LINKING ENGINEERING & EFFECTIVE SIMULATION TO ENHANCE PERFORMANCE: SEMICONDUCTORS

Jai has been associated with ANSYS for over a decade now, prior to which he worked with Alliance Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, and Apache Design Solutions.

- Jai Polliyal

Simulation is at the heart of modern day product designs. What every product needs is a clear simulation path right from the ideation stage to design and up to testing. This enables engineers to explore more designs in less time, and ultimately, every company can get their products to market sooner at less cost thanks to simulation. When it comes to the engineering workflow, any hold-up, however small, slows down the entire process and can be catastrophic.

The tiny yet powerful semiconductor chips support the success of all futuristic technologies, be it driverless cars, self-guided rockets, 5G-enabled devices or even cryptocurrency. In order for a simulator to be successful as an efficient engineering solution for semiconductors, it needs certain characteristics. This includes Accuracy/Signoff, Results in Time of Relevance, Capacity/Hierarchy/Abstractions, Usability & Flow Integration, Generality and Robustness to Corner Cases, among others.

PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT

Let us take the new age of semiconductors that is set to empower transformational products. The key metrics when it comes to semiconductors are the PPA (power, performance, area) and reliability. They are driven by Artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, autonomous systems, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) and high-performance computing. In fact, engineers use standards to design semiconductors that meet the industry requirements.

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