Jaivardhangjain·Oct 30Introduction to the PD Flow and PartitioningThis is the first blog in a series that walks through the entire Physical Design Flow in detail. The Physical Design Flow can be divided…
Imran Valiani·Oct 23Tesla Wants Samsung and TSMC to Build Its AI5 Chip. That’s Harder Than It Sounds.One design, two foundries, one software contract. The logic is the easy part. The hard part is everything the silicon touches.
InCodeToDeploybyTechSilk·Oct 22SMIC N+3 by the Numbers: 57 nm Gate Pitch, 32.5 nm Metal, No EUVHuawei’s Kirin 9030 is built on SMIC’s N+3 process using 193 nm DUV light, more than 14 times the 13.5 nm wavelength of EUV. Teardowns now…
Prateekyadav·Oct 21It Was the Learning Rate: The Story of a Result That Was Not Real (Memrister fault mitigations)
Jyoti Adwani·Oct 16RTL to GDS on a 6 GB Laptop: A Complete Chip Design Flow with Free ToolsBy Jyoti Adwani · Part 1 of a series
Alpinum Consulting·Oct 14AI Agents in Production With Chip Teams: Opportunities, Challenges and Lessons LearnedOriginally published on Alpinum Consulting website
WOOYOUNG CHOI·Oct 3What If the Layout Engineer Never Got Tired? Letting AI Lay Out My Analog OTAA retired analog designer, a free layout tool, and an AI that never sighs at “just one more small change”
An Nguyen·Oct 1The Silicon Ouroboros: Inside OpenAI and Synopsys’ Self-Designing Chip EngineBy An Nguyen — October 1, 2026
Rana Umar Nadeem·Sep 22Beyond Detection: Implementing BIRA and BISR for OpenRAM in autoMBISTWhen I first started building autoMBIST, the primary objective was straightforward: create an automated pipeline to generate wrappers that…
Philippine Investment Advice·Sep 9Philippines BOI Targets Mindanao: Focus on AI, Chip Design, and Mineral ProcessingThe Philippine Board of Investments (BOI) is repositioning Mindanao’s industrial landscape, with artificial intelligence (AI), integrated…
