Podcast EP310: On Overview of the Upcoming DVCon Europe Conference and Exhibition with Dr. Mark Burton

Podcast EP310: On Overview of the Upcoming DVCon Europe Conference and Exhibition with Dr. Mark Burton
by Daniel Nenni on 10-10-2025 at 10:00 am

Daniel is joined by Dr. Mark Burton, the General Chair for this year’s DVCon Europe. DVCon is the premier conference on the application of languages, tools, and methodologies for the design and verification of electronic systems and integrated circuits.

Mark shares his long history of involvement in DVCon with Dan. He … Read More


Rise Design Automation Webinar: SystemVerilog at the Core: Scalable Verification and Debug in HLS

Rise Design Automation Webinar: SystemVerilog at the Core: Scalable Verification and Debug in HLS
by Daniel Nenni on 09-18-2025 at 10:00 am

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Key Takeaways

– High-Level Synthesis (HLS) delivers not only design productivity and quality but also dramatic gains in verification speed and debug – and it delivers them today.
–  Rise Design Automation uniquely enables SystemVerilog-based HLS and SystemVerilog verification, reusing proven verification… Read More


Moving Beyond RTL at #62DAC

Moving Beyond RTL at #62DAC
by Daniel Payne on 08-14-2025 at 10:00 am

beyond rtl min

Hardware designers have been using RTL and hardware description languages since the 1980s, yet many attempts at moving beyond RTL have tried to gain a foothold. At the #62DAC event I spent some time with Mike Fingeroff, the Chief High-Level Synthesis Technologist to understand what his company Rise Design Automation is up to. … Read More


Upcoming Webinar: Accelerating Semiconductor Design with Generative AI and High-Level Abstraction

Upcoming Webinar: Accelerating Semiconductor Design with Generative AI and High-Level Abstraction
by Daniel Nenni on 03-27-2025 at 10:00 am

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We have been hearing so much lately about the power of AI and the potential of technologies like agentic AI to address the productivity gap and complexities of semiconductor designs of today and tomorrow.  Currently, however, the semiconductor industry has been slow to adopt generative and agentic AI for RTL design code.   There… Read More


CEO Interview: Badru Agarwala of Rise Design Automation

CEO Interview: Badru Agarwala of Rise Design Automation
by Daniel Nenni on 02-14-2025 at 6:00 am

Badru Agarwala

Badru Agarwala is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rise Design Automation (RDA), an EDA startup with a mission to drive a fundamental shift-left in semiconductor design, verification, and implementation by raising abstraction beyond RTL  With over 40 years of experience in EDA, Badru served as General Manager of the CSD division at… Read More


SystemC Update 2024

SystemC Update 2024
by Daniel Payne on 12-03-2024 at 10:00 am

SystemC ecosystem min

SystemC version 1.0 came out in 2000 as a C++ class library for system-level modeling and simulation, and on SemiWiki.com there are some 497 references to the language. I wanted to provide an update in this blog so that engineering teams can become more efficient in using SystemC on their SoC projects, saving time and improving product… Read More


Agnisys at the 2024 Design Automation Conference

Agnisys at the 2024 Design Automation Conference
by Daniel Nenni on 06-19-2024 at 8:00 am

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Agnisys Inc. a leader in design and verification automation for hardware development, is gearing up for an impactful presence at DAC 2024. This year’s participation will be marked by various activities designed to engage and inspire the electronic design automation (EDA) community. Attendees can look forward to our … Read More


Something new in High Level Synthesis and High Level Verification

Something new in High Level Synthesis and High Level Verification
by Daniel Payne on 06-11-2024 at 10:00 am

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As SoC complexities continue to expand to billions of transistors, the quest for higher levels of design automation also rises. This has led to the adoption of High-Level Synthesis (HLS), using design languages such as C++ and SystemC, which is more productive than traditional RTL design entry methods. In the RTL approach there… Read More


CEO Interview: Dr. Nasib Naser of ORION VLSI Technologies.

CEO Interview: Dr. Nasib Naser of ORION VLSI Technologies.
by Daniel Nenni on 05-10-2024 at 6:00 am

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Dr. Nasib Naser brings over 35 years of experience in the field. His expertise spans the entire VLSI cycle from conception to chip design, with a strong focus on verification methodologies. For his 17 years at Synopsys, Dr. Naser have held senior management positions, leading North American Verification IP, managing Central … Read More