Also known as the Internet of Everything, or IoE, the Internet of Things is a global application where devices can connect to a host of other devices, each either providing data from sensors, or containing actuators that can control some function. Data can be consolidated and processed on mass in the Cloud.

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is the industry that commercializes the tools, methodologies and flows associated with the fabrication of electronic systems.

A lab that wrks with R&D organizations and fabs involved in the early analytical work for next-generation devices, packages and materials.

Data storage and computing done in a data center, through a service offered by a cloud service provider, and accessed on the public Internet.

The Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard (UCIS) provides an application programming interface (API) that enables the sharing of coverage data across software simulators, hardware accelerators, symbolic simulations, formal tools or custom verification tools.

Some OEMs are also IDMs — or have a foundry (Samsung and Samsung Foundry).Some OEMs also design their own chips, and like a fabless semiconductor company, they will have a foundry manufacture the chips.

Design verification that helps ensure the robustness of a design and reduce susceptibility to premature or catastrophic electrical failures.

Separate electronic devices using Internet or other connections to communicate among the devices. Usually sensors or actuators are sending data to a computing hub.

A transmission system that sends signals over a high-speed connection from a transceiver on one chip to a receiver on another. The transceiver converts parallel data into serial stream of data that is re-translated into parallel on the receiving end.

Functional Design and Verification is currently associated with all design and verification functions performed before RTL synthesis.

A software tool used in software programming that abstracts all the programming steps into a user interface for the developer.

Actions taken during the physical design stage of IC development to ensure that the design can be accurately manufactured.

Interconnect standard which provides cache coherency for accelerators and memory expansion peripheral devices connecting to processors.

"RR-TAG" is a technical advisory group supporting IEEE standards groups working on 802.11, 802.12, 802.16, 802.20, 802.21, and 802.22.

An eFPGA is an IP core integrated into an ASIC or SoC that offers the flexibility of programmable logic without the cost of FPGAs.

Nodes in semiconductor manufacturing indicate the features that node production line can create on an integrated circuit, such as interconnect pitch, transistor density, transistor type, and other new technology.

Data processing is when raw data has operands applied to it via a computer or server to process data into another useable form. This definition category includes how and where the data is processed.

IEEE 802.15 is the working group for Wireless Specialty Networks (WSN), which are used in IoT, wearables and autonomous vehicles.

Combines use of a public cloud service with a private cloud, such as a company's internal enterprise servers or data centers.

IEEE Standard for Design and Verification of Low-Power Integrated Circuits also known by its Accellera name of Unified Power Format (UPF)

A system on chip (SoC) is the integration of functions necessary to implement an electronic system onto a single substrate and contains at least one processor

Hardware Verification Language, PSS is defined by Accellera and is used to model verification intent in semiconductor design.

A statistical method for determining if a test system is production ready by measuring variation during test for repeatability and reproducibility.

An approach in which machines are trained to favor basic behaviors and outcomes rather than explicitly programmed to do certain tasks. That results in optimization of both hardware and software to achieve a predictable range of results.

A type of processor that traditionally was a scaled-down, all-in-one embedded processor, memory and I/O for use in very specific operations.

An integrated circuit that manages the power in an electronic device or module, including any device that has a battery that gets recharged.

At newer nodes, more intelligence is required in fill because it can affect timing, signal integrity and require fill for all layers.

The use of metal fill to improve planarity and to manage electrochemical deposition (ECD), etch, lithography, stress effects, and rapid thermal annealing.

The basic architecture for most computing today, based on the principle that data needs to move back and forth between a processor and memory.

Theories have been influential and are often referred to as "laws" and are discussed in trade publications, research literature, and conference presentations as "truisms" that eventually have limits.

When channel lengths are the same order of magnitude as depletion-layer widths of the source and drain, they cause a number of issues that affect design.

An original equipment manufacturer (OEM), or systems company, purchases parts to make an product, such as an automobile, a washing machine, or a smartphone, to sell to the end user. The OEM designs, manufacturers, and distributes the device. This company is usually a customer of a semiconductor company, although traditionally with an automotive industry, the OEM — the car manufacturer — may be buying systems from another systems company, referred to as a Tier 1. A complex product, such as an automobile, may have parts and systems made by many companies in the tiers. The semiconductor company may sell its chips to a Tier 1, 2, or 3, etc. Things are changing, though, and increasingly, the semiconductor company is working directly with the automotive OEMs.

A vulnerability in a product’s hardware or software discovered by researchers or attackers that the producing company does not know about and therefore does not have a fix for yet.

Microelectromechanical Systems are a fusion of electrical and mechanical engineering and are typically used for sensors and for advanced microphones and even speakers.

A data center is a physical building or room that houses multiple servers with CPUs for remote data storage and processing.

The theoretical speedup when adding processors is always limited by the part of the task that cannot benefit from the improvement.

Wired communication, which passes data through wires between devices, is still considered the most stable form of communication.

Data centers and IT infrastructure for data storage and computing that a company owns or subscribes to for use only by that company.