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
Artificial Intelligence
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
Siemens Proposes Unified Static and Formal Verification with AI
Given my SpyGlass background I always keep an eye out for new ideas that might be emerging in static and formal verification. Whatever can be covered through stimulus-free analysis reduces time that needn’t be wasted in dynamic analysis, also adding certainty to coverage across that range. Still, advances don’t come easily. … Read More
Accelerating IC Design: Silvaco’s Jivaro Parasitic Reduction Tool
In Silvaco’s July 2025 video presentation at the 62nd Design Automation Conference (DAC), Senior Staff Applications Engineer Tim Colton introduced Jivaro, a specialized parasitic reduction tool designed to tackle the escalating challenges of post-layout simulation in advanced IC designs. As semiconductor nodes… Read More
Executive Interview with Matthew Addley
Matthew Addley is an Industry Strategist at Infor, specializing in the global manufacturing sector. With over 30 years of experience in driving business transformation through technology, he aligns industry needs with Infor’s product strategy through thought leadership, customer engagement, and market insight. Beginning… Read More
CEO Interview with Jonathan Reeves of CSignum
For more than 30 years, Jonathan has successfully led many start-up ventures, including multiple acquisitions as well as senior operating roles in networking, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and AI businesses.
He co-founded Arvizio, a provider of enterprise AR solutions, was Chairman and co-founder of CloudLink Technologies,… Read More
Podcast EP298: How Hailo is Bringing Generative AI to the Edge with Avi Baum
Dan is joined by Avi Baum, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Hailo, an AI-focused chipmaker that develops specialized AI processors for enabling data-center-class performance on edge devices. Avi has over 17 years of experience in system engineering, signal processing, algorithms, and telecommunications while… Read More
CEO Interview with Shelly Henry of Moores Lab (AI)
Shelly Henry is the CEO and Co-Founder of MooresLabAI, bringing over 25 years of semiconductor industry experience. Prior to founding MooresLabAI, Shelly led silicon teams at Microsoft and ARM, successfully delivering chips powering billions of devices worldwide. Passionate about driving efficiency and innovation, Shelly… Read More
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


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