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AMIQ: Celebrating 20 Years in Consulting and EDA

AMIQ: Celebrating 20 Years in Consulting and EDA
by Daniel Nenni on 07-06-2023 at 10:00 am

AMIQ20

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


Visit with Agnisys at DAC 2023 in San Francisco July 10-12

Visit with Agnisys at DAC 2023 in San Francisco July 10-12
by Anupam Bakshi on 07-06-2023 at 6:00 am

Accellera Lunch 2023

I’d like to extend an invitation to you and your development team to visit with Agnisys in our booth, #2512, at this week’s Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2023, Monday, July 10-12.

In its 60th year, DAC is recognized as the premier event for the design and design automation of electronic chips to systems, so you can count on team… Read More


Defacto Celebrates 20th Anniversary @ DAC 2023!

Defacto Celebrates 20th Anniversary @ DAC 2023!
by Daniel Nenni on 07-05-2023 at 10:00 am

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Defacto Technologies is a company that specializes in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software and solutions. Defacto offers a range of EDA software solutions that help streamline and optimize various stages of the front-end design process. Their tools focus on chip design assembly and integration before logic synthesis

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A preview of Weebit Nano at DAC – with commentary from ChatGPT

A preview of Weebit Nano at DAC – with commentary from ChatGPT
by Daniel Nenni on 07-03-2023 at 6:00 am

Weebit Amir Regev Demo Screenshot

Weebit Nano, a provider of advanced non-volatile memory (NVM) IP, will be exhibiting at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) this month. As part of this briefing I shared some of the basic the details with ChatGPT to see how it would phrase things. Here is some of what it suggested: “You won’t want to miss out on the epic experience… Read More


Unique IO & ESD Solutions @ DAC 2023!

Unique IO & ESD Solutions @ DAC 2023!
by Daniel Nenni on 06-29-2023 at 6:00 am

DAC photo Certus Semiconductor

The semiconductor industry continues to drive innovation and constantly seeks methods to lower costs and improve performance. The advantages of custom I/O libraries versus free libraries can be seen as cost-savings or, more importantly, new markets, new customers, and new business
opportunities.

At DAC 2023, Certus SemiconductorRead More


Samsung Foundry on Track for 2nm Production in 2025

Samsung Foundry on Track for 2nm Production in 2025
by Daniel Nenni on 06-27-2023 at 3:00 pm

Samsung Foundry Forum 2023

On the heels of the TSMC Symposium and the Intel Foundry update, Samsung held their Foundry Forum today live in Silicon Valley. As usual it was a well attended event with hundreds of people and dozens of ecosystem partners. The theme was the AI Era which is appropriate. As I have mentioned before, AI will touch most every chip and there… Read More


Ansys Revving up for Automotive and 3D-IC Multiphysics Signoff at DAC 2023

Ansys Revving up for Automotive and 3D-IC Multiphysics Signoff at DAC 2023
by Daniel Nenni on 06-26-2023 at 10:00 am

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Highlights:

  • Ansys CTO Prith Banerjee will be delivering the Visionary Speaker opening address on Tuesday 11th
  • There will be technical presentations every hour in the Ansys Booth Theater (#1539)
  • Get yourself a complimentary sit-down breakfast and a discussion on automotive electronics by registering for the Ansys DAC
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Assessing EUV Wafer Output: 2019-2022

Assessing EUV Wafer Output: 2019-2022
by Fred Chen on 06-26-2023 at 6:00 am

Assessing EUV Wafer Output 2019 2022

At the 2023 SPIE Advanced Lithography and Patterning conference, ASML presented an update on its EUV lithography systems in the field [1]. The EUV wafer exposure output was presented and is shown below in table form:

From this information, we can attempt to extract and assess the EUV wafer output per quarter. First, since there … Read More


Efabless Celebrates AI Design Challenge Winners!

Efabless Celebrates AI Design Challenge Winners!
by Daniel Nenni on 06-23-2023 at 6:00 am

Efabless AI Challenge SemiWiki

The first AI Generated Open-Source Silicon Design Challenge invited participants to use generative AI to design an open-source silicon chip and tape it out in just three weeks. The contestants were required to create Verilog code from natural language prompts, and then implemented their designs using the chipIgnite platform… Read More


Intel Internal Foundry Model Webinar

Intel Internal Foundry Model Webinar
by Scotten Jones on 06-21-2023 at 12:00 pm

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Intel held a webinar today to discuss their IDM2.0 internal foundry model. On the call were Dave Zinsner Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Jason Grebe Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Corporate Planning Group.

On a humorous note, the person moderating the attendee questions sounded … Read More