The various algorithms that comprise artificial intelligence (AI) are finding their way into the chip design flow. What is driving a lot of this work is the complexity explosion of new chip designs required to accelerate advanced AI algorithms. It turns out AI is both the problem and the solution in this case. AI can be used to cut … Read More
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Predictive Maintenance in the Context of Automotive Functional Safety
The automotive industry is undergoing a major transformation. The convergence of electrification, connectivity, driver-assistance technologies, and software-defined vehicles has led to the rise of use of advanced System-on-Chips (SoCs) that drive unprecedented levels of functionality and performance. However, this… Read More
AI and Machine Unlearning: Navigating the Forgotten Path
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the concept of machine unlearning has emerged as a fascinating and crucial area of research. While the traditional paradigm of AI focuses on training models to learn from data and improve their performance over time, the notion of unlearning takes a step further… Read More
WEBINAR: The Power of Formal Verification: From flops to billion-gate designs
Semiconductor industry is going through an unprecedented technological revolution with AI/ML, GPU, RISC-V, chiplets, automotive and 5G driving the hardware design innovation. The race to deliver high performance, optimizing power and area (PPA), while ensuring safety and security is truly on. It has never been a more exciting… Read More
Next-Gen AI Engine for Intelligent Vision Applications
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has witnessed explosive growth in applications across various industries, ranging from autonomous vehicles and natural language processing to computer vision and robotics. The AI embedded semiconductor market is projected to reach $800 billion by year 2030. Compare this with just $48 billion… Read More
Breakthrough Gains in RTL Productivity and Quality of Results with Cadence Joules RTL Design Studio
Register Transfer Level (RTL) is a crucial and valuable concept in digital hardware design. Over the years, it has played a fundamental role in enabling design of complex digital chips. By abstracting away implementation details and providing a clear description of digital behavior, RTL has contributed significantly to the… Read More
A Bold View of Future Product Development with Matt Genovese
Matt Genovese is the founder of Planorama Design, a software requirements and user experience design professional services company. The company designs simple and intuitive software and IoT product user interfaces for complex, technical applications and systems. Its unique and proven approach reduces client development… Read More
Automated Code Review. Innovation in Verification
A little thinking outside the box this time. Microsoft is adding automation to their (and LinkedIn) code reviews; maybe we should consider this option also? Paul Cunningham (Senior VP/GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and now Silvaco CTO) and I continue our series… Read More
Wally Rhines Predicts the Future of AI at #60DAC
Dr. Walden Rhines has appeared many times on SemiWiki. His discussions touch on a variety of topics, most recently on the health of EDA and IP. His knowledge of our industry is substantial, and he always seems to have a new take on the trends and technologies that are unfolding around us. So, when Wally took the stage for a keynote address… Read More
Altair’s Jim Cantele Predicts the Future of Chip Design
We all know chip design is changing in substantial ways and at a fast pace. The demands being placed on semiconductor systems are growing dramatically, and the innovation being delivered to address those demands is just as dramatic. Everyone seems to have an opinion on these trends, and a set of predications to make sense out of it… Read More
Rapidus, IBM, and the Billion-Dollar Silicon Sovereignty Bet