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Electronics industry experts, influencers, and pundits with their pulse on the latest trends. EDACafe Industry Predictions for 2022 – YamahaJanuary 28th, 2022 by Industry Experts
Yamaha Intelligent Machinery 2022 Market Forecast 2021 saw a significant increase in demand for assembly equipment, placing significant stress on the supply chain, especially in sea freight to the west coast and on available aircraft for urgent deliveries. Standard sea freight custom clearance has now increased from a few days to several weeks. Available space on ships has also decreased dramatically. We expect this trend to continue for at least the first half of 2022. For larger suppliers such as Yamaha, we enjoy preferred shipping status due to our entire importation strategy; but we are not immune to such delays. Read the rest of EDACafe Industry Predictions for 2022 – Yamaha EDACafe Industry Predictions for 2022 – MentaJanuary 25th, 2022 by Industry Experts
Yoan Dupret Yoan is the Managing Director and CTO of Menta – a leader in embedded FPGA IP cores for chips and smart sensors. Prior to his position at Menta, he held various managerial and technical positions at DelfMEMS, Samsung, CSR, Infineon and Altis Semiconductor. Yoan holds a PhD from Supelec (France) and an Engineering degree (MSEE) from ESEO (France). ‘Enabling Adaptive and Resilient Compute at The Edge and Extreme Edge’ Two years on, the world Is still experiencing the aftershocks of Covid-19 – but despite the human tragedy it continues to be, without doubt science and technology helped us cope with it better. Imagine how much worse it would have been 30 years ago. At the same time, east-west geopolitical tensions are growing – with technology as its core battlefield. So, both at a human level and political level, there is heightened awareness of science and technology as a key differentiator for nations and enabler for a better life. Read the rest of EDACafe Industry Predictions for 2022 – Menta EDACafe Industry Predictions for 2022 – ZukenJanuary 18th, 2022 by Industry Experts
As a leading global supplier of electrical and electronic design solutions, Zuken delivers world-class design solutions combining MBSE products and services with a mature, proven electrical and electronic design suite to address the needs of a broad range of industries across the globe. Looking at the year ahead, we see some trends in a few key application areas that will be interesting to track. Digital Transformation builds momentum, and 2022 will see unprecedented changes in how we engineer our products.2022 will continue the progression towards a robust digital engineering process. Today, many companies are just now researching what it means to deploy a digital engineering process. The digital engineering process is evolving as new tools, methods, and approaches are required. As adoption continues, drawings and documents will give way to product models that directly drive design and downstream processes, and serve as intelligent building blocks of the Digital Twin. The product model is rigorous, allowing for adjacent engineering disciplines to be coupled more tightly than ever before. The Digital Thread will not only capture design activities and data, but also manufacturing, supply chain, and the end-user via the IoT. Companies that embrace digital engineering will build an insurmountable competitive advantage. Read the rest of EDACafe Industry Predictions for 2022 – Zuken EDACafe Industry Predictions for 2022 – XfabJanuary 16th, 2022 by Industry Experts
Four Reasons for a Positive Outlook on Embedded Memories By Nando Basile, Marketing Manager for NVM Solutions, X-FAB The prospects for embedded memories, particularly non-volatile ones, are pretty solid both in the medium and the long term. This is the result of several key technology and business trends, with the macro-scale evolution of modern society and increasing demand for electronics goods both being major contributing factors. The following article gives more detail on the dynamics involved. The first trend influencing embedded memories is the contingency situation of semiconductor capacity shortage, which leading analysts (such as J.P. Morgan, Gartner and Deloitte) all expect to continue throughout the whole of 2022, and possibly even longer. From a chip availability perspective, customers embedding the required memory IP in their SoC design will be better protected, compared to those having to face the inherent risks associated with multiple supply management – where sourcing separate parts from different vendors and having to comply with SiP integration providers availability present challenges. Embedded solutions, coupled with advanced booking of capacity allocation will result in increased confidence that “everything will be included for the chip to work.” This will mean that customers’ trust in time-to-market delivery and that solutions will be cost effective can be assured, because of optimized utilization of the total silicon required by their application. Read the rest of EDACafe Industry Predictions for 2022 – Xfab EDACafe Industry Predictions for 2022 – DefactoJanuary 14th, 2022 by Industry Experts
Among what we observed is that SoC Design should be oriented to be seen as a commodity. A strong demand around SoC Compilation is occurring especially at front-end level. Several major semiconductor companies confirmed that first versions of SoC should be available “at the glance”. Accelerating the process of SoC creation requires that EDA design tools provide a much higher degree of automation to manage design information very early in the design process. We believe it requires a unique way to manage unified design formats. All design information, including functional design (RTL), architecture (IP-XACT), timing constraints (SDC), power intent (UPF), physical (LEF/DEF), must be taken into consideration together and as early as possible in the SoC build process. In practice, such approach should allow non-domain experts to make important design decisions. For example, a CAD engineer or RTL designer would have the capability to build a first SoC configuration from design assembly to synthesis. A complementary trend that we observe is in the design space exploration. Traditional SoC integration approaches are not sufficient anymore to forecast the best PPA design configuration. Given aggressive design schedules and low-cost requirements, the amount of engineering resources required to run multiple what-if scenarios manually may be excessive, preventing design teams from achieving optimized solutions. Industry is looking for automated ways for SoC design planning. Learning algorithms are certainly important direction to take. Current EDA initiatives around ML algorithms are still timid in comparison to other industries, such as robotics and health care.
FPGA Industry Prediction for 2022 – Logic Fruit TechnologiesJanuary 12th, 2022 by Industry Experts
Growth in FPGA market is fueled by its growing end applications in many industries where they provide unique advantages of flexibility, low-latency and security to meet complex and evolving requirements. Data Centres- FPGAs finds application in Data Centres for offloading computing from CPU and accelerate certain functionalities to improve throughput and response time. FPGAs are also being deployed for machine learning applications in Data Centres. The dramatic shift in workplace norms during pandemic and resulting demand for digital and cloud infrastructure is driving the Data Centre market. Construction of new data Centre is underway along with increased investment in edge to support the post-pandemic normal. The need for lower latency at the edge in healthy buildings, smart cities, distributed energy resources, and 5G will also fuel FPGA market. Autonomous Vehicles and ADAS- Real-time processing, safe and secure against cyber-attacks along with low-power consumptions are the key requirement for autonomous vehicle. Flexible IO and high data rate are also required to enable real-time processing of huge data from multiple sensors. FPGAs are very well suitable for meeting the complex and continuously evolving computing requirement of ADAS and autonomous driving segment. They can be used for both edge and central hub functions of the ubiquitous LiDAR units in AD applications. EDACafe Industry Predictions for 2022 – Sofics BVJanuary 5th, 2022 by Industry Experts
Big fish will grow bigger, risk-taking smaller fish will thriveIt’s Christmas 2021. The semiconductor industry is flooded with income: all fabs run at or above maximum capacity, volumes are in short supply while prices of wafers and ICs are floating up. Electronics are everywhere in our lock-down offices and private homes, and in many other systems and services that all of us use (almost) every day. Cash is flowing in abundantly in our industry. This cash needs to roll … or else its value is slowly melting away – you know: negative interests and high inflation… There is no better option than to invest… in big(ger), small(er) and new(er) fish. Foundries invest in more capacity, while IC design companies focus faster on new products. New ideas will have more opportunity.
Read the rest of EDACafe Industry Predictions for 2022 – Sofics BV DVCon US 2018 is Bigger and BetterFebruary 1st, 2018 by Gabe Moretti
During the last week of February, the DoubleTree hotel in San Jose, California will once again host DVCon U.S. Dennis Brophy, this year’s General Chair, refers to DVCon U.S. as being “bigger and better”. How much longer the conference can squeeze into these premises is a challenging topic for Accellera Systems Initiative, the conference sponsor since the turn of the century. Dennis remembers the humble beginnings of this event in 1988. To disguise his age or maybe to underlie his seniority he claims not to remember attending it, but I know he was there. Much has happened since then in our industry, and much has changed. DVCon has changed and grown with the industry and it is now a truly world-wide institution with conferences occurring also in Europe, India, and China. DVCon has followed closely the changing realities of the electronics industry. From a place to learn about new Hardware Description Languages to one where you can attend a session about Big Data and autonomous automobiles, for example. From just three workshops presented by the leading companies in EDA to an entire day of workshops that will parallel the tutorial sessions. But let me go in order. DAC 2011 Trip Reports – Mostly Transistor Level ToolsJune 17th, 2011 by Daniel Payne
2011 was the year of the foundry (TSMC, Globalfoundries, Samsung) at DAC in San Diego. The foundries had bigger booths, bigger events, were on more panel sessions, and had more marketing influence than any other year that I can remember. The attendance numbers from EDAC suggest a modest increase in EDA vendors and total attendees for 2011 compared to 2010, ironically the EDAC web site doesn’t even have their own Press Release posted yet after 8 days (did you all go on vacation after DAC?). Enjoy reading my trip reports.
Read the rest of DAC 2011 Trip Reports – Mostly Transistor Level Tools 3D Extraction at DAC in San DiegoMay 24th, 2011 by Daniel Payne
I’ve organized a pavilion panel session, “3D Extraction: Coming to a Design Near You?“. This panel is on Tuesday, June 7 at 3:00PM, booth #3421. Our moderator is Andrew Kahng (UC San Diego), and panelists: Carey Robertson (Mentor Graphics), Ji Zheng (Apache DA), and Sourav Chakravarty (Intel). |