Daniel is joined by Doug Wong, senior member of the technical staff at KIOXIA America, where he has contributed to the advancement of memory technologies since 1993. He began his career with KIOXIA in the company’s Memory Division (then part of Toshiba America) and has since focused on a broad range of memory solutions, including… Read More
In the semiconductor industry High-Level Synthesis (HLS) and SystemC have become essential tools, allowing engineers to model complex hardware designs using familiar C/C++ constructs. Yet, despite the widespread adoption of these languages, the debugging workflows in hardware development lag far behind those in software… Read More
Silent Data Corruption (SDC) represents a critical challenge in modern semiconductor design, particularly in high-performance computing environments like AI data centers. As highlighted in a collaborative presentation by Broadcom Inc. and Siemens EDA at the 2025 TSMC OIP event, SDC occurs when hardware defects cause erroneous… Read More
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has once again demonstrated its leadership in corporate sustainability with the successful conclusion of its 6th ESG AWARD, which attracted more than 5,800 proposals from employees across the organization. The overwhelming response reflects not only TSMC’s strong internal engagement… Read More
At the 2025 RISC-V Summit North America, Min Hsu, Staff Compiler Engineer at SiFive, presented on enhancing tiling support within SiFive’s AI/ML software stack for the RISC-V Vector-Matrix Extension (VME). This extension aims to boost matrix multiplication efficiency, a cornerstone of AI workloads. SiFive’s… Read More
Socionext’s recent run of rapid 3D-IC tape-outs is a noteworthy milestone for the industry with two successful tape-outs in just seven months for complex, multi-die designs aimed at AI and HPC workloads. That pace of iteration highlights how advanced packaging, richer EDA toolchains, and closer foundry-ecosystem collaboration… Read More
In a presentation at the RISC-V Summit North America 2025, John Simpson, Senior Principal Architect at SiFive, delved into the evolving landscape of RISC-V extensions tailored for artificial intelligence and machine learning. RISC-V’s open architecture has fueled its adoption in AI/ML markets by allowing customization… Read More
Recently, I reported on my conversation with Cristian Amitroaie, CEO of AMIQ EDA, about automated generation of documentation from design and verification code. Before we chose that topic for a post, Cristian described several capabilities of the AMIQ EDA product family that might be of interest to design and verification engineers.… Read More
Charlie Su, President and CTO of Andes Technology, delivered a compelling keynote at the 2025 RISC-V Summit North America, asserting that RISC-V is primed to drive the burgeoning field of Intelligent General Computing. This emerging paradigm integrates AI and machine learning into everyday computing devices, from AI-enabled… Read More
Quantum Computing Technologies and Challenges