What Happens on Silicon Before Software Ever Gets a Say From an IC design perspective, the system’s behavior is largely pre-decided at the moment the silicon is taped out. Firmware and boot flows are often framed as software problems, but in practice they are extensions of architectural intent already frozen into the SoC. Reset topology, […]

The SoC Inflection: How System-on-Chip Design Evolves After 2026 By 2026, system-on-chip design reaches a structural inflection point. The challenge is no longer how many functions can be pulled onto a single die, but how coherently complexity can be distributed without collapsing under verification cost, power density, and design latency. The classical SoC playbook—larger monoliths […]

When the Curve Flattens: Semiconductor Technologies Approaching Their 2026 Inflection By 2026, several semiconductor technologies will reach a point where incremental gains no longer justify exponential complexity. This is not a collapse, but a maturing of curves that have been aggressively bent over the last decade. What follows is a period of optimization, selective investment, […]

AI Is Not One Stack, But Two Interlocking Realities Artificial intelligence is often spoken about as a single technological wave, but in practice it unfolds across two very different layers of innovation. One is rooted in physics, manufacturing constraints, and capital intensity. The other lives in systems integration, organizational behavior, and operational discipline. Both are […]

WebAssembly for Embedded Systems (Part 3): Current Trends, Real-World Use Cases & the Future of Embedded Architectures In the first two parts, we covered the fundamentals and the technical machinery behind WebAssembly. In this final part, we explore the latest industry trends, emerging research, and where WebAssembly is headed in the embedded domain – from […]

WebAssembly for Embedded Systems (Part 2): A Deep Dive into Runtimes, Execution Models & Embedded Architecture In Part 1, we explored the fundamentals of WebAssembly (Wasm) and why it matters for embedded systems. Part 2 goes further into the technical details, focusing on what embedded engineers should understand before bringing Wasm into real products. This […]

WebAssembly for Embedded Systems (Part 1): The Fundamentals Every Embedded Engineer Should Know For decades, embedded software followed a predictable model: build firmware in C/C++, compile for a specific MCU/SoC, flash the binary, test, repeat. The ecosystem was stable but rigid. Today, IoT devices are expected to last 10–20 years, support new features post-deployment, run […]

The Changing Shape of SoC Architecture: From Integration to Intelligence The evolution of the system-on-chip (SoC) has always reflected the evolution of computation itself. From the first single-chip microcontrollers to today’s billion-transistor heterogeneous monsters, SoC design has moved through distinct eras – each driven by a dominant constraint: cost, power, performance, or lately, data movement […]

Verification for Tomorrow’s SoCs: Building Confidence from IP to System The Purpose: Ensuring Real Confidence in Complex Systems Verification’s real purpose has never been about passing tests. It’s about building confidence-confidence that when an SoC boots for the first time, the hardware, firmware, and every handshake between IPs behave as intended. That purpose is now under […]

Agentic AI in IC Design: From Code Generation to True Engineering Autonomy In the last few years, the semiconductor world has seen AI everywhere – in layout optimization, verification analytics, yield modelling, and even chatbots that draft RTL. But most design engineers know the truth: those flashy demos rarely survive contact with a real toolchain. […]