Wednesday was the last day at #62DAC for me and I attended an Exhibitor Session entitled, Engineering the Semiconductor Digital Thread, which featured Vishal Moondhra, VP Solutions Engineering of Perforce IPLM and Michael Munsey, VP Semiconductor Industry at Siemens Digital Industries. Instead of just talking from slides,… Read More
Perforce Webinar: Can You Trust GenAI for Your Next Chip Design?
GenAI is certainly changing the world. Every day there are new innovations in the use of highly trained models to do things that seemed impossible just a short while ago. As GenAI models take on more tasks that used to be the work of humans, there is always a nagging concern about accuracy and bias. Was the data used to train the model … Read More
Perforce and Siemens: A Strategic Partnership for Digital Threads in EDA
On July 9, 2025, Michael Munsey, VP of Semiconductor Industry at Siemens, and Vishal Moondhra, VP of Solutions at Perforce, presented a DACtv session announcing their strategic partnership, as seen in the YouTube video. This collaboration integrates Siemens’ digital twin and digital thread technologies with Perforce’s version… Read More
Building Trust in AI-Generated Code for Semiconductor Design
On July 9, 2025, a compelling session at DACtv by Vishal Moondrha of Perfroce addressed a critical challenge in the semiconductor industry: building trust in AI-generated code. The speaker highlighted the unique hurdles of integrating generative AI into semiconductor design, emphasizing issues like data provenance, quality,… Read More
Perforce at DAC, Unifying Software and Silicon Across the Ecosystem
As the new name reflects, chip and system design were a major focus at DAC. So was the role of AI to enable those activities. But getting an AI-enabled design flow to work effectively across chip, subsystem and system-level design presents many significant challenges. One important one is effectively managing the vast amount of… Read More
Building Trust in Generative AI
AI technology was prevalent at DAC 2025, but can we really trust what Generative AI (GenAI) is producing? Vishal Moondhra, VP of Solutions Engineering from Perforce talked about this topic in the Exhibitor Forum on Monday, so I got a front row seat to learn more.
Vishal started out by introducing the four challenges and risks of using… Read More
Perforce at the 2025 Design Automation Conference #62DAC
Stop by the Perforce booth to learn about our new partnership with Siemens and get a demo of the latest enhancements in Perforce IPLM, P4, and VersIC. We’re eager to hear about your current challenges and how our semiconductor design and data management solutions can ease your design and development hurdles. Plus, you can try your… Read More
Video EP1: A Discussion of Meeting the Challenges to Implement Gen AI in Semiconductor Design with Vishal Moondhra
In this inaugural episode of the new Semiconductor Insiders video series, Dan is joined by Vishal Moondhra, VP of Solutions Engineering at Perforce Helix IPLM. Dan explores the risks and challenges of using Gen AI in the semiconductor industry with Vishal. Liability, traceability, cost, and quality are discussed. The challenges… Read More
Perforce IP and Design Data Management #61DAC
I recall first blogging about Helix IPLM (formerly Methodics IPLM) at DAC in 2012, then Perforce acquired the company in July 2020, so I stopped by the Perforce booth this year at DAC to get an update from Martin Hall, Principal Solutions Engineer at Perforce. Martin’s background includes working at Dassault Systemes, Synchronicity,… Read More
Perforce at the 2024 Design Automation Conference
Perforce powers innovation at unrivaled scale. Perforce solutions future-proof competitive advantage by driving quality, security, compliance, collaboration, and speed – across the technology lifecycle. We bring deep domain and vertical expertise to every customer, so nothing stands in the way of success. Our global footprint… Read More