Custom IC design has demanding technical requirements to produce accurate simulation results for timing and power analysis in the shortest run times. EDA vendors have been rushing to use AI and ML technology to meet these analysis requirements. I attended a webinar from Siemens on accelerating iterative design cycles with Solido… Read More
Samtec Ushers in a New Era of High-Speed Connectivity at DesignCon 2026As I’ve discussed before, Samtec has a way…Read More
TSMC and Cadence Strengthen Partnership to Enable Next-Generation AI and HPC SiliconTSMC continues to reinforce its leadership in advanced…Read More
TSMC vs Intel Foundry vs Samsung Foundry 2026The global semiconductor industry sits at the foundation…Read More
Silicon Catalyst at the Chiplet Summit: Advancing the Chiplet EconomyThe rapid evolution of semiconductor design has elevated…Read MoreLUBIS EDA: Addressing the Verification Bottleneck in Modern Chip Design
LUBIS EDA is a Germany-based EDA company that specializes in formal verification, a mathematically rigorous method for proving that a chip design behaves correctly under all possible conditions. Founded in 2021 by a team of researchers and engineers from the academic world, the company has rapidly become a notable innovator… Read More
SiFive’s AI’s Next Chapter: RISC-V and Custom Silicon
In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence and semiconductor design, open-standard processor architectures are gaining unprecedented traction. At the center of this shift is SiFive, a company founded by the original creators of the RISC-V ISA, which champions an open, extensible, and license-free alternative… Read More
Smarter IC Layout Parasitic Analysis
IC layout parasitics dominate the performance of custom digital, analog and mixed-signal designs, so the challenge becomes how to identify the root causes and to quantify the effects of parasitics during early design stages. The old method of iterating between layout, extraction, SPICE simulation, followed by manual debug… Read More
Improving Retrieval Accuracy in AI
While there are big ambitions for virtual engineers and other self-guiding agentic applications, today estimates show 83-90% of AI inferences are for internet searches. On a related note, chatbots are now said to account for nearly 60% of internet traffic. Search and support are the biggest market drivers for automation and … Read More
Ceva IP: Powering the Era of Physical AI
Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving beyond the digital domain and into the physical world. From autonomous robots and smart factories to intelligent vehicles and connected consumer devices, AI systems are increasingly expected to perceive their surroundings, make real-time decisions, and act on them instantly. This… Read More
Accelerating Static ESD Simulation for Full-Chip and Multi-Die Designs with Synopsys PathFinder-SC
As analog and mixed-signal designs become increasingly complex, parasitic effects dominate both design time and cost, consuming 30–50% of engineers’ effort in debugging and reanalyzing circuits. Addressing these multiphysics effects requires early verification strategies and reliable simulation solutions. Modern … Read More
A Century of Miracles: From the FET’s Inception to the Horizons Ahead
The Field-Effect Transistor (FET), a cornerstone of modern electronics, marks its centennial in 2025, tracing back to Julius Edgar Lilienfeld’s groundbreaking invention in 1925. Born in 1882 in what is now Lviv, Ukraine, Lilienfeld was a prolific physicist who earned his PhD from Berlin University in 1905. His early … Read More
Two Open RISC-V Projects Chart Divergent Paths to High Performance
Up to now the RISC-V community has been developing open-source processor implementations to a stage where they can appeal to system designers looking for alternatives to proprietary Arm and x86 cores. Toward this end, two projects have emerged as particularly significant examples of where RISC-V is heading. One is Ara, a vector… Read More
On the high-speed digital design frontier with Keysight’s Hee-Soo Lee
High-speed digital (HSD) design is one of the more exciting areas in EDA right now, with design practices, tools, and workflows evolving to keep pace with increasing design complexity. With the annual Chiplet Summit and DesignCon festivities right around the corner, we sat down with Keysight’s Hee-Soo Lee, HSD Segment Lead, … Read More



Semidynamics Unveils 3nm AI Inference Silicon and Full-Stack Systems