Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this special edition of Silicon Grapevine, brought to you by the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESDA), EE Times sits down with Dean Drako, president and CEO of IC Manage.

While the semiconductor industry focuses on AI-assisted coding and automated verification, Dean reveals why the biggest hurdle isn't smarter EDA tools—it's coordinating thousands of AI agents working alongside human engineers.

Learn why a real-time "single source of truth" design database is critical to keeping parallel AI agents from creating chaos, why verification will be AI’s biggest success story, and why deep domain expertise still matters more than mastering the latest tools.

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