From Future Vision To Running Hardware: Verification At DAC 2026

At last year’s DAC in San Francisco, I sat in “ A Look into the Future of Verification ,” an Engineering Track special session debating where our discipline is headed — multi-language flows, AI co-pilots, portable stimulus, formal methods. The discussion was energizing, and what struck me then stayed with me since: whatever that future looks like, it has to execute somewhere. And increasingly, that is where there is hardware — emulation and FPGA-based prototyping. I recently wrote in How Far Lef