Sondrel has announced an advanced modelling process for AI chip designs. This runs through every stage of a chip’s design to ‘prove’ that the design is whatwas specified (functional verification) and that it does what it is supposed do (performance verification).
AI chips are extremely complex to design because of the huge amounts of data that flows between the heterogeneous processors, memory, and I/O. There cannot be periods when the processors are stalled waiting for data, which is made more complicated when the chip has several different types of processors, each with different data traffic requirements. This new process enables Sondrel’s designers to analyze and balance the dataflow through the chip whilst executing software workloads on the AI chip