Challenges Facing the IC Design Industry

Weak semiconductor demand pressures driver ICs: analysts warn falling prices, shrinking margins and weak Q3 amid rising capacity and competition.

Chip Design Process and 5G Chip Design Challenges

Explore the chip design process from requirements to production and learn key 5G challenges: complexity, power, RF, packaging, and security.

How Changing Workloads Reshape Chip Architecture

Explore how architecture-driven chip design, in-memory compute, co-packaging and scalable interconnects boost performance and efficiency.

Is IC Design the Same as Chip Design? Digital IC Flow & Tools

IC design explained: chip design process, digital IC flow, EDA tools, and design vs verification.

EDA Design Flow: Key Steps and Common Tools

EDA design flow explained: planning, circuit design, simulation, layout, verification, timing & power optimization, key tools and HDLs.

Introduction to Asynchronous FIFO in Digital IC Design

Learn asynchronous FIFO design for clock-domain crossing: write/read pointers, Gray-code synchronization, and robust full/empty detection.

Digital Chip Design Flow

Explore digital IC design flow: front-end logic, mid-stage DFT, and back-end physical design steps from RTL to tape-out.

Why Chip Design Is So Challenging

Explore chip design challenges: architecture, verification, tape-out costs, and rising demands from AI, 5G, and automotive electronics.

Verilog Design Guidelines Overview

Verilog guidelines for readable, efficient IC design: coding practices, module instantiation, operators, and module design templates.

Chip Packaging: 3D Stacking to Overcome the Memory Wall

Explore memory area growth in modern CCDs: AMD 3D V-Cache, stacked SRAM, HBM tradeoffs, Intel base-layer architectures and thermal impacts.