Accurate, complete, and consistent technical documentation is a critical element of success for any embedded system design project. This includes IP, SoCs, and the associated hardware and software infrastructure. When documentation contains errors, the consequences go beyond engineering inefficiency. Errors that drive… Read More
Artificial Intelligence
Europe is Getting Serious About ASIC Innovation
I was born in the UK (then still a part of Europe), so always eager to see them succeed. But I must admit that past behavior has reinforced the view that the EU’s only active “contribution” to progress is regulation. However this seems to be changing in multiple interesting ways. On a grand scale, the Nordic economic model is taking … Read More
Closing the Silicon Realization Gap: From Static DFM to Governance for Lifecycle (GFL)
The semiconductor industry has achieved extraordinary mastery in silicon signoff. Modern EDA environments can now optimize timing closure, physical verification, IR/EM behavior, routing density, thermal interaction, and increasingly even design-space exploration through AI-assisted implementation flows. Crossing… Read More
From the Selfie to Samantha: The Next Trillion-Dollar Behavior
At CES 2026, Samsung called it a “companion.” Lenovo called it “ambient intelligence.” OpenAI spent $6.4 billion on a screenless device designed to be a continuous presence in your pocket. Meta acquired Limitless, the AI pendant that had been tracking everything its wearers said and heard. Every major consumer electronics company… Read More
CEO Interview with Nagesh Gupta of llmda.ai
Nagesh has built a career spanning multiple aspects of system design and development at companies including Hewlett-Packard, Cadence, Xilinx, and Lattice Semiconductor.
He is also a serial entrepreneur. Nagesh founded Taray, Inc., which developed memory interface generators for Xilinx designs and was later acquired by … Read More
SiFive’s P570 Gen 3 Pushes RISC-V Further Into the AI Era
With the launch of its new P570 Gen 3 processor family, SiFive is making a broader statement about the future of edge computing and the growing role of RISC-V in mainstream application processors. Rather than simply unveiling another CPU core, the company is positioning the P570 as a balanced-performance processor built specifically… Read More
CEO Interview with Dr. Jekaterina Viktorova of Syenta
Dr. Jekaterina (Jeka) Viktorova is the CEO and Co-Founder of Syenta, an Australian deep-tech company developing breakthrough additive manufacturing technology for the semiconductor industry. With a background in chemistry, electrochemistry, and advanced manufacturing, she is the inventor of the core Syenta technology… Read More
Beyond Tool Interoperability: The Emerging Governed Convergence Problem in Semiconductor Design
The semiconductor industry has spent decades optimizing tools. Today, however, the central challenge is no longer whether individual tools are powerful enough. The real question is whether increasingly specialized tools, domains, models, and organizations can still converge coherently into a manufacturable, reliable,… Read More
#DAC2026 Marks Another Pivotal Moment for the Semiconductor Industry
The 2026 Design Automation Conference (DAC 2026) marks another pivotal moment for the semiconductor and electronic systems industry as artificial intelligence, chiplets, heterogeneous integration, and system-level optimization redefine the future of design automation. Held July 26–29, 2026, at the Long Beach Convention… Read More
From Point Solutions to Agentic AI Ecosystems: Semiconductor Process Control Depends on Its Past
Agentic AI is often presented as a revolutionary shift in semiconductor manufacturing, driven by large language models and generative AI. However, this framing overlooks an important reality: today’s advances are built on decades of prior work. As Jonathan Holt of PDF Solutions emphasizes in his recent keynote at the APCM 2026… Read More


Crossing the Yield Cliff: IDP V6 and the Future of Manufacturing Forecasting