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UW Semiconductor Society introduces the hardware behind modern technology and AI

Semiconductors are a foundational component of modern technology and have rapidly become one of the largest industries in ...
Semiconductor Engineering

LLM-Powered Automatic VLSI Design Flow Tuning Framework

A new technical paper titled “CROP: Circuit Retrieval and Optimization with Parameter Guidance using LLMs” was published by researchers at Duke University and Synopsys. “Modern very large-scale ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

VLSI Lab Presents Three Papers at the ‘Chip Olympics’

Professor Jie Gu and members of his Very Large-Scale Integration Lab team presented three papers and a live demonstration on brain-machine-interface at the premier 2024 IEEE International Solid-State ...
SDxCentral

DARPA launches PICASSO program to revolutionize very large-scale photonic circuits

"PICASSO will revolutionize photonic circuit architectures, from compute to light detection and ranging, by expanding the field’s focus from individual components to include a more holistic circuit- ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

VLSI Lab Wins ISLPED Design Contest Award

Professor Jie Gu and members of his Very Large-Scale Integration Lab team won the Design Contest Award at the premier ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design Northwestern ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Large-Scale Integration’s Future Depends On Modeling

VLSI is a term that conjures up images of a college textbook, but some of the concepts included in very large-scale integration remain relevant and continue to evolve, while others have fallen by the ...
techtimes

Advancements in VLSI Design and Emulation: A Deep Dive with VLSI Expert Kunal Doshi

Imagine a world where the chips powering your smartphones, computers, and even cars are designed and tested with unparalleled precision and speed. Welcome to the realm of Very Large Scale Integration ...