{"id":6903,"date":"2022-07-23T12:47:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T19:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6903"},"modified":"2022-07-23T12:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T19:50:38","slug":"nvidia-using-ai-to-design-better-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6903","title":{"rendered":"nVidia using AI to design better chips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At a recent DAC conference, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/research.nvidia.com\/person\/william-dally\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/research.nvidia.com\/person\/william-dally\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Dally<\/a> reveals some chip design aspects are <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hpcwire.com\/2022\/04\/18\/nvidia-rd-chief-on-how-ai-is-improving-chip-design\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hpcwire.com\/2022\/04\/18\/nvidia-rd-chief-on-how-ai-is-improving-chip-design\/\" target=\"_blank\">being augmented and improved with AI<\/a>. These include classic chip design issues like mapping voltage drops, predicting parasitics, place and route, and migrating standard cell. It makes sense the next generation of hardware design tools will be using AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See his 2022 DAC presentation here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_PlcQUvNeCg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>See an earlier GTC video here on more generic AI efforts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LOjmczTTmtQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/nvidias-gpu-powered-ai-is-creating-chips-with-better-than-human-design\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/nvidias-gpu-powered-ai-is-creating-chips-with-better-than-human-design\/\" target=\"_blank\">discussion here on PCGamer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent DAC conference, Bill Dally reveals some chip design aspects are being augmented and improved with AI. These include classic chip design issues like mapping voltage drops, predicting parasitics, place and route, and migrating standard cell. It makes sense the next generation of hardware design tools will be using AI. See his 2022 DAC presentation here: See an earlier GTC video here on more generic AI efforts: Another discussion here on PCGamer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1Nl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6907,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions\/6907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}