Artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in electronic design automation (EDA) was the dominant theme on Day 1 of the 60th Design Automation Conference (DAC 2023) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco yesterday.

AI’s infiltration into many industries, including electronics engineering, is driving the growth of semiconductor consumption, the rise of domain-specific computing, the re-emergence of vertical integration and greater opportunity for EDA companies. This was the message from the opening analyst presentation on Sunday evening by Charles Shi, analyst with Needham & Co.

Additionally, in the talk that Mike Ellow of Siemens gave yesterday morning, he posited that software is eating the world, hardware is feeding it and data is driving it.

In the keynote that followed, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli of U.C. Berkeley warned that, with everyone wanting to study AI now, we will very likely end up with even more of a shortage of talent to design the chips that enable the emerging AI world.

In this video, Nitin Dahad and Sally Ward-Foxton of EE Times present some of the highlights of the first day at DAC 2023, talk about what AI means for the EDA industry, and provide snippets from briefings with Applied Brain Research, Esperanto, Keysight, Polyn and Weebit Nano.

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