Automating microfluidic chip design: Hybrid approach combines machine learning with fluid mechanics

Researchers led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Savaş Taşoğlu from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Koç University have ...
Nanowerk

Thermonat makes nanoscale thermal prediction practical for real-world chip design

Heat limits sub-10 nm chips, but current tools miss nanoscale effects or run too slowly. New modeling bridges atom-level ...
EDN

Designing energy-efficient AI chips: Why power must be an early consideration

AI’s demand for compute is rapidly outpacing current power infrastructure. According to Goldman Sachs Global Institute, ...
Electronic Design

Designing a Chip with Open-Source Tools: The Development of Silicluster

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 ...
Electronic Design

How AI is Supercharging Chip Design Workflows

For decades, the design of leading-edge chips has been a high-wire act—balancing tight deadlines, sophisticated workflows, and the relentless need to consult scattered, often outdated, sources of ...
Morningstar

Synopsys and GlobalFoundries Establish Pilot Program to Bring Chip Design and Manufacturing to University Classrooms

Launching a pilot 'chip design to tapeout' flow curriculum, enabling academic institutions with industry-aligned coursework. Pilot testing underway at over 40 select worldwide universities with intent ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Integrating Data From Design, Manufacturing, And The Field

Chip design is starting to include more options to ensure chips behave reliably in the field, boosting the ability to tweak both hardware and software as chips age. The basic problem is that as ...
Semiconductor Engineering

How 3D-IC Will Change Chip Design

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss 3D-IC design challenges and the impact on stacked die on EDA tools and methodologies, with John Ferguson, senior director of product ...