• Initial offerings include a hierarchy explorer, linter, HDL editor, signal tracer, essential tools for hardware design and verification
• Verific EDA Store opens July 27 as 63rd DAC begins in Long Beach, Calif.

ALAMEDA, Calif. , July 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Verific Design Automation today announced the Verific EDA Store with a toolkit and downloadable example applications showcasing a variety of essential electronic design automation (EDA) point tools and solutions built using its Parser Platforms.

The Verfic EDA Store will open Monday, July 27, as the 63rd Design Automation Conference (DAC) convenes at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif. Verific will offer in DAC Booth #1052 demonstrations of the new Verific EDA Store examples along with demonstrations of its SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHDL and UPF front-end Parser Platforms.

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Former designers turned entrepreneurs say existing EDA solutions are outdated.

By Ann Wu, co-founder and CEO, Silimate, and Rick Carlson, vice president of sales, Verific Design Automation

AI has entered the realm of electronic design automation (EDA) and is already reshaping the landscape with new tools that enable faster delivery of chips and IP to market.

And with it, the venture community is funding entrepreneurial startups in the nascent market segment, sometimes referred to as AI EDA, which has been lacking for some time.

Much of the AI implementation activity is coming from actual hardware designers-turned-entrepreneurs who worked at companies like Apple and SpaceX. They were frustrated in their previous roles with the existing chip design process and sought to address its inadequacies.

Their well-funded companies are announcing new or soon-to-be-announced products based on AI technology that can address some of the more pressing challenges, promising improvements in time to tape out and expediting the chip design process.

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Ann Wu is CEO of EDA startup Silimate, developer of a co-pilot (chat-based GenAI) for chip and IP designers to find and fix functional and power, performance and area (PPA) issues in their designs. Rick Carlson is Vice President of Sales at ESD Alliance member company Verific Design Automation, provider of front-end EDA platforms to a range of small and emerging EDA companies like Silimate and larger EDA vendors.

I recently talked with Ann and Rick who represent EDA’s new and old guard. I found them to be bullish about the emerging EDA space called AI EDA that uses GenAI and large language models as the foundational tools and the swelling numbers of well-funded startups entering this space.

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Rick Carlson, Verific Design Automation’s Vice President of Sales, is an EDA trends spotter. I was reminded of his prescience when he recently called to catch up and talk about Verific’s role as provider of front-end platforms powering an emerging EDA market.

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2024 marks Verific’s 25th anniversary as a valued supplier of front-end Parser Platforms! Rob Dekker, our founder, president and CTO, and COO Michiel Ligthart talk with Bob Smith, the ESD Alliance’s Executive Director, about our evolution and the industry over the last 25 years and what’s to come.

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