AI Agent Orchestration For ASIC Autonomy


The use of AI agents in chip design has been limited to small portions of the design flow. Engineers have been proceeding cautiously to understand how agents work, how to ensure they are delivering consistent results, and how different agents work together. The next step is to extend their role beyond just gluing together coding and tooling functions. Mehir Arora, head of engineering at ChipAge... » read more

The Many Flavors Of UPF: Which Is Right For Your Design?


Energy efficient electronic systems require sophisticated power management architectures that present difficult low-power verification challenges. Accellera introduced the Unified Power Format (UPF) standard in 2007 to help engineers deal with these complex issues. To keep pace with the growing complexity of low-power designs, the UPF standard has itself continued to evolve through the relea... » read more

The Trouble With Semantics


Semantics are important. They tell us what something means. Without semantics you just have a jumble of syntax. The better defined the semantics are, the less likely something is to be mis-interpreted because they can be more rigidly analyzed. The semantics of the English language are not very well defined, which is why it is impossible to write a specification where everyone agrees upon wha... » read more