Traditional RF board design strategies based on circuit simulation worked at lower frequencies and relatively large spacing between components. Higher frequencies and densification dominate RF designs now, where corresponding wider bandwidths and tighter layouts with closely spaced components produce more complex 3D… Read More
Electronic Design Automation
Synopsys Expands Optical Interfaces at DesignCon
The exponential growth of cloud data centers is well-known. Driven by the demands of massive applications like generative AI, state-of-the-art data centers present substantial challenges in terms of power consumption. And AI is poised to drive a 160% increase in data center power demand while also increasing demands on storage… Read More
CEO Interview: Badru Agarwala of Rise Design Automation
Badru Agarwala is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rise Design Automation (RDA), an EDA startup with a mission to drive a fundamental shift-left in semiconductor design, verification, and implementation by raising abstraction beyond RTL With over 40 years of experience in EDA, Badru served as General Manager of the CSD division at… Read More
2025 Outlook Anna Fontanelli MZ Technologies
Anna Fontanelli, CEO of MZ Technologies, is a silicon executive with more than 35 years of expertise in managing complex R&D organizations/programs to give birth to innovative EDA technologies. Strong communication skills and proven ability to lead distributed, cross functional teams in international environments.… Read More
Embracing the Chiplet Journey: The Shift to Chiplet-Based Architectures
The semiconductor industry is facing a paradigm shift. Traditional scaling, once driven by Moore’s Law, is slowing down. For years, moving to smaller process nodes led to lower transistor costs and better performance. However, scaling from node to node now offers fewer benefits as wafer costs rise much more than the historical… Read More
Chiplets-Based Systems: Keysight’s Role in Design, Testing, and Data Management
Keysight, with deep roots tracing back to Hewlett-Packard, has long been at the forefront of innovation in electronic design and testing. It manufactures electronics test and measurement equipment and software. The company also owns its own foundry and makes custom chips and packages for its instrumentation business. Many… Read More
Getting Faster DRC Results with a New Approach
As IC designs become increasingly complex, traditional Design Rule Checking (DRC) methods are struggling to keep up. The old “construct by correction” approach, initially developed for simpler, custom layouts, is creating substantial runtime and resource bottlenecks. Traditional DRC relies on an iterative, sequential… Read More
What is Different About Synopsys’ Comprehensive, Scalable Solution for Fast Heterogeneous Integration
Multi-die design has become the center of a lot of conversation lately. The ability to integrate multiple heterogeneous devices into a single package has changed the semiconductor landscape, permanently. This technology has opened a path for continued Moore’s Law scaling at the system level. What comes next will truly be exciting.… Read More
2025 Outlook with Cristian Amitroaie, Founder and CEO of AMIQ EDA
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company, AMIQ EDA.
We are an EDA company providing software tools targeting both chip design and chip verification. Our tools enable engineers to increase the speed and quality of new code development, simplify debugging and legacy code maintenance, accelerate language and methodology… Read More
Automating Formal Verification
Formal verification methods are being adopted at a fast pace as a complement to traditional verification methods like functional simulation for IP blocks in SoC designs. I had a video meeting with Max Birtel, co-founder of LUBIS EDA and learned more about their history, products and vision. This company started recently in 2020… Read More
IEDM 2025 – TSMC 2nm Process Disclosure – How Does it Measure Up?