Semiconductor 101

Have you ever wondered about those chips inside your smartphone? How are they designed and manufactured? Cadence’s Paul McLellan walks you through how chips get from an idea to a completed design, and how the manufacturing process turns sand into valuable electronics. Find more great content from Cadence: Subscribe to our YouTube channel:    / @cadencedesignsystems   Connect with Cadence: Website: http://www.cadence.com Facebook:   / cadencedesign   LinkedIn:   / cadence-design-systems   Twitter:   / cadence   About Cadence Cadence enables electronic systems and semiconductor companies to create the innovative end products that are transforming the way people live, work and play. Cadence® software, hardware and semiconductor IP are used by customers to deliver products to market faster. The company’s Intelligent System Design strategy helps customers develop differentiated products—from chips to boards to intelligent systems—in mobile, consumer, cloud data center, automotive, aerospace, IoT, industrial and other market segments. Cadence is listed as one of Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For. Learn more at www.cadence.com. 0:00 Introduction 1:49 Computational Software 3:37 Moore's Law is Exponential 6:02 Processors as the Canary in a Coalmine 7:12 Semiconductor Processes 9:18 A Modern Fab Costs $10-20B 9:49 The Fabless Revolution 12:55 IC Design: Simple Canonical Flow 14:37 IC Design: Cadence Product Names 15:46 Chip Design is NOT like Other Design 17:27 NVIDIA Hopper GPU 17:58 Cost of Design (Including Software) 19:04 Risk Management 20:13 Chips Go on Boards 20:52 Systems Contain Software 22:54 The Day the Semiconductor World Changed 24:58 Aerospace 25:45 High Performance Computing (HPC) 28:32 Cadence Intelligent System Design Strategy 29:32 Breakfast Bytes