The panel was so over-whelmed by the questions we received, so we had to select below 5 WINNERS, instead of 3. Congratulations to all 5-winners. You will receive your free coupon for upcoming workshop on "Advanced Physical Design using OpenLane/Sky130" happening from 16th to 20th October

 

Aakash Patil - What is it that one should/can claim to be own proprietary/confidential and commercialise, while still contributing to / benefiting from opensource hardware/EDA?

Big players will gain from economies of scale & System integrators will gain by having customer access. How can hardIP based B2B startup engage in the opensource without leaking out core IP?

 

Aakash Gupta - Vlsi is such a dream come true kind of specialisation from 30 tons of weight consuming 150 KWatt of Power with operations of 5000 per sec to 200gm of weight consuming 6 watt of power doing 5,000,000,000,000 operations per sec such a exponential growth , Now from here what will the future all our top panelist are seeing 

 

Shantanu Jahagirdar - How robust is RISC-V with regards to security of connected devices as compared to Arm? Both Arm and RISC-V architectures are based on the security concept of the isolation mechanism, but when Arm realizes hardware security, the two domains are hard-coded into the hardware, RISC-V is a software-defined domain. Will the open source nature of RISC-V actually reduce possibility of chip-level hardware from hacking? 

 

Iqbal Ahson - The size of ICs are further scaling year by year and the nu of transistor is doubling according moore's laws. But now days we are seeing that in MOS technologies the size of ICs less than 10nm scale and on further scaling we are not getting better performance it comes to constant . So we are further moving to the new technologies i.e FinFET. My question is that What is the main reasons that stoping further scaling (except para capacitance and W/L ratio). Is it any wave nature which is also involving in this.

 

Sangeetham Prasanth  -  As we all know the size of the transistor is getting reduced day-by-day. The radius of the single si atom is of 0.2nm and now we have reached a 5nm technology. Is it really possible to reduce the size of transistor further which is comparable to the size of the Si atom? Some say that the quantum computing comes into picture later. What are the future advancements that are gonna happen in semiconductor industry? Can I have an elaborated answer for these questions please.