# Beyond Automation: Self-Verifying AI Agents for Semiconductor and PCB Design

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Podcast: [EE Times Current](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ee-times-current-709434)
Published: 2026-08-07T14:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcast.show/aspencore/episode/154517389/
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As AI agents grow more capable, the question of trust becomes increasingly critical, especially in complex engineering environments like semiconductor and PCB design. Siemens EDA and NVIDIA are tackling that challenge head-on, combining deep EDA domain expertise with cutting-edge AI infrastructure to deliver a new generation of agentic AI capabilities for engineering teams. In this episode, we sit down with Amit Gupta, Chief AI Strategy Officer at Siemens EDA, and Tim Costa, VP and GM of Industrial and Computational Engineering at NVIDIA, to explore how their collaboration is shaping the future of EDA workflows. Together, they discuss domain-scoped AI agents that don't just execute tasks but verify their own outputs using physics-based EDA software validation, purpose-built to support the demands of long-running engineering workflows. We dig into what self-verifying agentic AI actually means in practice, what the Siemens and NVIDIA collaboration looks like under the hood, and what it delivers in terms of tool-calling reliability, token efficiency, result quality, and time-to-results for engineering teams working across the full EDA lifecycle.

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