Ann Steffora Mutschler

1 month ago | semiengineering.com | Ann Steffora Mutschler

EDA vendors are taking aim at new ways to improve the productivity of design and verification engineers, who are struggling to keep pace with exponential increases in chip complexity in tight time-to-market windows and with constrained engineering talent pipelines. In the past, progress often was as straightforward as improving algorithms or parallelizing computations in a linear flow. But with the latest generations of leading-edge chips, much has changed.

1 month ago | semiengineering.com | Ann Steffora Mutschler

The EDA industry reported substantial revenue growth in Q4 2024, up 11% to $4.9 billion from $4.44 billion reported in the same quarter of 2023, according to the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community, announced Monday in its latest Electronic Design Market Data (EDMD) report. The four-quarter moving average, which compares the most recent four quarters to the prior four, rose 12.8%. Walden C.

1 month ago | semiengineering.com | Ann Steffora Mutschler

The semiconductor industry is buzzing with the benefits of chiplets, including faster time to market, better performance, and lower power, but finding the correct balance between customization and standardization is proving to be more difficult than initially thought. For a commercial chiplet marketplace to really take off, it requires a much deeper understanding of how chiplets behave individually and together.

1 month ago | chiplet-marketplace.com | Ann Steffora Mutschler

Multi-die assemblies offer more flexibility, but figuring out the right amount of customization can have a big impact on power, performance, and costBy  Ann Mutschler, SemiEngineering  | April 10th, 2025The semiconductor industry is buzzing with the benefits of chiplets, including faster time to market, better performance, and lower power, but finding the correct balance between customization and standardization is proving to be more difficult than initially thought.

2 months ago | semiengineering.com | Ann Steffora Mutschler

Concerns about chip and system security are beginning to bear fruit in some markets, driven by the overlap in safety and security in automotive applications and the growing value of algorithms and complex systems in others. But how and when that security is implemented is still all over the map, and so is its effectiveness.