Designing your own integrated circuits as a one-person operation from your home workshop sounds like science fiction. But 20 years ago, so did rolling your own circuit boards to host a 600 MHz ...

In the semiconductor domain, the operating frequency of devices and the number of transistors in a single module increase over time. In this article, we will look at widely known low power ...

Advances in process technology are enabling a profound increase in the number of commercial applications for field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Technology breakthroughs from 10-million gate ...

Taiwan's top three IC design firms, MediaTek, Novatek Microelectronics, and Realtek Semiconductor, have vast IP core portfolios to deliver customized chip services. However, with the industry's rising ...

Tiny Tapeout is a way for students, hobbyists, and home gamers to get their own ASICs designs fabbed into real custom chips. Tiny Tapeout 3 was the third running, with designs mandated to be made up ...

The hot demand for AI chips and the trend for cloud AI tech differentiation attracted unexpected attention to Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design services lately. Save my User ID and ...

Taalas and Etched are two AI chip startups aiming to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI hardware market. Etched is using ASIC chips. Taalas is using eASIC chips. They are both putting the logic ...

Lockheed Martin Corp. Rotary and Mission Systems, Owego, New York, has been awarded a $13,567,781 cost-plus-fixed-fee competitive contract for the System Security Integrated Through Hardware and ...

In the first of a multi-part series on how to design a custom chip for under $1,000, our Analog Editor gets you started with a Magnificent 7 list of textbooks. TinyTapeout offers a course that ...

What is a reset domain crossing? What is the best way to verify resets? The role of static reset analysis. Resets are one of the most fundamental aspects of electronic design. The ability to ...