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September 23, 2011

A Bear, a Transistor and a Process Node Walk Into a Bar

by Amelia Dalton

In this week’s Fish Fry, I interview James Wang (SmartBear Software – Vice President) about the age old gap between hardware and software designers and how SmartBear’s tool suite can help bridge that divide.  

Also this week, I check in on Samsung’s progress on 20nm process node and investigate how the National Science Foundation is trying to make the transistor obsolete.  

I have a DE0-Nano Development Board to give out this week, but you’ll have to listen to find out how you can win.


 

Watch Previous Fish Frys

Fish Fry Links – September 23, 2011

Fresh Byte – Space Junk Falling From the sky

National Science Foundation Awards $20 Million In Grants to Nanoelectronics

More Information about the 2011 International Electron Devices Meeting

DAC Panel hosted by Cadence “Getting a Jumpstart on 20nm”

More Information about Samsung’s 20nm process node

More information about SmartBear Software

DE0-Nano Development Board

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Moshe Gavrielov, CEO – Xilinx

John Bruggeman, Former CMO – Cadence Design Systems

Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor

Lauro Rizzatti, Vice President of Marketing, EVE

Bill Neifert, CTO – Carbon Design Systems

Sean Dart, CEO – Forte Design Systems

Kapil Shankar, CEO – SiliconBlue

Andy Pease, CEO – QuickLogic

Rajeev Madhavan, CEO – Magma 


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