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.

Agenda

• 09:00 Arrival and Registration
• 09:30 Sundance – Multi FPGA solution for prototyping
• 09:40 Chipflow -Fast FPGA prototyping with python for Automotive & Industrial
• 09:50 Exostiv Labs- You can’t fix what you don’t see – A plea for visibility in FPGA
• 10:20 Cadence- Use of Prototyping and Emulation in the semiconductor industry in 2025
• 10:50 dSpace- Enabling detailed HiL testing for electric drives with high speed FPGA
• 11:20 Break
• 12:00 Siemens- Speaker TBC
• 12:30 Weeteq- Speaker TBC
• 13:00 Etas- The Importance of Deterministic Recompute when Developing ADAS Systems
• 13:30 Final Speaker- TBC
• 14:00 Lunch and Factory Tour

Speakers

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

Engineering 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