On July 18, 2025, Mark Teranipur, chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Florida and co-founder of Caspia Technologies, delivered a compelling talk at DACtv on leveraging large language models (LLMs) for System-on-Chip (SoC) security, as seen in the YouTube video. Addressing the… Read More
Artificial Intelligence
Chip Agent: Revolutionizing Chip Design with Agentic AI
On July 18, 2025, ChipAgents AI, a Santa Barbara-based startup, showcased its innovative agentic AI platform for chip design and verification at a DACtv session. Led by CEO William Wong, a former CMU PhD and UC Santa Barbara professor, Chip Agent is redefining electronic design automation (EDA) by leveraging advanced AI agents… Read More
AI and VLSI: A Symbiotic Revolution at DAC 2025
On July 18, 2025, a DACtv panel discussion titled “AI and VLSI: A Symbiotic Revolution” explored the transformative interplay between artificial intelligence (AI) and very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design. Moderated by Ramuni Nagasetty from NATCast. The panel featured Arijit Raychowdhury (Georgia Tech), Dr. Rob … Read More
From Atoms to Tokens: Semiconductor Supply Chain Evolution
On July 18, 2025, a DACtv session titled “From Atoms to Tokens” explored the semiconductor supply chain’s transformation, as presented in the YouTube video. The speaker tackled the challenges and innovations from the atomic level of chip fabrication to the tokenized ecosystems of AI-driven data centers, emphasizing the critical… Read More
Siemens EDA and Nvidia: Pioneering AI-Driven Chip Design
On July 18, 2025, Siemens EDA and Nvidia presented a compelling vision for the future of electronic design automation (EDA) at a DACtv event, emphasizing the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in semiconductor and PCB design. Amit Gupta, Vice President and General Manager at Siemens EDA, and John Lynford, head… Read More
AI Evolution and EDA’s Role in the Fourth Wave: William Chappell’s DAC Keynote
In a keynote at the 62nd Design Automation Conference (DAC) on July 8, 2025, William Chappell, Vice President of Mission Systems at Microsoft, reflected on the intertwined evolution of AI and semiconductor design. Drawing from his DARPA experience, Chappell traced AI’s progression from 2016 onward, highlighting its… Read More
AI-Driven Verification: Transforming Semiconductor Design
In a DACtv session on July 9, 2025, Abhi Kolpekwar, Vice-President & General Manager at Siemens EDA, illuminated the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing the escalating challenges of semiconductor design verification. The presentation underscored the limitations of traditional methods… Read More
Architecting Your Next SoC: Join the Live Discussion on Tradeoffs, IP, and Ecosystem Realities
Designing a system-on-chip (SoC) has never been more complex—or more critical. With accelerating demands across AI, automotive, and high-performance compute applications, today’s SoC architects face a series of high-stakes tradeoffs from the very beginning. Decisions made during the earliest phases of design—regarding… Read More
cHBM for AI: Capabilities, Challenges, and Opportunities
AI’s exponential growth is transforming semiconductor design—and memory is now as critical as compute. Multi-die architecture has emerged as the new frontier, and custom High Bandwidth Memory (cHBM) is fast becoming a cornerstone in this evolution. In a panel session at the Synopsys Executive Forum, leaders from AWS, Marvell,… Read More
Prompt Engineering for Security: Innovation in Verification
We have a shortage of reference designs to test detection of security vulnerabilities. An LLM-based method demonstrates how to fix that problem with structured prompt engineering. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford,… Read More
Intel’s Pearl Harbor Moment