CEO Interview with Dave Kelf, CEO of Breker Verification Systems

In the functional verification space, Breker Verification Systems stands out for its vast and long-standing understanding and ability to solve many of the seemingly intractable complexity challenges, especially in the system space.

I recently talked with Dave Kelf, Breker’s CEO, who has plenty of good news to share about Breker’s growth and new product development.

What’s new with Breker?

In 2025, we saw 35% growth over 2024. That matched the 35% growth from 2023 to 2024. Our growth in 2026 should be even greater as demand for our functional verification solutions has accelerated.

Also in 2025, we added resources when we engaged an engineering and support facility in Bangladesh.

And much like previous years, we are deep into new product development with work in the AI space that includes verifying AI/GPU processors and leveraging AI in our flows. We inked some interesting partnerships that will result in some exciting new advances.

What’s was the most exciting high point for Breker recently?

I can point to three areas that were and continue to be high points for us. The first is our efforts within the RISC-V space. We signed several strategic partnerships, took a larger leadership role in the RISC-V International Certification program, a need that’s gaining increasing importance and urgency, and of course, enhancements to our RISC-V SystemVIP products.

Breker has made considerable advancements in both Arm platform verification and AI hardware GPUs. We are offering an Arm Neoverse CSS SoCReady SystemVIP as part of our product portfolio and signed a fascinating new partnership in the AI hardware GPU area.

Finally, our customer base is growing. From all accounts, Breker is now being used on more than half of all the RISC-V processor core developments globally. We added several top 10 semiconductor companies to our portfolio, plus two more from the Magnificent 7. Overall, our customer base has doubled in size. Revenue crossed a major goal for Breker.

What do you think the biggest growth area for 2026 will be, and why? How is Breker’s work addressing this growth?

Without question, it is test content for system verification because there is an unserved market in test content generation for these large devices, especially consumers of simulation and hardware-assisted verification platforms. Currently, verification engineers spend way too much time and resources creating homebrew solutions for system-level scenarios. By leveraging synthesis, we are able to find troublesome corner cases not obvious when composing manual test cases or running real workloads.

Are you incorporating AI into your products?

Yes. Breker has used AI Planning Algorithms for years in our synthesis technology.

Breker’s Synthesis technology, provides a backend for AI verification tools that completes their basic flows while adding tribal knowledge that is not readily apparent.

At this year’s DVCon US, we launched a partnership with Moores Lab ^AI to create the first AI-driven SoC verification flow integrating our Trek Test Suite Synthesis with Moores Lab agentic AI technology. It leverages our experience in test generation for complex system design scenarios with Moore’s Lab’s agentic AI VerifAgent product to seamlessly enable automated multicore, multitool, C or TLM test generation for complex SoC scenarios from manually composed specifications. The flow uses agentic AI to read a specification and generate appropriate scenario models for test synthesis that produce combined C and SystemVerilog tests that can be run on simulation and emulation platforms targeting high-coverage SoC scenarios.

Is AI affecting the way you develop your products?

Yes. We use AI to assist backend test synthesis for AI SoC verification. AI spec interpreters enable a greater understanding of complex specifications such as RISC-V’s ISA. Our tools leverage AI to generate various code segments and provide verification “tribal knowledge” to AI-focused verification groups.

How do customers normally engage with your company?

We can be contacted through the Breker Verification Systems website, our LinkedIn page or via X. Or, send email to info@brekersystems.com. We will respond quickly to requests.

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