Category: Design Automation
From Paperclips to AI: The Grand Evolution of Chip Design
A deep dive into the history of silicon. How we stopped ‘drawing’ chips with X-Acto knives and started ‘teaching’ them to build themselves using Hardware Description Languages and AI.
Design-Reuse, Portable Design, Retargetable Design, IP
Design reuse is not a new concept. This is something that the software folks have been doing very effectively for decades. Naturally, it makes a…
Verilog::Preproc – The Handy Verilog Preprocessor
I have been developing some tools at work to generated Verilog macros to automate some aspects of an ASIC design implemented in Verilog. Some of…