Top Stories

Pushing AI Into The Mainstream
Why data scrubbing and social issues could limit the speed of adoption and the usefulness of this technology.

Using Memory Differently
Optimizing complex chips requires decisions about overall system architecture, and memory is a key variable.

EDA Grabs Bigger Slice Of Chip Market
Manufacturing, packaging and development tools always have earned a fixed percentage of IC revenue, but that could change.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling examines the impact of rapid technology changes and uncertain interactions, in Can AI, 5G Chips Be Verified?

Technology Editor Brian Bailey wonders if too much AI is a good thing, in Should AI Mimic Real Life?

Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister asks how much further left can we shift, in Will Top-Down Hardware/Software Co-Design Ever Happen?

OneSpin Solutions’ Tom Anderson says formal apps can target specific verification problems at a full-chip level, even on very large designs, in Connectivity Checking Is A Perfect Fit For Formal Verification.

Synopsys’s Jim McCanny warns that an often-overlooked cause of hold violations no longer can be ignored, in MISing In Signoff.

Mentor’s Jean-Marie Brunet explains why determinism, scalability and virtualization are all vital to AI verification, in Verifying AI Designs Thoroughly and Quickly.

eSilicon’s Mike Gianfagna reminds us that while a chip may work, it’s only successful if it performs in the context of the delivered system, in High-Speed Communication Takes A Village.

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And in case you missed last week’s manufacturing & process technology newsletter, learn why variation issues are growing wider and deeper and how it is now everyone’s problem. Also check out why embedded phase-change memory stands out and next steps for AI, quantum chips.