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The PCI-SIG announced that the PCI Express (PCIe) 7.0 specification has hit version 0.3 at the annual Developers Conference in Santa Clara on June 13, 2023. This represents a further doubling of the data rate to 128GT/s. The standard is expected to be finalized in 2025.

The world is reeling towards AI/ML newer planes, and our EDA world is adding these technologies into their tools and rising to the occasion. This has created a lot of additional opportunities within the semiconductor industry in terms of newer technologies, employment, and training. But we are still witnessing a global crisis of skill gap in the semiconductor industry, which is seen as a challenge when hiring graduates…

At this year’s DesignCon, Meta held a session on ‘PowerTree-Based PDN Analysis, Correlation, and Signoff for MR/AR Systems.’ Presented by Kundan Chand and Grace Yu from Meta, they talked about power integrity (PI) analysis using Sigrity Aurora and Power Integrity tools such as PowerDC and OptimizePI.

The presentation covers some of the PDN design challenges in MR/VR systems, for example, the compact…

Silicon integrated circuits utilize various forms of isolation to electrically isolate devices, such as reverse-biased PN junctions or trench isolation. With the exception of exotic materials such as silicon-on-sapphire, they all utilize a silicon substrate which is a potential path for noise coupling. Such coupling can decrease performance or even cause functional failures. So designers need to use various techniques…

In the world of digital data storage, flash memory has become an indispensable technology. Flash memory devices are non-volatile storage solutions that can retain data even without power. They are widely used in various applications, including smartphones, digital cameras, USB drives, and solid-state drives (SSDs). In this blog post, we will delve into the basics of serial, dual, and octal flash memory devices…