Prototyping systems using FPGA

We’ve seen in today’s rapidly evolving industry, FPGA prototyping plays a crucial role in ASIC design validation and early hardware/software integration.

The event will provide invaluable insights into how FPGA-based prototyping can de-risk development, optimize performance, and accelerate time-to-market.

Potential Topics of Interest:

• Ensuring Confidence in ASIC Design Before Tapeout – Identifying and resolving potential design flaws before committing to silicon
• Early Hardware/Software Integration – Bridging the gap between design and implementation to streamline development
• Overcoming Simulation Bottlenecks – Enabling longer, more complex test scenarios that traditional simulations cannot handle
• Automotive-Specific FPGA Applications – Exploring how FPGA prototyping is transforming the future of automotive electronics.

Who Should Attend?

• ASIC Designers – Validate and optimize your designs efficiently.
• Automotive Engineers – See how FPGA enhances real-world automotive applications.
• Embedded & System Architects – Leverage FPGA for early integration and debugging.
• Tech Leaders & Decision-Makers – Stay ahead of industry trends and network with experts.

Speakers

Flemming Christensen: Managing Director , Sundance

Flemming founded Sundance in 1989, designing and building Multiprocessor solution based around INMOS's Transputer.

36 years later and not a lot has changed.

Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. was founded in 1989 and has thousands of man-years of experience operating as an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). It offers a range of Commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) boards for a broad range of customers.

They have in-house manufacturing equipment for electronics board and full test facilities. We run an ISO9001 Quality System to monitor all processes and have done since 1999.

Presentation: Multi FPGA solution for prototyping

Frederic Leens: CEO and founder, Exostiv Labs

Frederic is the CEO and founder of Exostiv Labs. Before establishing Exostiv Labs, he worked as a designer and provider of design services for companies such as Barco, NXP, Philips, Atos, and ASML. This experience spanned various industries using semiconductors, including finance, medical imaging, video and broadcast, military, and avionics. With over 20 years of expertise, Frederic and his co-founders envisioned Exostiv Labs with the belief that properly instrumented FPGAs are crucial for enhancing product quality and streamlining design cycles.

Presentation: You can’t fix what you don’t see – A plea for visibility in FPGAs

As FPGAs become more complex, the design process has evolved in comprehensiveness. Interestingly, tools—and sometimes engineers—have become highly specialised for specific tasks, except for ‘debugging’, which remains a somewhat vague concept that occurs throughout the entire design cycle.

In this brief talk, we will examine the limitations of traditional methodologies and demonstrate that achieving orders of magnitude greater visibility is crucial for effective FPGA design and debugging.

Michael O’Sullivan: Engineeering Group Director, Cadence

Michael O’Sullivan is an engineering director at Cadence with a focus on verification and is based in Edinburgh, Scotland. . Michael has been with Cadence for over 27 years with various roles in sales, marketing and design services. Prior to Cadence he was a design engineer at S3 Group in Dublin, Ireland and at Philips in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Michael has an Masters of Engineering Science from the National University of Ireland.

Presentation: Use of Prototyping and Emulation in the semiconductor industry in 2025

Rob Taylor:CEO, Chipflow

Rob Taylor is driven by his passion for empowering individuals to unleash their creativity, believing this will enable new products and business models that we can’t yet imagine. With over 20 years of commercialising open source software, and two previous successful exits (Rev 10m), he combined startup leadership experience with deep technical knowledge to bring the vision, strategy and delivery.

Presentation: Fast FPGA prototyping with python for Automotive & Industrial

Dr Philip Clarke: dSPACE

Dr Clarke works for dSPACE, a provider of solutions for the development and test of embedded control systems. He will talk about how FPGA technology supports high fidelity real time tests for complex controllers.

Presentation: Enabling detailed HiL testing for electric drives with high speed FPGA models

Romain Petit: Siemens

HW Assisted Verification professional enabling adoption of Veloce technologies

Taner Dosluoglu: Weeteq

Dr Taner Dosluoglu – Founder & CEO

Semiconductor Executive with decades of successful technology innovation and disruptive product introduction experience

Experienced Semiconductor Executive with demonstrated history of successful technology innovation and disruptive product introduction in a Start-up environment as well as R&D teams within larger companies. Extensive experience in operations and product development as well as direct technical contributions in analog architecture, circuits and system level design, device and process innovations, and publications in photonics, semiconductor devices and circuits.

• Previously: Sarnoff Corporation, Tektronix, SRI International, Dialog Semiconductor, Chaoyang Technologies, Endura Technologies.
• Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1992 from Oregon Graduate Institute at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon.

James Dickie: Etas

An experienced product manager with detailed knowledge of emdedded software and development tools in the automotive and general embedded systems markets.

Graham Harris
Field Application Engineer, Siemens

A Chartered Engineer with over 20 years’ experience in Hardware Assisted Verification (Emulation and FPGA Prototyping Systems). Actively involved in the Verification and Validation of complex SoC’s, GPU, CPU & AI Semiconductor IP at NXP Semiconductors, Imagination Technologies and now Siemens EDA. This included porting IP (RTL & Gate Level Netlist) onto these systems (onsite & cloud based), and the technical support to Hardware & Software teams to run use-cases, debug the design and develop driver software; prior to and after tapeout.

Amr Eldieb
Field Application Engineer, Siemens

A passionate FPGA Application Engineer with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. With over 20 years of experience in designing, validating, and optimizing digital circuit designs, Amr has a proven track record in developing high-speed designs for data communication, audio, gaming, and embedded systems. His expertise includes Verilog and VHDL coding, system-level debugging, and pre-silicon validation.

Presentation :How Veloce proFPGA CS accelerates HW and SW verification closure ?

Learn how Veloce CS Systems are transforming the hardware assisted verification methodology to cope with the market transformation. Part of Veloce CS systems is the comprehensive prototype solution proFPGA CS aimed at maximizing the verification speed, while offering a configurable capacity scalability from single FPGA to multi-blades/multi-FPGA’s configurations.

Synopsys: Speaker TBC