S. technology blockade on China, Huawei has achieved a turnaround from “14nm chips” to “high-end smartphone chips” through self-developed technology breakthroughs and integration … Read more

The Rise of Domestic FPGAs: Can They Break Xilinx’s Monopoly?

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The Rise of Domestic FPGAs: Can They Break Xilinx's Monopoly?

The Development Status and Advantages of Domestic FPGAs In recent years, the development of domestic FPGAs has been rapid, with a total of 22 FPGA manufacturers in China (19 excluding those for special purposes). Major companies include Unisoc, Anlogic, and Fudan Microelectronics. In terms of market share, the total revenue of major domestic FPGA design … Read more

How to Become a Senior Embedded Hardware Engineer?

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How to Become a Senior Embedded Hardware Engineer?

Introduction The study of ARM embedded systems and microcontrollers is closely related, and it is essential to accumulate learning experiences and knowledge during the process of learning microcontrollers. How can one gradually become a senior embedded engineer in this process? This article will introduce how to accumulate the skills necessary to become a senior embedded … Read more

The Physical Secrets: How Over 10 Billion Transistors Are Integrated into a Chip

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The Physical Secrets: How Over 10 Billion Transistors Are Integrated into a Chip

Source: Toutiao Account – Fat Fu’s Little Cabin First, let’s take a look at a video The chip is continuously magnified It resembles a huge city inside With the continuous advancement of chip manufacturing processes, a chip can now contain over 10 billion transistors. How are so many transistors integrated? This is a Top-down View … Read more

Practice of Low-Power Design for Digital IC Front-End Based on UPF

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Practice of Low-Power Design for Digital IC Front-End Based on UPF

There are often questions like this online,What should I learn after entering the IC industry to have better career prospects? What can I still learn now to further my studies in IC design? What skills will give me an advantage in interviews at major companies?In fact, learning low-power design is a great choice! Everyone has … Read more

Introduction to Low Power Design in Digital ICs: Power Analysis

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Introduction to Low Power Design in Digital ICs: Power Analysis

Source: Content from http://www.cnblogs.com/IClearner/, Author: IC_learner, thank you. Previously, we learned about the purpose of low power design and the composition of power consumption. Today, I will share some insights on power analysis. Since this learning is aimed at front-end design of digital ICs, the power analysis here is based on the power compiler tool … Read more

Introduction to Low Power Design for Digital ICs (Part 6)

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Introduction to Low Power Design for Digital ICs (Part 6)

Source: Content fromhttp://www.cnblogs.com/IClearner/, Author: IC_learner, Thank you. Gate Level Circuit Low Power Design Optimization (1) Overview of Power Optimization for Gate Level Circuits Gate Level Power Optimization (GLPO) starts from the already mapped gate-level netlist, optimizing the design’s power consumption to meet power constraints while maintaining performance, i.e., satisfying design rules and timing requirements. The … Read more

Academician Sun Ninghui Discusses Future Shapes and Development Issues of Chips

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Academician Sun Ninghui Discusses Future Shapes and Development Issues of Chips

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

Steps to Successfully Create a Chip from Scratch

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Steps to Successfully Create a Chip from Scratch

This article is authorized for reprint from the public account “Semiconductor Industry Observation”, ID: icbank, Author: Gong Jiajia How many steps does it take to put an elephant in a refrigerator? Three steps: open the refrigerator door, put in the elephant, and finally close the door. So how many steps does it take to create … Read more

Understanding Chip Design and Manufacturing Process

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Understanding Chip Design and Manufacturing Process

Everyone in the electronics industry has a good understanding of chips and various packages, but do you know how a chip is designed? Do you know how the designed chip is produced? After reading this article, you will have a general understanding. Complex and Tedious Chip Design Process The chip manufacturing process is like building … Read more