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Takeaways from SNUG 2023

Takeaways from SNUG 2023
by Bernard Murphy on 04-07-2023 at 6:00 am

Aart keynote

Synopsys pulled out all the stops for this event. I attended the first full day, tightly scripted from Aart’s keynote kick off to 1×1 interviews with Synopsys executives to a fireside chat between Sassine Ghazi (President and COO) and Rob Aitken (ex-Fellow at Arm, now Distinguished Architect at Synopsys). That’s a lot of … Read More


Full-Stack, AI-driven EDA Suite for Chipmakers

Full-Stack, AI-driven EDA Suite for Chipmakers
by Kalar Rajendiran on 04-03-2023 at 6:00 am

Synopsys.ai Industry First AI driven Full EDA Suite

Semiconductor technology is among the most complex of technologies and the semiconductor industry is among the most demanding of industries. Yet the ecosystem has delivered incredible advances over the last six decades from which the world has benefitted tremendously. Yes, of course, the markets want that break-neck speed… Read More


Power Delivery Network Analysis in DRAM Design

Power Delivery Network Analysis in DRAM Design
by Daniel Payne on 03-27-2023 at 10:00 am

IR drop plot min

My IC design career started out with DRAM design back in 1978, so I’ve kept an eye on the developments in this area of memory design to note the design challenges, process updates and innovations along the way. Synopsys hosted a memory technology symposium in November 2022, and I had a chance to watch a presentation from SK hynix… Read More


Intel Keynote on Formal a Mind-Stretcher

Intel Keynote on Formal a Mind-Stretcher
by Bernard Murphy on 03-22-2023 at 6:00 am

Intellectual understanding min

Synopsys has posted on the SolvNet site a fascinating talk given by Dr. Theo Drane of Intel Graphics. The topic is datapath equivalency checking. Might sound like just another Synopsys VC Formal DPV endorsement but you should watch it anyway. This is a mind-expanding discussion on the uses of and considerations in formal which … Read More


Multi-Die Systems Key to Next Wave of Systems Innovations

Multi-Die Systems Key to Next Wave of Systems Innovations
by Kalar Rajendiran on 03-07-2023 at 10:00 am

Shift to Multi Die Systems is Happening Now

These days, the term chiplets is referenced everywhere you look, in anything you read and in whatever you hear. Rightly so because the chiplets or die integration wave is taking off. Generally speaking, the tipping point that kicked off the move happened around the 16nm process technology when large monolithic SoCs started facing… Read More


PCIe 6.0: Challenges of Achieving 64GT/s with PAM4 in Lossy, HVM Channels

PCIe 6.0: Challenges of Achieving 64GT/s with PAM4 in Lossy, HVM Channels
by Kalar Rajendiran on 02-14-2023 at 6:00 am

Multi Level Challenges

As the premier high-speed communications and system design conference, DesignCon 2023 offered deep insights from various experts on a number of technical topics. In the area of high-speed communications, PCIe has a played a crucial role over the years in supporting increasingly higher communications speed with every new revision.… Read More


Synopsys Design Space Optimization Hits a Milestone

Synopsys Design Space Optimization Hits a Milestone
by Bernard Murphy on 02-09-2023 at 6:00 am

DSO.ai flow min

I talked recently with Stelios Diamantidis (Distinguished Architect, Head of Strategy, Autonomous Design Solutions) about Synopsys’ announcement on the 100th customer tapeout using their DSO.ai solution. My concern on AI-related articles is in avoiding the hype that surrounds AI in general, and conversely the skepticism… Read More


Webinar: Achieving Consistent RTL Power Accuracy

Webinar: Achieving Consistent RTL Power Accuracy
by Daniel Nenni on 01-23-2023 at 10:00 am

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A comprehensive report from the US Department of Energy (DOE), “Semiconductor Supply Chain Deep Dive Assessment” (February 2022) calls for a 1000X energy efficiency improvement that is required to maintain future compute requirement needs given a finite amount of world energy production. Energy efficiency is at the top of … Read More


Synopsys Crosses $5 Billion Milestone!

Synopsys Crosses $5 Billion Milestone!
by Daniel Nenni on 12-14-2022 at 6:00 am

Synopsys NASDAQ SemiWiki

“We intend to grow revenue 14% to 15%, continue to drive notable ops margin expansion and aim for approximately 16% non-GAAP earnings per share growth.”

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

Synopsys is the EDA bellwether since they report early and are the #1 EDA and #1 IP company.  In addition to crossing… Read More


Configurable Processors. The Why and How

Configurable Processors. The Why and How
by Bernard Murphy on 11-16-2022 at 6:00 am

ARC Configurability min

Configurable processors are hot now, in no small part thanks to RISC-V. Which is an ISA rather than a processor, but let’s not quibble. Arm followed with configurability in Cortex-X. Both were considerably preceded (a couple of decades) by Synopsys ARC® RISC CPUs and CEVA DSPs. Each stressed configurability as a differentiator… Read More