silicon design

Throughout the current millennium, System-on-Chip (SoC) has been the gold standard for optimizing performance and cost of complete electronic systems. By incorporating practically all the phone’s digital plus analog capabilities onto a single, giant chip, the mobile phone processor serves as a...

Spend any time with Ansys’ John Lee, Rich Goldman or Marc Swinnen and you’ll hear plenty of optimism about the semiconductor industry even though they tick off a long list of looming design challenges. The need for reliable and effective electronic systems, they emphasize, is great and runs through...