Top Stories

Do We Have An IC Model Crisis?
Models enable automation and optimization, but today the need for new and more complex models is outstripping the ability to ratify and standardize those models.

Pushing The Limits Of Hardware-Assisted Verification
Demand for big-iron tools is insatiable as complexity continues to grow.

Scaling Simulation
Has simulation performance stagnated, and what is the industry doing to correct it?

Blogs

Technology Editor Brian Bailey observes that change sometimes cannot be quantified enough to make a decision, in A Price To Be Paid.

Synopsys’ Rahul Singhal explains why the size of massive, highly parallel AI processor chips has a significant impact on design and test methodologies, in AI Testing: Pushing Beyond DFT Architectures.

Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister examines how to balance of performance and power consumption at each level of the edge, in Hyperconnectivity, Hyperscale Computing, And Moving Edges.

Codasip’s Roddy Urquhart finds that semiconductor scaling has fundamentally changed, with increasing specialization necessary to achieve performance gains, in The Road To Domain-Specific Accelerators.

Vtool’s Hagai Arbel contends that while the fundamentals of good engineering remain the same, it’s worth trying new ways of approaching a problem, in Invent A New Way To Do Your Job.

Siemens EDA’s Srinivas Velivala advises iterating through signoff-quality DRC in the implementation environment to reduce inefficiencies, in Signoff DRC In P&R Lets You Get Better Products To Market Faster.