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Design Tools (EDA)

Scaling the Next Generation of Multi-Die Systems

This year’s EE Times Chiplets event will address challenges in the design flow and chiplet technologies to enable straightforward scaling.

By EE Times May 21, 2026

EDA AI Agents: Intelligent Automation in Semiconductor & PCB Design

By Niranjan Sitapure, Central AI Product Manager, Siemens EDA 04.20.2026

EU DARE Project Is Scrambling to Replace Codasip

By Pablo Valerio 04.17.2026

Synopsys Shows Off First Synopsys-Ansys Products

By Sally Ward-Foxton 03.17.2026

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News

Cadence Unveils ChipStack AI Agent for Agentic Chip Design and Verification

Cadence launches ChipStack AI Super Agent, touting 10× faster chip design.

By Stefani Munoz 02.10.2026 0

News

GenAI Can Raise Level Of Abstraction For XMOS Tools

Properties of XMOS’ parallel core design uniquely lend it to generative AI-based natural language interfaces.

By Sally Ward-Foxton 10.08.2025 0

Technical Deep Dive

Indian Startup Targets EMI/EMC Bottlenecks With Design-Stage Simulation

Backed by Bosch and deep-tech VCs, SimYog Technology aims to scale globally with its EMI/EMC test simulation software.

By Yashasvini Razdan 10.07.2025 0

News

AI and Chiplets Prominent at TSMC OIP 2025

Design flows from the top three EDA houses showcased at TSMC’s annual U.S. event mark AI and chiplets as the next frontiers in the semiconductor world

By Majeed Ahmad 09.26.2025 0

Nitin Dahad and Sally ward-Foxton in Cambridge

Opinion

Letter from Cambridge, U.K. – AI Talk, Ceva, and Intelligent Power

EE Times Editors take the AI pulse in Cambridge, plus interviews with Ceva and Analog Bits

By Nitin Dahad 08.08.2025 0

news

SNUG India 2025: AI, Modular Chips, and India’s Semiconductor Future

Company leaders at SNUG India talked about how AI is reshaping chip design, modular architectures, and India emerging as a key market.

By Yashasvini Razdan 07.30.2025 0

Opinion

Next Gen AI EDA Startups Have Potential to Disrupt Design Automation

New EDA solutions demonstrate how AI has the potential to provide innovative solutions to longstanding challenges.

By Ann Wu, co-founder and CEO, Silimate, and Rick Carlson, vice president of sales, Verific Design Automation 07.29.2025 0

Electronics News & Analysis

Mike Yeager: ‘Simulation Is Now Driving Product Design, Not Just Validating It’

Synopsys integration will benefit Ansys customers in India and across Asia Pacific.

By Yashasvini Razdan 07.24.2025 0

News

And Finally: Synopsys Closes $35bn Purchase of Ansys

Synopsys received all necessary approvals in the U.S. and China to acquire Ansys and closed the deal.

By Nitin Dahad 07.18.2025 0

Supply Chain Analysis

China Invests Billions to Close Critical Chokepoints

Beijing is pivoting its Big Fund III to to tackle essential "chokepoints" such as advanced lithography and EDA tools.

By Pablo Valerio 07.07.2025 0

RISC-V

Codasip Faces Sale – Pivotal Moment for EU RISC-V Sovereignty

Codasip announces an expedited sale process, testing the EU's digital strategic autonomy goals, reshaping European semiconductor landscape.

By Pablo Valerio 07.03.2025 0

Supply Chain & Distribution

U.S. Restricts EDA Software Sales to China

The directive requires EDA software firms, including Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens EDA, to seek licenses for all sales to China.

By Pablo Valerio 05.30.2025 0

News

Synopsys Collaborates with SiMa.ai on Automotive AI IP

Automotive customers requested AI hardware IP that could handle multimodal models and was sufficiently reprogrammable.

By Sally Ward-Foxton 12.20.2024 0

Podcasts

A Shift Left Strategy Addresses IC Design Challenges Through Design-Stage Verification

Join us for a compelling interview with Siemens EDA's David Abercrombie on how Shift Left addresses IC design challenges. Listen now!

By EE Times Europe Staff 12.13.2024 0

News

Nvidia Trains LLM on Chip Design

ChipNeMo can answer questions about chip design and write EDA tool scripts.

By Sally Ward-Foxton 10.30.2023 1

Electronics News & Analysis

AI-Powered Chip Design Goes Mainstream

STMicro achieves first commercial tapeout with Synopsys cloud-based AI tool.

By Sally Ward-Foxton 02.10.2023 0

Podcast

Podcasts

Can Hardware Reconfigure Itself in Real Time? NextSilicon’s Adaptive Compute

By Sally Ward-Foxton 05.22.2026

What if hardware adapted itself to your code instead of forcing developers to optimize for the hardware? In this episode of AI with Sally, Sally Ward-Foxton speaks with NextSilicon CEO Elad Raz about the company’s radically different approach to compute architecture: a runtime-reconfigurable processor designed to optimize itself while applications are running.