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Podcast EP327: Third Quarter 2025 Electronic Design Market Data Report Overview and More with Dr. Walden Rhines

Podcast EP327: Third Quarter 2025 Electronic Design Market Data Report Overview and More with Dr. Walden Rhines
by Daniel Nenni on 01-16-2026 at 10:00 am
Categories: ESD Alliance, Semiconductor Services

Daniel is joined by Wally Rhines, CEO of Silvaco, about the Electronic Design Market Data report that was just released. Wally is the industry coordinator for the EDA data collection program called EDMD. SEMI and the Electronic System Design Alliance collect data from almost all of the electronic design automation companies … Read More

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Verification Futures with Bronco AI Agents for DV Debug

Verification Futures with Bronco AI Agents for DV Debug
by Daniel Nenni on 01-16-2026 at 6:00 am
Categories: AI, Bronco AI, EDA, Events

Bronco AI Verification Futures 2025

Verification has become the dominant bottleneck in modern chip design. As much as 70% of the overall design cycle is now spent on verification, a figure driven upward by increasing design complexity, compressed schedules, and a chronic shortage of design verification (DV) engineering bandwidth. Modern chips generate thousands… Read More

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AI Bubble?

AI Bubble?
by Bill Jewell on 01-15-2026 at 12:00 pm
Categories: Semiconductor Intelligence, Semiconductor Services
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The currently strong semiconductor market is being driven by AI applications. A McKinsey survey showed 88% of businesses used AI in 2025 compared to just 55% in 2023. According to Inc.com, 306 of the S&P 500 companies mentioned AI in their third quarter 2025 earnings conference calls, up from only 53 citations three years earlier… Read More

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There is more to prototyping than just FPGA: See how S2C accelerates SoC Bring-Up with high productivity toolchain?

There is more to prototyping than just FPGA: See how S2C accelerates SoC Bring-Up with high productivity toolchain?
by Daniel Nenni on 01-15-2026 at 10:00 am
Categories: EDA, Prototyping, S2C EDA

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System-on-Chip designs continue to grow in scale and interface diversity, placing greater demands on prototype capacity, interconnect planning, and bring-up efficiency. These challenges arise not only in large multi-FPGA programs but also in smaller designs implemented on a single device or a small FPGA cluster. In all cases,… Read More

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Last Call: Why Your Real‑World Lessons Belong in DAC 2026’s Engineering

Last Call: Why Your Real‑World Lessons Belong in DAC 2026’s Engineering
by Admin on 01-15-2026 at 6:00 am
Categories: Events

DAC Call for Contributions 2026

By Frank Schirrmeister, Synopsys
Disclaimer: This article is written in my role as Engineering Track Chair for DAC 2026

If you’ve ever walked out of DAC with a handful of practical ideas you could put to work when you return to work, you already know the value of the Engineering Track. It’s where practitioners talk to practitioners… Read More

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2026 Outlook with Randy Caplan of Silicon Creations

2026 Outlook with Randy Caplan of Silicon Creations
by Daniel Nenni on 01-14-2026 at 10:00 am
Categories: IP, Silicon Creations

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Randy Caplan is co-founder and CEO of Silicon Creations, and a lifelong technology enthusiast. For almost two decades, he has helped grow Silicon Creations into a leading mixed-signal semiconductor IP company with 500+ customers spanning almost every major market segment. He has driven the development of key technologies … Read More

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Where is Quantum Error Correction Headed Next?

Where is Quantum Error Correction Headed Next?
by Bernard Murphy on 01-14-2026 at 6:00 am
Categories: 3D IC, Quantum Computing

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I have written earlier in this series that quantum error correction (QEC), a concept parallel to ECC in classical computing, is a gating factor for production quantum computing (QC). Errors in QC accumulate much faster than in classical systems, requiring QEC methods that can fix errors fast enough to permit production applications.… Read More

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2026 Outlook with Nilesh Kamdar of Keysight EDA

2026 Outlook with Nilesh Kamdar of Keysight EDA
by Daniel Nenni on 01-13-2026 at 10:00 am
Categories: Chiplet, EDA, Keysight EDA

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Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I’m Nilesh Kamdar, General Manager of the Keysight EDA business unit. Keysight is an S&P 500 company that provides design, emulation, and test solutions to help engineers develop and deploy faster with less risk. On the EDA side, we focus on RFMW, high-speed digital,… Read More

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Verifying RISC-V Platforms for Space

Verifying RISC-V Platforms for Space
by Bernard Murphy on 01-13-2026 at 6:00 am
Categories: AI, Breker Verification Systems, EDA, RISC-V

User making a call through a satellite

Space applications are booming, prompted by rapidly declining launch costs now attainable through commercial competition. Thanks to ventures like SpaceX, the cost to put a satellite into low earth orbit (LEO) has dropped from $20k/kg to $2k/kg today and is expected to drop further to $200/kg or lower. Plummeting costs drive … Read More

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2026 Outlook with Paul Neil of Mach42

2026 Outlook with Paul Neil of Mach42
by Daniel Nenni on 01-12-2026 at 10:00 am
Categories: CEO Interviews, EDA, Mach42

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Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company

I’m Paul, Chief Operating Officer at Mach42. As COO, I am responsible for the business growth of Mach42, as well as driving customer success. My previous roles included VP of Product at Axelera AI, Graphcore and XMOS. I hold a PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MBA in Technology… Read More