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Podcast EP274: How Axiomise Makes Formal Predictable and Normal with Dr. Ashish Darbari

Podcast EP274: How Axiomise Makes Formal Predictable and Normal with Dr. Ashish Darbari
by Daniel Nenni on 02-14-2025 at 10:00 am
Categories: Axiomise, Semiconductor Services

Dan is joined by Dr. Ashish Darbari, CEO of Axiomise. Axiomise was founded in 2017 by Dr. Darbari, who has spent over two decades in the industry and top research labs increasing formal verification adoption. At Axiomise, they believe the only way to make formal methods mainstream for all semiconductor design verification is to… Read More

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CEO Interview: Badru Agarwala of Rise Design Automation

CEO Interview: Badru Agarwala of Rise Design Automation
by Daniel Nenni on 02-14-2025 at 6:00 am
Categories: EDA, Rise Design Automation

Badru Agarwala

Badru Agarwala is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rise Design Automation (RDA), an EDA startup with a mission to drive a fundamental shift-left in semiconductor design, verification, and implementation by raising abstraction beyond RTL  With over 40 years of experience in EDA, Badru served as General Manager of the CSD division at… Read More

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Webinar: Unlocking Next-Generation Performance for CNNs on RISC-V CPUs

Webinar: Unlocking Next-Generation Performance for CNNs on RISC-V CPUs
by Daniel Nenni on 02-13-2025 at 10:00 am
Categories: Andes Technology, Events, IP, RISC-V

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The growing demand for high-performance AI applications continues to drive innovation in CPU architecture design. As machine learning workloads, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs), become more computationally intensive, architects face the challenge of delivering performance improvements while maintaining… Read More

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An Open-Source Approach to Developing a RISC-V Chip with XiangShan and Mulan PSL v2

An Open-Source Approach to Developing a RISC-V Chip with XiangShan and Mulan PSL v2
by Jonah McLeod on 02-13-2025 at 6:00 am
Categories: IP, RISC-V

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As RISC-V gains traction in the global semiconductor industry, developers are exploring fully open-source approaches to processor design. XiangShan, a high-performance RISC-V CPU project, combined with the Mulan Permissive License v2 (Mulan PSL v2), represents a community-driven, transparent alternative to proprietary… Read More

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2025 Outlook Anna Fontanelli MZ Technologies

2025 Outlook Anna Fontanelli MZ Technologies
by Daniel Nenni on 02-12-2025 at 10:00 am
Categories: 3D IC, Chiplet, EDA, MZ Technologies

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Anna Fontanelli, CEO of MZ Technologies, is a silicon executive with more than 35 years of expertise in managing complex R&D organizations/programs to give birth to innovative EDA technologies. Strong communication skills and proven ability to lead distributed, cross functional teams in international environments.… Read More

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Embracing the Chiplet Journey: The Shift to Chiplet-Based Architectures

Embracing the Chiplet Journey: The Shift to Chiplet-Based Architectures
by Kalar Rajendiran on 02-12-2025 at 6:00 am
Categories: 3D IC, Automotive, Cadence, Chiplet, EDA, IP

Chiplets A New Abstraction Layer

The semiconductor industry is facing a paradigm shift. Traditional scaling, once driven by Moore’s Law, is slowing down. For years, moving to smaller process nodes led to lower transistor costs and better performance. However, scaling from node to node now offers fewer benefits as wafer costs rise much more than the historical… Read More

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2025 Outlook with Justin Endo of Mixel

2025 Outlook with Justin Endo of Mixel
by Daniel Nenni on 02-11-2025 at 10:00 am
Categories: IP, Mixel

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Justin Susumu Endo, Mixel’s Director of Marketing & Sales, oversees marketing strategy and customer engagement from Mixel’s headquarters in San Jose, California. He holds a bachelor’s degree with a double major in economics and French from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA from … Read More

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Chiplets-Based Systems: Keysight’s Role in Design, Testing, and Data Management

Chiplets-Based Systems: Keysight’s Role in Design, Testing, and Data Management
by Kalar Rajendiran on 02-11-2025 at 6:00 am
Categories: 3D IC, Chiplet, EDA, Keysight EDA

Voltage Transfer Function Crrosstalk Limit

Keysight, with deep roots tracing back to Hewlett-Packard, has long been at the forefront of innovation in electronic design and testing. It manufactures electronics test and measurement equipment and software. The company also owns its own foundry and makes custom chips and packages for its instrumentation business. Many… Read More

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2025 Outlook with Oliver Jones of Sondrel

2025 Outlook with Oliver Jones of Sondrel
by Daniel Nenni on 02-10-2025 at 10:00 am
Categories: Aion Silicon, Semiconductor Services

Oliver Jones Sondrel
Ollie is a commercially astute senior leader with over 20 years of experience in strategy, business development and sales across the technology and engineering sectors, with a strong track record in scaling businesses and driving growth. He has held commercial leadership roles in FTSE 100, private equity-backed, and startup
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IEDM 2025 – TSMC 2nm Process Disclosure – How Does it Measure Up?

IEDM 2025 – TSMC 2nm Process Disclosure – How Does it Measure Up?
by Scotten Jones on 02-10-2025 at 6:00 am
Categories: Foundries, TechInsights, TSMC
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Initial thoughts

At IEDM held in December 2024, TSMC presented: “2nm Platform Technology featuring Energy-efficient Nanosheet Transistors and Interconnects co-optimized with 3DIC for AI, HPC and Mobile SoC Applications,” the authors are:

Geoffrey Yeap, S.S. Lin, H.L. Shang, H.C. Lin, Y.C. Peng, M. Wang, PW Wang, CP Lin, KF… Read More