Article: The Problem With Post-Silicon Debug

February 28th, 2019 – By: Ann Steffora Mutschler

 

Rising costs, tighter market windows and more heterogeneous designs are forcing chipmakers to rethink fundamental design approaches.

 

Semiconductor engineers traditionally have focused on trying to create ‘perfect’ GDSII at tape-out, but factors such as hardware-software interactions, increasingly heterogeneous designs, and the introduction of AI are forcing companies to rethink that approach.