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Is Arteris Poised to Enable Next Generation System Design?

Is Arteris Poised to Enable Next Generation System Design?
by Mike Gianfagna on 02-26-2025 at 10:00 am

Is Arteris Poised to Enable Next Generation System Design?

The semiconductor ecosystem is changing. Monolithic design is becoming multi-die design. Processors no longer inform software development options. It’s now the other way around with complex AI software informing the design of purpose-built hardware. And all that special-purpose hardware needs drivers to make it come to … Read More


Bug Hunting in Multi Core Processors. Innovation in Verification

Bug Hunting in Multi Core Processors. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 02-26-2025 at 6:00 am

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What’s new in debugging multi-/many-core systems? Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford, EE292A) and I continue our series on research ideas. As always, feedback welcome.

The Innovation

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2025 Outlook with Dr. Rui Tang of MSquare Technology

2025 Outlook with Dr. Rui Tang of MSquare Technology
by Daniel Nenni on 02-25-2025 at 10:00 am

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Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company. 

I am Rui Tang, co-founder and VP of MSquare Technology. With a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University and a master’s degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University, I bring over 23 years of experience in the IC industry. Prior to MSquare,… Read More


Synopsys Expands Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio to Address Growing Chip Complexity

Synopsys Expands Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio to Address Growing Chip Complexity
by Kalar Rajendiran on 02-25-2025 at 6:00 am

Synopsys HAV Product Family

Last week, Synopsys announced an expansion of their Hardware-Assisted Verification (HAV) portfolio to accelerate semiconductor design innovations. These advancements are designed to meet the increasing demands of semiconductor complexity, enabling faster and more efficient verification across software and hardware… Read More


How Synopsys Enables Gen AI on the Edge

How Synopsys Enables Gen AI on the Edge
by Mike Gianfagna on 02-24-2025 at 10:00 am

How Synopsys Enables Gen AI on the Edge

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have undergone incredible changes over the past decade or so. We’ve witnessed the rise of convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. More recently, the rise of generative AI and transformers. At every step, accuracy has been improved as depicted in the graphic… Read More


Harnessing Modular Vector Processing for Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Acceleration

Harnessing Modular Vector Processing for Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Acceleration
by Jonah McLeod on 02-24-2025 at 6:00 am

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The dominance of GPUs in AI workloads has long been driven by their ability to handle massive parallelism, but this advantage comes at the cost of high-power consumption and architectural rigidity. A new approach, leveraging a chiplet-based RISC-V vector processor, offers an alternative that balances performance, efficiency,… Read More


Rethinking Multipatterning for 2nm Node

Rethinking Multipatterning for 2nm Node
by Fred Chen on 02-23-2025 at 10:00 am

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Whether EUV or DUV doesn’t matter at 20 nm pitch
The International Roadmap for Devices and Systems, 2022 Edition, indicates that the “2nm” node due in 2025 (this year) has a minimum (metal) half-pitch of 10 nm [1]. This is, in fact, less than the resolution of a current state-of-the-art EUV system, with a numerical aperture… Read More


CHIPS Act dies because employees are fired – NIST CHIPS people are probationary

CHIPS Act dies because employees are fired – NIST CHIPS people are probationary
by Robert Maire on 02-23-2025 at 6:00 am

Donald Trump CHIPs Act Cancelled

– NIST to lose 100’s of mainly CHIPS Act people
– If no people are left to administer CHIPS Act it dies by default
– Following USAID play book to kill an unwanted program
– Using the “probationary” clause as excuse to fire recent CHIPS hires

Trump will kill CHIPS Act by gutting NIST employees
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Podcast EP275: How NXP Semiconductors is Helping the Automotive Ecosystem to Move Forward with Sebastien Clamagirand

Podcast EP275: How NXP Semiconductors is Helping the Automotive Ecosystem to Move Forward with Sebastien Clamagirand
by Daniel Nenni on 02-21-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Sebastien Clamagirand, Global Senior Vice President of Automotive System Engineering and Marketing at NXP Semiconductors. Sebastien focuses on system solutions for vehicle architectures that support the shift to software-defined vehicles. Under his leadership, NXP delivers pre-integrated, scalable … Read More


CEO Interview with Dr. William Wang of Alpha Design AI

CEO Interview with Dr. William Wang of Alpha Design AI
by Daniel Nenni on 02-21-2025 at 6:00 am

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William Wang is the CEO and founder of Alpha Design AI, a generative AI startup transforming chip design and verification through ChipAgents, an agentic AI development tool for RTL and verification engineers. ChipAgents accelerates design, debugging, and verification of hardware description languages (HDL), integrating… Read More