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Shift Left with S2C Prodigy: From RTL Verification to Real-World Software Validation

Shift Left with S2C Prodigy: From RTL Verification to Real-World Software Validation
by Daniel Nenni on 08-04-2026 at 10:00 am

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For modern SoC teams, “shift left” no longer means finding a few more RTL bugs before tape-out. It means moving meaningful system validation earlier—far enough left that firmware, operating systems, drivers, applications, and external interfaces can be exercised before first silicon arrives. This change is essential as software… Read More


Synopsys Demonstrates Leadership in AI-Powered Engineering at 2026 DAC Chips to Systems Conference

Synopsys Demonstrates Leadership in AI-Powered Engineering at 2026 DAC Chips to Systems Conference
by Daniel Nenni on 08-03-2026 at 10:00 am

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Purple was in fashion at the 2026 Design Automation Conference, where Synopsys reinforced its position at the forefront of AI-powered engineering. Under the conference’s “Chips to Systems” theme, the company showcased intelligent, end-to-end technologies designed to help the semiconductor industry manage unprecedented… Read More


DAC 2026: The Trouble with John Cooley’s Troublemaker Panel

DAC 2026: The Trouble with John Cooley’s Troublemaker Panel
by Mike Gianfagna on 07-31-2026 at 10:00 am

DAC 2026 The Trouble with John Cooley’s Troublemaker Panel

For quite a few years, John Cooley has hosted the Troublemaker Panel at DAC. The event consists of a panel of senior executives from the EDA industry. John Cooley asks his readers for “edgy” questions to ask the panelists and on event day, he does just that. Those with complete responses that are backed with real data from real customers… Read More


Industry’s First Certified Automotive Grade PUF for Software Defined Vehicles

Industry’s First Certified Automotive Grade PUF for Software Defined Vehicles
by Kalar Rajendiran on 07-30-2026 at 10:00 am

Automotive PUF Premium System Level Diagram

Software defined vehicles (SDVs) are transforming the automotive industry. Today’s vehicles are connected computing platforms that rely on advanced processors, artificial intelligence (AI), over the air (OTA) software updates, cloud services, and vehicle to everything (V2X) communications. Every electronic … Read More


Formal Acceleration on FPGA. Innovation in Verification

Formal Acceleration on FPGA. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 07-30-2026 at 6:00 am

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Extending hardware acceleration to formal verification is a powerful idea to extend hardware acceleration to a verification domain that has not got much attention for acceleration. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford,… Read More


ASIC-to-FPGA Turnkey Prototyping Bundle: A Practical Path to Earlier Hardware Validation

ASIC-to-FPGA Turnkey Prototyping Bundle: A Practical Path to Earlier Hardware Validation
by Daniel Nenni on 07-29-2026 at 6:00 am

S2C FPGA Prototyping

For ASIC design teams, the gap between RTL simulation and first silicon remains one of the most consequential stages of the development cycle. Simulation provides controllability and visibility, but it cannot always reproduce the software workloads, interface behavior, clock interactions, and sustained system activity… Read More


How early symmetry validation eliminates costly late-stage respins

How early symmetry validation eliminates costly late-stage respins
by Admin on 07-27-2026 at 2:00 pm

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By Mauli Shah, Product Engineer, Siemens

Analog and mixed-signal design teams face a persistent challenge that directly impacts tape-out schedules and project predictability: symmetry violations discovered at signoff trigger expensive respins, delay schedules and create unpredictable iteration cycles. Despite symmetry… Read More


Rethinking Formal Verification in the AI Era

Rethinking Formal Verification in the AI Era
by Admin on 07-27-2026 at 10:00 am

AI driven formal verification

By Kanav Arora, ML Researcher at ChipAgents

Most hardware teams already understand why formal verification matters. It can expose corner cases that simulation may never reach and establish critical behaviors across the modeled state space.

The unresolved question is not whether formal works. It is why formal remains a specialist… Read More


CEO Interview with Ann Wu and Akash Levy of Silimate

CEO Interview with Ann Wu and Akash Levy of Silimate
by Daniel Nenni on 07-27-2026 at 8:00 am

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Ann Wu is Co-founder & CEO of Silimate. Before Silimate, Ann designed several generations of custom silicon at Apple, helped manage inference ASIC programs at Meta, and led product strategy and execution at Celestial AI. Ann has a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering… Read More


From Process Learning to Production Control: Characterization for the Era of Heterogeneous Systems

From Process Learning to Production Control: Characterization for the Era of Heterogeneous Systems
by Kalar Rajendiran on 07-27-2026 at 6:00 am

Chiplets Have Changed the Test Paradigm

Every generation of semiconductor innovation has relied on one fundamental principle: before a technology can be manufactured at scale, it must first be understood. That understanding comes through characterization.

For decades, characterization enabled process learning. It helped engineers understand transistor behavior,… Read More