Finding Success in Industry as a Chip Designer

What happened

According to IEEE Spectrum’s source item, Finding Success in Industry as a Chip Designer, I have been an application-specific IC (ASIC) designer for almost three decades. Over that time, I’ve moved through the full academic trajectory, from graduate student to full professor; later, I transitioned to industry after an unsuccessful stint at entrepreneurship. When I made the switch to the private sector in 2019, I began focusing on a critically important aspect of the electronic industry: silicon intellectual property. As much as 80 percent of the physical area in today’s most advanced chips is occupied by blocks that aren’t made for specific products or even designed by the consumer-facing companies that built them. Instead, chipmakers draw heavily on established silicon IP from companies like Arm , Cadence , Rambus , Synopsys , and the company I work for, Silicon Creations . Throughout my career, I’ve designed chips for very different purposes, including enabling the research

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Source

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