Semiconductor Engineering

Predicting Post-Route PPA from Macro and Standard-Cell Placements (U. of Alberta)

Researchers from University of Alberta published a technical paper titled “PPAPlace: Differentiable Cross-Stage Objectives ...
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Cycle-Level Simulator for Distributed GPUs For AI Workloads (Purdue)

Researchers from Purdue University published a technical paper titled “Architecting the Next Generation of Asynchronous, ...
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Hybrid HBM-HBF Architecture in LLM Inference (University of Oxford)

Researchers at the University of Oxford published a technical paper titled “Hardware-Managed Heterogeneous High-Bandwidth ...
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Programmable Silicon Photonics Filter Enables Continuous Laser Wavelength Tuning (UiT, Stanford)

Researchers at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Stanford University published a technical paper titled “Intracavity ...
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Molecular Dynamics Study Explains Aluminum Dopant Activation In 4H-SiC (TU Wien, Silvaco)

Researchers from TU Wien and Silvaco Europe published a technical paper titled “The influence of implantation conditions on ...
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Ferroelectric Tuning Reduces Optical-Interconnect Stalls In LLM Training (Georgia Tech)

Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology published a technical paper titled “Thermal Tuning Overhead in Wafer-Scale ...
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Sapphire Surface Modification Enables Wafer-Scale 2D Semiconductor Growth (Peking U., CAS et al.)

Researchers from Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences et al. published a technical paper titled “Homo-metal-element ...
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Generative Design Optimizes Liquid-Cooling Channels For 2.5D And 3D Packages (UM-Dearborn)

Researchers from University of Michigan-Dearborn published a technical paper titled “Generative Design of Liquid-Cooling ...
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Deep Learning Automates Parameter Extraction For 2D Transistors (Stanford, SLAC)

Researchers from Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory published a technical paper titled “Deep ...
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Planning Your AI Design Journey: Start With What You’d Lose

AI is supposed to be the answer to this. But for many teams, the AI conversation stalls before it starts, because it gets ...
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From Spec To Formal Properties

Can LLMs turn a specification into a set of formal properties that can be used to verify an implementation? The answer is ...
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The Future Of AI Compute Won’t Run On Just One Kind Of Chip

Power, token cost, interconnects, and software orchestration are pushing data centers toward heterogeneous clusters built ...