Dubbed DSO.ai the company claims it is the world's first autonomous AI tool set for chip design.

Synopsys claims its DSO.ai tool can dramatically accelerate, enhance, and reduce the costs involved with something called place-and-route. Place-and-route referrers to the placement of logic and IP blocks, and the routing of the traces and various interconnects in a chip designed to join them all together.

Synopsys' DSO.ai optimises and streamlines this process using the iterative nature of artificial intelligence and machine learning, such that what used to take dozens of engineer weeks or months, now will take a junior engineer just days.

DSO.ai iterates on the floorplan and layout of a chip, and learns from each iteration, fine tuning and optimising the chip within its design parameters and targets along the way. The old semiconductor paradigms are rapidly becoming outdated.