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Hardware Emulation Answers AI/ML Verification Needs

With AI/ML chip designs containing between 5 billion and 10 billion gates, design verification using hardware emulation is the answer, although not all hardware emulators are the same

Commercially available and competitive hardware emulation platform offerings differ depending on the vendor, so designers need to perform thorough evaluations when selecting a hardware emulation platform for an AI/ML design verification environment.
Estimates put AI/ML design capacity between 5 billion and 10 billion gates, huge capacity for a single design.

Moore’s Law is being rejuvenated by AI/ML after capacity fears slowed it down. Later this year, estimates put AI/ML design capacity between 5 billion and 10 billion gates — huge capacity for a single design. Designs will go back to what Moore’s Law is supposed to do.

AI/ML is imposing tremendous capacity needs on the market, and these designs also present a challenge to the chip verification market. While the processor may be a relatively simple design, the AI/ML space needs to deploy many of them and scale quickly. Another consideration is software that must be verified along with hardware.

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