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Mirabilis Invites System Architects at DAC 2023 in San Francisco

Mirabilis Invites System Architects at DAC 2023 in San Francisco
by Daniel Payne on 07-07-2023 at 10:00 am

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System architects have a difficult task of choosing the most efficient architecture by exploring alternative approaches, while tracking and testing requirements. Using a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach is recommended to achieve these goals,  before getting mired in low-level implementation details like… Read More


CEO Interview: Ashraf Takla of Mixel

CEO Interview: Ashraf Takla of Mixel
by Daniel Nenni on 07-07-2023 at 6:00 am

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Ashraf Takla is Founder and CEO of Mixel Inc., which he founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Mixel is a leading provider of mixed-signal IPs and offers a wide portfolio of high-performance mixed-signal connectivity IP solutions. Mixel’s mixed-signal portfolio includes PHYs and SerDes, such as MIPI D-PHY, MIPI… Read More


AMIQ: Celebrating 20 Years in Consulting and EDA

AMIQ: Celebrating 20 Years in Consulting and EDA
by Daniel Nenni on 07-06-2023 at 10:00 am

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We’re getting close to the annual July Design Automation Conference (DAC) in San Francisco, and every year I like to make the rounds of the exhibitors beforehand and see what’s new. When I checked with AMIQ EDA, I found that this is a big year for them. Their parent company AMIQ just reached its 20th anniversary, and they’ll be celebrating… Read More


Visit with Agnisys at DAC 2023 in San Francisco July 10-12

Visit with Agnisys at DAC 2023 in San Francisco July 10-12
by Anupam Bakshi on 07-06-2023 at 6:00 am

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I’d like to extend an invitation to you and your development team to visit with Agnisys in our booth, #2512, at this week’s Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2023, Monday, July 10-12.

In its 60th year, DAC is recognized as the premier event for the design and design automation of electronic chips to systems, so you can count on team… Read More


Defacto Celebrates 20th Anniversary @ DAC 2023!

Defacto Celebrates 20th Anniversary @ DAC 2023!
by Daniel Nenni on 07-05-2023 at 10:00 am

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Defacto Technologies is a company that specializes in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software and solutions. Defacto offers a range of EDA software solutions that help streamline and optimize various stages of the front-end design process. Their tools focus on chip design assembly and integration before logic synthesis

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Vision Transformers Challenge Accelerator Architectures

Vision Transformers Challenge Accelerator Architectures
by Bernard Murphy on 07-05-2023 at 6:00 am

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For what seems like a long time in the fast-moving world of AI, CNNs and their relatives have driven AI engine architectures at the edge. While the nature of neural net algorithms has evolved significantly, they are all assumed to be efficiently handled on a heterogenous platform processing through the layers of a DNN: an NPU for … Read More


Semiconductors, Apple Pie, and the 4th of July!

Semiconductors, Apple Pie, and the 4th of July!
by Daniel Nenni on 07-04-2023 at 6:00 am

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Semiconductors, apple pie, and the 4th of July are American traditions. You can read about the history of semiconductors in our book “Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry” and the history of Arm in our book “Mobile Unleashed: The Origin and Evolution of Arm processors in our Devices“.… Read More


Computational Imaging Craves System-Level Design and Simulation Tools to Leverage AI in Embedded Vision

Computational Imaging Craves System-Level Design and Simulation Tools to Leverage AI in Embedded Vision
by Kalar Rajendiran on 07-03-2023 at 10:00 am

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Aberration-free optics are bulky and expensive. Thanks to high-performance AI-enabled processors and GPUs with abundant processing capabilities, image quality nowadays relies more on high computing power tied to miniaturized optics and sensors. Computational imaging is the new trend in imaging and relies on the fusion … Read More


A preview of Weebit Nano at DAC – with commentary from ChatGPT

A preview of Weebit Nano at DAC – with commentary from ChatGPT
by Daniel Nenni on 07-03-2023 at 6:00 am

Weebit Amir Regev Demo Screenshot

Weebit Nano, a provider of advanced non-volatile memory (NVM) IP, will be exhibiting at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) this month. As part of this briefing I shared some of the basic the details with ChatGPT to see how it would phrase things. Here is some of what it suggested: “You won’t want to miss out on the epic experience… Read More


Podcast EP169: How Are the Standards for the Terabit Era Defined?

Podcast EP169: How Are the Standards for the Terabit Era Defined?
by Daniel Nenni on 06-30-2023 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Priyank Shukla of Synopsys and Kent Lusted of Intel.

Priyank Shukla is a Sr. Staff Product Manager for the Synopsys High-Speed SerDes IP portfolio. He has broad experience in analog, mixed-signal design with strong focus on high performance compute, mobile and automotive SoCs.

Kent Lusted is a Principal Engineer… Read More