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Whalechip Uses ChipAgents to Compress Root Cause Analysis into Minutes

Whalechip Uses ChipAgents to Compress Root Cause Analysis into Minutes
by Daniel Nenni on 07-21-2026 at 6:00 am

ChipAgent Whale

AI-powered platform identified four critical SoC bugs and helped prevent up to two weeks of potential development delays

Semiconductor verification is increasingly constrained not by simulation capacity, but by the engineering effort required to understand why a simulation failed. Modern ASIC and system-on-chip designs… Read More


See Defacto Technologies at DAC 2026

See Defacto Technologies at DAC 2026
by Daniel Nenni on 07-20-2026 at 2:00 pm

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I have had the pleasure of working with Defacto Technologies for the past 10 years on SemiWiki and I am always impressed with their professionalism and ability to quickly address the challenges of complex SoC design.

From my perspective, Defacto’s technology is designed to improve productivity and design quality by enabling … Read More


Keysight Design Engineering Software at DAC 2026: Going Deep on Chiplets, RF and AI-Driven Design

Keysight Design Engineering Software at DAC 2026: Going Deep on Chiplets, RF and AI-Driven Design
by Daniel Nenni on 07-20-2026 at 10:00 am

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Keysight Technologies returns to 2026 DAC, The Chips to Systems Conference this year as a Silver Sponsor and an “I LOVE DAC” sponsor, bringing its Design Engineering Software portfolio to Booth #927 at DAC 2026, which runs July 26-29 in Long Beach, Calif. The Keysight team will be on-site Monday through Wednesday … Read More


Agentrys a New Paradigm for Semiconductor Engineering at 2026 DAC

Agentrys a New Paradigm for Semiconductor Engineering at 2026 DAC
by Daniel Nenni on 07-16-2026 at 2:00 pm

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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


Perforce Enabling Innovation Without Introducing Risk at DAC 2026

Perforce Enabling Innovation Without Introducing Risk at DAC 2026
by Daniel Nenni on 07-15-2026 at 10:00 am

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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

DAC 2026 Mach42: A new generation of physics-driven AI models for analog circuit verification
by Daniel Nenni on 07-14-2026 at 10:00 am

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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 at Design Automation Conference 2026
by Daniel Nenni on 07-14-2026 at 6:00 am

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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

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


Podcast EP354: How Siemens EDA is Conquering New Lithography Challenges with Sagar Saxena

Podcast EP354: How Siemens EDA is Conquering New Lithography Challenges with Sagar Saxena
by Daniel Nenni on 07-10-2026 at 2:00 pm

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

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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