As the leading supplier of electronic design automation (EDA) solutions, Synopsys provides chip designers with solutions and methodologies to address the dynamic challenges of hardware design. Looking at the year ahead, we see some trends in a few key application areas that will be interesting to track.
Artificial Intelligence Calls for Innovative Design Solutions
With the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) applications comes a need for more innovative hardware architectures. While these architectures are unprecedentedly complex and large, performance-per-watt remains critical for efficient operations. For this, our AI experts, Arun Venkatachar and Stelios Diamantidis, anticipate broader adoption of enhanced versions of existing tools. It’s time for existing tools to become more architecture-aware and feature new capabilities and approaches that dramatically accelerate implementation of new compute paradigms. For example, consider design implementation solutions that connect with the designer’s requirements at a higher level of abstraction to allow an accurate estimate of power, performance, and area (PPA) during the architectural exploration phase. Such solutions would be most beneficial if they follow a highly convergent path through to final signoff for manufacturing.
