Badru Agarwala is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rise Design Automation (RDA). With a strong track record of 40 years in EDA, he was previously the General Manager of the Calypto Systems Division at Mentor Graphics, now Siemens EDA. He advanced High-Level Synthesis with Catapult and drove innovations in high-level verification … Read More
2026 Outlook with Randy Caplan of Silicon CreationsRandy Caplan is co-founder and CEO of Silicon…Read More
Verifying RISC-V Platforms for SpaceSpace applications are booming, prompted by rapidly declining…Read More
Siemens and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Build the Industrial AI Operating SystemAt CES in Las Vegas, Siemens and NVIDIA…Read More2026 Outlook with Cristian Amitroaie, Founder and CEO of AMIQ EDA
Cristian Amitroaie is the Founder and CEO of AMIQ EDA, specializing in software tools for the semiconductor design and verification industry. He co-founded AMIQ in 2003 as a consulting services company and established the AMIQ EDA business unit in 2008 to productize internal tools as commercial solutions. These tools, including… Read More
Pushing the Packed SIMD Extension Over the Line: An Update on the Progress of Key RISC-V Extension
The rapid growth of signal processing workloads in embedded, mobile, and edge computing systems has intensified the need for efficient, low-latency computation. Rich Fuhler’s update on the RISC-V Packed SIMD extension highlights why scalar SIMD digital signal processing (DSP) instructions are becoming a critical architectural… Read More
2026 Outlook with Richard Hegberg of Caspia Technologies
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company
I’m Rick Hegberg and I’ve been CEO of Caspia Technologies since 2024. I have a deep semiconductor background, including CEO roles at three semiconductor start-ups and executive roles at SanDisk/WD, Qualcomm, Atheros, Numonyx/Micron, ATI/AMD, and VLSI Technology.
Throughout… Read More
Siemens EDA Illuminates the Complexity of PCB Design
As heterogeneous multi-die design becomes more prevalent, the focus on advanced analysis has predictably shifted in that direction. While these challenges are important to overcome, we shouldn’t lose sight of how complete systems are built. Short and long reach communication channels, system-level power management and … Read More
CEO Interview with Moshe Tanach of NeuReality
Moshe Tanach is co-founder and CEO of NeuReality. Prior to founding the company, he held senior engineering leadership roles at Marvell and Intel, where he led complex wireless and networking products from architecture through mass production. He also served as AVP of R&D at DesignArt Networks (later acquired by Qualcomm),
Accelerating Advanced FPGA-Based SoC Prototyping With S2C
Having spent a significant amount of my career in EDA and IP I can tell you first hand how important picking the right prototyping partner is. I have known S2C since my interview with CEO Toshio Nakama in 2017. It has been a pleasure working with them and I look forward to seeing an S2C update at DVCon the first week of March here in Silicon… Read More
Podcast EP327: Third Quarter 2025 Electronic Design Market Data Report Overview and More with Dr. Walden Rhines
Daniel is joined by Wally Rhines, CEO of Silvaco, about the Electronic Design Market Data report that was just released. Wally is the industry coordinator for the EDA data collection program called EDMD. SEMI and the Electronic System Design Alliance collect data from almost all of the electronic design automation companies … Read More
Verification Futures with Bronco AI Agents for DV Debug
Verification has become the dominant bottleneck in modern chip design. As much as 70% of the overall design cycle is now spent on verification, a figure driven upward by increasing design complexity, compressed schedules, and a chronic shortage of design verification (DV) engineering bandwidth. Modern chips generate thousands… Read More
AI Bubble?
The currently strong semiconductor market is being driven by AI applications. A McKinsey survey showed 88% of businesses used AI in 2025 compared to just 55% in 2023. According to Inc.com, 306 of the S&P 500 companies mentioned AI in their third quarter 2025 earnings conference calls, up from only 53 citations three years earlier… Read More




AI Bubble?