Samsung’s aggressive marketing is starting to hit the fabless semiconductor ecosystem so we had all better be prepared. Samsung’s 2012 marketing budget exceeded $400M which probably beats the marketing budget of the entire fabless ecosystem! The question is, will the fabless semiconductor industry be easily swayed by Samsung’s… Read More
Managing Power, Performance and Reliability in the Chiplet EraNext-gen AI accelerators, high-performance processors, and complex computing…Read More
Siemens and TSMC push AI deeper into chip designSiemens and TSMC are expanding their collaboration on…Read More
Agentic AI Can Reach GDS. What Must It Prove Before Engineers Trust It for Tapeout?Agentic AI is beginning to move semiconductor engineering…Read More
TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum 2026: Opening RemarksThe 2026 TSMC Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem…Read More
LLM-assisted schematic test-report analysis and root-cause investigationBy Piyush Bag Intro: In this AI era,…Read MoreUnlocking the Full Potential of Soft IP
EDA vendors, IP suppliers and Foundries provide an eco-system for SoC designers to use in getting their new electronic products to market quicker and at a lower cost. An example of this eco-system are three companies (TSMC, Atrenta, Sonics) that teamed up to produce a webinar earlier in March called: Unlocking the Full Potential… Read More
A Brief History of Forte Design Systems
When Semiwiki readers see the name Forte Design Systems, they may think of the live bagpipers’ performance that closes the yearly Design Automation Conference. Forte has been the sponsor of this moving end to DAC since 2001. Step with me behind the plaid kilts for a good look at this remarkable company headquartered in San Jose, … Read More
Mixed-Signal SoC verification has integrated solution
These days when we talk of SoC verification, what comes to our mind immediately is VirtualPlatform. Of course with the increasing size, complexity and different styles of designs, it is very much a need.
However, that is supported by actual verification engines and methodologies which are varying considerable with digital, … Read More
Data Management for Designers
Back when I was a programmer at VLSI Technology in the mid-1980s, I was responsible for all the data management in the VLSI Design Tools. By responsible for, I mean that I designed the whole system and wrote all the code. Prior to the 5th release of our product, there was no data management, designers simply used filenames and it was … Read More
Simon Segars to be New CEO of ARM
ARM announced today that Warren East, the CEO, would be retiring at the end of June. The new CEO will be Simon Segars, currently President of ARM and the de facto #2 guy. Currently Simon is based in the US and I don’t know if he plans to return to Britain or not. But he will live what will inevitably be a lifestyle that involves crossing… Read More
View from the top: Brad Quinton
Many engineers dream about starting their own company some day, and today I talked with an engineer that has gone beyond the dreaming stage to actually start an EDA company and then get that company acquired. His name is Brad Quinton and the start-up was called Veridae Systems, now part of Tektronix.
Brad Quinton… Read More
Interconnect Optimization of an SoC Architecture
My last chip design at Intel was a GPU called the 82786and the architects of the chip wrote a virtual prototype using the MAINSAIL language. By using a virtual prototype they were able to:
- Simulate bus traffic, video display and video RAM
- Determine throughput
- Measure latency
- Verify that bus priorities were working
- Optimize the
Wally Rhines, Victor Peng and Chenming Hu to Speak at Mentor User2User Conference
This year’s Mentor Graphics user group meeting, User2User, will be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton in San Jose, California on April 25, 2013. The featured keynote presenters include…
- Dr. Walden C. Rhines, CEO and Chairman of Mentor Graphics, talking about “Organizing by Design”
- Victor Peng, Senior VP, Xilinx presenting on “The
Speech Recognition : Can it be the next game changer?
The cell phone phenomena has catalyzed the technology growth and coaxed the hardware and software to work more closely. The Apple effect further directed this technology growth to focus on enhanced user experience. The emphasis has been primarily on the display and touch aspects of the designs with limited adoption on other areas.… Read More


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