Building an ecosystem around HLS for AI and ML designs
Mentor's AI Accelerator Ecosystem adds reference designs, libraries and other forms of support around its Catapult HLS platform.
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The road to ES Design West: Systems
ES Design West was created to reflect integration, even elision of tasks across the semiconductor supply chain. Here's how the program reflects the trend.
RISC-V firms aim for lower-cost design starts
Andes and SiFive attempt to lower the barriers to entry for SoC designs based on RISC-V processor cores.
The road to ES Design West: AI
AI, its system design implications and its impact on EDA tools themselves will be a key theme for ES Design West next month.
Calibre scales to 4000 nodes for faster sign off in the cloud
AMD used Calibre with optimisations implemented for cloud support to slash runtimes on high-end server processor designs.
Two-year surge is no blip – Wally Rhines
Wally Rhines, CEO Emeritus of Mentor, a Siemens business, delivered a bullish prognosis for the semiconductor and EDA sectors in a talk at the beginning of the Design Automation Conference in Las Vegas this week.
The unknown unknowns of secure devices
Developing a security assurance standard for IP faces numerous problems but Accellera working-group members are trying to find an answer.
DAC to colocate with Semicon West next year
SEMI and the Design Automation Conference (DAC) have agreed to schedule the the US event for EDA alongside Semicon West in 2020 and 2021.
Analyst: China’s foreign EDA thirst to grow despite trade tensions
Analyst Rich Valera points to China as a major source of EDA tool growth despite short-term tensions with the US government.
Cadence expands Protium for rack-based prototyping
Cadence has developed a version of its Protium prototyping engine that supports larger designs and which is intended to go into data-center racks.