Podcast EP347: Agentic Workflows from Caspia Technologies for Advanced Chip Security Verification with Stuart Audley
Daniel is joined by Stuart Audley, vice president and general manager of product management at Caspia Technologies, where he focuses on agentic security workflows. He has decades of experience designing and deploying cryptographic hardware and security IP for top defense and leading semiconductor companies. He previously led advanced security platform development for FPGAs and ASICs at The Athena Group and Mercury Systems.
Dan explores the growing need for security analysis with Stuart, who describes the forces at play in the industry that make it critical to ensure designs are as secure and attack-hardened as possible. The growing capabilities of AI are both a growth driver for semiconductors and an increasing threat vector as those AI workloads become more capable of finding ways to attack hardware. Caspia’s primary focus is advanced security verification, and Stuart explains how the company’s technology integrates into current design flows to reduce risk.
The conversation then shifts to agentic workflows and their associated impact on the process. Stuart describes two fundamental parts of the process. One is the agent/human interaction where the methods a design engineer uses to interact with the AI tools are developed. The second is the agent/design interaction, which facilitates autonomous analysis of the design. Stuart describes several agentic development projects at Caspia. Topics such as static analysis of RTL to find and fix security weaknesses are covered. Stuart also covers several new agents that focus on automating the development of formal assertions for security analysis.
You can learn more about Caspia here and request a meeting to dig deeper here.
You can also visit Caspia in booth 759 at the DAC Chips to Systems Conference in Long Beach, CA on July 27-29,2026.
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