See Autonomous Chip Design in Action with ChipAgents at DAC 2026

See Autonomous Chip Design in Action with ChipAgents at DAC 2026
by Daniel Nenni on 07-07-2026 at 2:00 pm

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Making the AI wave at DAC 2026 in Long Beach

DAC comes to Long Beach for the first time in 2026, with artificial intelligence expected to be one of the central topics across the conference program and exhibition floor.

For semiconductor design and verification teams, the discussion has moved beyond whether AI can assist engineers.… Read More


Webinar: How Data Rates Doubled, and Where Validation Reaches Its Limit

Webinar: How Data Rates Doubled, and Where Validation Reaches Its Limit
by Admin on 04-13-2026 at 11:27 pm

Data rates have doubled, but validation methods have not kept pace. As PCIe, DDR, and multi-terabit optical interconnects evolve, engineers are encountering signal integrity challenges much earlier in the design process.

Join Niels Fache, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Design Engineering Software at Keysight,… Read More


Arteris Smart NoC Automation: Accelerating AI-Ready SoC Design in the Era of Chiplets

Arteris Smart NoC Automation: Accelerating AI-Ready SoC Design in the Era of Chiplets
by Daniel Nenni on 01-22-2026 at 6:00 am

Smart NoC Automation Accelerating AI Ready SoC Design in the Era of Chiplet

As semiconductor design pushes into increasingly complex territory, driven by Ai, ML, HPC, and heterogeneous system architectures, designers are challenged to balance performance, power, and time-to-market pressures. In this landscape, network-on-chip (NoC) architectures have emerged as a foundational building block… Read More


Signal Integrity Verification Using SPICE and IBIS-AMI

Signal Integrity Verification Using SPICE and IBIS-AMI
by Daniel Payne on 12-15-2025 at 10:00 am

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High-speed signals enable electronic systems by using memory interfaces, SerDes channels, data center backplanes and connectivity in automobiles.  Challenges arise from signal distortions like inter-symbol interference, channel loss and dispersion effects. Multi-gigabit data transfer rates in High-Bandwidth Memory… Read More


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

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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


Overcoming Verification Challenges of SPI NAND Flash Octal DDR

Overcoming Verification Challenges of SPI NAND Flash Octal DDR
by Kalar Rajendiran on 08-22-2024 at 10:00 am

Typical Octal Serial NAND Device

As the automotive industry continues to evolve, the demands for high-capacity, high-speed storage solutions are intensifying. Autonomous vehicles and V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communication systems generate and process massive amounts of data, necessitating advanced storage technologies capable of meeting these… Read More


S2C Helps Client to Achieve High-Performance Secure GPU Chip Verification

S2C Helps Client to Achieve High-Performance Secure GPU Chip Verification
by Daniel Nenni on 04-20-2023 at 6:00 am

S2C Prototyping 2023

S2C, a leading provider of FPGA-based prototyping solutions, has helped a client achieve high-performance secure GPU chip verification. With the help of S2C’s Prodigy prototyping solution, the client was able to start software development and hardware-software co-design early, leading to accelerated time-to-market… Read More


Securing Memory Interfaces

Securing Memory Interfaces
by Kalar Rajendiran on 03-30-2023 at 10:00 am

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News of hackers breaking into systems is becoming common place these days. While many of the breaches reported to date may have been due to security flaws in software, vulnerabilities exist in hardware too. As a result, the topic of security is getting increased attention within the semiconductor industry around system-on-chip… Read More


How to Efficiently and Effectively Secure SoC Interfaces for Data Protection

How to Efficiently and Effectively Secure SoC Interfaces for Data Protection
by Kalar Rajendiran on 01-04-2023 at 6:00 am

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Before the advent of the digitized society and computer chips, things that needed protection were mostly hard assets such as jewelry, coins, real estate, etc. Administering security was simple and depended on strong guards who provided security through physical means. Then came the safety box services offered by financial … Read More


Integrating High Speed IP at 5nm

Integrating High Speed IP at 5nm
by Pavan Patel on 11-10-2022 at 6:00 am

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The advancements in deep submicron technology and adding multiple functionalities to reduce costs combined with scaling existing operations means that SoC designs become ever more complex. The biggest driving factors to go below the 16nm process node are the decrease in power and the increase in performance … Read More