EDA

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.

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.

Developing a security assurance standard for IP faces numerous problems but Accellera working-group members are trying to find an answer.

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 Rich Valera points to China as a major source of EDA tool growth despite short-term tensions with the US government.

Cadence has developed a version of its Protium prototyping engine that supports larger designs and which is intended to go into data-center racks.

OneSpin is bringing recent product launches to DAC and will have technical experts presenting within the conference's Designer Track.

Heart of Technology (HoT) founder and Jim Hogan talks about the event at the upcoming ESDesign West show in San Francisco.

Design-for-test can no longer be left until the gate level for increasingly sensitive designs aimed at newer processes.