Electronic Design

Dirt Cheap ASIC Design for Dummies (Part 3): NMOS, PMOS Silicon Design Using a Web Browser

Quickly learn what the difference is between PMOS and NMOS transistors in their structure and operation, and how CMOS works with the two in combination. Siliwiz, a free, browser-based, ASIC layout ...
EDN

Rising respins and need for re-evaluation of chip design strategies

According to the wisdom of French philosopher Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,” or “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” This adage holds ...
Electronic Design

Dirt Cheap ASIC Design for Dummies (Part 2): Tools and PDK Installation

A full set of Open-Source tools is available to enable digital, analog, and mixed-signal ASIC design from schematic capture through tapeout. Tools installation is simply a matter of installing a VM ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Hyperconvergence Of Design For Test And Physical Design

In today’s highly competitive semiconductor industry, chip-design companies strive for competitive advantages by optimizing designs for PPA (Power, Performance, Area). Along with the functional logic, ...
SiliconANGLE

Cadence announces ChipStack ‘Super Agent’ system for chip design and verification

Integrated circuit and electronic hardware design company Cadence Design Systems Inc. today announced the release of an artificial intelligence “Super Agent” designed to transform front-end silicon ...
Forbes

This Cadence AI Super Agent Is World’s First To Automate Chip Design

The semiconductor industry has been applying AI to accelerate chip design for over three years, achieving 10X productivity gains and focusing primarily on tasks that now seem relatively easy, such as ...

Alchip Reports ASIC-Leading 2nm Developments

Alchip Technologies, Inc., the AI infrastructure and high-performance ASIC leader, today revealed significant development in its commercialization of 2nm customer devices. The company announced that ...