Will AI Disrupt EDA?
It's been decades since there was a disruption within EDA, but AI could change the semiconductor development flow and force changes in chip design.
Floor-Planning Evolves Into The Chiplet Era
Automatically mitigating thermal issues becomes a top priority in heterogeneous designs.
What’s Next In System-Level Design?
As chip complexity rises with disaggregation and chiplets, the design process will become increasingly more workflow- and workload-specific.
Verification Tools Straining To Keep Up
Widening gap in the verification flow will require improvements in tools. AI may play a bigger role.
Digital Twins Gaining Traction In Complex Designs
Improvements are still needed in integration of data and tools, but faster multi-physics simulations are becoming essential for context-aware optim...
Data Coherence Across Silos And Hierarchy
Data abstractions are a necessary part of enabling shift left, extend right, and stretch sideways, but that data must be carefully managed.
Design Flow Challenged By 3D-IC Process, Thermal Variation
Rethinking traditional workflows by shifting left can help solve persistent problems caused by process and thermal variations.
U.S. Proposes Restrictions On Tech Investments In China
Chips, quantum, AI, and EDA would be sharply limited under Treasury Department plan.
Why IC Design Safety Nets Have Limits
Debugging tools have their uses, but the key to better designs lies in the designer’s mindset
Chip Design Digs Deeper Into AI
Collaborations are going wider and deeper with multi-chiplet designs.
What’s Next In System-Level Design?
As chip complexity rises with disaggregation and chiplets, the design process will become increasingly more workflow- and workload-specific.
Why IC Design Safety Nets Have Limits
Debugging tools have their uses, but the key to better designs lies in the designer’s mindset
Communication Is Key To Finding And Fixing Bugs In ICs
AI will be increasingly needed to make sense of huge amounts of data, allowing teams to work more effectively.
Engineers Or Their Tools: Which Is Responsible For Findin...
As chips become more complex, the tools used to test them need to get smarter.
Security Is Critical For Commercial Chiplets
Data management, trust, traceability, and provenance tracking are essential to making a chiplet marketplace work.
Changes In Formal Verification
Errors in chiplets, automotive safety, processors become key targets.
Promises And Pitfalls Of SoC Restructuring
Sidestepping data incompatibility issues in heterogeneous chip designs.
Electromigration And IR Drop At Advanced Nodes
How to achieve a DRC-clean, manufacturing-ready design at advanced nodes.
Challenges In RISC-V Verification
How to debug a multi-core chip and ensure it will be cache coherent and secure.
Cache Coherency In Heterogeneous Systems
Why maintaining flexibility in coherency is essential in heterogeneous designs.
