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Keynote Abstract

Keynote 1 : From Point Tools to Agentic AI: How EDA has impacted the Semiconductor Industry by Don Chan, Vice President, R&D in the Digital & Signoff Group, Cadence

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is the enabler for today’s semiconductor growth.  Moore’s Law has been driving the semiconductor industry for the past several decades.  Correspondently, EDA has increased the productivity of engineers by more than 10,000X over the decades.  In this talk, we discussed how EDA together with design technology co-optimization has advanced beyond Moore’s law and transistor scaling.  With transistor scaling becoming increasingly challenging, the future of designs will approach 3D in the next few years. Driven by high performance computing (HPC) and AI applications, systems will be comprised of heterogenous chiplets with different process nodes.  In the era of AI, design methodology will become AI-assisted design methodology and scripts will be driven by agentic AI and agents.  The future of EDA research lies in agentic workflows.

Keynote 2 : Smart Products and Solutions to Emerging Technologies by Srikanth Settikere, Vice President and Managing Director of the Microchip India Development Center

Microchip’s Edge AI strategy focuses on bringing machine learning inference directly onto embedded devices—close to sensors and actuators—rather than relying on cloud processing. This enables real-time decision making with low latency, improved data privacy (no cloud dependency), reduced bandwidth and power consumption and high reliability in offline environments. The company positions Edge AI as a natural evolution of embedded systems, especially for industrial, automotive, and IoT applications.

Track Session Abstract

Track 1: Custom IC and Mixed Signal (Link to Abstract)

Track 2: System and Verification Group (Link to Abstract)

Track 3: Digital Implementation and Signoff (Link to Abstract)

Track 4: PCB Design and System Analysis (Link to Abstract)