David has almost 25 years of leadership experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Pragmatic, he served as Chief Strategy Officer at Micron Technology, Inc. He also spent six years at Intel Corporation in various roles, including General Manager of the Programmable Solutions Group, where he led the multi-billion-dollar… Read More
RISC-V Summit Buzz – Semidynamics Founder and CEO Roger Espasa Introduces Extreme Customization
Founded in 2016 and based in Barcelona, Spain, Semidynamics™ is the only provider of fully customizable RISC-V processor IP. The company delivers high bandwidth, high performance cores with vector units and tensor units targeted at machine learning and AI applications. There were some recent announcements from Semidynamics… Read More
Rugged Security Solutions For Evolving Cybersecurity Threats
Secure-IC is a global leader in end-to-end cybersecurity solutions, specializing in the domain of embedded systems and connected devices. With an unwavering commitment to pushing the boundaries of security innovation, Secure-IC has established a remarkable track record. Its credentials include active involvement in new… Read More
SystemVerilog Has Some Changes Coming Up
SystemVerilog came to life in 2005 as a superset of Verilog-2005. The last IEEE technical committee revision of the SystemVerilog LRM was completed in 2016 and published as IEEE 1800-2017.
Have the last seven years revealed any changes or enhancements that maintain SystemVerilog’s relevance and efficaciousness in the face … Read More
A Complete Guidebook for PCB Design Automation
Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) are the foundation of modern electronics, and designing them efficiently is complex. Design automation and advanced PCB routing have transformed the process, making it faster and more reliable. Design automation streamlines tasks, reduces errors, and ensures consistency. Advanced PCB routing… Read More
ML-Guided Model Abstraction. Innovation in Verification
Formal methods offer completeness in proving functionality but are difficult to scale to system level without abstraction and cannot easily incorporate system aspects outside the logic world such as in cyber-physical systems (CPS). Paul Cunningham (Senior VP/GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst,… Read More
WEBINAR : Avoiding Metastability in Hardware Software Interface (HSI) using CDC Techniques
This webinar looks at the challenges a Design Engineer could face, such as when various IP blocks within an SoC are required to work in different clock domains to satisfy the power constraints.
Abstract:
Various IP blocks within an SoC are often required to work in different clock domains in order to satisfy the power constraints.… Read More
Siemens Digital Industries Software Collaborates with AWS and Arm To Deliver an Automotive Digital Twin
According to McKinsey & Company, a digital twin is a digital representation of a physical object, person, or process, contextualized in a digital version of its environment. Digital twins can help an organization simulate real situations and their outcomes, ultimately allowing it to make better decisions. Anyone… Read More
Synopsys.ai Ups the AI Ante with Copilot
Last week Synopsys announced their next step in generative AI (GenAI) in Synopsys.ai Copilot based on a collaboration with Microsoft. This integrates Azure OpenAI together with existing Synopsys.ai GenAI capabilities to extend Copilot concepts to the EDA world. For those of you unfamiliar with Copilot, this is a development… Read More
Synopsys 224G SerDes IP’s Extensive Ecosystem Interoperability
Hyperscale data centers are evolving rapidly to meet the demands of high-bandwidth, low-latency applications, ranging from AI and high-performance computing (HPC) to telecommunications and 4K video streaming. The increasing need for faster data transfer rates has prompted a scaling of Ethernet from 51Tb/s to 100Tb/s. Numerous… Read More
More Headwinds – CHIPS Act Chop? – Chip Equip Re-Shore? Orders Canceled & Fab Delay