Even as Honda Motors puts a so-called Level 3 semi-autonomous vehicle on the road in Japan – 100 of them to be exact – the outrage grows over semi-autonomous vehicle tech requiring driver vigilance. Tesla Motors and General Motors have taken this plunge, creating a driving scenario where drivers – under certain circumstances … Read More





The Quest for Bugs: “Deep Cycles”
Verification is a resource limited ‘quest’ to find as many bugs as possible before shipping. It’s a long, difficult, costly search, constrained by cost, time and quality. For a multi-billion gate ASIC,
The search space is akin to a space search; practically infinite
In this article we talk about the quest for bugs at the system-level,… Read More
Podcast EP14: AI at the Edge
Dan and Mike are joined by Semir Haddad, senior director of product marketing at Eta Compute and Vineet Ganju, vice president and general manager, low power edge AI business at Synaptics. Semir and Vineet discuss the collaboration between Eta Compute and Synaptics to develop new and innovative solutions for AI applications… Read More
Semiconductor Startups – Are they back?
Semiconductor startups used to rule the roost in Silicon Valley. The very name, Silicon Valley, comes from the birth of the semiconductor industry in the San Francisco bay area 60+ years ago. Large percentage of venture financing used to go to semiconductor startups, even as recently as 15 years ago. As a chip designer doing startups… Read More
AUGER, the First User Group Meeting for Agnisys
As a long-time member of the EDA community, I really believe in user groups. EDA tools are complicated beasts, with many options and different ways to use them, and they are constantly evolving. Users interact with their local field applications engineers (FAEs) and sometimes corporate AEs (product specialists) as well on a regular… Read More
Bouncing off the Walls – How Real-Time Radar is Accelerating the Development of Autonomous Vehicles
In the race to get people out of the driver’s seat, the developers of autonomous vehicles (AV) and advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) have gone off road and into the virtual world.
Using simulation to design, train and validate the brains behind self-driving cars — the neural networks of sensors and systems that perceive… Read More
VersionVault EDA Integration: A Differentiated Value Solution
HCL Technologies is a large, well-established multi-national company with an annual revenue of around $10B and worldwide employee count of well over 150K. They provide valuable solutions to about 20 different industries and related market segments. Over the years, I have had first hand insights to their semiconductor design… Read More
Formal for Post-Silicon Bug Hunting? Makes perfect sense
You verified your product design against every scenario your team could imagine. Simulated, emulated, with constrained random to push coverage as high as possible. Maybe you even added virtualized testing against realistic external traffic. You tape out, wait with fingers crossed for first silicon to come back. Plug it into… Read More
WEBINAR: Pulsic’s Animate Makes Automated Analog Layout a Reality
Many years ago, digital and analog design flows diverged, with digital design benefiting from increasing levels of automation and more importantly separation between the front-end design process and the back-end design process. While digital design still requires linkages between the front and back end, they are well defined… Read More
Webinar: Rapid Exploration of Advanced Materials (for Ferroelectric Memory)
There are many unsung heroes in our industry – companies that provide unique services and expertise that enable the rapid advances in fabrication process development that we’ve come to rely upon. Some of these companies offer “back-end” services, assisting semiconductor fabs with yield diagnostic engineering and failure… Read More
Rapidus, IBM, and the Billion-Dollar Silicon Sovereignty Bet