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Podcast EP218: How Dassault Systémes is Helping to Create the Workforce of the Future with Bill DeVries

Podcast EP218: How Dassault Systémes is Helping to Create the Workforce of the Future with Bill DeVries
by Daniel Nenni on 04-17-2024 at 8:00 am

Dan is joined by Bill DeVries, Vice President of Industry Transformation and Customer Success at Dassault Systémes. Bill is responsible for revenue growth and driving the use of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Additionally, Bill is the Senior Director of Academic and Education in North America, where he leads the 3DEXPERIENCE EDU… Read More

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Soitec Delivers the Foundation for Next-Generation Interconnects

Soitec Delivers the Foundation for Next-Generation Interconnects
by Mike Gianfagna on 04-17-2024 at 6:00 am
Categories: AI, Foundries, Soitec

Soitec Delivers the Foundation for Next Generation Interconnects

Soitec is a unique company that is at the center of major changes in our industry. Technology megatrends are fueling massive demand for semiconductors and this has increased the adoption of engineered substrates. As a global leader in the development of engineered substrates, Soitec is a company to watch. While this technology… Read More

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Electrical Rule Checking and Exhaustive Classification of Errors

Electrical Rule Checking and Exhaustive Classification of Errors
by Daniel Payne on 04-16-2024 at 10:00 am
Categories: Aniah, EDA

Aniah tool flow min

The goal of SoC design teams is to tape-out their project and receive working silicon on the first try, without discovering any bugs in silicon. To achieve this lofty goal requires all types of specialized checking and verification during the design phase to prevent bugs. There are checks at the system level, RTL level, gate level,… Read More

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Early SoC Dynamic Power Analysis Needs Hardware Emulation

Early SoC Dynamic Power Analysis Needs Hardware Emulation
by Lauro Rizzatti on 04-16-2024 at 6:00 am
Categories: AI, EDA, Synopsys

Early SoC Dynamic Power Analysis Figure 1
The relentless pursuit for maximizing performance in semiconductor development is now matched by the crucial need to minimize energy consumption.

Traditional simulation-based power analysis methods face insurmountable challenges to accurately capture complex designs activities in real-world scenarios. As the scale… Read More

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Semidynamics Shakes Up Embedded World 2024 with All-In-One AI IP to Power Nextgen AI Chips

Semidynamics Shakes Up Embedded World 2024 with All-In-One AI IP to Power Nextgen AI Chips
by Mike Gianfagna on 04-15-2024 at 10:00 am
Categories: AI, Events, IP, Semidynamics

Semidynamics Shakes Up Embedded World 2024 with All In One AI IP to Power Nextgen AI Chips

Semidynamics takes a non-traditional approach to design enablement. Not long ago, the company’s Founder and CEO, Roger Espasa unveiled extreme customization at the RISC-V Summit. That announcement focused on a RISC-V Tensor Unit designed for ultra-fast AI solutions. Recently, at Embedded World 2024 the company took this … Read More

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Managing Power at Datacenter Scale

Managing Power at Datacenter Scale
by Bernard Murphy on 04-15-2024 at 6:00 am
Categories: AI, Analytics, proteanTecs

Managing Power at Datacenter Scale

That datacenters are power hogs is not news, especially now AI is further aggravating this challenge. I found a recent proteanTecs-hosted panel on power challenges in datacenter infrastructure quite educational both in quantifying the scale of the problem and in understanding what steps are being taken to slow growth in power… Read More

EP217: The Impact and Unique Business Model of Silicon Creations with Randy Caplan

EP217: The Impact and Unique Business Model of Silicon Creations with Randy Caplan
by Daniel Nenni on 04-12-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Randy Caplan, co-founder and CEO of Silicon Creations, and a lifelong technology enthusiast. For almost two decades, he has helped grow Silicon Creations into a leading mixed-signal semiconductor IP company with nearly 500 customers spanning almost every major market segment.

Randy provides some background… Read More

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Silicon Catalyst partners with Arm to launch the Arm Flexible Access for Startups Contest!

Silicon Catalyst partners with Arm to launch the Arm Flexible Access for Startups Contest!
by Daniel Nenni on 04-12-2024 at 6:00 am
Categories: Arm, Events, Semiconductor Services, Silicon Catalyst

ARM SI Contest

Winner and Runner-up to receive the contest’s largest ever technology credit for production tape-outs.

This is an example of why I enjoy working with Silicon Catalyst. They collaborate with our partners and do some really impressive things, all for the greater good of the semiconductor industry, absolutely. If you are not currently… Read More

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Synopsys Design IP for Modern SoCs and Multi-Die Systems

Synopsys Design IP for Modern SoCs and Multi-Die Systems
by Kalar Rajendiran on 04-11-2024 at 10:00 am
Categories: AI, EDA, IP, Security, Synopsys

Synopsys IP Scale, a Sustainable Advantage

Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) plays a critical role in modern system-on-chip (SoC) designs. That’s not surprising given that modern SoCs are highly complex designs that leverage already proven building blocks such as processors, interfaces, foundational IP, on-chip bus fabrics, security IP, and others. This… Read More

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Enhancing the RISC-V Ecosystem with S2C Prototyping Solution

Enhancing the RISC-V Ecosystem with S2C Prototyping Solution
by Daniel Nenni on 04-11-2024 at 6:00 am
Categories: EDA, Prototyping, RISC-V, S2C EDA

ChipLink

RISC-V’s popularity stems from its open-source framework, enabling customization, scalability, and mitigating vendor lock-in. Supported by a robust community, its cost-effectiveness and global adoption make it attractive for hardware innovation across industries.

Despite its popularity, evolving RISC-V architectures… Read More