Article: 22nm Design Challenges at ISSCC 2011
By: someone (someone.delete@this.somewhere.com), March 14, 2011 6:00 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 3/14/11 wrote:
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> As a result of the needed
>collaboration, understanding of physical design and manufacturing is even more critical
>to cutting edge chip development and achieving good performance, power and yields.
A decade ago I heard an design manager at AMD, an ex
DEC Alpha type, complain about how it was to recruit
EEs who knew anything about circuits and device physics.
All the new grads he interviewed were Verilog cowboys
who wanted to code up MPUs and had no desire to know
how transistors worked and interacted. Unless this trend
has changed (I have no reason to believe that it has) the
major IC designers are going to have to train new people
themselves to address these ever growing challenges.
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> As a result of the needed
>collaboration, understanding of physical design and manufacturing is even more critical
>to cutting edge chip development and achieving good performance, power and yields.
A decade ago I heard an design manager at AMD, an ex
DEC Alpha type, complain about how it was to recruit
EEs who knew anything about circuits and device physics.
All the new grads he interviewed were Verilog cowboys
who wanted to code up MPUs and had no desire to know
how transistors worked and interacted. Unless this trend
has changed (I have no reason to believe that it has) the
major IC designers are going to have to train new people
themselves to address these ever growing challenges.
| Topic | Posted By | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Design Challenges at 22nm Article | David Kanter | 2011/03/14 12:36 AM |
| Design Challenges at 22nm Article | Dean Calver | 2011/03/14 01:06 AM |
| Design Challenges at 22nm Article | David Kanter | 2011/03/14 08:06 PM |
| Design Challenges at 22nm Article | savantu | 2011/03/15 04:25 AM |
| Roots of this problem go way back. | someone | 2011/03/14 06:00 AM |
| Education | Moritz | 2011/03/15 03:42 AM |
| Education | someone | 2011/03/15 06:26 AM |
| Education | Moritz | 2011/03/15 11:44 AM |
| Education | sylt | 2011/03/18 09:31 AM |
| Roots of this problem go way back. | Rob Thorpe | 2011/03/15 05:25 AM |
| Roots of this problem go way back. | someone | 2011/03/15 06:20 AM |
| Roots of this problem go way back. | Nathan Monson | 2011/03/15 08:17 AM |
| Roots of this problem go way back. | mpx | 2011/03/15 11:55 AM |
| Roots of this problem go way back. | Mark Roulo | 2011/03/15 01:34 PM |
| Roots of this problem go way back. | Rob Thorpe | 2011/03/15 03:42 PM |
| Roots of this problem go way back. | Paul | 2011/03/15 04:03 PM |
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