Startup Challenges In A Changing EDA World
Without innovation, it may not be possible to fully utilize technological advances.
Startup Funding: Q4 2024
AI chips and interconnects end year on high note; $3 billion for 75 companies.
Top Tech Videos Of 2024
What chip industry engineers watched in 2024.
Published on December 31st, 2024 by
Liz Allan
Strain, Stress In Advanced Packages Drives New Design App...
Heterogenous integration is pushing chip and package designers to consider multi-physics effects as early as the initial architectural planning sta...
Improving Verification Performance
Verification tools are getting faster and capacity is increasing, but they still can't keep up with the problem space. Verification is crossing mor...
SLM Evolves Into Critical Aspect Of Chip Design And Opera...
Silicon lifecycle management applications and techniques are gaining traction as chipmakers figure out how to use them more effectively.
RISC-V Profiles Help Conformance
More than just the processor needs to be defined for standard operating systems. Profiles help a little, but still not enough.
Chip Companies Play Bigger Role In Shaping University Cur...
Design and AI companies are using a range of tools to help graduates become productive more quickly. Some are feeding their requirements directly t...
Top-Down Vs. Bottom-Up Chiplet Design
Third-party chiplets are hitting the market as chiplet models evolve. Who's calling the shots isn't clear yet.
Slow Progress On Generative EDA
The dream may be to have generative AI write RTL, but text is only one of the necessary things AI must understand to help with many design and impl...
RISC-V Profiles Help Conformance
More than just the processor needs to be defined for standard operating systems. Profiles help a little, but still not enough.
How AI Is Transforming System Design
LLMs and machine learning are automating expertise in an aging workforce.
RISC-V’s Software Portability Challenge
A hardware-software contract is needed for software portability, but RISC-V is not yet defined well enough to know what that is.
RISC-V Conformance
Finding out if a processor implementation matches the specification is important, but conformance testing is currently not available.
Barriers To Chiplet Sockets
Perfection sometimes stands in the way of progress, and there is evidence this may be happening with chiplets. It may be time to slow down and make...
Distributed Voltage And Frequency Scaling Gaining Traction
More data to process with fewer available knobs to turn are boosting demand for this technique.
The Evolution of HBM
From 2.5D to AI everywhere.
Using Formal For RISC-V Security
Why microarchitectures and custom coding on low-cost chips are a growing source of concern.
Scaling Performance In AI Systems
Tackling bottlenecks and improving time to market in complex designs.
Globally Asynchronous, Locally Synchronous Clocks
Improving performance through better partitioning of data movement in complex designs.
