Electronic Design Automation

Accellera Systems Initiative is a standards organization well-regarded by the EDA ecosystem that’s also served by the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community. Lu Dai, Senior Director of Technical Standards at Qualcomm, has chaired the Accellera Board of Directors since 2017.

SEMI spoke with Rebecca Dobson, Corporate Vice President EMEA at Cadence Design Systems, about semiconductor industry growth drivers and why semiconductor design is crucial to meeting device scaling challenges today and beyond.

The Keysight EDA tool suite includes system simulation, schematic entry, circuit simulation and layout, and device modeling.

Jay Vleeschhouwer, managing director of Griffin Securities, has followed the EDA industry as a leading financial analyst for 25 years and is a popular speaker at the annual Design Automation Conference. Vleeschhouwer discusses his DAC presentation The State of EDA: A View from Wall Street.

Charles Shi, Principal, Senior Analyst, Needham & Company, LLC., recently offered an upbeat assessment of the electronic design automation (EDA), silicon intellectual property (IP) and services industries, or what SEMI refers to as the electronic system design (ESD) ecosystem.

Founded in 2004, S2C’s worldwide customer base uses its desktop and enterprise field programmable gate array (FPGA) prototyping tools to verify system on chip (SoC) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs will work as intended.

Vikram Bhatia, Director of the Synopsys Cloud Go-to-Market and Product Strategy, discusses leveraging a flexible, pay-per-use approach to fuel the next phase of semiconductor innovation - bring your own cloud (BYOC) and software as a service (SaaS) deployment model.

Electronic designers demand greater integration densities and faster data transfer rates to meet the growing performance requirements of AI/ML, 5G/6G networks and autonomous vehicles as these technologies have outpaced the capabilities of any single chip.

Anna Fontanelli, Monozukuri’s founder and CEO, is an expert in deep-submicron silicon technology and design tools shares her view on the state of Moore’s Law and challenges surrounding 2.5D integration, 3D chip stacking & advanced packaging, as well as the chip design industry’s startup environment.

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have ushered in tremendous opportunities for faster growth, problem-solving and technological development in the electronic system design ecosystem. Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a member of the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community, is at...