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EDA Has a Value Capture Problem — An Outsider’s View

EDA Has a Value Capture Problem — An Outsider’s View
by Admin on 11-11-2025 at 10:00 am

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By Liyue Yan (lyan1@bu.edu)

Fact 1: In the Computer History Museum, how many artifacts are about Electronic Design Automation (EDA)? Zero.

Fact 2: The average starting base salary for a software engineer at Netflix is $219K, and that number is $125K for Cadence; the starting base salary for a hardware engineer at Cadence is $119K… Read More


WEBINAR: How PCIe Multistream Architecture is Enabling AI Connectivity

WEBINAR: How PCIe Multistream Architecture is Enabling AI Connectivity
by Daniel Nenni on 11-11-2025 at 8:00 am

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In the race to power ever-larger AI models, raw compute is only half the battle. The real challenge lies in moving massive datasets between processors, accelerators, and memory at speeds that keep up with trillion-parameter workloads. Synopsys tackles this head-on with its webinar, How PCIe Multistream Architecture is EnablingRead More


Lessons from the DeepChip Wars: What a Decade-old Debate Teaches Us About Tech Evolution

Lessons from the DeepChip Wars: What a Decade-old Debate Teaches Us About Tech Evolution
by Lauro Rizzatti on 11-10-2025 at 10:00 am

Lessons from the DeepChip wars Table

The competitive landscape of hardware-assisted verification (HAV) has evolved dramatically over the past decade. The strategic drivers that once defined the market have shifted in step with the rapidly changing dynamics of semiconductor design.

Design complexity has soared, with modern SoCs now integrating tens of billions… Read More


Video EP11: Meeting the Challenges of Superconducting Quantum System Design with Mohamed Hassan

Video EP11: Meeting the Challenges of Superconducting Quantum System Design with Mohamed Hassan
by Daniel Nenni on 11-07-2025 at 10:00 am

In this episode of the Semiconductor Insiders video series,  Dan is joined by Mohamed Hassan, who leads the Quantum EDA segment at Keysight. Mohamed provides a broad overview of superconducting quantum system design. He discusses the challenges for this design style and how EDA requirements for quantum design differ from
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AI RTL Generation versus AI RTL Verification

AI RTL Generation versus AI RTL Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 11-06-2025 at 10:00 am

RTL generation vs RTL Verification

I should admit up front that I don’t have a scientific answer to this comparison, but I do have a reasonably informed gut feel, at least for the near-term. The reason I ask the question is that automated RTL generation grabs headlines with visions of designing chips through natural language prompts, making design widely accessible.… Read More


5 Lessons the Semiconductor Industry Can Learn from Gaming

5 Lessons the Semiconductor Industry Can Learn from Gaming
by Admin on 11-05-2025 at 10:00 am

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By Kamal Khan
The semiconductor world has always been the beating heart of tech innovation, powering everything from our smartphones to the latest AI breakthroughs. However, as chip complexity increases and market demands accelerate, adherence to traditional development cycles may be stagnating design teams and slowing … Read More


A Compelling Differentiator in OEM Product Design

A Compelling Differentiator in OEM Product Design
by Bernard Murphy on 11-05-2025 at 6:00 am

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Jennifer, an OEM hardware designer, is planning a product around a microcontroller she thinks will meet her needs and wants to supply power from a 3V coin cell battery which she must connect though a boost controller. Jennifer searches a rough description of the part she needs, generating a long list of component manufacturers … Read More


PDF Solutions Charts a Course for the Future at Its User Conference and Analyst Day

PDF Solutions Charts a Course for the Future at Its User Conference and Analyst Day
by Mike Gianfagna on 11-04-2025 at 8:19 am

PDF Solutions Charts a Course for the Future at Its User Conference and Analyst Day

Every major supplier has its user event. This is usually where the latest innovations from the company are revealed and progress over the past year is promoted. While there may be user presentations and exhibits, the primary focus is typically the vendor communicating its messages to the user base. The upcoming PDF Solutions Users… Read More


TCAD Update from Synopsys

TCAD Update from Synopsys
by Daniel Payne on 11-03-2025 at 10:00 am

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We live in an exploding AI world, and this has put pressure on foundries to deliver new products faster than ever before. Any help to accelerate the semiconductor R&D goes a long way to make the life of Fab engineers easier. EDA tools in the TCAD (Technology Computer Aided Design) category are critical for TCAD engineers to accelerating… Read More


Synopsys and NVIDIA Forge AI Powered Future for Chip Design and Multiphysics Simulation

Synopsys and NVIDIA Forge AI Powered Future for Chip Design and Multiphysics Simulation
by Daniel Nenni on 11-03-2025 at 6:00 am

Synopsys Nvidia Agentic AI 2025

In a landmark announcement at NVIDIA’s GTC Washington, D.C. conference Synopsys unveiled deepened collaborations with NVIDIA to revolutionize semiconductor design and engineering through agentic AI, GPU-accelerated computing, and AI-driven physics simulations. This partnership, building on over three decades… Read More