In the first of a multi-part series on how to design a custom chip for under $1,000, our Analog Editor gets you started with a Magnificent 7 list of textbooks. TinyTapeout offers a course that ...

Google's innovative approach of using artificial intelligence to design AI chips is revolutionizing the semiconductor industry. The key to their AlphaChip system lies in its reinforcement learning ...

Open-source tools and multi-project wafer (MPW) shuttles democratize chip design for low cost. Small circuits, both analog and digital, are accommodated by embedding them as “tiles” or “clusters” into ...

As integrated circuit (IC) designs continue to scale, the demand for efficient power management, performance optimization and reliable physical layout modification grows more critical. Meeting these ...

Since their early introduction a few years ago, AI-powered features have become a mainstay of EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools. Many of the complex yet potentially tedious tasks silicon ...

Google DeepMind has published a research paper hitting back at criticism of its AI chip design system AlphaChip. The Google AI arm originally announced its novel reinforcement learning method for ...

A new technical paper titled “A Vertically Integrated Framework for Templatized Chip Design” was published by researchers at University of Southern California. “Developers who primarily engage with ...

In other words, we’re building the factories, but we may not have the talent to design, operate and optimize what goes inside them. Semiconductor design is among the most complex engineering ...