Dan is joined by Dr. John Ferguson, senior director of marketing for the Calibre product line at Siemens EDA. John has worked extensively in physical design verification. Current activities include efforts to extend physical verification and PDK enablement for 3DIC design and silicon photonics.
Dan explores the Siemens EDA… Read More
In the rapidly evolving world of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), technological advancements must keep pace with increasing demands for speed, efficiency, and security. Synopsys recently announced the industry’s first complete PCIe 7.0 IP solution. This groundbreaking initiative addresses… Read More
We at Semiconductor Intelligence estimate the automotive semiconductor market was $67 billion in 2023, up 12% from 2022. The top twelve suppliers accounted for over three-quarters of the market. Infineon Technologies was the largest automotive semiconductor supplier, at $9.2 billion or 13.7% of the market. NXP Semiconductors… Read More
In the formal world the core technology is extremely powerful, and specialist users need full access to tackle difficult problems. But for many applications, teams prefer canned solutions built on the core technology yet scalable to non-experts. A similar dynamic appears to be playing out between System VIPs and PSS. PSS, the… Read More
Silicon Catalyst Inc. is a unique incubator dedicated exclusively to the semiconductor industry. Founded in 2015, SCI provides a comprehensive ecosystem to support semiconductor startups. You can see the full list of available resources on the Silicon Catalyst website.
We recently covered the ground breaking Silicon Catalyst… Read More
Dan is joined by Dr. Ambar Sarkar, a member of the Design Automation Conference executive committee and the program chair of the Engineering Tracks. He has a broad background covering both software and hardware R&D. He has contributed to industry standards in areas such as functional verification and IP security. He is the… Read More
This year’s live semiconductor ecosystem conferences have been well attend and I expect the same for #61DAC next week. I will be at the conference from Sunday afternoon to Wednesday evening, if you would like to meet let me know. Networking is an important part of the semiconductor ecosystem so let’s make it happen.… Read More
Breker Verification Systems will demonstrate its new RISC-V CoreAssurance™ and SoCReady™ SystemVIP™ along with its Trek Test Suite Synthesis portfolio during the 61st Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Booth #2447. DAC will be held from Monday, June 24, through Wednesday, June 26, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Moscone West… Read More
The rapid technological evolution and soaring mask set costs have created numerous challenges for designers today. Protocols, algorithms, and cryptography are all advancing at a blistering pace, leaving designers struggling to keep up. While fab suppliers are enhancing performance and reducing power consumption, this … Read More
Alphacore Inc., an industry leader in proven high-performance analog and radio-frequency (RF) design building blocks, end products, and intellectual property (IP) licensing and non-recurring engineering (NRE) design services. Our customers include multi-national corporations to ground-breaking startups. We were … Read More
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