Rod Boghosian

Stitching vias, also known as via stitching, are a crucial design practice for PCBs. By placing a series of vias around the perimeter of a ground plane or signal trace, a continuous conductive path is created, connecting the top and bottom layers of the board. #PCBdesign #viastitching

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We’ve returned from Semicon West. When we are in Santa Clara, we occasionally get the time to drop by the Intel Museum. Most of us at WFI US entered the industry in the early-mid 1990’s, so we missed the very earliest days. We got pictures of their earlier microcontrollers and EEPROM displays, with the microcontroller display in the picture below. On that day, there weren’t any class tours, although we’ve been there at the time there were tours. Fostering early talent is critical, especially for the larger organizations. Examples of Intel’s Early Microcontrollers:

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When adding stitching vias to a PCB, strategic placement is crucial. It's essential to position them around the edges of critical components, high-speed signal traces, and ground planes. This ensures effective shielding and enhanced signal integrity. The appropriate size and spacing of stitching vias are chosen based on your application's specific requirements and the PCB's material. #PCBdesign

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Success Story – MEMS Microfluidics Wafer Probe System Applicationhttps://hubs.ly/Q02BkK0J0

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In the intricate world of PCB manufacturing, the significance of PCBA box build assembly cannot be overstated. It represents the final stage where various components, subassemblies, enclosures, and software/firmware integration come together to form a fully functional electronic device.

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This development marks a significant stride for both TSMC and the semiconductor industry as a whole. The investment in advanced manufacturing infrastructure in Phoenix underscores the growing importance of domestic chip production and highlights the collaborative efforts between government and industry to bolster technological innovation and economic growth. #SemiconductorIndustry #TSMC #AdvancedManufacturing

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Yeah, no. That's what a friend from high school would say quite often. It meant no, with the 'yeah' up front acknowledging the validity of the topic. For example, "Did you get the last problem on the geometry homework?" would be followed with a "Yeah, no". That phrase came to mind today when reviewing the latest release of the Movellus AWM3 targeted at droop management because while I've been blessed to be in this industry long enough to see tremendous changes, engineering challenges getting easier is not one of them. Hence the question, "Are modern tools and IP making life easy for today's SoC designers?" yields the response "Yeah, no." The demands placed on SoC engineering teams are staggering - shrinking resources, a relentless push for increasing performance with decreasing power, the inevitable tight deadlines, and now the staggering demands of advanced AI architectures all yield an environment with shrinking to vanishing margins leading to unavoidable excursions into unwanted behaviors like voltage droop. But isn't this a well-understood phenomenon with lots of tools and design technique choices to resolve it? Yeah, no. This is the gauntlet that Movellus have picked up, despite the fact that developing IP to resolve voltage droop is as or more complex than the droop itself. It requires a deep understanding of the issue across many vectors - level of droop, timing of the droop, slope of the droop, solution implementation tolerances, etc. not to mention the complexity involved in finding a way to test a problem that is enigmatic and ethereal by nature. And when Movellus released the fastest droop mitigation solution in the industry last year were customers thrilled and eager to engage? Of course! Were they satisfied? Yeah, no. But that's to be expected. Are customers really ever satisfied? Don't they always want more/faster/better/cheaper/smaller? So the Movellus engineers sharpened their proverbial pencils and went to work, and in an incredibly short time span took the industry's fastest droop mitigation system and made it faster, and better, and smaller. Does anyone else offer a solution for DFS/DVFS with droop mitigation at this speed that provides advanced clock telemetry for analytics? Yeah, no. So now are Movellus satisfied that they've slayed the hardest SoC design challenges, so they can finally rest on their laurels? Yeah, no. #staytuned

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Looking forward to joining the Samsung Semiconductor Foundry event next week in San Jose ! 12-13 June. Let me know if you are at the event or around in the valley next week. It would be great to meet up and discuss Kudelski IoT's suite of on-chip security IP and cloud services for your next SoC design! There are numerous "top-line" use cases for system-on-chip security IP - for example ...compliance with automotive regulations, secure firmware over the air updates, to protect on-chip content such as LLM or even to securely enable new business models similar to the "on demand" access to chip functionality offering recently embraced by Intel for its Xeon processors. We also support a highly advanced and scalable cloud and SaaS device management and provisioning solution for dynamic in-field provisioning allowing you to dynamically update both the keys and certificates of deployed devices on an ongoing basis, thus protecting against evolving threats and compliance with evolving security requirements. #semiconductorsecuritysolutions

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Our unique “live via ZOOM” training is geared for sales and marketing professionals from manufacturers, manufacturers’ reps and distribution…real world applications that the attendee can put into practice immediately…more to come…

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PCIe Gen6 + 5nm + MRVL SerDes = Lowest Power for AI!!

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Devices that benefit most from LPDDR4X are those requiring efficient power management and high-speed data processing, such as smartphones, tablets, and other portable or embedded systems. Its low voltage operation and high data rates make it ideal for running advanced applications and handling demanding tasks.

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Today I toured the Port of Oakland, the 9th busiest container port in the United States.  Looking out over the sea of containers from the bridge of a container ship, I wondered how the world standardized on the often overlooked and I might say “humble” shipping container. You would be surprised to learn, as I was, that the standard shipping container came into existence in the mid-1950s as an invention of American entrepreneur #MalcolmMcLean (1935-2001). He started out as a truck driver and then branched out to owning a fleet of trucks. Seeing inefficiencies across the logistics network, he realized that by standardizing the size of the containers used to ship goods, loading and unloading of ships and trains could be at least partially mechanized, thereby making the transfer from one mode of transportation to another seamless. McLean purchased two WWII tankers to try out his ideas… and thus the birth of containerization!  His system dramatically reduced the cost of loading and unloading a ship. In 1956, ships were loaded manually at a cost of $5.86 per ton; McClean’s standardized container cut that cost to just 16 cents a ton. McLean was also vigilant about standardization, seeing that not only could it reduce costs and improve efficiencies, but that standardization would be the path to overall industry growth. He thus chose to make his patents available by issuing a royalty-free lease to the Industrial Organization for Standardization (ISO).  Some will argue that the #standardshippingcontainer is one of the most important inventions of the 20th century having enabled the explosive growth of international commerce in the 2nd half of the 20th century. According to the The Maritime Executive, about 90 percent of the world’s goods are transported by sea, with 60 percent of that in shipping containers. The rest (e.g., oil and grains) are shipped in bulk containers. In total, about $14 trillion of the world’s goods spend some time inside a big metal box. Without the standardized container, the #globalsupplychain that the world depends upon would not exist. https://lnkd.in/dNsFrtWn. https://lnkd.in/ddA9rwgC

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Efficiency is key to enable AI at the edge. In this video our VP of AI, Carlos Morales shows how efficiently and fast Ambiq Apollo5 (Cortex M55 on SPOT) can classify images. Reach out to hear more if you are curious! #edgeAI #CortexM55 #arm #efficiencymatters #subthreshold #SPOT #edgecompute #innovation #semiconductors

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"Scotty we need more power!" For those of use old enough to remember Star Trek TOS (and if you don't know what that is I'll wait for you to visit the wikipedias...) this phrase is burned indelibly into our brains. Invariably some nefarious force was holding the Enterprise against its will, or the ship was trying to outrun a baddie, or an incoming energy bolt threatened the integrity of the hull, and always the solution was "more power". The world we live in today is quite different. Not to say that the need for compute power has reduced, in fact quite the opposite given the enormous computational requirements of modern AI and HPC workloads. But that "power" must now be weighed against the power (energy) required to use it. In AI it's no longer about TOPS, it's about TOPS/W. And a laptop that dramatically outperformed its competitors but had only a 30 minute battery life would be considered fairly useless. So when the power (energy) requirements of datacenters start to be measured as a percentage of global energy consumption it's easy to see why managing and reducing power (energy) is a critical part of modern designs. Enter the Movellus Aeonic Power product family. By integrating the power supply for components of an SoC the power (energy) can be made more localized, smarter, more efficient, and the overall demand for energy can be reduced significantly. So rather than running all of your compute cores or AI acceleration clusters full tilt when only a few are needed, you can now modulate power at the core or block or cluster level to reduce the energy to precisely what is needed and no more, and this fine grained power control can yield immediate benefits. Advanced power savings like this were once attainable only by the largest and most advanced teams on the planet, but the field has been leveled. If you want to know more just send me a note, or come visit us at DAC 2024. Or just keep burning more energy than you have to, reducing your competitiveness and decreasing reliability, that's an option too... #AI #PowerDelivery #DAC2024

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