Presentation
New Minds, New Models: Who Will Drive AI-Led Design Innovation?
DescriptionAI is rapidly reshaping electronic design automation from architecture exploration and RTL generation to verification, physical design, and manufacturing optimization. But while chip industry owns the design data and EDA vendors control the toolchains, academia has traditionally disrupted through startups.
Recent shifts, including the slowing of traditional scaling laws, the rise of agentic and non-gradient-based methods, open-source tooling, and autonomous design flows, raise fundamental questions: Who will ultimately drive breakthroughs in AI-led design?
This panel brings together researchers from Startups, EDA, and academia to debate what it would take to build an eco-system that can fully realize AI's promise in chip design. Will academia lead the way once again despite the barrier of data and compute? What research ideas will lead to breakthroughs or disruption – is the problem just data and compute or the need for new foundational models? What are current research ideas across startups, academia and EDA companies that they think will succeed and why?
Recent shifts, including the slowing of traditional scaling laws, the rise of agentic and non-gradient-based methods, open-source tooling, and autonomous design flows, raise fundamental questions: Who will ultimately drive breakthroughs in AI-led design?
This panel brings together researchers from Startups, EDA, and academia to debate what it would take to build an eco-system that can fully realize AI's promise in chip design. Will academia lead the way once again despite the barrier of data and compute? What research ideas will lead to breakthroughs or disruption – is the problem just data and compute or the need for new foundational models? What are current research ideas across startups, academia and EDA companies that they think will succeed and why?
Event Type
Research Panel
TimeMonday, July 2710:30am - 12:30pm PDT
LocationMtg Room 104A
AI