This article is an editorial synthesis of a fireside chat between Tom Caulfield, Executive Chairman of GlobalFoundries, and John Kibarian, CEO of PDF Solutions that took place on December 3rd 2025, during the PDF Solutions Users Conference. John Kibarian led the conversation to get Tom Caulfield’s perspectives on leadership… Read More
Electronic Design Automation
2026 Outlook with Kamal Khan of Perforce
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
Kamal Khan, Vice President North America Automotive/Semiconductor at Perforce. Perforce is trusted by the world’s leading brands to drive quality, security, compliance, collaboration, and speed across the technology lifecycle. Our global footprint spans more than 80 … Read More
Curbing Soaring Power Demand Through Foundation IP
Power has become a very hot (ha-ha) topic. The media has latched onto the emergence of massive AI datacenters disrupting energy pricing for consumers. Both as consumers and in industry we welcome faster and better features in our hand-held computing devices, cars, homes, industrial processes and businesses. But without further… Read More
2026 Outlook with Badru Agarwala of Rise Design Automation (RDA)
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 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
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
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
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
There is more to prototyping than just FPGA: See how S2C accelerates SoC Bring-Up with high productivity toolchain?
System-on-Chip designs continue to grow in scale and interface diversity, placing greater demands on prototype capacity, interconnect planning, and bring-up efficiency. These challenges arise not only in large multi-FPGA programs but also in smaller designs implemented on a single device or a small FPGA cluster. In all cases,… Read More
2026 Outlook with Nilesh Kamdar of Keysight EDA
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I’m Nilesh Kamdar, General Manager of the Keysight EDA business unit. Keysight is an S&P 500 company that provides design, emulation, and test solutions to help engineers develop and deploy faster with less risk. On the EDA side, we focus on RFMW, high-speed digital,… Read More


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