Articles from Silicon Integration Initiative

Leon Stok, vice president of Electronic Design Automation at IBM, has been reelected as board chair of the Silicon Integration Initiative for 2026-2027.

Silicon Integration Initiative has announced the winners of the annual Power of Partnerships Award, which recognizes the Si2 volunteer teams that have made the most significant contributions to the success of the electronic design automation industry.

The Silicon Integration Initiative today announced the chair and vice chair of the Si2 Large Language Model Benchmarking Coalition (LBC), a collaborative industry initiative and standards body advancing AI for silicon design and verification that will expedite the development of high-quality large language models for semiconductor design problems.

The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) announced today the creation of the LLM benchmarking coalition (LBC) to expedite the development of high-quality large language models (LLMs) for semiconductor design problems. Si2 also announced that NVIDIA is joining as a founding member of the new coalition and that the coalition will build on the company’s open-source Comprehensive Verilog Design Problems (CVDP) benchmark that provides an LLM evaluation framework for LLMs used for Register-transfer level (RTL) design and verification problems.

Pankaj Kukkal, executive vice president of MCU/MPU Engineering for NXP Semiconductors, has been reelected to a third term as board chair of Silicon Integration Initiative for 2024-2025.

Technologists from Intel and Microsoft are 2023 winners of the Silicon Integration Initiative Power of Partnerships Award, presented annually to the Si2 volunteer team with the most significant contributions to the electronic design automation industry.

Silicon Integration Initiative today announced that it appointed Robert Aslett as president and chief executive officer. He is responsible for elevating the profile and impact of Si2 to be an indispensable partner for improving efficiencies through IC design flow integration and standards development in the semiconductor industry.

Strategies for low-power and energy-efficient semiconductor design and how standards can advance these critical technologies is the focus of a Silicon Integration Initiative forum scheduled during the upcoming Design Automation Conference in San Francisco.