DAC 2026: Join Accellera for a dynamic luncheon exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping the standards landscape for design and verification.

DAC 2026: Join Accellera for a dynamic luncheon exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping the standards landscape for design and verification.
by Daniel Nenni on 07-13-2026 at 2:00 pm

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Accellera Systems Initiative invites the design and verification community to join us at the 2026 Design Automation Conference for a focused technical luncheon, Embracing AI for Advanced Design and Verification,” on Tuesday, July 28, from 12:30–1:45 p.m. at the Long Beach Convention Center, Meeting Room 104C.

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Enabling AI to Understand Complex Runtime Behavior for Accurate, Automated Root Cause Analysis — DAC 2026

Enabling AI to Understand Complex Runtime Behavior for Accurate, Automated Root Cause Analysis — DAC 2026
by Daniel Nenni on 07-13-2026 at 6:00 am

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Undo gives AI coding agents the runtime context they need to solve hard problems in complex software and system verification workflows Undo’s technology records complete program execution, allowing engineers and AI coding agents to understand exactly what happened during execution rather than inferring behavior from source… Read More


AI Driven Semiconductor Systems

AI Driven Semiconductor Systems
by Daniel Nenni on 07-12-2026 at 8:00 pm

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AI-driven semiconductor systems are the next major transformation in chip design and manufacturing. The central idea is that semiconductor workflows are becoming too complex, too data-intensive, and too time-sensitive to be managed only through traditional human-driven engineering processes. Modern chips now involve… Read More


CEO Interview with Dr. Albert Liu of Kneron

CEO Interview with Dr. Albert Liu of Kneron
by Daniel Nenni on 07-12-2026 at 6:00 pm

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Dr. Albert Liu is the Founder and CEO of Kneron, a full-stack edge AI company pioneering next-generation Neural Processing Unit (NPU) architectures and localized AI infrastructure.

Widely recognized as a pioneer in NPU architecture, Dr. Liu has spent decades advancing AI hardware, semiconductor systems, and computer vision… Read More


Executive Interview with Ebrahim Hussain and Aaditya Subediand of Architect Labs

Executive Interview with Ebrahim Hussain and Aaditya Subediand of Architect Labs
by Daniel Nenni on 07-12-2026 at 4:00 pm

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Ebrahim Hussain is Co-Founder of Architect Labs, where he is building AI-powered systems to accelerate semiconductor design and engineering. He brings deep expertise in AI and hardware development, with a focus on transforming how advanced chips are designed and brought to market.

Aaditya (Aadi) Subedi is Co-Founder of … Read More


CEO Interview with Mark Ren of Agentrys

CEO Interview with Mark Ren of Agentrys
by Daniel Nenni on 07-10-2026 at 10:00 am

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Mark Ren has 26 years of EDA and AI R&D experience spanning IBM Research and NVIDIA Research, driving design automation innovations that power modern chip design. He received the IBM Corporate Award for contributions to the design closure for high-performance microprocessors. At NVIDIA, he helped establish the company

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TSMC A16 Backside Power at VLSI 2026

TSMC A16 Backside Power at VLSI 2026
by Daniel Nenni on 07-10-2026 at 6:00 am

TSMC A16 Backside Power at VLSI 2026

TSMC’s A16 technology, presented as Paper T1.5 at the June 2026 IEEE/JSAP VLSI Symposium, marks the company’s first angstrom-class CMOS platform combining enhanced nanosheet gate-all-around transistors with backside power delivery. The key integration feature is Super Power Rail, or SPR, which TSMC describes as a backside… Read More


SemiAnalysis EDA Market Primer – Market Dynamics, Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens, China EDA Rise

SemiAnalysis EDA Market Primer – Market Dynamics, Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens, China EDA Rise
by Daniel Nenni on 07-09-2026 at 10:00 am

EDA Industry Primer SemiAnalysis

Electronic Design Automation, or EDA, is the software infrastructure that transforms a hardware specification into a manufacturable integrated circuit. At advanced process nodes, the problem is no longer simply drawing transistors or connecting gates. A modern system-on-chip contains billions of standard cells, hundreds… Read More


MooresLabAI at DAC 2026: Why the Future of Semiconductor Engineering Is Agentic, Not Just Generative

MooresLabAI at DAC 2026: Why the Future of Semiconductor Engineering Is Agentic, Not Just Generative
by Daniel Nenni on 07-08-2026 at 2:00 pm

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For decades, semiconductor innovation has been constrained not by imagination, but by engineering capacity. While transistor density has continued to advance, the process of building chips has remained fundamentally manual, fragmented across specifications, RTL, verification, debugging, coverage analysis, and signoff.… Read More


Caspia Technologies is pioneering a new, agentic chip and system security approach at DAC 2026

Caspia Technologies is pioneering a new, agentic chip and system security approach at DAC 2026
by Daniel Nenni on 07-08-2026 at 10:00 am

Caspia DAC Plan for SemiWiki

Caspia’s advanced tools and agents blend seamlessly with existing design flows to add expert-level security verification capabilities for all design teams. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, Caspia brings together expertise in chip design, fabrication, test, and verification with a deep understanding… Read More