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Practical machine learning for chip designers Thought Leadership

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Designers that spend their days creating new electronic chips push descriptions of their design through an elaborate flow of over 20 tools in order to get a verified product fabricated. Along the way, high-level concepts are captured in English-like programming descriptions that are transformed to lower and lower level abstractions until finally, they brush against the very limits of physics at almost the molecular level. For example, a graphics processor chip in a gaming computer can contain over 50 million transistors, yet its size is only 12 by 12 millimeters. Three grains of table salt stacked together are about 1 millimeter across. At each step in the flow, designers apply verification techniques to ensure that the design works as expected.