# How AI is Changing Every Aspect of EDA

- Show: [EE Times Current](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current)
- Published: 2024-09-26
- Length: 31m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2024-09-26-how-ai-is-changing-every-aspect-of-eda
- Listen: https://podcast.show/aspencore/episode/136684621/

## Summary

Satish Kumar Balasubrahmanian, who leads product management for custom IC verification at Siemens EDA, explains how the company applies 'Verifiable AI' to accelerate semiconductor design and verification. He details the evolution from brute-force Monte Carlo simulations to AI-driven tools like Solido, which reduce simulation counts by 100x while maintaining high-sigma accuracy for mission-critical applications like automotive. Balasubrahmanian also discusses the integration of generative AI and LLMs to leverage historical design data, improve workforce training, and automate knowledge retrieval, arguing that these tools must be verifiable and robust to be production-ready.

## Chapters

- [0:03](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2024-09-26-how-ai-is-changing-every-aspect-of-eda#t=3) Introduction: Satish Kumar Balasubrahmanian and Siemens EDA
- [3:25](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2024-09-26-how-ai-is-changing-every-aspect-of-eda#t=205) Workforce Shortfalls and Rising Chip Complexity
- [6:33](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2024-09-26-how-ai-is-changing-every-aspect-of-eda#t=393) Verifiable AI: The 5 Key Attributes for Mission-Critical Design
- [10:20](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2024-09-26-how-ai-is-changing-every-aspect-of-eda#t=620) The 5 Levels of AI Reliability in EDA Tools
- [15:44](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2024-09-26-how-ai-is-changing-every-aspect-of-eda#t=944) Solido, Caliber, and AI-Driven Simulation Acceleration
- [20:46](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/ee-times-current/2024-09-26-how-ai-is-changing-every-aspect-of-eda#t=1246) Generative AI and LLMs for Design Knowledge and Training

## Topics

- [EDA & CAD tools](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/eda-and-cad-tools)
- [Chips, FPGAs & semiconductors](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/chips-and-fpgas)
- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [Hiring & workforce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/hiring-and-workforce)
- [Certification & compliance](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/certification-and-compliance)

## Most relevant to

large enterprises

## Mentioned

- Siemens EDA (company)
- Solido Design Automation (company)
- Synopsys (company)
- Solido High Sigma Monte Carlo (product)
- Caliber (product)
- Questasim (product)
- Veloce (product)
- ChatGPT (product)
- Python (other)

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