Synopsys has announced the availability of the first wave of its Multiphysics Fusion Solutions, extending its vision of a unified engineering environment that connects EDA, semiconductor physics, system simulation, and artificial intelligence-driven optimization. The announcement addresses one of the most significant… Read More
Electronic Design Automation
PowerArtist RTL Power Estimation Folds into Keysight
Back in the late 1990s, Sente launched a product called WattWatcher to estimate power from design RTL and simulation activity. This was revolutionary for its time since alternatives, while very accurate, only offered power analysis at the gate level. Gate-level analysis is great for fine-tuning power but is unhelpful for achieving… Read More
GPU-native mask rule checking eliminates the curvilinear mask rule check bottleneck
As semiconductor manufacturing pushes toward advanced nodes with tighter feature sizes, the optical proximity correction (OPC) workflow is adopting curvilinear masks to achieve the larger process windows that traditional Manhattan geometries cannot deliver.
Traditional Manhattan masks constrain shapes to vertical … Read More
Agentic AI and the Future of Chip Design: From Productivity Tool to Engineering Partner
Highlights from a recent panel session moderated by Ed Sperling (Semiconductor Engineering) featuring Walden Rhines (Silvaco), Vincent Wong (Verific), Dave Kelf (Breker Verification Systems), Shelly Henry (MooresLab AI), Ann Wu (Silimate), and Cindy Cui (ChipAgents). The panel session was hosted by Electronic System … Read More
How llmda.ai Coaxed Me Out of Retirement, an Interview with Kurt Shuler
Arteris is one of the most impressive companies SemiWiki has worked with over the last fifteen years. We have collaborated on one hundred and seventy-three articles/podcasts that have garnered more than two million views/listens. The success of Arteris can be easily tracked to the executive team and Kurt Shuler was the executive… Read More
WEBINAR: Engineering Documentation is a Critical Source of Truth – Do You Know if it’s Accurate?
Embedded systems programs rarely fail because of a lack of execution capability. They fail because critical engineering documentation drifts out of alignment over time and distance. Simply put, the team is correctly following the wrong instructions. This includes requirements, architecture, implementation, verification,… Read More
What’s New at the 2026 DAC Exhibits
The most common question that I get each year at DAC is, “So, what’s new?” When I reviewed the exhibitor list I was pleasantly surprised to see how many EDA, IP and AI companies were attending that I didn’t know about. Here’s just a quick preview of what to expect in Long Beach from July 27-29. I’ll… Read More
Optimizing Photonic Integrated Circuit Production with yieldHUB Analytics
As Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC) continue to gain momentum across datacom, telecom, AI infrastructure, sensing, and quantum computing applications, the need for advanced manufacturing analytics has become increasingly critical. To address the challenges associated with scaling PIC production while maintaining… Read More
Customized Foundation IP Enables the Next Generation of Automotive Compute
As vehicles become increasingly software-defined, automotive semiconductor suppliers face growing pressure to deliver higher compute performance while maintaining strict requirements for power efficiency, reliability, and long-term product support. Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), electrification, … Read More
From Evidence to Authority: Bounded Gate Authority for Governed Semiconductor Realization
Advanced semiconductor systems are no longer limited by a single engineering domain. They are constrained by the convergence of many interdependent vectors: silicon nodes, advanced packaging architectures, substrate materials, platform PCBs, power-delivery networks, thermal behavior, manufacturing variation, firmware… Read More


RISC-V and AI: The Architecture Shift Is Now