DAC-Cast

Join hosts Eric Seligman and Rich Edelman as they take a deep dive into DAC 2026. This episode shifts gears to focus on the conference itself, featuring special guests Frank Schirrmeister and Henning Spruth, the leads for this year's Engineering Track.

In this episode, William Chappell, CTO and CVP of Microsoft Discovery and Quantum, shares insights from a career spanning academia, DARPA, and industry, exploring the intersection of AI, quantum computing, and scientific discovery. He discusses how emerging technologies are reshaping engineering, accelerating innovation, and redefining the future of design automation.

In this episode, we interview Jeff Wittich, Chief Product Officer at Ampere. Learn about his journey up the hardware stack from Process Engineer to Product Officer, how the Innovator’s Dilemma led to the founding of Ampere, and how this will impact the next generation of AI.

This DACCast episode interviews Dr. Mark Tehranipoor about the vital and complex field of hardware and microelectronics security. The discussion focuses on the challenges of supply chain trust and protecting integrated circuits from security vulnerabilities and malicious hardware Trojans.

Sarita Adve (University of Illinois) is interviewed by Host Erik Seligman (Cadence Design Systems) and Co-Host Rich Edelman (Siemens). Please click to listen.

Welcome back to the DAC-Cast Podcast! The hosts are here today to interview Gary Patton, Vice President of Intel. Subscribe and listen as DAC-Casters hear incredible insights from an important leader in the industry.

Catch up with the DAC-Cast hosts and the newest episode featuring Dave Rich, Verification Methodologist at Siemens EDA. Dave and the hosts walk through his experience within the industry as well as discussing design and verification technologies.

The DAC-Cast hosts are back with 60DAC keynote speaker and IBM Fellow, Head of Science & Technology and Lead of IBM Research Quantum Europe at IBM Research, Heike Riel. Listen today to hear her story, where she is now - leading the research agenda of the Science & Technology department aiming to create scientific and technological breakthroughs in Quantum Computing, Physics of Artificial I...

The DAC-Cast hosts are back and this time with an absolute icon in the industry and one of 60DAC's keynote speakers, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. Co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, Alberto currently serves as the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. Subscribe and listen as DAC-Casters catch up wit...

Thank you for joining us this past July in San Francisco for 60DAC. Here are a few highlights of the of the milestone 60th year.

Just over a week before DAC, the DAC-Cast hosts return with another episode.. this time with none-other-than Kurt Keutzer. In 1998 Kurt became Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley and recently, Kurt’s research focuses on systems issues associated with the application of Deep Learning to computer vision, speech recognition, natural lan...

Part 3: Dr. John Sanguinetti stops by DAC-Cast to share his story and key moments in his career. Dr. Sanguinetti has been active in computer architecture, performance analysis, design verification, and electronic design automation for many years. After working as a design verification engineer at Ardent Computer and NeXT Computer, he founded Chronologic Simulation in 1991 and was the principal arc...

DAC-Cast hosts are joined by Dr. Walden "Wally" Rhines for this episode leading up to his keynote presentation at #60DAC. Wally is widely recognized as an expert in business value creation and technology for the semiconductor and electronic design automation (EDA) industries. He was CEO of Mentor Graphics (a “Big Three” EDA company with $1.3B+ revenue) for 24 years, has served on the boa...

The DAC-Cast hosts are back and this time with industry visionary, Joe Costello. Joe served as CEO within the EDA (electronic design automation) space, where he helped teams create leading technology in the industry. From early in his career, Joe was attracted to solving problems within technology and making internet more accessible. In 2004, Joe received the Phil Kaufman Award, for his service to...

Part 2: Dr. John Sanguinetti stops by DAC-Cast to share his story and key moments in his career. Dr. Sanguinetti has been active in computer architecture, performance analysis, design verification, and electronic design automation for many years. After working as a design verification engineer at Ardent Computer and NeXT Computer, he founded Chronologic Simulation in 1991 and was the principal arc...

Part 1: Dr. John Sanguinetti stops by DAC-Cast to share his story and key moments in his career. Dr. Sanguinetti has been active in computer architecture, performance analysis, design verification, and electronic design automation for many years. After working as a design verification engineer at Ardent Computer and NeXT Computer, he founded Chronologic Simulation in 1991 and was the principal arc...

The DAC-Cast hosts welcome Giovanni DeMicheli to talk about the ups and downs of his career in EDA. Giovanni De Micheli is a research scientist in electronics and computer science. He is credited for the invention of the Network on Chip design automation paradigm and for the creation of algorithms and design tools for Electronic Design Automation. He is a professor and the director of the Integrat...

Hear from Harry Foster, Chief Scientist Verification for the Design Verification Technology Division of Siemens EDA; and is the Co-Founder and Executive Editor for the Verification Academy, who is interviewed by the DAC-Cast hosts on top industry trends this year. 

Join DAC Podcast hosts, Erik Seligman and Rich Edelman, as they talk about topics most relevant to practitioners in the design and design automation ecosystem. This episode, our hosts are joined by none other than 2022 DAC Keynote Speaker, Steve Teig. Steve is the CEO of Perceive. Steve is a visionary technologist whose work has impacted industries ranging from software and semiconductors to biote...