In the early days of the semiconductor industry, integrated circuits were designed by one or two engineers with slide-rules, hand-drawn on paper, and then given to a lithographer to print onto silicon ...

In the early 2010s, CAD was approaching the ripe old age of 50 1. Everyone was calling CAD a “mature” product that was leveling off in capability, ostensibly having done all it could. Wait a minute, ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

The aerospace and electronics industries have long applied computational models to not only design airplanes and chips, but also to simulate and optimize their performance. There have, until recently, ...

Generative design is a computer-aided design technique and category of software that uses AI to optimize the design process. Engineers can use generative design software to quickly iterate through ...