Altair at the 2025 Design Automation Conference #62DAC

Altair at the 2025 Design Automation Conference #62DAC
by Daniel Nenni on 06-17-2025 at 8:00 am

62nd DAC SemiWiki

Design Perfection from Concept to Tape-out Booth #1617 at DAC25 – June 23-25, 2025

Join us to learn how Altair’s world-class solutions are powering perfect semiconductor design.

The semiconductor industry operates at an accelerated pace, in which every second saved is a competitive advantage. You must rely on solutions

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Navigating the Complexities of Software Asset Management in Modern Enterprises

Navigating the Complexities of Software Asset Management in Modern Enterprises
by Kalar Rajendiran on 04-03-2024 at 10:00 am

Engineering Environment

In today’s digital age, software has become the backbone of modern enterprises, powering critical operations, driving innovation, and facilitating collaboration. However, with the proliferation of software applications and the complexity of licensing models, organizations are facing significant challenges … Read More


2024 Outlook with Jim Cantele of Altair

2024 Outlook with Jim Cantele of Altair
by Daniel Nenni on 03-12-2024 at 10:00 am

Jim Cantele

Jim Cantele, global SVP of sales and technology at Altair, is an electronics industry veteran with deep knowledge of EDA software and services. Before joining Altair during the acquisition of Runtime Design Automation in 2017, Jim held executive-level management positions at a number of leading EDA and semiconductor companies,… Read More


How to Enable High-Performance VLSI Engineering Environments

How to Enable High-Performance VLSI Engineering Environments
by Kalar Rajendiran on 04-25-2023 at 10:00 am

License Operations Figure

Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) engineering organizations are known for their intricate workflows that require high-performance simulation software and an abundance of simulation licenses to create cutting-edge chips. These workflows involve complex dependency trees, where one task depends on the completion of another… Read More


Optimizing Return on Investment (ROI) of Emulator Resources

Optimizing Return on Investment (ROI) of Emulator Resources
by Kalar Rajendiran on 04-12-2023 at 6:00 am

Verification Options SW vs HAV

Modern day chips are increasingly complex with stringent quality requirements, very demanding performance requirement and very low power consumption requirement. Verification of these chips is very time consuming and accounts for approximately 70% of the simulation workload on EDA server farms. As software-based simulators… Read More


Measuring Success in Semiconductor Design Optimization: What Metrics Matter?

Measuring Success in Semiconductor Design Optimization: What Metrics Matter?
by Kalar Rajendiran on 10-12-2022 at 6:00 am

Altair Generic Image for SDO Metrics

When it comes to electronic design automation (EDA), there are two aspects to this technologically challenging and highly competitive field. First, there is the task of designing very complex chips for which a full suite of various software tools are needed. Then there is the task of managing extremely complex EDA workflows and… Read More


Altair at #59DAC with the Concept Engineering Acquisition

Altair at #59DAC with the Concept Engineering Acquisition
by Daniel Nenni on 07-07-2022 at 10:00 am

Altair HPC Banner

The Design Automation Conference has been the pinnacle for semiconductor design for almost 60 years. This year will be my 38th DAC and I can’t wait to see everyone again. One of the companies I will be spending time with this year is Altair.

Last month Altair acquired our friends at Concept Engineering, the leading provider… Read More


Future.HPC is Coming!

Future.HPC is Coming!
by Daniel Nenni on 05-03-2022 at 6:00 am

HPC Image Altair SemiWiki

According to the experts, the semiconductor industry is poised for a decade of growth and is projected to become a trillion dollar industry by 2030. In 2021 the semiconductor industry finally hit $600B so $1T by 2030 seems like a big ask, but not really if you look at the indicators inside the semiconductor ecosystem. Foundries, … Read More


Six Essential Steps For Optimizing EDA Productivity

Six Essential Steps For Optimizing EDA Productivity
by Kalar Rajendiran on 02-22-2022 at 6:00 am

Semiconductor Design Phases and Needs

Altair® Accelerator™ was the focus of a couple of SemiWiki posts last year. The most recent post covers the enterprise-grade job scheduler’s latest updates and an earlier one discussed its patented Rapid Scaling feature. You can refer to these blogs here. While these posts provide insight into how Accelerator can help increase… Read More


Podcast EP31: Interview with Dr. Rosemary Francis, Chief Scientist at Altair

Podcast EP31: Interview with Dr. Rosemary Francis, Chief Scientist at Altair
by Daniel Nenni on 07-30-2021 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Dr. Rosemary Francis. Rosemary was the managing director and CEO of Ellexus Ltd. before its acquisition by Altair. Dan explores the I/O profiling technology Ellexus brought to Altair, it’s impact and the implications for the future. A behind-the-scenes view of the acquisition is also provided.

Dr. Rosemary… Read More