AMIQ EDA at the 2025 Design Automation Conference #62DAC

AMIQ EDA is a pioneer in integrated development environments (IDEs) for hardware design and verification and a provider of platform-independent software tools for efficient code development and analysis. We’ve been attending DAC for many years now, and it remains one of our most important shows. We love catching up with old friends in the industry, and we always meet lots of engineers who are potential users. We also stay a few extra days before or after the event to meet with our current users at their offices.

DAC is also a great opportunity for us to show off all the new features we’ve added to our products since the last show. This year there’s a lot for us to discuss and demonstrate. The biggest addition to our Design and Verification Tools (DVT) IDE family is AI Assistant. As we discussed in an interview a few months back, this new feature leverages the knowledge in a large language model (LLM) and in our own design and testbench database to make it easier for users to generate, modify, and understand code.

We do have a chat option, but this is way more than a generic chatbot. Our database is specific to the user project and company, so we can use that information to yield better responses. Users can ask AI Assistant to explain or improve code, and to generate new code for desired functionality. All code can be checked for accuracy by the IDE and our Verissimo SystemVerilog Linter. We support whatever LLM the user chooses, and we take multiple steps to ensure that confidential project information does not leak to third-party LLMs.

We support the two major IDE platforms, and we’ve aligned DVT Eclipse IDE and DVT IDE for Visual Studio (VS) Code even closer in terms of functionality. We’ve added more than 30 new code checks within the IDE to ensure code quality. Beyond those big items, we’ve improved testbench elaboration time, expanded debug capabilities, and enhanced our support for power intent files. Although we’ve been shipping DVT IDE since 2008, there’s no shortage of new ideas from our users and our developers. It just gets even better every year.

Speaking of Verissimo, we also add features to our linter all the time. We include around 60 new rules each year, and we’ll be showing the 2024-2025 additions at DAC. We’ve also enabled fast incremental linting, since users want lint checks in addition to IDE checks whenever they add or edit code. They can check their code as they write it without having to open separate windows or jump back and forth. Finally, we’ve added an intuitive ruleset editor to make it easy to customize which rules to run when, including during incremental linting.

Our Specador documentation generator has some new improvements as well. We’ve integrated it more closely with DVT IDE, including the ability to preview the HTML page for a design or verification element interactively. AI Assistant can generate descriptions for user code, and Specador builds high-quality documents including those descriptions. We focus on this type of connection between our products, in addition to adding new features.  We want our users to have the best overall experience possible to produce better code more quickly and easily.

DAC will move to Long Beach next year, so this is a good opportunity to visit San Franscisco. We invite you to stop by our booth to say hello, ask questions, see a demo, or whatever you’d like. We look forward to seeing you there!

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