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AI Deployment Trends Outside Electronic Design

AI Deployment Trends Outside Electronic Design
by Bernard Murphy on 12-11-2025 at 6:00 am

Balancing quality with speed

In a field as white-hot as AI it can be difficult to separate cheerleading from reality. I am as enthusiastic as others about the potential but not the “AI everywhere in everything” message that some emphasize. So it was interesting to find a survey which looks at the deployment reality outside our narrow domain of electronic and … Read More


CAST’s Breakthrough in Automotive IP: The MSC-CTRL Microsecond Channel Controller

CAST’s Breakthrough in Automotive IP: The MSC-CTRL Microsecond Channel Controller
by Daniel Nenni on 12-10-2025 at 2:00 pm

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In a significant advancement for automotive electronics, Semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST has unveiled the MSC-CTRL Microsecond Channel Controller IP core. This new core empowers ASIC and FPGA designers with a deterministic, microsecond-precise serial interface for connecting to smart power and sensor… Read More


Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFICs) Generated by AI Based Design Automation

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFICs) Generated by AI Based Design Automation
by Admin on 12-10-2025 at 10:00 am

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By Jason Liu, RFIC-GPT Inc.

Radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) have become increasingly critical in modern electronic systems, driven by the rapid growth of wireless communication technologies (5G/6G), the Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced radar systems. With the desire for lower power consumption, higher… Read More


Ceva-XC21 Crowned “Best IP/Processor of the Year”

Ceva-XC21 Crowned “Best IP/Processor of the Year”
by Daniel Nenni on 12-10-2025 at 8:00 am

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In a resounding affirmation of innovation in semiconductor intellectual property (IP), Ceva, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA) has been honored with the prestigious “Best IP/Processor of the Year” award at the 2025 EE Awards Asia, held in Taipei on December 4. The accolade went to the Ceva-XC21, a groundbreaking vector digital… Read More


Propelling DFT to New Levels of Coverage

Propelling DFT to New Levels of Coverage
by Bernard Murphy on 12-10-2025 at 6:00 am

Increase DFT coverage

Siemens recently released a white paper on a methodology to enhance test coverage for designs with tight DPPM requirements. I confess when I first skimmed the paper, I thought this was another spin on fault simulation for ASIL A-D qualification, but I was corrected and now agree that while there are some conceptual similarities… Read More


AI-Driven DRC Productivity Optimization: Insights from Siemens EDA’s 2025 TSMC OIP Presentation

AI-Driven DRC Productivity Optimization: Insights from Siemens EDA’s 2025 TSMC OIP Presentation
by Daniel Nenni on 12-09-2025 at 10:00 am

AI Driven DRC Productivity Optimization Siemens AMD TSMC

 

In the rapidly evolving semiconductor industry, Design Rule Checking (DRC) remains a critical bottleneck in chip design workflows. Siemens EDA’s presentation at the 2025 TSMC Open Innovation Platform Forum, titled “AI-Driven DRC Productivity Optimization,” showcases how artificial intelligence … Read More


How PCIe Multistream Architecture Enables AI Connectivity at 64 GT/s and 128 GT/s

How PCIe Multistream Architecture Enables AI Connectivity at 64 GT/s and 128 GT/s
by Kalar Rajendiran on 12-09-2025 at 8:00 am

Link Utilization Graph

As AI and HPC systems scale to thousands of CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators, interconnect performance increasingly determines end-to-end efficiency. Training and inference pipelines rely on low-latency coordination, high-bandwidth memory transfers, and rapid communication across heterogeneous devices. With model sizes… Read More


Revitalizing Semiconductor StartUps

Revitalizing Semiconductor StartUps
by Daniel Nenni on 12-09-2025 at 6:00 am

Silicon Catalyst Hero

Tarun Verma, Managing Partner of Silicon Catalyst, delivered a keynote at Verification Futures Austin titled “Revitalizing Semiconductor StartUps.” Drawing from his role in the world’s only accelerator focused on the global semiconductor industry, Tarun outlined the sector’s resurgence, persistent… Read More


What’s New with Integrated Product Lifecycle Management (IPLM)

What’s New with Integrated Product Lifecycle Management (IPLM)
by Daniel Payne on 12-08-2025 at 10:00 am

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I’ve blogged about Methodics before they were acquired by Perforce back in 2020, so I wanted to get an update on Perforce IPLM (Integrated Product Lifecycle Management) by attending their recent webinar. Hassan Ali Shah, Senior Product Manager and Rien Gahlsdor, Perforce IPLM Product Owner were the two webinar presenters. Their… Read More


Jensen Huang Drops Donald Trump Truth Bomb on Joe Rogan Podcast

Jensen Huang Drops Donald Trump Truth Bomb on Joe Rogan Podcast
by Daniel Nenni on 12-08-2025 at 6:00 am

Jensen Huang Elon Musk

How’s that for a clickable title? It really should be called Jensen Huang’s origin story but who is going to click on that?

As  podcaster myself I can say without a doubt that this was the best podcast I have listened to all year. During my 30+ EDA and IP career Nvidia was a customer on many different occasions. I do know how… Read More