Silicon Insights - February 2020

Volume 10.0 | February 2020

Silicon Insights

Featured Article

Macro models let engineers simulate circuits and systems

Electronic systems keep getting more complex. Much of the complexity comes from ICs, which can undergo years of design and validation cycles before reaching the market. System design engineering teams evaluate ICs before developing them into systems. IC Macro models help system designers understand, simulate, and implement these devices into systems before making any physical PCBs. Doing so cuts cost and time for the system designers while protecting the design IPs of the IC design engineering units. Read More. .

View Point

Where Is The Edge AI Market And Ecosystem Headed?

Recently Nvidia announced inference sales outstripped training for the first time. Much of this was likely shipped to data centers, but there also are many applications outside of data centers, generally referred to as “the edge.” This means that sales of PCIe inference boards for edge inference applications are likely in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year and rapidly growing.

There are a wide range of applications: surveillance, facial recognition, retail analytics, genomics/gene sequencing, and more. Since training is done in floating point and quantization requires a lot of skill/investment, most edge server inference is likely done in 16-bit floating point with only the highest volume applications being done in INT8. PCIe inference boards range from 75W (Nvidia Tesla T4) to 200W (Habana Goya). Read More...

Industry Showcase

HCL’s Sankalp Acquisition: Reflections of a Dynamic Industry

The recent acquisition by HCL is a strategic move to cement its position in semiconductor chip engineering services by strengthening its existing digital design services and expanding into the analog and mixed-signal space.Both HCL and Sankalp Semiconductor provide chip engineering services in the pre-silicon and post-silicon segments of the value chain.But while HCL’s chip engineering expertise lies in digital design, Sankalp has strong capabilities in analog and mixed-signal circuit design as well.

And HCL will be gaining experience. Sankalp has more than 5,000 person-years of experience in semiconductor engineering services and covers the digital, analog, and mixed-signal domains through its 1,000+ engineers based in India and Canada. In analog and mixed-signal design alone, the company has more than 1,500 person-years of experience and has delivered more than 500 projects. Read More..

In News

Sankalp Semiconductor wins STPI Highest Exporter Award - ITES

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Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including analog & mixed signal, digital, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler, IOs and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer, Networking, Wireless, IoT, Medical electronics and Foundry space. The company enables its customers to achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first time right silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Palo Alto, California & Hubli, India with offices in USA, India, Canada, Germany, Malaysia and Japan.

Editor's Note

Silicon Insights newsletter keeps you abreast with the latest innovations and happenings in the semiconductor space at Sankalp Semiconductor. Please send your feedback /suggestions to marcom@sankalpsemi.com .