Two recent software-based algorithmic technologies –– autonomous driving (ADAS/AD) and generative AI (GenAI) –– are keeping the semiconductor engineering community up at night.
While ADAS at Level 2 and Level 3 are on track, AD at Levels 4 and 5 are far from reality, causing a drop in venture capital enthusiasm and money. Today,… Read More
Large language model (LLM) processing dominates many AI discussions today. The broad, rapid adoption of any application often brings an urgent need for scalability. GPU devotees are discovering that where one GPU may execute an LLM well, interconnecting many GPUs often doesn’t scale as hoped since latency starts piling up with… Read More
More than two years ago, Synopsys launched its AI-driven design space optimization (DSO.ai) capability. It is part of the company’s Synopsys.ai EDA suite, an outcome of its overarching AI initiative. Since then, DSO.ai has boosted designer productivity and has been leveraged for 270 production tape-outs. DSO.ai uses machine… Read More
Register Transfer Level (RTL) is a crucial and valuable concept in digital hardware design. Over the years, it has played a fundamental role in enabling design of complex digital chips. By abstracting away implementation details and providing a clear description of digital behavior, RTL has contributed significantly to the… Read More
Matt Genovese is the founder of Planorama Design, a software requirements and user experience design professional services company. The company designs simple and intuitive software and IoT product user interfaces for complex, technical applications and systems. Its unique and proven approach reduces client development… Read More
Last week, Efabless announced the second edition of its AI Generated Open-Source Silicon Design Challenge series. As we discussed in earlier blogs, the first challenge was a great success with twelve submissions and six successful designs created in just three weeks. The contestants used natural language prompts to create… Read More
AI-generated chip design is progressing at an incredible pace!
Earlier this week, I wrote about the Efabless AI Generated Open–Source Silicon Design Challenge. If you haven’t done so already, take a closer look at the challenge and see first-hand what this is all about. In talking to Mike Wishart and Mohamed Kassem, co-founders… Read More
According to some AI dreamers, we’re almost there. We’ll no longer need hardware or software design experts—just someone to input basic requirements from which fully realized system technologies will drop out the other end. Expert opinions in the industry are enthusiastic but less hyperbolic. Bob O’Donnell, president, founder… Read More
As we all know design starts are the life blood of the semiconductor industry, both big and small. Enabling those design starts is what the semiconductor ecosystem is all about and Efabless has a very unique value proposition in this regard.
Efabless is a free cloud-based chip design platform, growing community of 9000+ chip designers,… Read More
Given popular fascination it seems impossible these days to talk about anything other than AI. At CadenceLIVE, it was refreshing to be reminded that the foundational methods on which designs of any type remain and will always be dominated in all aspects of engineering by deep, precise, and scalable math, physics, computer science… Read More
