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Depending upon your point of reference, artificial intelligence will be the next big thing or it will play a major role in all of the next big things.
This explains the frenzy of activity in this sector over the past 18 months. Big companies are paying billions of dollars to acquire startup companies, and even more for R&D. In addition, governments around the globe are pouring additional billions into universities and research houses. A global race is underway to create the best architectures and systems to handle the huge volumes of data that need to be processed to make AI work.
OneSpin's Dr. Ashish Darbari sat down with Sanjay Gangal of EDACafe at DVCon '17 to provide a 5 minute update on the state of Formal technology, use models, latest developments and his new position at OneSpin.
FPGAs increasingly are being viewed as a critical component in heterogeneous designs, ratcheting up their stature and the amount of attention being given to programmable devices.
Once relegated to test chips that ultimately would be replaced by lower-power and higher-performance ASICs if volumes were sufficient, FPGAs have come a long way. Over the last 20 years programmable devices have moved steadily up the food chain from glue logic to co-processors, and they have been utilized in a variety of high-performance, mission-critical applications from data centers to supercomputers.
Fault simulation, one of the oldest tools in the EDA industry toolbox, is receiving a serious facelift after it almost faded from existence.
In the early days, fault simulation was used to grade the quality of manufacturing test vectors. That task was replaced almost entirely by Scan Test and automatic test pattern generation (ATPG). Today, functional safety is causing the industry to dust off the cobwebs and add a few new tricks into the fault simulation tool box. But not everything is working smoothly yet.
Fault simulation is now being used for three independent applications. It continues to be used for some manufacturing test applications. It is now being used to measure the quality of the functional testbench so that product quality can be increased. The third application, and the one driving the resurgence of fault simulations, is the need to find out if a running design can detect and recover from failure, thus ensuring safety of operation.
Very few companies ever had to worry about security until recently. Over the past couple of years, we have seen increasing evidence that our connected systems are vulnerable. The recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which made many Internet sites unavailable, has focused attention on Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as digital video recorders and cameras that have Internet access.
While the industry is busy chatting about the end of Moore’s Law and a maturing of the semiconductor industry, the top minds of many companies are having none of it. A slowdown in one area is just an opportunity, in another and that is reflected in the predictions for this year.
From DeepChip DAC'16 Trip Report: This year my annual "What's The Best Tools of 2016?" survey question got me flooded out -- 6,000 words of initial flood actually -- from the EDA users themselves gushing about either the JasperGold or OneSpin formal tools.
