Badru Agarwala is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rise Design Automation (RDA), an EDA startup with a mission to drive a fundamental shift-left in semiconductor design, verification, and implementation by raising abstraction beyond RTL With over 40 years of experience in EDA, Badru served as General Manager of the CSD division at… Read More
Author: Daniel Nenni
CEO Interview: Badru Agarwala of Rise Design Automation
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