AI Accelerates Physics Simulations
What you’ll learn:
- Why traditional simulation workflows are too slow.
- How continuously computed physics can make previously impractical tradeoffs routinely accessible during design.
- How Vinci is able to attain this type of speed up.
Simulations abound in all forms of design, from aircraft to chiplet-based system-on-chips (SoCs). It’s too expensive to live by trial-and-error, but simulations can require lots of time and hardware to enable the software to return the final evaluation.
In this episode of Inside Electronics, I talk with Vinci CEO Hardik Kabaria. Vinci’s solutions can speed up physical simulations by a factor of 1000 using AI techniques (see figure).
Faster simulation can significantly impact the design cycle, and it’s not just shortening the time to get results. A shorter timeframe means more simulations can be performed. In addition, responses are provided sooner so that developers can ask and respond to results in real-time rather than queueing up jobs to run overnight.
How this works and the overall impact of Vinci is part of our discussion.
SHOW NOTES
01:20 – Vinci’s Physics Intelligence Layer
05:39 – Integrating AI into Simulation
08:32 – Using GPUs to Enhance Performance
10:40 – Resolution vs. Performance
12:40 – How Software Handles Real-Time Applications
15:58 – Challenges for New Customers
19:15 – Adapting for Other Industries
About the Author
William G. Wong
Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF
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Hardik Kabaria
CEO and Co-Founder, Vinci
Hardik Kabaria is the co-founder and CEO of Vinci, a frontier lab building systems that make physical reality continuously computable.
While software has become programmable, physics has remained episodic — accessed through discrete simulations and approximations. Vinci is changing that. Under Kabaria’s leadership, the company is building the first system in what's emerging as continuous physics infrastructure, where physics is no longer simulated but continuously computed.
At its core is a deterministic, solver-grounded physics foundation model that operates directly on manufacturing geometry without reliance on customer data. The system is already embedded inside semiconductor engineering workflows, continuously computing thermal and mechanical behavior as designs evolve.
This eliminates simulation as a gating event in engineering workflows, shifting physics from a bottleneck to an always-on constraint, and enabling companies to reach manufacturable, high-yield designs in fewer cycles.
Kabaria previously led software at Carbon and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford.
