Last week, Synopsys announced an expansion of their Hardware-Assisted Verification (HAV) portfolio to accelerate semiconductor design innovations. These advancements are designed to meet the increasing demands of semiconductor complexity, enabling faster and more efficient verification across software and hardware… Read More
Electronic Design Automation
How Synopsys Enables Gen AI on the Edge
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have undergone incredible changes over the past decade or so. We’ve witnessed the rise of convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. More recently, the rise of generative AI and transformers. At every step, accuracy has been improved as depicted in the graphic… Read More
CEO Interview with Dr. William Wang of Alpha Design AI
William Wang is the CEO and founder of Alpha Design AI, a generative AI startup transforming chip design and verification through ChipAgents, an agentic AI development tool for RTL and verification engineers. ChipAgents accelerates design, debugging, and verification of hardware description languages (HDL), integrating… Read More
Webinar: RF design success hinges on enhanced models and accurate simulation
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
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
Video EP1: A Discussion of Meeting the Challenges to Implement Gen AI in Semiconductor Design with Vishal Moondhra
In this inaugural episode of the new Semiconductor Insiders video series, Dan is joined by Vishal Moondhra, VP of Solutions Engineering at Perforce Helix IPLM. Dan explores the risks and challenges of using Gen AI in the semiconductor industry with Vishal. Liability, traceability, cost, and quality are discussed. The challenges… Read More
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