{"id":950,"date":"2024-03-01T07:40:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T12:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/cicv\/?p=950"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:03:47","slug":"production-grade-ai-and-how-it-is-changing-the-way-we-approach-semiconductor-design-and-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/cicv\/2024\/03\/01\/production-grade-ai-and-how-it-is-changing-the-way-we-approach-semiconductor-design-and-verification\/","title":{"rendered":"Production-grade AI, and how it is changing the way we approach semiconductor design and verification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/02\/21\/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q4-2024.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/02\/21\/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q4-2024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As reported in NVIDIA\u2019s highly-anticipated earnings call last week<\/a>, the AI revolution continues to fuel tremendous growth in semiconductors. In the past few years, AI has evolved from being a buzzword, to a proven disruptor that enables orders-of-magnitude scaling in many industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Although consumer applications for AI have garnered a lot of mainstream attention, another equally-important aspect of AI usage is for industrial and engineering tasks. Here, the user requirements for leveraging AI are different than what is required for many consumer applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Production-grade AI focuses on 5 critical elements needed to achieve deployment success of AI-enabled toolsets: verifiability, accuracy, generality, robustness, and usability. This means aside from being able to achieve results faster and with less engineering effort, AI results must also accomplish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Verifiability: Can both the user, and the AI tool, validate if the answers given are correct?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Accuracy: Are the results as accurate as results gotten via traditional means?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Generality: Does the approach work across all use cases in its target scope, not only on a narrow subset?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robustness: Is the AI solution must be able to handle corner cases, and be reliable enough for tight production schedules?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Usability: Does the solution \u201cjust work\u201d for the users?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently published a whitepaper on the topic. If you\u2019re interested in knowing more about production-grade AI and how Solido has enabled faster, more accurate design and verification in the custom IC verification space, I encourage you to check it out: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/resources.sw.siemens.com\/en-US\/white-paper-how-siemens-edas-solido-achieved-production-grade-ai-in-eda-applications\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/resources.sw.siemens.com\/en-US\/white-paper-how-siemens-edas-solido-achieved-production-grade-ai-in-eda-applications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Siemens EDA\u2019s Solido achieved production-grade AI in EDA applications<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in NVIDIA\u2019s highly-anticipated earnings call last week, the AI revolution continues to fuel tremendous growth in semiconductors. 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