Handling Preprocessed Files in a Hardware IDE

Handling Preprocessed Files in a Hardware IDE
by Daniel Nenni on 02-20-2024 at 10:00 am

Preprocessor 1

For several years now, I’ve been meeting with AMIQ EDA co-founder Cristian Amitroaie every few months to discuss the state of the industry, key trends in design and verification, and the ways that they help facilitate and accelerate chip development. I noticed an interesting new feature mentioned in their latest press releaseRead More


2024 Outlook with Cristian Amitroaie, Founder and CEO of AMIQ EDA

2024 Outlook with Cristian Amitroaie, Founder and CEO of AMIQ EDA
by Daniel Nenni on 02-07-2024 at 10:00 am

AMIQ EDA DVT Eclipse

SemiWki has been working with AMIQ EDA for more than four years now and it has been quite the education. AMIQ EDA is a company that specializes in providing development and verification solutions for digital design and verification teams in the semiconductor industry. They offer a range of products and services aimed at improving… 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

AMIQ20

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


A Hardware IDE for VS Code Fans

A Hardware IDE for VS Code Fans
by Daniel Nenni on 11-22-2022 at 10:00 am

VS Code Remote SSH Article Diagram

A few times a year, I check in with AMIQ EDA co-founder Cristian Amitroaie to see what’s new with their company and the integrated development environment (IDE) market for hardware design and verification. Usually he suggests a topic for us to discuss, but this time I specifically wanted to learn more about the version of their Design… Read More


Automated Documentation of Space-Borne FPGA Designs

Automated Documentation of Space-Borne FPGA Designs
by Daniel Nenni on 02-21-2022 at 10:00 am

Kepler Schem

Over the past three years, I’ve spoken frequently with Cristian Amitroaie, CEO and co-founder of AMIQ EDA, to understand how the company is helping engineers cope with the challenges of chip design and verification. With their broad customer base and many years of experience in the EDA business, the folks at AMIQ really seem to … Read More


Continuous Integration of RISC-V Testbenches

Continuous Integration of RISC-V Testbenches
by Daniel Nenni on 12-02-2021 at 6:00 am

RISC V Results

In my last blog post about AMIQ EDA, I talked with CEO and co-founder Cristian Amitroaie about their support for continuous integration (CI). We discussed in some detail how their Design and Verification Tools (DVT) Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and Verissimo SystemVerilog Linter are used in CI flows. Cristian… Read More


Continuous Integration of UVM Testbenches

Continuous Integration of UVM Testbenches
by Daniel Nenni on 09-13-2021 at 6:00 am

UVM Report

In recent years, one of the hot topics in chip design and verification has been continuous integration (CI). Like many innovations in hardware development, it was borrowed from software engineering and the programming world. The concept is simple: all code changes from all developers are merged back into the main development… Read More


What’s New with UVM and UVM Checking?

What’s New with UVM and UVM Checking?
by Daniel Nenni on 06-30-2021 at 6:00 am

UVM and UVM Checking

About once a quarter, I touch base with Cristian Amitroaie, CEO and co-founder of AMIQ EDA, to see what’s new with the company, products, and users. Sometimes he surprises me, as he did earlier this year when he mentioned that their tools check about 150 rules for non-standard constructs in SystemVerilog and VHDL. When we talked … Read More


Why Would Anyone Perform Non-Standard Language Checks?

Why Would Anyone Perform Non-Standard Language Checks?
by Daniel Nenni on 03-29-2021 at 6:00 am

Non Standard

The other day, I was having one of my regular chats with Cristian Amitroaie, CEO and co-founder of AMIQ EDA. One of our subjects was a topic that we discussed last year, the wide range of languages and formats that chip design and verification engineers use these days. AMIQ EDA has put a lot of effort into adding support for many of these… Read More


Does IDE Stand for Integrated Design Environment?

Does IDE Stand for Integrated Design Environment?
by Daniel Nenni on 12-21-2020 at 6:00 am

SemiWiki2 design 1

As regular readers may know, every few months I check in with Cristian Amitroaie, CEO of AMIQ EDA, to see what’s new with the company and their products. In our posts so far this year we’ve focused on verification, and now I’m wondering how an integrated development environment (IDE) provides benefits to designers. They work on huge… Read More