            WP_Term Object
(
    [term_id] => 42
    [name] => AMIQ EDA
    [slug] => amiq-eda
    [term_group] => 0
    [term_taxonomy_id] => 42
    [taxonomy] => category
    [description] => 
    [parent] => 157
    [count] => 33
    [filter] => raw
    [cat_ID] => 42
    [category_count] => 33
    [category_description] => 
    [cat_name] => AMIQ EDA
    [category_nicename] => amiq-eda
    [category_parent] => 157
)

WP_Term Object
(
    [term_id] => 42
    [name] => AMIQ EDA
    [slug] => amiq-eda
    [term_group] => 0
    [term_taxonomy_id] => 42
    [taxonomy] => category
    [description] => 
    [parent] => 157
    [count] => 33
    [filter] => raw
    [cat_ID] => 42
    [category_count] => 33
    [category_description] => 
    [cat_name] => AMIQ EDA
    [category_nicename] => amiq-eda
    [category_parent] => 157
)

January 20, 2026January 20, 2026 by Daniel Nenni

2026 Outlook with Cristian Amitroaie, Founder and CEO of AMIQ EDA

2026 Outlook with Cristian Amitroaie, Founder and CEO of AMIQ EDA
by Daniel Nenni on 01-20-2026 at 8:00 am
Categories: AMIQ EDA, EDA

Key takeaways ▼

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 DVT IDE and Verissimo SystemVerilog Linter, are used by engineers to improve coding quality and efficiency in hardware design and verification.

Can you tell us a little bit about your company?

Since 2008, we have been providing innovative software tools to benefit both designers and verification engineers. We help our users increase the speed and quality of new code development while implementing best practices. We make it easier to maintain legacy code, accelerate language and methodology learning, simplify debugging, and automatically generate accurate documentation. Our users say they can’t imagine coding without our tools.

What was the most exciting high point of 2025 for your company?

When we introduced our AI Assistant in our DVT IDE family back in 2024, we embarked on a journey to find appropriate ways to leverage AI for the benefit of our users. This past year has been quite exciting on this front. We’ve added new AI-based features to DVT IDE, leveraging all the design and testbench knowledge we’ve compiled from the user code. For example, AI Assistant can now insert context-aware code completion generated from any large language model (LLM) as the user types. AI Assistant also has the ability to auto-correct and explain compilation problems, saving even more time for users.
What was the biggest challenge your company faced in 2025?

The AI space is huge, and it’s challenging to identify the technologies that best apply to our products and can provide the most benefit to our users. It takes significant time and resources to add these new AI features, and we always wonder whether they will be used enough and provide sufficient value to be worth our investment. In addition, the AI space is evolving and expanding rapidly, so today’s state of the art will be outdated within a few months.

How is your company’s work addressing this biggest challenge?

We cast a wide net as we look for potentially useful AI technologies, and we bring in experts to guide us when appropriate. We also work closely with our most advanced users to validate AI features before we roll them out to our complete customer base. The good news is that this approach is working. We’ve seen rapid uptake of AI features among our users and a lot of enthusiasm for more capabilities going forward.

What do you think the biggest growth area for 2026 will be, and why?

Maybe it’s obvious at this point, but we certainly expect AI to become a bigger part of our product suite and to drive our business. AI Assistant will do more in DVT IDE, and we’re integrating more AI-enabled features to further help our users create and debug design and verification code. We’re also working on ways to provides access to our internal models for both IDE users and AI developers. In addition, we’re adding AI features to both Verissimo SystemVerilog Linter and Specador Documentation Generator as we speak.

How is your company’s work addressing this growth?

We just need to keep doing what’s working now: keep a close eye on AI technologies, call in experts as needed, and work with users to validate the value of new features. In addition, we use our DVT compilers and Verissimo to ensure that all code generated by all AI agents is correct.

Is AI affecting the way you develop your products?

Part of our constant monitoring of AI technologies includes looking for ways to help our internal development process. Like many programming teams, we’re finding that AI can suggest solutions to real problems and help us develop code more quickly. Using AI ourselves helps us to understand its strengths and limitations, plus think of more ways to help our users develop their own code.

What conferences did you attend in 2025 and how was the traffic?

Traffic at conferences and conventions remains strong. We attended and exhibited at our usual three in-person events: the Design Automation Conference (DAC) and the Design and Verification Conference (DVCon) in the U.S., as well as DVCon Europe. Our international distributors also represent us at local events, including SemIsrael and workshops in Japan.

Will you attend conferences in 2026? Same or more?

We love it when our users stop by our booth to say hello and of course we always meet some new potential users as well. So we will be attending all the same events again this year.

Additional questions or final comments?

2025 was another year of growth and success for AMIQ EDA, and we anticipate the same for this year. Thank you for the chance to discuss the status of our company and our industry. We’ll continue posting on SemiWiki to keep you up to date on our progress.

Contact Amiq EDA

Also Read:

Runtime Elaboration of UVM Verification Code

Better Automatic Generation of Documentation from RTL Code

AMIQ EDA at the 2025 Design Automation Conference #62DAC

Share this post via:

Comments

There are no comments yet.

You must register or log in to view/post comments.

Instance

Array
(
    [node_name] => AMIQ EDA
    [node_id] => Array
        (
            [0] => 2
        )

)

Nodes

Threads

XF\Mvc\Entity\ArrayCollection Object ( [entities:protected] => Array ( [357] => XF\Entity\Node Object ( [_uniqueEntityId:XF\Mvc\Entity\Entity:private] => 54 [rootClass:protected] => XF\Entity\Node [_useReplaceInto:protected] => [_newValues:protected] => Array ( ) [_values:protected] => Array ( [node_id] => 357 [title] => Amiq EDA [description] => [node_name] => [node_type_id] => Forum [parent_node_id] => 355 [display_order] => 30 [display_in_list] => 1 [lft] => 31 [rgt] => 32 [depth] => 2 [style_id] => 0 [effective_style_id] => 4 [breadcrumb_data] => {"385":{"node_id":385,"title":"Companies","depth":0,"lft":13,"node_name":null,"node_type_id":"LinkForum","display_in_list":true},"355":{"node_id":355,"title":"Company Forums","depth":1,"lft":14,"node_name":null,"node_type_id":"Category","display_in_list":true}} [navigation_id] => [effective_navigation_id] => ) [_relations:protected] => Array ( ) [_previousValues:protected] => Array ( ) [_options:protected] => Array ( ) [_deleted:protected] => [_readOnly:protected] => [_writePending:protected] => [_writeRunning:protected] => [_errors:protected] => Array ( ) [_whenSaveable:protected] => Array ( ) [_cascadeSave:protected] => Array ( ) [_behaviors:protected] => ) ) [populated:protected] => 1 )

Search Semiwiki

Recent AMIQ EDA Articles