Siemens EDA: What the 2026 Functional Verification Study Reveals

What’s covered

“Beyond the Numbers: What the 2026 Functional Verification Study Reveals” is a free Siemens EDA webinar on Tuesday, November 10, 2026 at 9:30 PM IST, presented by Harry Foster.

Siemens says the 2026 Siemens EDA and Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study offers more than a snapshot of industry trends, and that its findings point to changes in the nature of the verification challenge itself. This session looks past the individual statistics to the broader issues the study raises: increasing design and system complexity, declining first-silicon success, the growing impact of software, and the expanding role of AI, formal verification, emulation and other advanced verification approaches.

It also covers what those trends mean for how verification teams organize, measure progress, allocate resources and prepare for what comes next.

What you will learn:

• Key findings from the 2026 Functional Verification Study
• The larger industry trends behind the data
• How the verification problem is changing as designs become more software-driven and system-oriented
• Emerging challenges involving complexity, productivity, safety, security and verification convergence
• What the findings suggest about the future direction of functional verification

Who should attend

• Verification engineers and verification leads
• Design and verification managers
• SoC and system architects
• Hardware and software engineering leaders
• Emulation, formal verification and FPGA prototyping specialists
• Engineering executives responsible for verification productivity, quality and time-to-market
• Anyone interested in how growing system complexity, software content, AI, safety and security are reshaping the verification challenge

Speaker

Harry Foster is Chief Scientist for Verification at Siemens EDA and co-founder and executive editor of Verification Academy. He was General Chair of the 2021 Design Automation Conference, has co-authored six books on verification, and created the Accellera Open Verification Library (OVL) standard.

Session time

Registration is free, and the session runs one hour. Time, speaker and abstract sourced from the official ON24 registration page, linked from Verification Academy’s upcoming webinars.

The session ends as Siemens’ Turning Shift-Left from Slogan to Reality webinar begins at 10:30 PM IST, so both fit in one evening.

Why GSAS is sharing this

GSAS is an authorized engineering partner for Siemens EDA in India. On the verification side we supply Questa FPGA Essentials, the FPGA simulation bundle built on the Questa simulator. A study-level session like this one is useful context for Indian teams planning verification headcount, tooling and methodology for the next programme.

If you want to talk through how your verification flow compares, get in touch.

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