Industries
Same flow, different priorities
Every chip goes through the same basic steps. What changes is what matters most: battery life for a watch, surviving radiation for a satellite, raw speed for an AI server.
Each market adds its own constraints, standards and verification burden to the flow. The matrix below shows which stages each industry changes the most.
Regulatory regimes, qualification standards, reliability targets and economics reshape the flow at specific stages. Each industry page maps those pressures onto the stages they hit, with sources.
| Industry | Spec | Arch | RTL | Verify | Synth | DFT | Floorplan | Power | Place | CTS | Route | Signoff | GDS |
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| AI accelerators and data center | |||||||||||||
| Personal and edge devices | |||||||||||||
| Automotive | |||||||||||||
| Medical devices | |||||||||||||
| Space | |||||||||||||
| Defense | |||||||||||||
| Fintech and trading |
AI accelerators and data centerDies as large as lithography can print, stitched together in the package and fed by stacked memory, all to keep matrix math busy.Read →Personal and edge devicesPhones, wearables, and sensors, where battery life is the spec, every square millimeter is a cost, and most of the chip is asleep most of the time.Read →AutomotiveChips that must detect their own faults, survive under the hood and ship with near-zero defects.Read →Medical devicesImplants and medical electronics, where a chip must run safely for a decade on a tiny battery and every design change is a regulatory event.Read →SpaceChips that keep working through radiation and temperature extremes, years from the nearest repair.Read →DefenseChips that must be trusted, export-controlled and kept in service for decades.Read →Fintech and tradingNanosecond trading on FPGAs, certified secure chips in payment cards and HSMs, and single-function mining ASICs.Read →