Special Reports

Shift Left Is The Tip Of The Iceberg

By: Brian Bailey

A transformative change is underway for semiconductor design and EDA. New languages, models, and abstractions will need to be created.
Hybrid Bonding Makes Strides Toward Manufacturability

By: Laura Peters

Companies are selecting preferred flows, but the process details are changing rapidly to meet the needs of different applications.
Mass Customization For AI Inference

By: Ann Mutschler

The number of approaches to process AI inferencing is widening to deal with unique applications and larger and more complex...

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Top Stories

One Chip Vs. Many Chiplets

Challenges and options vary widely depending on markets, workloads, and economics.

Asia Government Funding Surges

Taiwan, China, South Korea, and Japan continue to foster growth, while the rest of Asia...

Managing The Huge Power Demands Of AI Everywhere

More efficient hardware, better planning, and better utilization of available power can...

New AI Data Types Emerge

Several PPA considerations mean no single type of data is ideal for all AI models.

RISC-V’s Software Portability Challenge

A hardware-software contract is needed for software portability, but RISC-V is not yet ...

Advanced Packaging Drives Test And Metrology Innovations

Complex devices are pushing test and metrology tools to their limits, but solutions are...

Yield Management Embraces Expanding Role

From wafer maps to lifecycle management, yield strategies go wide and deep with big data.

Balancing Parallel Test Productivity With Yield & Cost

Expensive DUT interface boards complicate development and operations.

Automotive OEMs Focus On SDVs, Zonal Architectures

Cheap imports are ratcheting up pressure on traditional carmakers, but changes are more...

AI Drives IC Design Shifts At The Edge

Rollout of artificial intelligence has created a whole new set of challenges, along wit...

Batteries Look Beyond Lithium

New chemistries can power everything from mobile devices to grid storage.

Big Changes Ahead For Analog Design

In-house flows are unable to keep up with foundry PDKs and heterogeneous integration, b...

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Latest News

Blog Review: Nov. 20

Importance of symmetry; PCIe IDE verification; post-quantum cryptography; SI/PI automation.

Chip Industry Week In Review

TSMC's Arizona funding finalized; Intel and U.S. national security; critical IC minerals; Japan's $65B push; Akash and SK Siltron funding; TSMC restrictions; HW s...

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Opinion

Degrees Of Freedom For Innovation

EDA startups of the future will look very different. They have...

Reactionary Or Anticipatory?

Is EDA meant to react to the needs of the industry, or anticip...

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Research

Research Bits: Nov. 19

Starchy nanocomposite films; gold microsphere ACF; photoresist...

Research Bits: Nov. 11

Quantum tunneling transistor; heat in thin films; transparent ...

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Nov. 11

Optimizing CXL; barium titanate for energy storage; ultra-low ...

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Startup Corner

Startup Funding: Q3 2024

New startups emerge from stealth; 75 companies raise $2 billion.

Startup Funding: Q2 2024

Big rounds for AI chips; 91 startups raise $2.6 billion.

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Videos

Using Formal For RISC-V Security


Scaling Performance In AI Systems


Globally Asynchronous, Locally Synchronous Clocks


Working With Chiplets


Knowledge Centers / Entities, people and technologies explored