By Samar Abd El-Hady and Wael ElManhawy
Design teams today face an uncomfortable truth: the specialized tools they need to verify modern ICs can’t reliably share the same design data. As geometries shrink below five nanometers and designs incorporate billions of transistors across multiple dies, no single Electronic… Read More
Many complex PCB designs have high data-rate signals like USB, PCIe, DDR and HDMI which call for more thorough verification methods to ensure compliance plus mitigate any signal integrity, power integrity and EMI/EMC issues. Siemens has a methodology that uses automated rule-based electrical verification with an EDA tool,… Read More
A switch this month to principles behind building effective agentic systems, going beyond simply a new way to stitch together tools, agents and orchestration, to deeper consideration of user experience and how we most effectively blend agentic with human-in-the-loop. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano… Read More
Semiconductor manufacturing has become one of the most data-intensive industrial environments in the world, and AI is rapidly becoming central to how fabs operate and optimize. Yet, rather than converging on a single model for AI adoption, the industry is evolving along two distinct paths. One centered on platform-scale… Read More
It is well-known that advanced semiconductor process technology presents substantial challenges across the full design flow and global supply chain. In this piece, we will focus on a particularly difficult problem – physical verification. This design step is the final gate to manufacturing. Producing a final tape‑out GDS … Read More
Load-pull power amplifier (PA) design techniques determine the optimal impedances at the power transistor’s extrinsic reference plane, which is the physically accessible boundary for measurement or simulation. This reference plane can be the package transistor leads, die bond pads, or IC chip terminals. It includes… Read More
Daniel is joined by Hezi Saar, Executive Director of Product Marketing at Synopsys, Hezi is responsible for the mobile, automotive, and consumer IP product lines. He brings more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and embedded systems industries.
Dan explores the growing field of physical AI with Hezi, who explains… Read More
How Time-Based Scheduling
Reclaims Silicon Wasted by Speculative Execution
By: Dr. Thang Tran, Founder and CTO, Simplex Micro
I have spent my career designing processor architectures, and I have reached an uncomfortable conclusion: a substantial fraction of the silicon area and power in modern high-performance processors… Read More
This is a live panel with industry experts who are on the leading edge of AI in semiconductor manufacturing. This is a must attend event for all levels of semiconductor professionals. I hope to see you there.
The semiconductor industry faces unprecedented challenges as it pushes toward advanced nodes below 3nm, managing exponential… Read More
Review the specifications of any state-of-the-art microcontroller and you will discover the high dynamic current the device can consume. Examining the high clock rates and low tolerable voltage drop will lead you to the all-important power delivery network, or PDN. Components here include power planes, layer stack-up, decoupling… Read More
Siemens U2U 3D IC Design and Verification Panel