tag: AI

Security Tradeoffs: A Difficult Balance
By Ann Mutschler - 06 Aug, 2025 - Comments: 0

Experts At The Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss hardware security challenges, including new threat models from AI-based attacks, with Nicole Fern, principal security analyst at Keysight; Serge Leef, AI-For-Silicon strategist at Microsoft; Scott Best, senior director for silicon security products at Rambus; Lee Harrison, director of Tessent Automotive IC Solutions at Sieme... » read more

Hallucination And Innovation At DAC
By Brian Bailey - 31 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 0

At DAC this year, I had the pleasure of moderating an intimate chat between Alon Shtepel, senior director for ASIC at Micron, and Abhi Kolpekwar, vice president and general manager for digital verification technology at Siemens EDA. The assigned topic was generative AI in design and verification, with the more provocative subtitle asking if we are hallucinating or innovating? L-R: Brian ... » read more

UEC-LLR: The Future Of Loss Recovery In Ethernet For AI And HPC
By Krunal Patel - 31 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 0

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems become the backbone of modern data centers, they generate and consume a massive amount of data. Traditional Ethernet was not built for such high-bandwidth traffic. In HPCs and AI models, computations are distributed across the nodes and the data is shared in real time with low latency and lossless communication. As ... » read more

Multi-Modal AI In EDA Development Flows
By Brian Bailey - 31 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 0

RTL coding is a critical step in the development of semiconductors, but many would argue it is not the most difficult. Things become a lot more complex as you get closer to implementation, and as the system context becomes larger than can be comprehended by text alone. In both cases, layout, timing, power, and many other factors come into play, but none is as easily represented by text, and the... » read more

How AI Will Impact Chip Design And Designers
By Ed Sperling - 31 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 1

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the role and impact of AI in chip design with Chuck Alpert, Cadence Fellow; Sathish Balasubramanian, head of product marketing and senior director for custom IC at Siemens EDA; Anand Thiruvengadam, senior director and head of AI product management at Synopsys; Sailesh Kumar, CEO of Baya Systems; Mehir Arora, head of engineering... » read more

Changes In Scan Test Data
By Ed Sperling - 29 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 0

Bigger designs with hundred of cores are creating an explosion in the volume of scan test data, significantly bumping up the amount of time spent on test. That raises the cost of test, forcing chipmakers to trade off higher costs with reliability. The solution is to raise the level of abstraction for scan tests, using a bus and packetized data that can run at much higher frequencies than is pos... » 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

AI In The IC Equipment Ecosystem
By Ed Sperling - 21 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 0

AI is playing an increasingly critical role in improving semiconductor equipment and processes, which are necessary as the industry moves to advanced manufacturing processes. This requires more steps, tighter integration and analysis of those various steps, and better optimization of tools. David Fried, corporate vice president at Lam Research, talks about how to accelerate the development of A... » read more

Transformers At The Edge: Efficient LLM Deployment
By Paul Karazuba - 17 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 0

Since the groundbreaking 2017 publication of “Attention Is All You Need,” the transformer architecture has fundamentally reshaped artificial intelligence research and development. This innovation laid the foundation for Large Language Models (LLMs) and Video Language Models (VLMs), fueling a wave of productization across the industry. A defining milestone was the public launch of ChatGPT in... » read more

That’s Not A DSP!
By Steve Roddy - 17 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 0

In the 1986 hit comedy movie "Crocodile Dundee," the title character – a rough and tumble Australian transported to the mean streets of New York City – is confronted by street thugs brandishing a switchblade knife who demand his wallet. In response he cooly smirks and pulls a knife out of his belt that is 10 times the size of the would-be assailants’ weapon and delivers the signature line... » read more

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