Catching up on some of the latest news after seasonal holidays – but skipping the CES announcements overload – let’s start by briefly mentioning the recent Risc-V Summit where a Google executive spoke about Google’s support for the porting of Android to Risc-V: here’s the video of the speech.
Accellera to develop a Clock Domain Crossing standard
Accellera has announced the formation of the Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) Working Group, with the goal of defining a standard CDC collateral specification to ease SoC integration. Currently, lack of standard means that different CDC verification tools generate incompatible IP-level CDC collateral. This scenario is causing a CDC verification problem when the SoC teams source IP from IP providers that use a different tool for their own CDC verification.
PDF Solutions and proteanTecs to collaborate on analytics-telemetry solutions
PDF Solutions, a provider of semiconductor data analytics, and proteanTecs, a specialist of on-chip telemetry, have announced a collaboration on combined solutions intended to provide deeper insights on semiconductor yield, quality and reliability. The collaboration includes PDF Solutions’ Exensio Analytics platform, advanced AI/ML models and DEX data exchange network, and proteanTecs’ agents with cloud/edge analytics based on ML-driven chip telemetry. According to the two companies, the combined solutions will deliver unique benefits, such as adaptive test capabilities to further improve test quality and reduce DPPM (defective parts per million), enhanced device quality grading for downstream testing, and more insights around RMAs (return material authorizations) from in-field degradation monitoring.
