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Podcast EP163: The Unique Advantages of the Codasip Custom Compute Architecture With Mike Eftimakis

Podcast EP163: The Unique Advantages of the Codasip Custom Compute Architecture With Mike Eftimakis
by Daniel Nenni on 05-19-2023 at 10:10 am

Dan is joined by Mike Eftimakis. Mike has an extensive background in the electronics industry with almost 30 years in senior technical and business roles. After innovating with companies like VLSI, NewLogic or Arm, he is now VP Strategy and Ecosystem at Codasip, where he drives the long-term vision and its day-to-day implementation.… Read More


Chiplet Q&A with John Lee of Ansys

Chiplet Q&A with John Lee of Ansys
by Daniel Nenni on 05-19-2023 at 6:00 am

SNUG Panel

At the recent Synopsys Users Group Meeting (SNUG) I had the honor of leading a panel of experts on the topic of chiplets. One of those panelists was John Lee, Head of Electronics, Semiconductors and Optics at Ansys.

How is the signoff flow evolving and what is being done to help mitigate the growing signoff complexity challenge?

With… Read More


eFPGA Enabled Chiplets!

eFPGA Enabled Chiplets!
by Daniel Nenni on 05-18-2023 at 10:00 am

Achronix eFPGA IP

With our continuing chiplet coverage I found this of great interest. I have always felt that eFPGAs and chiplets are a natural fit for the next generation of chip design and this is an excellent example. As we design with chiplets one of the challenges is verification/validation in regards to performance and interoperability. … Read More


Opinions on Generative AI at CadenceLIVE

Opinions on Generative AI at CadenceLIVE
by Bernard Murphy on 05-18-2023 at 6:00 am

Generative AI

According to some AI dreamers, we’re almost there. We’ll no longer need hardware or software design experts—just someone to input basic requirements from which fully realized system technologies will drop out the other end. Expert opinions in the industry are enthusiastic but less hyperbolic. Bob O’Donnell, president, founder… Read More


Steep Decline in 1Q 2023

Steep Decline in 1Q 2023
by Bill Jewell on 05-17-2023 at 2:00 pm

Top Semiconductor Company Revenue 2023

The global semiconductor market dropped 8.7% in 1st quarter 2023 versus 4th quarter 2022, according to WSTS. This was the steepest quarter-to-quarter decline since a 14.7% drop in 1Q 2019. 1Q 2023 was down 21.3% from a year earlier, the largest year-to-year decline in thirteen years since a 30.4% drop in 1Q 2009. Revenues of the … Read More


Podcast EP162: How Lightelligence Changes the Compute Paradigm with Light

Podcast EP162: How Lightelligence Changes the Compute Paradigm with Light
by Daniel Nenni on 05-17-2023 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Hal Conklin, Vice President of Business Development for Lightelligence. Hal is an experienced strategic leader in the technology industry. Prior to joining Lightelligence, he spent 10 years at Arm and he also worked in executive management roles at several start-ups.

Hal provides details of a new and ground-breaking… Read More


SPIE 2023 – imec Preparing for High-NA EUV

SPIE 2023 – imec Preparing for High-NA EUV
by Scotten Jones on 05-17-2023 at 6:00 am

Figure 1 Pellicle Transmission

The SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference was held in February. I recently had the opportunity to interview Steven Scheer, vice president of advanced patterning process and materials at imec and review selected papers that imec presented.

I asked Steve what the overarching message was at SPIE this year, he said readiness for … Read More


Ansys Acquires Another!

Ansys Acquires Another!
by Daniel Nenni on 05-16-2023 at 4:00 pm

Diakopto logo

The headline is: Ansys Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Diakopto, Expands Multiphysics Simulation Portfolio for Semiconductor Designers. The acquisition complements Ansys’ existing signoff solutions and enables integrated circuit (IC) designers to detect problems earlier in the design flow.

Which is certainly… Read More


Join the AI Generated Open-Source Silicon Design Challenge!

Join the AI Generated Open-Source Silicon Design Challenge!
by Daniel Nenni on 05-16-2023 at 10:00 am

Join the AI Generated Open Source Silicon

As we all know design starts are the life blood of the semiconductor industry, both big and small. Enabling those design starts is what the semiconductor ecosystem is all about and Efabless has a very unique value proposition in this regard.

Efabless is a free cloud-based chip design platform, growing community of 9000+ chip designers,… Read More


Emerging Stronger from the Downturn

Emerging Stronger from the Downturn
by Kalar Rajendiran on 05-16-2023 at 6:00 am

Full Flow from HL Synthesis through to GDSII Accelerates the creation of AI IP

It was refreshing to hear a talk focused on emerging stronger from the downturn when the news and media are focused on the gloom. At the recent Siemens EDA User2User conference, Joe Sawicki, executive vice president, IC, gave an uplifting keynote talk to the audience. He highlighted a secular growth trend happening in the semiconductor… Read More