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Synopsis Inc. launched new artificial intelligence tools on Wednesday. These tools are intended to help you get better results faster at different stages of computer chip manufacturing.
Companies use software created by Synopsys to design computer chips. Transistors are very small on/off switches that are packaged in modern chips by the tens of billions. The way the transistors are arranged on the chip greatly affects its cost and performance, so designers use software from companies like Synopsys to help.
Three years ago, Synopsys released an AI tool for part of the chip design process. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and ST Microelectronics are among the companies using the system.
The tools that Synopsys launched Wednesday at its annual user conference in Santa Clara, California, cover the chip design process. These AI tools cover a significantly larger part of the process. They are intended to help engineers find bugs in their designs, test sample chips from manufacturing partners, and, once mass production has begun, increase the number of bug-free chips.
Synopsys also released a tool on Wednesday that makes it easy to move designs for analog chips from one manufacturing partner to another. In general, these types of moves are expensive and take a long time.
Sassine Ghazi, Synopsys’ president and chief operating officer, said the tight chip supply chain and restrictions on doing business in the US are prompting chip executives to look for more options.
“Each CEO was looking for a different way of doing things. No one wants to be surprised if someone tells them they can’t use Chinese or Taiwanese,” Ghazi said.
Synopsys is racing with its biggest competitor, Cadence Design Systems, to add AI to chip design software first. Some of the tools Synopsys released on Wednesday are catching up with those created by Cadence. But Karl Freund, the chief analyst at Cambrian AI Research, said Synopsys is ahead because more than 100 chips built by customers who used its AI tools have already been brought to market. Karl Freund made this statement.
They outperform Cadence, especially in light of what’s happened in terms of physical design, according to Freund. By the end of the year, “I think they’ll probably hit 1000 (finished chip designs).”
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