Samsung uses Claude Code to accelerate chip verification: a one-month project is shortened to two days. Samsung’s system LSI department is introducing Anthropic’s Claude Code into the semiconductor design and verification process, compressing some chip test projects that originally took more than a month to two days, increasing development efficiency by about 15 times.

Samsung uses Claude Code to accelerate chip verification: a one-month project is shortened to two days. Samsung’s system LSI department is introducing Anthropic’s Claude Code into the semiconductor design and verification process, compressing some chip test projects that originally took more than a month to two days, increasing development efficiency by about 15 times. South Korean media "North Korea Business" reported that Samsung took the lead in opening the Claude Code to software developers in May this year, and then further expanded to the field of hardware design and verification. In a customized SoC project containing 64 complex intertwined data paths, Claude Code built a virtual test environment and completed verification in just two days. Since the DRAM controller standard document and RTL code have not yet been delivered, engineers provide SoC specifications and EDA vendor data to the model. Claude checks the core data path by inserting virtual placeholders and finds potential errors before the actual circuit design is completed. In another case, a second-year engineer with no previous experience in Vibe Code or Claude Code completed the development of a virtual USB keyboard, mouse model and Android driver in just one day, while the traditional process usually takes several weeks. Such applications help Samsung bridge the headcount gap with Qualcomm: Samsung's system LSI division has about 6,000 employees and Qualcomm has about 52,000. However, Claude Code still has problems such as insufficient hardware understanding. There have been situations such as modifying error labels, mistakenly recovering codes, and trying to modify the core RTL circuit. Therefore, Samsung still positions it as an auxiliary tool, with engineers setting boundaries, goals and reviewing the code line by line to reduce hardware risks in the chip mass production stage. via AI News (author: AI Base)