proteanTecs at the 2025 Design Automation Conference #62DAC

proteanTecs at the 2025 Design Automation Conference #62DAC
by Daniel Nenni on 06-05-2025 at 8:00 am

62nd DAC SemiWiki

Discover how proteanTecs is transforming health and performance monitoring across the semiconductor lifecycle to meet the growing demands of AI and Next-Gen SoCs.

Stop by DAC booth #1616 to experience our latest technologies in action, including interactive live demos and explore our full suite of solutions — designed to boost… Read More


Voice as a Feature: A Silent Revolution in AI-Enabled SoCs

Voice as a Feature: A Silent Revolution in AI-Enabled SoCs
by Jonah McLeod on 05-26-2025 at 10:00 am

Voice as a Feature

When Apple introduced Siri in 2011, it was the first serious attempt to make voice interaction a mainstream user interface. Embedded into the iPhone 4S, Siri brought voice into consumers’ lives not as a standalone product, but as a built-in feature—a hands-free way to interact with an existing device. Siri set the expectation… Read More


Webinar: How Spotify Optimizes Performance and Cost with Google Axion

Webinar: How Spotify Optimizes Performance and Cost with Google Axion
by Admin on 05-01-2025 at 2:40 pm

As businesses demand more from their cloud infrastructure, balancing performance, cost, and scalability is more critical than ever. In this webinar, experts from Google Cloud and Arm will break down the benefits of Google Axion Processors—Google’s first custom Arm-based CPU designed for datacenters—and explain why industry… Read More


Webinar: Using Veloce PCD to implement an Arm CSS with confidence

Webinar: Using Veloce PCD to implement an Arm CSS with confidence
by Admin on 04-22-2025 at 10:09 am

Software Defines Everything
For today’s SoC and system designs, hardware is designed and optimized for the software workload. Workloads can include firmware, multi-OS architectures, AI/ML and complex graphics. These combined produce large software models that put pressure on system-level verification.

What is the Arm

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Design IP Market Increased by All-time-high: 20% in 2024!

Design IP Market Increased by All-time-high: 20% in 2024!
by Eric Esteve on 04-14-2025 at 10:00 am

Top5 License

Design IP revenues achieved $8.5B in 2024 and this is an all-time-high growth of 20%. Wired Interface is still driving Design IP growth with 23.5% but we see the Processor category also growing by 22.4% in 2024. This is consistent with the Top 4 IP companies made of ARM (mostly focused on processor) and a team leading wired interface… Read More


Alphawave Semi is in Play!

Alphawave Semi is in Play!
by Daniel Nenni on 04-07-2025 at 10:00 am

Awave Social Post Image

We started working with Alphawave at the end of 2020 with a CEO Interview. I had met Tony Pialis before and found him to be a brilliant and charismatic leader so I knew it would be a great collaboration. Tony was already an IP legend after his company was acquired by Intel. After 4+ years at Intel Tony co-founded Alphawave in 2017. Today,… Read More


RISC-V’s Privileged Spec and Architectural Advances Achieve Security Parity with Proprietary ISAs

RISC-V’s Privileged Spec and Architectural Advances Achieve Security Parity with Proprietary ISAs
by Jonah McLeod on 03-12-2025 at 6:00 am

Security Article Intro ART

Because of its open and modular nature, RISC-V has faced recognizable security challenges stemming from fragmentation, performance inefficiencies, and inherent vulnerabilities. Fragmentation across implementations leads to inconsistencies, making it difficult to enforce uniform security measures. Performance… Read More


S2C: Empowering Smarter Futures with Arm-Based Solutions

S2C: Empowering Smarter Futures with Arm-Based Solutions
by Daniel Nenni on 03-07-2025 at 8:00 am

S2c EDA ARM 2025

The tech world is sprinting toward a future where your fridge orders groceries, your car avoids traffic before you hit it, and security cameras don’t just watch—they understand. But behind these innovations lies a messy truth: building the brains for these smart systems is complicated.

Fresh off the 2024 Arm Tech Symposia… Read More


One Thousand Production Licenses Means Silicon Creations PLL IP is Everywhere

One Thousand Production Licenses Means Silicon Creations PLL IP is Everywhere
by Mike Gianfagna on 11-25-2024 at 10:00 am

Spread Spectrum Modulator RTL IP provides industry standard and custom modulation patterns for Silicon Creations fractional N PLLs

If you sell sneakers, 1,000 pair is called a humble beginning. On the other hand, selling 1,000 licenses for specialized analog IP is a home run.  Silicon Creations celebrated a home run for a critical piece of analog IP that finds its way into a diverse array of applications. Succeeding in so many markets is noteworthy, and I want … Read More


Podcast EP258: How Pragmatic Semiconductor Opens New Markets with Non-Silicon, Bendable Technology

Podcast EP258: How Pragmatic Semiconductor Opens New Markets with Non-Silicon, Bendable Technology
by Daniel Nenni on 11-01-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Dr. Emre Ozer, Senior Director of Processor Development at Pragmatic Semiconductor. With 67 worldwide patents, and over 60 peer-reviewed publications to his name, he has extensive experience in CPU microarchitecture with particular expertise in performance modelling, fault tolerant CPUs, embedded machine… Read More