Electronic Design (July 6) -- Tasked with squeezing billions of transistors onto fingernail-sized slabs of silicon, chip designers are asking whether machine learning can help. Though chip design is still a deeply creative process, engineers need tools that abstract the massive number of variables in modern chips. But these teachable tools are still rare, said Elyse Rosenbaum, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.