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In a major leap forward for Japan’s semiconductor industry, Rapidus Corporation has officially started test production of 2-nanometer (2nm) chips, marking a critical milestone in the country’s ambitions to reclaim its position as a global tech innovator. The Hokkaido-based startup, backed by billions in government funding and industry partnerships, has also announced that it will…
In digital electronics and VLSI design, adders are fundamental building blocks used to perform arithmetic operations. Among various types of adders, the 4-bit Ripple Carry Adder (RCA) is one of the simplest and most commonly studied designs. It is widely used to add two 4-bit binary numbers and produce a 4-bit sum along with a carry-out. This…
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Welcome back to our Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) series! In our first post, we introduced the critical challenges of CDC in digital designs. In this article, we focus on one of the most fundamental and effective techniques to tackle metastability, a core issue in CDC: the two-stage flip-flop synchronizer. Understanding metastability and how this simple synchronizer design…
Ensuring data integrity is a critical aspect of digital communication and storage systems. One of the most reliable and widely used error-detecting techniques is the Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC). If you’re working with FPGAs, ASICs, or digital systems, implementing a CRC generator efficiently in hardware is essential. In this comprehensive blog post, we’ll walk you through…
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July 18, 2025 – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s leading contract chipmaker, has once again defied expectations with a staggering 60.7% surge in second-quarter net profit, reaching a record-breaking NT$398.27 billion (US$13.53 billion). This powerhouse performance, driven by unrelenting demand for advanced chips powering artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC), signals TSMC’s…
July 17, 2025 – In a landmark move that’s reshaping the tech landscape, Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) has officially completed its $35 billion acquisition of Ansys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSS), creating a powerhouse in electronic design automation (EDA) and simulation software. Announced on January 16, 2024, and finalized today after securing global regulatory approvals, this stock-and-cash…
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A small-town Iowa boy, caught red-handed stealing a pig for a college prank, goes on to shape the modern world as the co-inventor of the microchip. This is the story of Robert Noyce, the man dubbed the “Mayor of Silicon Valley.” His life is a whirlwind of brilliance, rebellion, and innovation that transformed Silicon Valley…
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In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence (AI), NVIDIA GPUs have become the backbone of machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing. However, a groundbreaking discovery by researchers at the University of Toronto has unveiled a critical vulnerability: the GPUHammer attack, a novel variant of the RowHammer exploit, capable of silently corrupting AI models by…
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In digital design, shifting bits efficiently is crucial for many applications like arithmetic operations, data manipulation, and processor instruction execution. A barrel shifter is a hardware component that shifts data by a variable number of bits in a single clock cycle, making it a vital building block in modern digital systems. If you’re diving into Verilog and…
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In an unprecedented turn of events, Nvidia has officially crossed the $4 trillion market capitalization milestone, becoming the first publicly traded company to do so. While headlines celebrate this achievement with awe, many in the tech and financial sectors are left scratching their heads, wondering: Is this valuation real, or is the math broken? Let’s…
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