The official podcast of DAC, The Chips to Systems Conference—featuring interviews with top leaders in chip design, AI, security, and systems innovation. Join us in San Jose, CA, from July 11-14 for DAC 2027!
Episode 19: Looking Beyond Your Plate with Engineering Track Chairs, Frank Schirrmeister & Henning Spruth
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.
2 Apr 2026
Episode 18: William Chappell’s Inside Look at the New Scientific Revolution
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.
5 Jan 2026
Episode 17: Jeff Wittich Ascends the Peaks of AI
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10 Dec 2025
Episode 16: Mark Tehranipoor Intelligently Confronts Security Adversaries
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.
4 Dec 2025
Episode 15: Immersed in the Reality of Sarita Adve
Sarita Adve (University of Illinois) is interviewed by Host Erik Seligman (Cadence Design Systems) and Co-Host Rich Edelman (Siemens). Please click to listen.
7 May 2025
Episode 14: The Three Dimensions of Gary Patton
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.
3 Apr 2024
Episode 13: Dave Rich Steps Out From Backstage
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.
30 Jan 2024
Episode 12: From Furniture Design to Quantum Physics with Heike Riel
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 Intelligence, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Precision Diagnostics and Smart System Integration.
18 Dec 2023
Episode 11: Hallucinatory Nobel Prize Winner Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
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 with Alberto on what he's up to now.
25 Sept 2023
Episode 10: Highlights of 60DAC
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.
30 Jun 2023
Episode 9: Meditations on EDA & AI with Kurt Keutzer
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 language processing, and finance. No stranger to DAC or the EDA community, Kurt has published six books, over 250 refereed articles, and is among the most highly cited authors in Hardware and Design Automation. Kurt was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1996. At the 50th Design Automation Conference Kurt received a number of awards reflecting achievements over the 50 year history of the conference. These included “Top Ten Cited Author” and “Top Ten Cited Paper.” He was also recognized as among one of only three people to have received four Best Paper Awards in the history of the conference. Kurt's research on Deep Learning has also received Best Paper Awards at the Embedded Vision Workshop and at the International Conference on Parallel Processing.
Listen in as he meditates on EDA & AI...
25 May 2023
Episode 8: John Sanguinetti Reaches New Heights & Makes Expensive Mistakes
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 architect of VCS, the Verilog Compiled Simulator. He was a co-founder of C2 Design Automation, now Forte Design Systems, where he served as Chief Technical Officer for 15 years. He is a fellow of the ACM and now serves as Chairman at Adapt-IP.
28 Apr 2023
Episode 7: A Tsunami of Technology with Wally Rhines
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 boards of five public companies, managed the semiconductor business of Texas Instruments (TI), and is a spokesperson, writer and highly-sought-after speaker for the high-tech industry. Dr. Rhines currently serves as President and CEO of Cornami, Inc., consults for investors, corporations and the U.S. government on strategic directions, value creation and technology and serves on public and private boards.
29 Mar 2023
Episode 6: Joe Costello Enters EDA To Be Nice
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 the EDA industry. Hear his story with this episode.
24 Feb 2023
Episode 5: John Sanguinetti Beats the 600lb Gorillas
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 architect of VCS, the Verilog Compiled Simulator. He was a co-founder of C2 Design Automation, now Forte Design Systems, where he served as Chief Technical Officer for 15 years. He is a fellow of the ACM and now serves as Chairman at Adapt-IP.
1 Feb 2023
Episode 4: John Sanguinetti’s Light Bulb Moment
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 architect of VCS, the Verilog Compiled Simulator. He was a co-founder of C2 Design Automation, now Forte Design Systems, where he served as Chief Technical Officer for 15 years. He is a fellow of the ACM and now serves as Chairman at Adapt-IP.
8 Dec 2022
Episode 3: Strange Loops in the Career of Giovanni DeMicheli
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 Integrated Systems Laboratory at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.
14 Nov 2022
Episode 2: How Many Engineers Does It Take To Screw In a Lightbulb? Harry Foster on EDA Trends for 2022
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.
29 Sept 2022
Episode 1: Welcome to DAC-Cast
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 biotechnology and machine learning. He drove the creation of Perceive while CTO of its parent company and investor, Xperi, where he supervised technology development, including core audio and imaging innovations, and led the company’s machine learning team.
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