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Keynote

Manish Pandey

Unleashing AI/ML for Faster Verification Closure

Design verification is one of the most expensive and time-consuming activities undertaken in electronic system development. Advances in machine learning (ML) algorithms, software and practices in the last few years have given verification engineers a powerful suite of tools to attack this problem. Verification tool builders have leveraged these ML advances to accelerate coverage closure, generate better simulation distributions, and improve core verification algorithms. We will explore how exploiting supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning have enabled order of magnitude gains in closure convergence and verification cycle reduction.
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Manish Pandey is Vice President R&D and Fellow at Synopsys, and an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He completed his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a B. Tech. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He currently leads the R&D teams for formal and static technologies, and machine learning at Synopsys. He previously led the development of several static and formal verification technologies at Verplex and Cadence which are in widespread use in the industry. Manish has been the recipient of the IEEE Transaction in CAD Outstanding Young author award, and holds over two dozen patents and refereed publications.