Perforce and Siemens: A Strategic Partnership for Digital Threads in EDA

Perforce and Siemens: A Strategic Partnership for Digital Threads in EDA
by Admin on 08-02-2025 at 3:00 pm

On July 9, 2025, Michael Munsey, VP of Semiconductor Industry at Siemens, and Vishal Moondhra, VP of Solutions at Perforce, presented a DACtv session announcing their strategic partnership, as seen in the YouTube video. This collaboration integrates Siemens’ digital twin and digital thread technologies with Perforce’s version… Read More


AI Infrastructure: Silicon Innovation in the New Gold Rush

AI Infrastructure: Silicon Innovation in the New Gold Rush
by Admin on 08-02-2025 at 12:00 pm

On July 18, 2025, Jeff Wittich, Chief Product Officer at Ampure Computing, delivered a compelling DACtv presentation, as seen in the YouTube video, likening the current AI boom to the 1848 California Gold Rush. Speaking in San Francisco, just 100 miles from Sutter’s Mill, Wittich drew parallels between the historical rush that… Read More


From Atoms to Tokens: Semiconductor Supply Chain Evolution

From Atoms to Tokens: Semiconductor Supply Chain Evolution
by Admin on 08-02-2025 at 7:00 am

On July 18, 2025, a DACtv session titled “From Atoms to Tokens” explored the semiconductor supply chain’s transformation, as presented in the YouTube video. The speaker tackled the challenges and innovations from the atomic level of chip fabrication to the tokenized ecosystems of AI-driven data centers, emphasizing the critical… Read More


AI-Driven ECAD Library Creation: Streamlining Semiconductor Design

AI-Driven ECAD Library Creation: Streamlining Semiconductor Design
by Admin on 08-01-2025 at 11:00 am

DAC 62 Systems on Chips

On July 9, 2025, Julie Liu, PalPilot International presented for  DACtv, unveiling Footprintku AI, a groundbreaking platform for automating configurable ECAD (Electronic Computer-Aided Design) library creation. This innovative solution addresses the inefficiencies of manual library generation, leveraging AI and … Read More


Microsoft Discovery Platform: Revolutionizing Chip Design and Scientific Research

Microsoft Discovery Platform: Revolutionizing Chip Design and Scientific Research
by Admin on 08-01-2025 at 6:00 am

DAC 62 Systems on Chips

At a recent conference session on July 9, 2025, Prashant Varshney, head of the Silicon and Physics Industry Vertical for Microsoft’s Discovery and Quantum Division, unveiled the transformative potential of the Microsoft Discovery Platform. This innovative platform, announced at Microsoft’s Build event, aims to redefine… Read More


EDA AI agents will come in three waves and usher us into the next era of electronic design

EDA AI agents will come in three waves and usher us into the next era of electronic design
by Admin on 05-15-2025 at 10:00 am

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Author: Niranjan Sitapure, AI Product Manager, Siemens EDA

We are at a pivotal point in Electronic Design Automation (EDA), as the semiconductors and PCB systems that underpin critical technologies, such as AI, 5G, autonomous systems, and edge computing, grow increasingly complex. The traditional EDA workflow, which includes… Read More


Safeguard power domain compatibility by finding missing level shifters

Safeguard power domain compatibility by finding missing level shifters
by Admin on 05-14-2025 at 10:00 am

fig1 missing level shifters

In the realm of mixed signal design for integrated circuits (ICs), level shifters play a critical role for interfacing circuits that operate at different voltage levels. A level shifter converts signal from one voltage level to another, ensuring compatibility between components. Figure 1 illustrates a missing level shifter… Read More


ESD Alliance Executive Outlook Features View of How Multi-Physics is Reshaping Chip Design and EDA Tools

ESD Alliance Executive Outlook Features View of How Multi-Physics is Reshaping Chip Design and EDA Tools
by Bob Smith on 04-24-2025 at 6:00 am

CEO Outlook #2 (1)

Every spring, the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community, organizes a get together where industry executives and experts gather to network and talk about trends in the electronic design automation industry.

The theme of this year’s event, once again co-hosted by Keysight, is “How Multi-Physics is Reshaping Chip Design and… Read More


Fully Automating Chip Design

Fully Automating Chip Design
by Hans Bouwmeester on 05-23-2024 at 6:00 am

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Design Productivity Gap

Twenty-five years ago, SEMATECH first alerted the world to a concern known as the design productivity gap: the observation that the ability to manufacture complex chips had started outpacing the capability of designers to create them by more than a factor of two. This concern was subsequently reiterated… Read More


CEO Interview: Issam Nofal of IROC Technologies

CEO Interview: Issam Nofal of IROC Technologies
by Daniel Nenni on 05-24-2023 at 6:00 am

Dr.Issam AL ZAHER NOUFAL (1)

Issam Nofal is the CEO of IROC Technologies and has held various positions with the company for over 23 years as Product Manager, Project Leader, and R&D Engineer. He has authored several papers on test and reliability of Integrated Circuits. He holds a PhD in Microelectronics from Grenoble INP.

What is IROC Technologies’
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