Synopsys Hits Agentic Status With AgentEngineer

The chip design industry continues to push the frontier of semiconductor power, performance and area. On this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Synopsys Vice President of AI and Machine Learning Thomas Andersen discusses the evolution of the company’s AI portfolio. He joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to explain how Synopsys progressed from leveraging AI through reinforcement learning across design, verification and test workflows to introducing AgentEngineer, a multi-agent AI-orchestrated workflow. Andersen also discusses the intersection of simulation and electronic design automation (EDA), the role of humans in the loop for chip design, AI’s current shortcomings, the pace of AI-tool adoption, the industry’s path beyond Moore’s law and much more.