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While many engineers are familiar with the benefits of HLS for datapath, there’s often less clarity around how it handles complex control flow, or how to effectively approach it at a higher level of abstraction. That’s exactly the focus of this educational webinar.
Our technical expert will step through the concepts of different control structures needed in hardware design and explain how to achieve both the productivity benefit of raised abstraction and the QoR of hand-coded RTL.
Article/Blog in SemiWiki
Author: Daniel Payne
I’ve watched the EDA industry change the level of design abstraction starting from transistor-level to gate-level, then RTL, and finally using High Level Synthesis (HLS). Another emerging software trend is the use of generative AI to make coding RTL more automated. There’s a new EDA company called Rise Design Automation that enables design and verification beyond RTL, so I attended their recent webinar to learn more about what they have to offer. Read More….
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Rise Design Automation delivers dramatic design and verification productivity with a unique combination of raised design abstraction, a comprehensive high-level toolchain, and a seamlessly integrated generative AI solution. Built with industry-first high-level agents and easily deployable pretrained language models, Rise translates natural-language intent into human-readable, modifiable, and verifiable high-level design code—reducing manual effort and accelerating adoption.
This technical webinar will be a combination of presentation and live demonstration.
Article/Blog in SemiWiki
Author: Bernard Murphy
DVCon 2025 was unquestionably a forum for pulling out all the stops in AI-based (RTL) design and verification, particularly around generative AI and agentic methods. I heard three product pitches and a keynote and have been told that every AI talk was standing room only. A pitch from Rise-DA particularly appealed to me because they have clearly taken care to balance intelligently between the promise of AI, the pros and cons of abstraction and the real dynamics of introducing new methods into established and proven flows and training. Read more….
Badru Agarwala is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rise Design Automation (RDA), an EDA startup with a mission to drive a fundamental shift-left in semiconductor design, verification, and implementation by raising abstraction beyond RTL With over 40 years of experience in EDA, Badru served as General Manager of the CSD division at…
The Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry is a mature industry, but it’s also one that is constantly changing. Each process node and packaging technology advancement places new demands and constraints on existing tools. In addition, changing design problems and paradigms transform how design teams operate, and the goals they target.
High-level design techniques and automation tools to address the limitations of traditional RTL, reduce verification times, improve performance, and manage growing design complexity—integrating seamlessly.
Be among the first to see how Generative AI is advancing hardware design workflows, providing solutions that reduce complexity and enable better results without steep learning curves. Witness how these tools offer immediate, practical benefits for real-world use cases.
Introducing Rise Design Automation
Introduction video – Rise Design Automation is an exciting new EDA startup with a mission to raise the level of abstraction beyond RTL and change the way that hardware design and verification is done for decades to come.
Interview with Ellie Burns and Badru Agarwala, co-founder and CEO Rise Design Automation (RDA)
Full interview with Badru Agarwala introducing Rise Design Automation (RDA) and its mission to raise abstraction beyond RTL and have it adopted at scale across the industry, why RDA products are fundamentally different from other solutions, and the RDA vision.
