SoC design

Spend any time with Ansys’ John Lee, Rich Goldman or Marc Swinnen and you’ll hear plenty of optimism about the semiconductor industry even though they tick off a long list of looming design challenges. The need for reliable and effective electronic systems, they emphasize, is great and runs through...

Adnan Hamid, CEO, founder and visionary of Breker Verification Systems, an ESD Alliance member based in San Jose, Calif., once described his job in chip design verification at AMD as “breaking things.” When it came to naming his startup, Breaker was a natural choice. After some consideration, the...