After the leadership transition at the top, Synopsys had just a little more than two months before the company’s flagship event, the Synopsys User Group (SNUG) conference. The Synopsys user community and entire ecosystem were waiting to hear new CEO Sassine Ghazi’s keynote to learn where the company is going and its strategic … Read More
Dan is joined by Frank Schirrmeister, vice president of solutions and business development at Arteris. He leads activities in the industry verticals including automotive and technology horizontals like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and safety. Before Arteris, Frank held senior leadership positions at Cadence… Read More
Dan is joined by Matt Gutierrez. Matt joined Synopsys in 2000 and is currently Sr. Director of Marketing for Processor & Security IP and Tools. His current responsibilities include the worldwide marketing of ARC Processors and Subsystems, Security IP, and tools for the development of application-specific instruction … Read More
The demand for high-bandwidth, low-latency networking solutions has never been greater. As artificial intelligence (AI) workloads continue to grow exponentially, and hyperscale data centers become the backbone of our digital infrastructure, the need for faster and more efficient communication technologies becomes imperative.… Read More
In the dynamic realm of technological innovation, collaborations and partnerships often serve as catalysts for groundbreaking advancements. Continuing along this trajectory, Ansys, a global leader in engineering simulation software, has forged a partnership with Intel Foundry to enable multiphysics chip design. The … Read More
In the relentless pursuit of ever-increasing data speeds, the 1.6 Terabits per second (Tbps) era looms on the horizon, promising unprecedented levels of connectivity and bandwidth within data centers. As data-intensive applications proliferate and the demand for real-time processing escalates, the need for robust and efficient… Read More
Multi-die system design is clearly gaining momentum. Part of this momentum focuses on chiplets and a chiplet ecosystem. A “building block” approach for design will work better if there is a way to get verified, quality building blocks in the form of chiplets. The recent Chiplet Summit became an epicenter for this topic. The conference… Read More
Mergers and acquisitions have been a big part of EDA since the beginning. We keep an EDA/IP Mergers and Acquisitions Wiki, it is 13 years old now and has more than one million views. Personally, I have been involved with dozens of acquisitions over my 40 year career, some good, some bad, all are interesting and are an important part … Read More
When we last saw Luc Burgun’s name in the semiconductor industry, he was CEO and co-founder of EVE (Emulation and Verification Engineering), creator of the ZeBu (Zero Bugs) hardware emulator. EVE was acquired by Synopsys in 2012.
After the acquisition, Luc moved out of EDA and became an investor. Join me as I catch up with Luc and … Read More
Dan is joined by Randy Fish, Director of Product Line Management for the Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM) family at Synopsys. Randy has over 30 years of experience in the EDA, IP and semiconductor industries.
In this broad view of SLM, Randy explains what is special about monitoring and optimizing embedded memories. It turns… Read More
