CISCO ASIC Success with Synopsys SLM IPs

CISCO ASIC Success with Synopsys SLM IPs
by Daniel Nenni on 12-29-2025 at 10:00 am

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Cisco’s relentless push toward higher-performance networking silicon has placed extraordinary demands on its ASIC design methodology. As transistor densities continue to rise across advanced SoCs, traditional design-time guardbands are no longer sufficient to ensure long-term reliability, consistent performance,

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Webinar: Accelerate IC Layout Parasitic Analysis with ParagonX

Webinar: Accelerate IC Layout Parasitic Analysis with ParagonX
by Admin on 12-19-2025 at 12:45 pm

We are pleased to offer two webinar sessions for your convenience. Please choose the time that best fits your schedule:

10:00AM – 12:00PM CET (session #1 for EMEA/APAC)
10:00AM – 12:00PM PST (session #2 for NA)

Featured Speakers:

  • Kopal Kulshreshtha, Principal Product Specialist, Synopsys
  • Rob Dohanyos, Principal Product
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Webinar: Advances in ATPG: From Power and Timing Awareness to Intelligent Pattern Search with AI

Webinar: Advances in ATPG: From Power and Timing Awareness to Intelligent Pattern Search with AI
by Admin on 12-19-2025 at 12:41 pm

Date: Jan 14, 2026 10:00 AM PST

Featured Speakers:

  • Srikanth Venkat Raman, Product Management Director, Synopsys
  • Khader Abdel-Hafez, Scientist, Synopsys
  • Theo Toulas, R&D Principal Engineer, Synopsys
  • Bruce Xue, Staff Engineer, Synopsys

As System-on-Chip (SoC) designs become increasingly complex, meeting test quality

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How PCIe Multistream Architecture Enables AI Connectivity at 64 GT/s and 128 GT/s

How PCIe Multistream Architecture Enables AI Connectivity at 64 GT/s and 128 GT/s
by Kalar Rajendiran on 12-09-2025 at 8:00 am

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As AI and HPC systems scale to thousands of CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators, interconnect performance increasingly determines end-to-end efficiency. Training and inference pipelines rely on low-latency coordination, high-bandwidth memory transfers, and rapid communication across heterogeneous devices. With model sizes… Read More


Silicon Catalyst on the Road to $1 Trillion Industry

Silicon Catalyst on the Road to $1 Trillion Industry
by Daniel Nenni on 11-14-2025 at 6:00 am

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There were quite a few announcements at the Silicon Catalyst event at the Computer History Museum last week. The event itself was eventful with semiconductor legends in the audience and on the stage. First let’s talk about the announcements Silicon Catalyst made then we will talk about the event itself.

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WEBINAR: How PCIe Multistream Architecture is Enabling AI Connectivity

WEBINAR: How PCIe Multistream Architecture is Enabling AI Connectivity
by Daniel Nenni on 11-11-2025 at 8:00 am

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In the race to power ever-larger AI models, raw compute is only half the battle. The real challenge lies in moving massive datasets between processors, accelerators, and memory at speeds that keep up with trillion-parameter workloads. Synopsys tackles this head-on with its webinar, How PCIe Multistream Architecture is EnablingRead More


Webinar: How PCIe Multistream Architecture is enabling AI Connectivity at 64 GT/s and 128 GT/s

Webinar: How PCIe Multistream Architecture is enabling AI Connectivity at 64 GT/s and 128 GT/s
by Admin on 11-03-2025 at 12:33 pm

Featured Speakers:

  • Diwakar Kumaraswamy, Sr. Staff Technical Product Manager, Synopsys

AI and HPC workloads push fabric speeds to deliver higher parallelism and utilization at extreme data rates. To support these higher rates, the controller architecture needs to be completely redefined resulting in the new PCIe controller

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Synopsys and NVIDIA Forge AI Powered Future for Chip Design and Multiphysics Simulation

Synopsys and NVIDIA Forge AI Powered Future for Chip Design and Multiphysics Simulation
by Daniel Nenni on 11-03-2025 at 6:00 am

Synopsys Nvidia Agentic AI 2025

In a landmark announcement at NVIDIA’s GTC Washington, D.C. conference Synopsys unveiled deepened collaborations with NVIDIA to revolutionize semiconductor design and engineering through agentic AI, GPU-accelerated computing, and AI-driven physics simulations. This partnership, building on over three decades… Read More


Podcast EP315: The Journey to Multi-Die and Chiplet Design with Robert Kruger of Synopsys

Podcast EP315: The Journey to Multi-Die and Chiplet Design with Robert Kruger of Synopsys
by Daniel Nenni on 10-31-2025 at 10:00 am

Daniel is joined by Robert Kruger, product management director at Synopsys, where he oversees IP solutions for multi-die designs, including 2D, 3D, and 3.5D topologies. Throughout his career, Robert has held key roles in product marketing, business development, and roadmap planning at leading companies such as Intel, Broadcom,… Read More


Chiplets: Powering the Next Generation of AI Systems

Chiplets: Powering the Next Generation of AI Systems
by Kalar Rajendiran on 10-23-2025 at 10:00 am

Arm Synopsys at Chiplet Summit

AI’s rapid expansion is reshaping semiconductor design. The compute and I/O needs of modern AI workloads have outgrown what traditional SoC scaling can deliver. As monolithic dies approach reticle limits, yields drop and costs rise, while analog and I/O circuits gain little from moving to advanced process nodes. To sustain … Read More