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RTL to GDS: 1. RTL Design, Verilog coding style
Part 1: The Beginning of Implementation (Front-end Bridge) Foreword: The First Gateway Before RTL Code Becomes Silicon In modern semiconductor design,...
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Semiconductor Design Engineer Salary Rankings
The New Order of the Silicon Empire and the Value of Engineers As of 2025, semiconductors stand at the center of global economic and technological...
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[VLSI CAD] Why Optimization is Hard: NP-hard, heuristic, AI EDA
TL;DR 1) Physical Design: Why is it NP-hard The most classic "hard" problem in Logic Synthesis, the first step of Physical Design, is two-level Boolean...
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Analyzing the pricing structure of EDA tools. Synopsys, Cadence, SIEMENS EDA
Executive Summary Structural causes for high prices Duopoly 독점이면, you can charge more, right? This is a one-shot perspective, and the EDA Industry is a ...
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Semiconductor Interconnect? Chiplet, 3D IC, UCIe
It used to be that "how many nanometers of process or how many cores" seemed to describe most of the performance of semiconductors. Nowadays, words like...
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Glitch-Free Clock MUX?
One of the most frustrating bugs after semiconductor tape-out is this one: Function simulation is perfect , Silicon Bring-up works most of the time, but ...
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DFT March Algorithm? Checkerboard 2
5. Why March seems intuitive from a memory structure perspective 5.1 How to Access SRAM Consider a bank: So the basic unit of test is naturally this....
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NVIDIA–Synopsys Partnership: How AI and GPU Compute Will Reshape the Next Decade of Chip Design
On December 1, 2025, NVIDIA announced an approximately $2 billion equity investment in Synopsys , one of the world’s leading EDA (Electronic Design...
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Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Semiconductor Industry Outlook
electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP sectors have been recognized for their high growth and strategic importance in the AI era. Big...
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HBM4: Micron vs SK hynix vs Samsung
Executive summary What HBM4 actually changes (vs HBM3/E) HBM4 formalizes 2048-bit I/O and 32 independent channels (each split into two pseudo-channels) ...
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What is 'Clock mesh' in Physical Design?
In digital semiconductors, the most critical signal is the clock . The delay from the clock source to the clock pin of a sequential cell is called ...
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Memory Hierarchy & Memory Wall
Key Takeaway: From 1947’s magnetic core memory to the forthcoming HBM4 and compute-in-memory architectures, advances in semiconductor memory have...