Sunil Sahoo
Product Manager,
Siemens EDA
About the Speaker
Sunil Sahoo is a Product Manager for simulation tools at Siemens Digital Industries Software, focused on advancing functional verification solutions for modern SoC development. With over 14 years of EDA experience spanning digital design, verification, and applications engineering, he brings practical insight into the challenges of complex chip development and RTL signoff. Sunil works with customers exploring verification methodologies and emerging approaches such as AI-driven, orchestrated tool flows that connect design, verification, analysis, and signoff. He holds a B.S. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from VIT University, India, and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Villanova University.
Breaking the Design-Verification Barrier with Agentic AI
Overview
Modern SoC design complexity has outpaced traditional methodologies, while the persistent divide between design and verification has deepened the challenge. Agentic AI addresses this by enabling autonomous systems that reason, plan, and adapt across the chip development lifecycle. Rather than simply accelerating workflows, it helps dissolve boundaries between creation and validation. Semantic layers connect isolated EDA tools, turning them into collaborative, context-aware elements of an orchestrated ecosystem. These intelligent tools coordinate design, verification, analysis, and signoff across the full flow, supporting trusted RTL signoff with greater speed and confidence. The era of siloed tools is ending; orchestrated intelligence is beginning.
Key Points
- Agentic AI goes beyond incremental automation by enabling autonomous reasoning, planning, and adaptation across the complete chip development lifecycle.
- Semantic layers turn isolated EDA tools into collaborative, context-aware components of an orchestrated tool ecosystem, breaking down the divide between design and verification.
- This convergence enables orchestrated tools to work across the full flow, coordinating design and verification activities to deliver trusted RTL signoff faster and with greater confidence.
