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  As you may have seen, we publish quite a few blog posts here on the Agnisys site. We cover all kinds of topics, from highly technical details on using our tools to general industry trends. Of course, some posts get more attention than others, and the ones that talk about AI seem to be especially popular right now. In fact, my recent  post  talking about how AI companies are using our IDesignSpec™ Suite may be our most noticed blog entry in years. AI Is in the Headlines Maybe I should say “AI IS the Headline” since it’s such a hot topic these days. From chatbots to robots to semi-autonomous vehicles, AI seems to be on everyone’s mind. Venture capitalists (VCs) are fighting to fund just about any company with an AI-based product idea, with a few significant successes already becoming household names. Not since the dotcom boom has there been so much investment in any one startup sector. This raises the question of whether AI is hype or reality. People remember when so many...

  As you may have gathered from my recent  posts  on related topics, artificial intelligence (AI) is very important for both Agnisys and our customers. The exponentially increasing demand for AI is driving a boom in the development of chips to support AI algorithms. As our users focus more and more on AI, we’ve evolved our products to help them be successful. In this post, I’d like to touch on some of the many ways that our  IDesignSpec™ (IDS) Suite  helps you develop AI chips. What AI Chip Developers Need For today’s discussion, let’s focus on two aspects of AI chip design: development of core AI engines and chip assembly and rapid exploration of AI architectures. The core engines are usually connected to a central CPU that controls their operation. This arrangement requires the use of high-performance buses to interface between the CPU and the AI engines. The CPU is responsible for providing the weights and hyperparameters required by AI algorithms. Initializa...