By Rick Carlson, Verific Design Automation

The makeup of the semiconductor industry is evolving and expanding once again. This time it’s a variety of companies, including tech giants Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Tesla, not known previously to be in the chip development business, instigating the change. They are hiring experienced engineers to design better performing, power-efficient computer chips for all kinds of applications, from networking and cloud to autonomous driving. Along the way, they are ripping up the pages of the traditional semiconductor playbook and putting in place their own individual guides to semiconductor design. The result is custom-made chips rather than using a generic chip to fit their requirements.

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“Continuous education starts during hiring with a well-ordered training program,” says Abhijit Chakrabarty, general manager for India operations at Verific, for Semiconductor Engineering’s article on Continuous Education for Engineers. “We don’t expect new hires to be experts in SystemVerilog, C++, compiler technology, and digital design.

“We often engage with students as summer trainees,” says Chakrabathy. “Initially, they are provided with LRMs of the SystemVerilog and/or VHDL language, and they play with simulators and in-house designs. They are then introduced to the concept of synthesizable designs. After six to eight months, they are tasked with writing applications using defined APIs while following a strict coding guideline. During the entire training process, all senior members of the technical staff are available for guidance and help with technical queries. When developing core software, senior developers are there to provide code reviews and lots of feedback. The whole lifecycle is continuous learning.”

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Today, Semiwiki profiles Verific Design Automation, perhaps the most popular company at DAC (when it’s an in-person event) because of its giveaway –– a 10”stuffed giraffe for anyone who walks up to its booth and listens to its story.

But, Verific is also a popular EDA company for more reasons than its tradeshow  giveaway. If you’re using any type of FPGA implementation or EDA verification tool, Verific is probably inside. 

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Verific Design Automation today announced a partnership agreement with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to provide the DARPA community access to its electronic design automation (EDA) software in production and development use throughout the semiconductor industry.

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Verific Design Automation today confirmed its Parser Platform serves as the front end to Symbiotic EDA’s system-on-chip (SoC) synthesis, formal verification and field programmable gate array (FPGA) chip design software.

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