2024 SKYTalk Speakers
New EDA Methodologies are Transforming Engineering Lifecycle Management
Tuesday, June 25 | 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
This talk provides a broad, visionary perspective about the dynamic changes impacting electronic design automation tools and methodologies and their pivotal role in re-shaping engineering lifecycle management. It explains the trend toward convergence of EDA and CAE domains to address exploding system complexity and deliver multi-disciplinary solutions. Future workflows must incorporate digital threads that connect virtual prototypes and digital twins with physical systems. Predictive simulation and analysis across domains is key to accelerating engineering lifecycles.
Rapid industry adoption of AI, heterogeneous integrated circuits and chiplet technologies, software automation using scripting languages, and comprehensive data and intellectual property management tools is driving a seismic shift in design and verification methodologies. This talk covers how these EDA technologies contribute to more efficient and effective enterprise lifecycles. Application of these technologies must elevate RF, microwave, and mixed-signal design to an equal footing with digital design to achieve modernization of engineering workflows.
ABOUT: Niels Faché is responsible for Keysight’s design and simulation portfolio. In his most recent positions, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Remarketing Solutions Division and then the Keysight Services Portfolio Organization, both part of Keysight’s Global Services Organization (KGSO). Niels joined Hewlett Packard in 1994, when HP acquired Alphabit, a start-up software company in Belgium. He was co-founder and CEO of Alphabit, which developed the electromagnetic simulator Momentum - now part of the PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS). During his career, Niels has since held a variety of R&D, marketing, product planning and general management positions at HP, Agilent and Keysight in Electronic Design Automation, Test and Measurement Product Lines and Services. His roles have often involved leveraging technology and talented teams to transform and grow organizations into front-runners. He is based in Santa Clara, California. Niels holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering, both from the University of Ghent, Belgium, where he also served as a part-time professor from 1995 to 1997. He has a business degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and has completed coursework at the Stanford Center for Professional Development.
ABOUT: Dr. Jay Lewis is the Director of the National Semiconductor Technology Center, or NSTC, Program, for the CHIPS R&D Office at the Department of Commerce. In this role he is working to establish the NSTC program, a public-private consortium that will serve as a cornerstone of semiconductor research for the country. He previously worked at Microsoft, at DARPA, and had an early career in semiconductor research.
Dr. Lewis is a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society and is an IEEE and SPIE Senior Member. He has published over 50 articles in technical journals and conference proceedings and holds eleven U.S. patents. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida.