Semiconductor industry is going through an unprecedented technological revolution with AI/ML, GPU, RISC-V, chiplets, automotive and 5G driving the hardware design innovation. The race to deliver high performance, optimizing power and area (PPA), while ensuring safety and security is truly on. It has never been a more exciting… Read More
Actually not so new, just new to us in the US. Verification Futures is already well established as a Tessolve event with a 10-year track record in the UK. This year they are bringing the conference to Austin on September 14th (REGISTER HERE).
While DVCon is an ever-popular event for sharing verification ideas, it isn’t always accessible… Read More
The Synopsys VC Formal group have a real talent for finding industry speakers to talk on illuminating outside-the-box-topics in formal verification. Not too long ago I covered an Intel talk of this kind. A recent webinar highlighted use of formal methods used together with a cool technique I have covered elsewhere called Quick… Read More
I had grown comfortable thinking about RISC-V as a cost-saving and more flexible alternative to Intel/AMD or Arm in embedded applications. Where clearly it is already doing very well. But following a discussion with Dave Kelf and Adnan Hamid of Breker, RISC-V goals have become much more ambitious, chasing the same big system applications… Read More
RISC-V Summit China is a major international event to share technical and business innovation around RISC-V. The global event brings together the community for a multi-track conference, tutorials, exhibitions and more. In partnership with RISC-V International, Beijing Institute of Open Source Chip (BOSC) will be the host… Read More
Maheen Hamid, a member of the ESD Alliance (a SEMI Technology Community) Governing Council and a member of SEMI’s North America Advisory Board, is an astute business executive. Together with her husband Adnan Hamid, they founded Breker Verification Systems, a company developing test synthesis solutions. She serves today … Read More
Each day, thousands of engineers around the world collaborate and contribute to advance RISC-V, the open-standard instruction set architecture that is defining the future of open computing. The RISC-V community shares the technical investment and helps shape the architecture’s strategic future so everyone may create more
My recent article, ‘Chip War without Soldiers’ explained the importance of upskilling and preparing the chip design workforce in this current scenario, and it also explained how it will lead to ‘Fabs without Chips’ if we don’t prioritize it. VLSI Engineers are the pillars of the semiconductor industry, and they can only transform… Read More
Wednesday, July 26, 2023 | 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PDT
RTL engineering change order (ECO) is vital to ensuring proper functionality of integrated circuits (ICs). Retiming and auto ungrouping optimize RTL implementation and enhance PPA. However, aggressive optimizations in CPU RTL designs present challenges due to increased
Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM PDT | 1:00 PM CDT | 2:00 PM EDT
RISC-V SoC design complexity continues to increase and create new verification challenges. Private caches, shared caches, and shared main memory create potential caches/memory coherency problems that require modern, automated verification approaches.… Read More
