The EDA (Electronic Design Automation) and semiconductor industries are experiencing a transformative shift—one that’s being powered by the rise of Agentic AI. If you attended this year’s SNUG, CDNLive, and/or DAC 2025, you couldn’t miss it: agentic AI was the hot topic, dominating keynotes, demos, and booth conversations… Read More



WEBINAR: What It Really Takes to Build a Future-Proof AI Architecture?
Keeping up with competitors in many computing applications today means incorporating AI capability. At the edge, where devices are smaller and consume less power, the option of using software-powered GPU architectures becomes unviable due to size, power consumption, and cooling constraints. Purpose-built AI inference … Read More
Software-defined Systems at #62DAC
Modern EVs are prime examples of software-defined systems, so I attended a #62DAC panel session hosted by Siemens to learn more from experts at Collins Aerospace, Arm, AMD and Siemens. Here’s the list of panelists that span several domains, and what follows is my paraphrase of the discussion topics.
Panel Discussion
Q: How does… Read More
What is Vibe Coding and Should You Care?
This isn’t a deep article. I only want to help head off possible confusion over this term. I have recently seen “vibe coding” pop up in discussions around AI for code generation. The name is media-friendly giving it some stickiness in the larger non-technical world, always a concern when it comes to anything AI. The original intent… Read More
Unlocking Efficiency and Performance with Simultaneous Multi-Threading
An Akeana hosted webinar on Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) provided a comprehensive deep dive into the technical, commercial, and strategic significance of SMT in the evolving compute landscape. Presented by Graham Wilson and Itai Yarom, the session was not only an informative overview of SMT architecture and use cases,… Read More
DAC TechTalk – A Siemens and NVIDIA Perspective on Unlocking the Power of AI in EDA
AI was everywhere at DAC. Presentations, panel discussions, research papers and poster sessions all had a strong dose of AI. At the DAC Pavillion on Monday two heavy weights in the industry, Siemens and NVIDIA took the stage to discuss AI for design, both present and future. What made this event stand out for me was the substantial… Read More
Digital Implementation and AI at #62DAC
My first panel discussion at DAC 2025 was all about using AI for digital implementation, as Siemens has a digital implementation tool called Aprisa which has been augmented with AI to produce better results, faster. Panelists were from Samsung, Broadcom, MaxLinear, AWS and Siemens. In the past it could take an SoC design team… Read More
Synopsys Webinar – Enabling Multi-Die Design with Intel
As we all know, the age of multi-die design has arrived. And along with it many new design challenges. There is a lot of material discussing the obstacles to achieve more mainstream access to this design architecture, and some good strategies to conquer those obstacles. Synopsys recently published a webinar that took this discussion… Read More
Is a Semiconductor Equipment Pause Coming?
– Lam put up good numbers but H2 outlook was flat with unknown 2026
– China remains high & exposed at 35% of biz while US is a measly 6%
– Unclear if this is peak, pause, digestion, technology or normal cycle
– Coupled with ASML soft outlook & stock run ups means profit taking
Nice quarter but expected
… Read MoreCEO Interview with Dr. Avi Madisetti of Mixed-Signal Devices
Avi Madisetti is the CEO and Founder of Mixed-Signal Devices, a fabless semiconductor company delivering multi-gigahertz timing solutions. A veteran of Broadcom and Rockwell Semiconductor, Avi helped pioneer DSP-based Ethernet and SerDes architectures that have shipped in the billions. He later co-founded Mobius Semiconductor,… Read More
A Quick Tour Through Prompt Engineering as it Might Apply to Debug