In his webinar, Babak Taheri, CTO and EVP of products at Silvaco, provides examples of how complex new technologies such as Flash memory, other advanced non-volatile memory technologies, and complex SoCs (such as Nvidia’s Xavier and Apple’s A12), use and re-use design IP at the architectural level, but require specialized new IPs that need to be simulated and analyzed down to the nanometer and atomic levels.

To watch a preview of the Webinar click on the video below.  To view this on-demand webinar click here: Webinar: Next Generation of SoC Design – From Atoms to Systems

The number and complexity of automotive SoCs and Control Systems is growing dramatically to fill the demand for new features in next-generation vehicles.  Let's look at the specifics. In new cars you will have an advanced graphical user interface, voice recognition, and intuitive touchscreen capabilities. In addition to driver interactions, electrical control systems assist in both driving and stopping the vehicle. This will drive significant growth of the In-Vehicle Network (IVN) semiconductor market. In 2019, the total market in automotive semiconductors will reach 38 billion US dollars. By 2021, the cumulated annual growth rate (CAGR) for Level 4 Semi-autonomous vehicles will be 19%. Longer range projections are needed for Level-5 autonomous vehicles which have not arrived in the marketplace as yet. By 2030, the CAGR forecast for Level-5 vehicles is 41%. All of this is good news for the electronics industry. Which electronic companies are the top players? NXP, Infineon, Renesas, STMicroelectronics, and Texas Instruments had 1/2 of the market for automotive semiconductors in 2015 and are still market leaders.

Fig. 1. Different Control Units around a vehicle. (more…)

Dr. Misha Temkin was a beloved colleague and researcher who worked at Silvaco for over 30 years. He passed on March 12, 2019 after a long cancer illness. He was a dedicated Senior Applications Engineer in the TCAD Division at the Santa Clara, California headquarters.

Mikhail “Misha” Temkin was born August 22, 1955 in the small town Rechitsa on Dnepr River in Belarus, which was a part of the Soviet Union at that time. His parents, a mechanical engineer and a medical doctor just graduated a few months before and were sent by the government to work in an even smaller town in the middle of nowhere between Volga and Ural Mountains. According to his brother, the first 3 years of his life he grew there on not much food, but a lot of love. For the next 30 years he lived in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.

As a kid he played a lot of chess and won against many older players, but in Middle school he discovered the Feynman Lectures on Physics. Physics then became his passion for the rest of his life, and he studied it at Belarussian State University. His first paper “On the momentum representation of Slater-type orbitals” was published in Journal of Physics B in 1976, before his Master’s (not many postdocs in Soviet Union of that time had a single publication in an international peer-reviewed scientific journal).
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