As in previous years, AI is a big topic in the semiconductor EDA IP chip design space. This year, though, many experts see clear challenges that must be overcome before the technology becomes mainstream. However, those companies that successfully address these issues early on will gain a crucial advantage in improving chip designer productivity and innovation on both existing products …
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EDA and IP Industries Face Dickensian Quandary – Will Value Win Over Complacency?
It seems like every tech company on the planet now offers an AI application, especially in generative AI. Most are more marketing ploys than practical implementations, but all rely on specifically designed semiconductor chips. Such demand is already changing the landscape of the semiconductor industry. Read the complete story at Semiconductor Digest.
Read More »SEMI Oregon Breakfast Forum: Wearable Electronics – Challenges and Opportunities
Attention – Electronics and semiconductor professionals in the Pacific Northwest! SEMI is having another half-day breakfast forum. Wearable devices have challenging requirements for power consumption, compactness, lightweight, low cost, high flexibility, ease-of-use, durability, and conformability. This technical forum will address and highlight recent advances, key challenges, current solutions, and future opportunities for wearable and flexible electronics. Presented by the SEMI …
Read More »REUSE 2017
REUSE 2017 - Dec. 14th at the Santa Clara Conv. Center - brings together the diverse global intellectual property (IP) community of designers and suppliers of the semiconductor industry.
Read More »Trends Driving IP Reuse Through 2020
Semico Research’s Jim Feldhan shared detailed hardware-software intellectual property (IP) reuse trends through 2020 for the semiconductor chip market.
Read More »REUSE 2017 Tackles Semi IP Theft and Open Hardware
Keynote will highlight IP theft and prevention while afternoon panel wrestles with semi open source hardware reuse and IP. By John Blyler, Editorial Director, JB Systems The continued growth of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) is critical for the health of the EDA chip development and tools markets. This point was emphasized by Laurie Balch, Chief Analyst at GSEDA, during this year’s …
Read More »Age of the System Comes to EDA
Learn from other industries to gain a system's perspective was the reoccurring theme of Garysmith EDA analyst Laurie Balch’s pre-DAC address.
Read More »New Event Focuses on Semiconductor IP Reuse
Unique exhibition and trade show levels the playing field for customers and vendors as semiconductor intellectual property (IP) reuse grows beyond EDA tools.
Read More »SoS Meets SoC as Siemens Buys Mentor Graphics
System-of-Systems (SoS) company Siemens significantly expands with acquisition of Mentor Graphics System-on-Chip (SoC), board-level and automotive technologies.
Read More »One EDA Company Embraces IP in an Extreme Way
Silvaco’s acquisition of IPextreme points to the increasing importance of IP in EDA.
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