Delivering Silicon Systems Through AI Disruption, Part 1: Writing the Score

Delivering Silicon Systems Through AI Disruption, Part 1: Writing the Score
by Joel Jorgensen on 10-14-2026 at 8:00 am

Writing the Score SemiWiki

Score: the written music for an orchestra, with every section’s part laid out on the same page so they play together. In this article, it’s your designed workflows.

Is AI helping you hit your tape-out date, or putting it at risk? How would you know?

Every Director I talk to is being asked to use AI to deliver faster, or better,… Read More


The Invisible Bottleneck Is Costing You Time You Can’t Get Back

The Invisible Bottleneck Is Costing You Time You Can’t Get Back
by Joel Jorgensen on 09-17-2026 at 8:00 am

invisible bottle neck package

The 2026 Siemens EDA and Wilson Research Group study just came out. Verification now eats close to half the schedule on every IC and FPGA program. I don’t doubt that number. What I don’t know is how much of it is actually verification, and how much of it is something else showing up disguised as verification.

Sometimes… Read More