tag: AI agents

AI Agent Orchestration For ASIC Autonomy
By Ed Sperling - 27 Jul, 2026 - Comments: 0

The use of AI agents in chip design has been limited to small portions of the design flow. Engineers have been proceeding cautiously to understand how agents work, how to ensure they are delivering consistent results, and how different agents work together. The next step is to extend their role beyond just gluing together coding and tooling functions. Mehir Arora, head of engineering at ChipAge... » read more

Why Chip Engineers Should Care About AI-Created Behavioral Models
By Sidharth Kannan - 23 Jul, 2026 - Comments: 0

You probably know this bottleneck too well: full transistor-level or physical simulations—whether analog circuit, electromagnetic, or thermal—can take weeks or even months. For complex designs, simulating every internal transistor in every block quickly becomes impractical. This is why creating accurate behavioral models is so important. A good behavioral model captures a block's input-o... » read more

Innovation First, AI Second: Lessons From SSN And The Future Of Test
By Marc Hutner - 13 Jul, 2026 - Comments: 0

By Marc Hutner and Ron Press Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming pervasive in society and across semiconductor development processes. We have to be careful not to apply AI to solve optimizations and challenges of existing methods but pair with engineering innovation for evolutionary results. One example is the application of scan test data in multi-core designs. AI can optimize the d... » read more

The Architecture Decisions Behind A Production-Ready EDA AI Agent
By Emma-Jane Crozier - 09 Jul, 2026 - Comments: 0

The conversation about agentic AI in semiconductor and PCB design tends to focus on capability: what the agent can do, how much time it saves, and which parts of the workflow it can automate. That is a reasonable place to start, but that is not where the hard engineering happens. Organizations are now asking whether AI agents can take on meaningful portions of the workflow, not as assistants th... » read more

The Future Of Semiconductor Manufacturing: How AI And Industry Collaboration Are Reshaping The Value Chain
By John Kibarian - 14 Oct, 2025 - Comments: 0

The semiconductor industry stands at an inflection point. As Moore's Law scaling becomes increasingly challenging and system complexity explodes through advanced packaging and chiplet-based architectures, the traditional siloed approach to manufacturing must give way to an unprecedented level of industry collaboration. This transformation, driven by the convergence of artificial intelligence, c... » read more

What Does Semiconductor Disruption Look Like?
By Brian Bailey - 25 Sep, 2025 - Comments: 2

When conducting interviews for my article on the incorporation of AI within EDA tools, Anand Thiruvengadam, senior director and head of AI product management at Synopsys, said, "AI has the potential to transform how customers do chip design. The entire EDA flow can be disrupted with AI." He is not alone in making this kind of statement. Each year, I do a predictions piece, and I ask about how A... » read more

Collaboration Is Key To Growing Semiconductor Industry
By Bob Smith - 18 Sep, 2025 - Comments: 0

John Kibarian, CEO and co-founder of PDF Solutions and a member of the ESD Alliance (ESDA) Governing Council, will deliver a keynote during the CEO Summit at SEMICON West in October titled “Revolutionizing Semiconductor Collaboration: The Emergence of AI-Driven Industry Platforms.” He recently shared with me a summary of what his talk will cover and his perspective on why collabora... » read more

AI, Product Lifecycle Management, Market Dynamics: Q&A With Jay Vleeschhouwer Of Griffin Securities 
By Bob Smith - 24 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 0

In the world of EDA, Jay Vleeschhouwer, managing director of software research at Griffin Securities, needs no introduction. His presentation on the State of EDA is standing room only at the yearly Design Automation Conference (DAC). He recently agreed to a discussion with me where we talked about AI and EDA, an interesting development with product lifecycle management and global dynamics af... » read more

EDA Startups At DAC 2025
By Jesse Allen - 09 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 0

The 62nd DAC showcased numerous new exhibitors in 2025, including tool and IP providers, design services firms, and component marketplaces. New EDA startups, in particular, had a robust showing, with entrepreneurial engineers seeking to tackle the increasingly complex challenges facing modern chip design with fresh approaches. AI was a strong theme throughout the show, with companies of all ... » read more

System Bits: May 28
By Jeff Dorsch - 28 May, 2019 - Comments: 0

Home robotics get cozier Cornell University’s Guy Hoffman was perplexed when he first saw social robots in stores. “I noticed a lot of them had a very similar kind of feature – white and plasticky, designed like consumer electronic devices,” said Hoffman, assistant professor and the Mills Family Faculty Fellow in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. “Especial... » read more

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