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A panel at DVCon argued too much of a focus on point tools coupled with challenges with interoperability and cross-industry cooperation is hindering the ability of SoC teams to design and verify complex products.

At December's Design Automation Conference, AMD senior vice president Sam Naffziger provided more insights into the chipmaker’s use of chiplet-based design and manufacture.

Emulation capacity and its scalability is a major issue for large SoC designs, said panelists at DVCon Europe.

Siemens Digital Industries Software has launched the latest generation of its Veloce hardware-assisted verification systems with a product line that encompasses silicon virtual platform, hardware emulation, and prototyping support.

Heterogeneous integration has the potential to overcome the yield and cost challenges presented by the growing headwinds associated with process scaling. But it may take a dramatic rethink in design approaches.

In a panel session at VLSI Symposia, AMD described how the economics have come down strongly in favor of multichip integration for multicore server processors.

AMD worked with Microsoft and Azure to cut DRC runtimes and control memory usage for a 7nm cloud-based design.

The verification IP is the first to become commercially available for the bus interface backed by companies such as AMD, Google, IBM, Micron and Xilinx.

AI, its system design implications and its impact on EDA tools themselves will be a key theme for ES Design West next month.

AMD used Calibre with optimisations implemented for cloud support to slash runtimes on high-end server processor designs.