This week, Google unveiled its AlphaChip reinforcement learning method for designing chip layouts. The AlphaChip AI promises to substantially speed up the design of chip floorplans and make them more ...

TORONTO & WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Astrus, the AI startup building the world’s first physics-aware foundation model for chip design, today announced it has raised $8 million USD in funding.

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 ...

Why it's essential to combine sign-off accuracy, iterative feedback, and intelligent automation in complex designs.

Why it matters: As powerful as AI may be, many industries are still struggling to find clear-cut applications that make a measurable, demonstrable difference. Thankfully, that is not the case when it ...

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 ...