3D IC was a very popular topic at DAC. The era of heterogeneous, multi-chip design is here. There were a lot of research results and practical examples presented. What stood out for me was a panel at the end of day two of DAC that was hosted by Siemens. This panel brought together an impressive group of experts to weigh in on what was really… Read More
Author: Mike Gianfagna
Scaling 3D IC Technologies – Siemens Hosts a Meeting of the Minds at DAC
DAC News – proteanTecs Unlocks AI Hardware Growth with Runtime Monitoring
As AI models grow exponentially, the infrastructure supporting them is struggling under the pressure. At DAC, one company stood out with a solution that doesn’t just monitor chips, it empowers them to adapt in real time to these new workload requirements.
Unlike traditional telemetry or post-silicon debug tools, proteanTecs… Read More
Perforce at DAC, Unifying Software and Silicon Across the Ecosystem
As the new name reflects, chip and system design were a major focus at DAC. So was the role of AI to enable those activities. But getting an AI-enabled design flow to work effectively across chip, subsystem and system-level design presents many significant challenges. One important one is effectively managing the vast amount of… Read More
Arteris Simplifies Design Reuse with Magillem Packaging
Many know Arteris as the “network-on-chip”, or NoC, company. Through acquisitions and forward-looking development, the footprint for Arteris has grown beyond smart interconnect IP. At DAC this year, Arteris highlighted its latest expansion with a new SoC integration automation product called Magillem Packaging. The announcement… Read More
Caspia Focuses Security Requirements at DAC
As expected, security was a big topic at DAC this year. The growth of AI has demanded complex, purpose-built semiconductors to run ever-increasing workloads. AI has helped to design those complex chips more efficiently and with less power demands. There was a lot of discussion on these topics. But there is another part of this trend.… Read More
Webinar – Power is the New Performance: Scaling Power & Performance for Next Generation SoCs
What if you could reduce power and extend chip lifetime, without compromising performance? We all know the importance of power optimization for advanced SoCs. Thanks to the massive build out of AI workloads, power consumption has gone from a cost or cooling headache to an existential threat to the planet, if current power consumptions… Read More
Visualizing System Design with Samtec’s Picture Search
If you’ve spent a lot of time in the chip or EDA business, “design” typically means chip design. These days it means heterogeneous multi-chip design. If you’ve spent time developing end products, “design” has a much broader meaning. Chips, subsystems, chassis and product packaging are in focus. This is just a short list if you consider… Read More
DAC News – A New Era of Electronic Design Begins with Siemens EDA AI
AI is the centerpiece of DAC this year. How to design chips to bring AI algorithms to life, how to prevent AI from hacking those chips, and of course how to use AI to design AI chips. In this latter category, there were many presentations, product announcements and demonstrations. I was impressed by many of them. But an important observation… Read More
Caspia Technologies at the 2025 Design Automation Conference #62DAC
Security will be an important topic at DAC this year. The hardware root of trust is the foundation of all security for complex systems implementing AI workloads. Thanks to new and sophisticated techniques the hardware root of trust is now vulnerable and must be protected. But adding deep security verification to existing design… Read More
Synopsys Addresses the Test Barrier for Heterogeneous Integration
The trend is clear, AI and HPC is moving to chiplet-based, or heterogenous design to achieve the highest levels of performance, while traditional monolithic system-on-chip (SoC) designs struggle to scale. What is also clear is the road to this new design style is not a smooth one. There are many challenges to overcome. Some are … Read More
Rapidus, IBM, and the Billion-Dollar Silicon Sovereignty Bet