Agentrys is pioneering Agentic Design Automation (ADA), a new paradigm for semiconductor engineering. Electronic Design Automation (EDA) has transformed the industry by automating engineering algorithms. Today, frontier AI can automate many engineering tasks by understanding specifications, generating RTL and … Read More
Electronic Design Automation
Perforce Enabling Innovation Without Introducing Risk at DAC 2026
Perforce delivers a DevOps Tech Stack for teams building and running high-stakes software systems and revenue-critical applications, where failure is not an option. As a trusted partner helping organizations govern software delivery for AI, Perforce solutions enforce guardrails across code quality, infrastructure, and… Read More
DAC 2026 Mach42: A new generation of physics-driven AI models for analog circuit verification
Mach42 spun out of the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford in 2019 with a mission to establish software tools capable of drastically accelerating expensive physics simulations while supporting complex computational workflows. The prototype tools were successfully applied in the emulation of extreme states … Read More
Synopsys at Design Automation Conference 2026
Synopsys is catalyzing the era of pervasive intelligence with comprehensive engineering solutions spanning silicon design, IP, and simulation and analysis. At this year’s Design Automation Conference (DAC), the company will showcase innovations transforming silicon and systems development for a wide range of applications… Read More
Enabling AI to Understand Complex Runtime Behavior for Accurate, Automated Root Cause Analysis — DAC 2026
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
Podcast EP354: How Siemens EDA is Conquering New Lithography Challenges with Sagar Saxena
Daniel is joined by Sagar Saxena, Senior Product Engineer at Siemens EDA specializing in computational lithography, optical proximity correction (OPC), and advanced patterning solutions for leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing. Sagar has led the development and deployment of advanced OPC technologies, including… Read More
CEO Interview with Mark Ren of Agentrys
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
SemiAnalysis EDA Market Primer – Market Dynamics, Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens, China EDA Rise
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
Beyond Workflow Agents: Toward Design Intelligence in Analog EDA
Over the last year, the EDA industry has started using a new vocabulary: agents, super agents, mental models, native skills, playbooks, RAG, MCP, autonomous workflows, and AI-first design.
The language is new, but the motivation is familiar to anyone who has worked in chip design.
Design complexity keeps increasing. The number… Read More
MooresLabAI at DAC 2026: Why the Future of Semiconductor Engineering Is Agentic, Not Just Generative
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


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