All three stages of chip design will be automated and accelerated, says Moores Lab AI, which has introduced four design tools using agentic AI. Agentic AI is one of the buzzwords at this year’s DAC in San Francisco. Whereas generative AI generates content, agentic AI is an automation process. It autonomously makes and acts on decisions with little human intervention. ...
According to the companies, this test chip resulted in several optimisations between manufacturing process, design IP, and design tools, which will be critical for production of 16nm chips
Xilinx believes now is the time to widen the use of FPGAs and the latest version of its design tool suite is intended to be practical for specialist and non-specialists alike
EDA tools are about to break down, according to Wally Rhines, CEO of leading EDA tools supplier Mentor Graphics. "We're always talking about new technologies, but adoption takes a long time because engineers become comfortable with their design tools and design flow."
The market for structured Asics could see further exits following LSI Logic’s decision to stop Rapidchip development, according to Asic supplier ChipX
The SPIRIT Consortium is a global organisation concerned with supply-chain collaboration looking to provide a practical answer to multi-vendor design-flow integration, says Christopher Lennard
Despite all the talk of automated design flows and high level languages, paper specifications still dominate the entry point for design projects, but ESL's time is near
Paul Double of EDA Solutions says changing demands from designers are pushing business towards lower cost, smaller EDA specialists in the analogue and mixed-signal arena The 1990’s saw consolidation of the EDA industry with many smaller companies being bought by larger ones and a few market leaders emerging with massive market share, and profits to match. Today, the situation is ...
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