Tiling Support in SiFive’s AI/ML Software Stack for RISC-V Vector-Matrix Extension

Tiling Support in SiFive’s AI/ML Software Stack for RISC-V Vector-Matrix Extension
by Daniel Nenni on 12-31-2025 at 10:00 am

SiFive AI ML RISC V Summit 2025

At the 2025 RISC-V Summit North America, Min Hsu, Staff Compiler Engineer at SiFive, presented on enhancing tiling support within SiFive’s AI/ML software stack for the RISC-V Vector-Matrix Extension (VME). This extension aims to boost matrix multiplication efficiency, a cornerstone of AI workloads. SiFive’s… Read More


RISC-V Extensions for AI: Enhancing Performance in Machine Learning

RISC-V Extensions for AI: Enhancing Performance in Machine Learning
by Daniel Nenni on 12-30-2025 at 10:00 am

SiFive Risc V Summit 2025

In a presentation at the RISC-V Summit North America 2025, John Simpson, Senior Principal Architect at SiFive, delved into the evolving landscape of RISC-V extensions tailored for artificial intelligence and machine learning. RISC-V’s open architecture has fueled its adoption in AI/ML markets by allowing customization… Read More


Webinar: AI/ML Algorithm Design and Testing Toward 6G

Webinar: AI/ML Algorithm Design and Testing Toward 6G
by Admin on 10-30-2025 at 9:18 am

AI and machine learning (AI/ML) are reshaping wireless communications, promising faster, more efficient, and more intelligent networks. But bringing these algorithms into real-world environments isn’t simple — validation and testing remain major hurdles.

In this webinar, industry expert Abhinav Mahadevan shares how

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Podcast EP236: Why Comprehensive Development Support for AI/ML is Important with Clay Johnson

Podcast EP236: Why Comprehensive Development Support for AI/ML is Important with Clay Johnson
by Daniel Nenni on 07-19-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Clay Johnson, CEO of CacheQ. Clay has decades of executive experience in computing, FPGAs and development flows, including serving as Vice President of the Xilinx Spartan Business Unit which was acquired by AMD.

Clay discusses the changes occurring in system design to leverage AI/ML and technologies such as large… Read More


Three New Circuit Simulators from Siemens EDA

Three New Circuit Simulators from Siemens EDA
by Daniel Payne on 06-27-2024 at 10:00 am

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The week before DAC I had the privilege to take a video call with Pradeep Thiagarajan – Product Manager, Simulation, Custom IC Verification at Siemens EDA to get an update on new simulation products. I’ve been following Solido for years now and knew that they were an early adopter of ML for Monte Carlo simulations with SPICE users.… Read More


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

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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


2024 Outlook with Steve Roddy of Quadric

2024 Outlook with Steve Roddy of Quadric
by Daniel Nenni on 01-29-2024 at 10:00 am

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Quadric Inc. is the leading licensor of general-purpose neural processor IP (GPNPU) that runs both machine learning inference workloads and classic DSP and control algorithms.  Quadric’s unified hardware and software architecture is optimized for on-device ML inference. I have know Steve Roddy for many years, he is a high … Read More


CEO Interview: Suresh Sugumar of Mastiska AI

CEO Interview: Suresh Sugumar of Mastiska AI
by Daniel Nenni on 12-08-2023 at 6:00 am

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Suresh is a technology executive with deep technical expertise in semiconductors, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, internet-of-things, hardware, software, etc. He spent 20 years in the industry, most recently serving as an Executive Director for open-source zero-trust chip development at Technology Innovation… Read More


Keynote Speakers Announced for IDEAS 2023 Digital Forum

Keynote Speakers Announced for IDEAS 2023 Digital Forum
by Daniel Nenni on 10-26-2023 at 10:00 am

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As we all know, hearing directly from the people who actually use EDA tools, people who are solving real world problems with the latest technologies are the best source of information. Thus EDA User group meetings are always first on my event list every year which brings us to Ansys Ideas.

Ansys User Group Meeting Features Technical

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AI for the design of Custom, Analog Mixed-Signal ICs

AI for the design of Custom, Analog Mixed-Signal ICs
by Daniel Payne on 09-28-2023 at 10:00 am

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Custom and  Analog-Mixed Signal (AMS) IC design are used when the highest performance is required, and using digital standard cells just won’t meet the requirements. Manually sizing schematics, doing IC layout, extracting parasitics, then measuring the performance only to go back and continue iterating is a long, tedious… Read More