When considering best-fit applications for RISC-V, the appeal of extending the instruction set and competitive pricing for storage and edge applications has been pretty clear. But I have always struggled to understand the appeal in head-on competition with Arm in premium applications such as servers and infrastructure systems.… Read More
Electronic Design Automation
The Architecture of Success: Why a Unified Semiconductor IP Strategy Is the Foundation of Modern SoC Design
As architects push toward advanced nodes and increasingly demanding workloads, modern silicon design has entered an era of unprecedented complexity. A single design respin can cost millions of dollars and delay market entry. Against this backdrop, designs must be balanced for performance, bandwidth, power efficiency, security… Read More
Whalechip Uses ChipAgents to Compress Root Cause Analysis into Minutes
AI-powered platform identified four critical SoC bugs and helped prevent up to two weeks of potential development delays
Semiconductor verification is increasingly constrained not by simulation capacity, but by the engineering effort required to understand why a simulation failed. Modern ASIC and system-on-chip designs… Read More
See Defacto Technologies at DAC 2026
I have had the pleasure of working with Defacto Technologies for the past 10 years on SemiWiki and I am always impressed with their professionalism and ability to quickly address the challenges of complex SoC design.
From my perspective, Defacto’s technology is designed to improve productivity and design quality by enabling … Read More
Keysight Design Engineering Software at DAC 2026: Going Deep on Chiplets, RF and AI-Driven Design
Keysight Technologies returns to 2026 DAC, The Chips to Systems Conference this year as a Silver Sponsor and an “I LOVE DAC” sponsor, bringing its Design Engineering Software portfolio to Booth #927 at DAC 2026, which runs July 26-29 in Long Beach, Calif. The Keysight team will be on-site Monday through Wednesday … Read More
Agentrys a New Paradigm for Semiconductor Engineering at 2026 DAC
Agentrys is pioneering Agentic Design Automation (ADA), a new paradigm for semiconductor engineering. Electronic Design Automation (EDA) has transformed the industry by automating engineering algorithms. Today, frontier AI can automate many engineering tasks by understanding specifications, generating RTL and … Read More
Perforce Enabling Innovation Without Introducing Risk at DAC 2026
Perforce delivers a DevOps Tech Stack for teams building and running high-stakes software systems and revenue-critical applications, where failure is not an option. As a trusted partner helping organizations govern software delivery for AI, Perforce solutions enforce guardrails across code quality, infrastructure, and… Read More
DAC 2026 Mach42: A new generation of physics-driven AI models for analog circuit verification
Mach42 spun out of the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford in 2019 with a mission to establish software tools capable of drastically accelerating expensive physics simulations while supporting complex computational workflows. The prototype tools were successfully applied in the emulation of extreme states … Read More
Synopsys at Design Automation Conference 2026
Synopsys is catalyzing the era of pervasive intelligence with comprehensive engineering solutions spanning silicon design, IP, and simulation and analysis. At this year’s Design Automation Conference (DAC), the company will showcase innovations transforming silicon and systems development for a wide range of applications… Read More
Enabling AI to Understand Complex Runtime Behavior for Accurate, Automated Root Cause Analysis — DAC 2026
Undo gives AI coding agents the runtime context they need to solve hard problems in complex software and system verification workflows Undo’s technology records complete program execution, allowing engineers and AI coding agents to understand exactly what happened during execution rather than inferring behavior from source… Read More


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