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CHIPS Alliance Developer Spotlight: Mehdi Saligane on Rethinking Chip Design in the AI Era
Aug 3, 2026 · CHIPS Alliance
CHIPS Alliance featured Prof. Mehdi Saligane in its Developer Spotlight series, highlighting his work to rethink both how chips are designed and who gets to design them.
The spotlight explores the lab's work across AI-assisted design, open-source electronic design automation, analog and mixed-signal automation, hardware-software co-design for AI, and secure hardware. It also discusses the open infrastructure and reproducible engineering practices needed to make custom silicon more accessible.