Engineering Beyond the System: Why Semiconductors Matter & How They’re Designed

Engineering Beyond the System: Why Semiconductors Matter & How They’re Designed  

The growing use of AI, high-performance computing, and connected electronics is creating new demands on the hardware used in modern products. Engineers are increasingly working with technologies such as processors, FPGAs, specialized accelerators, and custom silicon to meet application-specific requirements for performance, flexibility, power, and integration.

Join us for this webinar to explore the fundamentals of semiconductor and FPGA-based design and understand how hardware solutions are developed for different application requirements. We will introduce the role of FPGAs in hardware development, prototyping, and validation, and provide an overview of how designs can progress toward ASICs and System-on-Chips (SoCs) when custom hardware is required.

Through practical examples and engineering workflows, we'll look at the key stages involved in developing digital hardware, including hardware architecture, RTL design, simulation and verification, synthesis, implementation, and signoff. The session will also provide an introduction to the semiconductor design ecosystem and the engineering capabilities required to develop modern hardware.

Key Takeaways

• Understand the fundamentals of semiconductor and FPGA-based hardware design and where different approaches fit.
• Learn how FPGAs support hardware development, prototyping, and validation, and how they relate to ASIC and SoC design.
• Gain an overview of the digital hardware and semiconductor design flow, from architecture and RTL through verification, implementation, and signoff.