At DAC 2024, Efabless celebrated a milestone of 40 commercial companies designed chips using its chipIgnite and Google-sponsored OpenMPW programme. Of these, some are ready for production volumes, the majority are at the prototype/proof of concept stage, said CEO, Michael Wishart. The platform allows start-ups and smaller companies to prototype designs and innovate without having to buy a license, he ...
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Altair to acquire Metrics Design Automation
At DAC 2024, Altair showcased its 3D-IC design and SimLab multi-physics modelling and simulation tool. Today, the company has announced the acquisition of Metrics Design Automation, a Canadian company led by Joe Costello , former CEO of Cadence Design Systems (1988-1997). The company described DSim as a full feature System Verilog and VHDL RTL simulator. It enables designers to simulate ...
NoC design tool is cloud-based
DAC 2024: Believed to be the first cloud-based NoC (network on chip) design tool, the iNoCulator is available on an early access basis from SignatureIP. Today, there is a need to design multiple chipets and design scalable designs with chiplet-based systems, explained Purna Mohanty, CEO of SignatureIP. As the interconnect between compute, storage, memory and I/O blocks on a chip, ...
Focus shifts for HDL workflow in chiplet era
DAC 2024: The need to organise HDL hardware description language) tools in an era of chiplet design and higher abstraction and higher synthesis levels, Sigasi has introduced its Visual HDL portfolio, designed to correct inefficient HDL-based design workflows and reduce the number of iterations needed. The Belgium company explained that SVH (Sigasi Visual HDL) is an IDE (integrated development environment) ...
EDA industry benefits from new markets
DAC 2024: The EDA industry is reaping the rewards of an evolution in the semiconductor and software industries, said Jay Vleeschhouwer, software research analyst at Griffin Securities (pictured). The essential nature of EDA has become more apparent, he said, as semiconductor companies are becoming increasingly like systems companies and systems companies are becoming increasingly like semiconductor companies, he said. Software ...
Synopsys’ Sashi Obilisetty is honoured at DAC 2024
The executive director of R&D in Synopsys’ EDA group, Sashi Obilisetty, was presented with the Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award at this year’s DAC in San Francisco, California. The award recognises individuals who have “significantly helped advance women in electronic design”. This year’s recipient is an entrepreneur, founding DualSoft in 1998, focusing on RT analysis, which was ...