I’ve been working with AMIQ EDA for several years, and have frequently been impressed by new capabilities in their Design and Verification Tools Integrated Development Environment (DVT IDE) family. They just announced AI Assistant, which leverages large language model (LLM) technology. LLMs are much in the news these days,… Read More
Writing Better Code More Quickly with an IDE and Linting
As a technical marketing consultant, I always enjoy the chance to talk to hands-on users of my clients’ electronic design automation (EDA) tools to “see how the sausage is made” on actual projects. Cristian Amitroaie, CEO of AMIQ EDA, recently connected me with Verification and Infrastructure Manager Dan Cohen and Verification… Read More
AMIQ EDA Integrated Development Environment #61DAC
I stopped by the AMIQ EDA booth at DAC to get an update from Tom Anderson about their Integrated Development Environment (IDE), aimed at helping design and verification engineers save time. In my early IC design days we used either vi or emacs and were happy with having a somewhat smart text editor. With an IDE you get a whole new way … Read More
AMIQ EDA at the 2024 Design Automation Conference
AMIQ EDA is a pioneer in integrated development environments (IDEs) for hardware design and verification and a provider of platform-independent software tools for efficient code development and analysis. We’ve been attending DAC for many years and are pleased to do so again in 2024. We exhibit at this show for several reasons.… Read More
Handling Preprocessed Files in a Hardware IDE
For several years now, I’ve been meeting with AMIQ EDA co-founder Cristian Amitroaie every few months to discuss the state of the industry, key trends in design and verification, and the ways that they help facilitate and accelerate chip development. I noticed an interesting new feature mentioned in their latest press release… Read More
2024 Outlook with Cristian Amitroaie, Founder and CEO of AMIQ EDA
SemiWki has been working with AMIQ EDA for more than four years now and it has been quite the education. AMIQ EDA is a company that specializes in providing development and verification solutions for digital design and verification teams in the semiconductor industry. They offer a range of products and services aimed at improving… Read More
Using Linting to Write Error-Free Testbench Code
In my job, I have the privilege to talk to hundreds of interesting companies in many areas of semiconductor development. One of the most fun things for me is interviewing customers—hands-on users—of specific electronic design (EDA) tools and chip technologies. Cristian Amitroaie, CEO of AMIQ EDA, has been very helpful in introducing… Read More
AMIQ: Celebrating 20 Years in Consulting and EDA
We’re getting close to the annual July Design Automation Conference (DAC) in San Francisco, and every year I like to make the rounds of the exhibitors beforehand and see what’s new. When I checked with AMIQ EDA, I found that this is a big year for them. Their parent company AMIQ just reached its 20th anniversary, and they’ll be celebrating… Read More
A Hardware IDE for VS Code Fans
A few times a year, I check in with AMIQ EDA co-founder Cristian Amitroaie to see what’s new with their company and the integrated development environment (IDE) market for hardware design and verification. Usually he suggests a topic for us to discuss, but this time I specifically wanted to learn more about the version of their Design… Read More
Using an IDE to Accelerate Hardware Language Learning
Recently, in one of my regular check-ins with AMIQ EDA, I was pleased that they linked me up with an active customer. The resulting post summarized my discussion with three engineers from Kepler Communications Inc. They talked about using one of the AMIQ EDA products in the design of FPGAs for space-borne Internet connectivity.… Read More