Electronic Design Automation, or EDA, is the software infrastructure that transforms a hardware specification into a manufacturable integrated circuit. At advanced process nodes, the problem is no longer simply drawing transistors or connecting gates. A modern system-on-chip contains billions of standard cells, hundreds… Read More
Batteries, especially for electric vehicles, are very much in the news these days. This technology is vital for many aspects of our modern lives, but people often worry about things like range limitations and the possibility of overheating. The industry is responding with electronic solutions for improving battery operation.… Read More
In the functional verification space, Breker Verification Systems stands out for its vast and long-standing understanding and ability to solve many of the seemingly intractable complexity challenges, especially in the system space.
I recently talked with Dave Kelf, Breker’s CEO, who has plenty of good news to share about Breker’s… Read More
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to work with AMIQ EDA as they introduced a new product: DVT MCP Server. I was quite intrigued by the role it will play in AI-assisted chip design and verification, so I wanted to learn more. I spoke with Gabriel Busuioc, the AI Assistant team leader at AMIQ EDA, to understand more about the product and how… Read More
Silent Data Corruption (SDC) represents a critical challenge in modern semiconductor design, particularly in high-performance computing environments like AI data centers. As highlighted in a collaborative presentation by Broadcom Inc. and Siemens EDA at the 2025 TSMC OIP event, SDC occurs when hardware defects cause erroneous… Read More
Daniel is joined by Andrea Gallo, CEO of RISC-V International. Before joining RISC-V he worked in leadership roles at Linaro for over a decade and before Linaro he was a fellow at STMicroelectronics.
Dan explores the current state of the RISC-V movement with Andrea, who describes the focus and history of this evolving standard.… Read More
Hardware designers have been using RTL and hardware description languages since the 1980s, yet many attempts at moving beyond RTL have tried to gain a foothold. At the #62DAC event I spent some time with Mike Fingeroff, the Chief High-Level Synthesis Technologist to understand what his company Rise Design Automation is up to. … Read More
On July 9, 2025, a DACtv session illuminated the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in chip design, as presented by Ankur Gupta of Siemens EDA in the YouTube video. The speaker explored how AI is revolutionizing electronic design automation (EDA), addressing the semiconductor industry’s challenges in managing… Read More
In a DACtv session on July 9, 2025, Abhi Kolpekwar, Vice-President & General Manager at Siemens EDA, illuminated the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing the escalating challenges of semiconductor design verification. The presentation underscored the limitations of traditional methods… Read More
LLMs are already simplifying assertion generation but still depend on human-generated natural language prompts. Can LLMs go further, drawing semantic guidance from the RTL and domain-specific training? Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO… Read More
