Rising to the verification challenge of open source
Fast emerging options, like RISC-V, could foster massive growth in design but verification still needs commercial tools, a Semicon West panel found.
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Streaming Scan Network technology delivers ‘no compromise’ DFT for AI designs
A new technique is especially efficient for AI chips with modular, tiled design strategies leveraging multiple instantiations of the same cores.
International Test Conference celebrates 50 years of advancing test technology
It's the fiftieth International Test Conference this year. How much has been achieved and how much more work is there to do to ensure that we can keep building chips that do what they are supposed to?
An open-source framework for greater flexibility in machine-learning development
Exchange frameworks are emerging to make it easier for neural-network developers to swap between development environments.
Assessing the true cost of node transitions
John Ferguson reviews the key capital metrics you need to review when deciding whether to move to a new process.
Silicon photonics moves out of the shadows
An alphabet soup of AI, HPC, 5G and the IoT has finally seeded creation of a design infrastructure for silicon photonics.
Introducing Doc Formal: the journey so far
Our new columnist introduces himself and traces the progress of formal verification over the last two decades. Join the discussion.
The SSD memory revolution
Richard Pugh looks at how innovations highlighted during the recent International Memory Workshop are driving the solid state drive (SSD) market.
How lithography simulations enable silicon photonics
Precise curved geometries are vital to making this emerging and cost-effective CMOS-based technology work. This primer explains its advantages and how litho tools are evolving to meet the challenges it presents.
Design enablement and entitlement for 14/16nm finFET processes
How EDA tools are evolving to make it possible to design with finFET processes.
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