Entering the exhibit area of DAC on the first floor I was immediately faced with the Keysight EDA booth, and it was even larger than either the Synopsys or Cadence booths. They had a complete schedule of partners presenting in their theatre that included: Microsoft Azure, Riscure, Fermi Labs, BAE Systems, Alphawave, Intel Foundry, Sarcina Technology, AWS, TSMC, Allegro Microsystems, Microsoft, UCIe. My visit was with Simon Rance, Director of Product Management and Strategy. The theme this year was Elevate Your Design Intelligence.
Engineering Lifecycle Management
What’s new for 2024 is the focus on Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM), a new acronym for a new era. Starting with the Keysight Design Data Management (SOS) tool aimed at just design data management, the industry needed a way to fill the gap between Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)) for back-end manufacturing to include things like FuSA and ISO 26262, adding traceability all the way throughout the lifecycle. So ELM is PLM-like for engineers to focus on their project requirements, and include project management, where Keysight Engineering Lifecycle Management (HUB) is the single source of truth.
ELM will be used by design engineers and managers as they perform project management tasks, do digital and AMS design work; even the legal department uses it to verify that all IP in a project conforms to export controls; plus the IT department can define the security required for the data in each IP. The ELM also connects to your requirements tools and bug tracking tools.
Key customers using ELM today include aerospace, aeronautic and automotive where safety and traceability are paramount requirements. Both external IP and internally developed IP require tracking through the lifecycle. Even if a company has an ARM license and they get acquired by another company, that triggers an event to redo the ARM contract, so you really need to know where all of these IP blocks are being used. The ESD Alliance reports quarterly revenues of both EDA software and IP, where IP now is larger than EDA software.
SoC design teams can take months to locate all of the IP required for a new or derivative project, negotiate licenses, then start to use the IP. So, having a catalog of IP can help speed that process by enabling re-use across a corporation. ELM is a strategic approach being advocated top-down by management, then adopted by engineering teams.
Stephen Slater, EDA Product Management – Integrating Manager, talked about the needs of AI and ML for the simulation process as the tools generate so much data, creating a need to tag and store the data. With ELM there’s a central hub to store and organize this kind of simulation data. Even within HUB there’s a knowledge base, creating an incentive to share your project knowledge with others. Once data is stored in HUB then it can start to make correlations. With the growing number of industries mandating traceability, it makes using an ELM more feasible, and besides – adding meta-data is good for you.
Alphawave: UCIe Compliance
Letizia Giuliano, VP Product Marketing at Alphawave Semi shared how their engineering team validates its IP and chips for UCIe compliance using the Keysight Chiplet PHY Designer tool. They created their IBIS AMI model in collaboration with Keysight, validating their 3 nm UCIe IP, for both standard and advanced packages.
YouTube video, 10:49 length.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Carl Grace was part of a team that designed custom cryogenic ASICs for Neutrino science, and they used Keysight ELM, IP, and data management tools in their flow for data sharing, team collaboration and security. Their ADC needed to digitize 16 channels at 12-bit resolution and 2 MS/s sampling rate/channel, with low noise, while operating for 30 years at -184C.
YouTube video, 14:46 length.
Sarcina Technology, Advanced PackagingBump pitch transformers were presented by Larry Zhu, PhD of Sarcina, and they used Keysight ADS and Memory Designer for advanced packaging design, plus simulation for Fan-Out Chip-on-Substrate with Si Bridge (FOCoS-B).
YouTube video, 11:38 length.
Keysight Tools on Azure
The Director of Customer Engagements – Silicon Collaboration, Joe Tostenrude, presented on how to scale design team collaboration by using Keysight ELM, IP and data management tools running on the Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench platform as a service.
YouTube video, 13:14 length.
IP Security
Serge Leef of Microsoft spoke about how they are helping meet government requirements by creating secure design IP repositories while using the Keysight ELM, IP and data management capabilities.
YouTube video, 8:13 length.
Security Validation during the Design and Development Cycle
From Riscure (acquired by Keysight), Erwin in’t Veld presented how security at the hardware level is a requirement for modern electronic systems. Hardware exploits like side channels and fault injection need to be verified pre-silicon.
YouTube video, 16:40 length.
Hybrid SaaS Cloud for EDA
Using a hybrid of on-premises and cloud infrastructure was presented by Ravi Poddar, Principal Semiconductor Industry Advisor, AWS. Detailed use cases for FPGA prototyping and emulation verification were shown. Nupur Bhonge, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Keysight talked about requirements for IP and data management in a hybrid cloud flow.
YouTube video, 14:52 length.
DuPont, PCB Hybrid Boards
DuPont sent Kalyan Rapolu, Principal Engineer to DAC and he described the design, simulation and characterization of PCB hybrid boards. Their team did layout in Keysight ADS, EM simulation, insertion loss measurements, and channel simulations with Keysight ADS.
YouTube video, 12:48 length.
Intel, UCIe Consortium
The co-chair of UCIe’s marketing work group, Brian Rea, talked about the latest chiplet interconnect specification, UCIe 1.1, which is fully backward compatible with UCIe 1.0. This new specification has automotive enhancements, has streaming protocols on full stack, and adds bump map optimization.
YouTube video, 8:53 length.
Keysight Labs
Alex Stameroff of Keysight Labs described how their group delivers solutions to their customers by using Keysight EDA tools (SystemVue, Genesys, ADS, EMPro, HeatWave) to validate and then manufacture a variety of products.
YouTube video, 13:32 length.
SOC/Chiplet Design
From the Solutions Engineering group of Keysight, Prathna Sekar talked about how to optimize the IP-driven approach using IP and data management tools.
YouTube video, 16:00 length.
Allegro Microsystems, ISO26262
The EDA Design Methodology Manager, Ravia Shankar Gaddam from Allegro Microsystems shared about IP management and meeting ISO26262 compliance by using Keysight ELM, IP and data management tools. Their company has both corporate IPs and community IPs.
YouTube video, 10:06 length.
Summary
2024 was a big growth year at DAC for the Keysight EDA team and I was able to see the increased awareness from attendees at the many theatre presentations from partners. ELM is a new acronym to keep track of in our EDA lexicon, and it will continue to grow in usage by teams around the globe. I did attend the UCIe presentation in the Keysight EDA theatre presented by Microsoft. I cannot wait to see what Keysight EDA develops in the next 12 months.
View all 12 of the theatre presentations on YouTube from this playlist.
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