Electronic Design

IEEE's Two-fer Deal: Two Virtual Symposia on VLSI Technology & Circuits for One Fee

Instead of being held in Waikiki, Hawaii, this year's IEEE joint symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits will take place in cyberspace. Although the pandemic has put many aspects of our lives on hold, ...
IPWatchdog

Partial Win for VLSI Against Intel as CAFC Reverses PTAB on One Claim of Integrated Circuit Patent

“The CAFC agreed with VLSI’s construction, noting that the claims’ use of the phrase ‘being used for’ implies a requirement to use the metal interconnect layers to carry electricity.” In a ...
Nature

Hotspot Detection and Machine Learning in VLSI Design

Advances in very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design have increasingly relied on machine learning (ML) techniques to optimise performance, reduce manufacturing turnaround times and ensure high ...
Semiconductor Engineering

LLM-Powered Automatic VLSI Design Flow Tuning Framework

A new technical paper titled “CROP: Circuit Retrieval and Optimization with Parameter Guidance using LLMs” was published by researchers at Duke University and Synopsys. “Modern very large-scale ...