On July 9, 2025, Derren Dunn from IBM Research’s TJ Watson Research Center delivered a DACtv presentation, as seen in the YouTube video detailing IBM’s EDA-as-a-Solution platform. This innovative offering leverages IBM’s high-performance computing (HPC) cloud to deliver hybrid and cloud-only infrastructure for electronic… Read More
We looked at another paper on ML-based coverage acceleration back in April 2022. Here is a different angle from IBM. Paul Cunningham (Senior VP/GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and now Silvaco CTO) and I continue our series on research ideas. As always, feedback… Read More
I’ve lived in Silicon Valley then moved north to the Silicon Forest (aka Portland, Oregon) in 1995, and thankfully we have a lot of high-tech companies here like: Intel, Lam Research (Novellus), Lattice Semi, Qorvo, Synopsys, Mentor, Cadence, Northwest Logic, etc. There’s a global industry organization called… Read More
