Boris Gommershtadt

CTO

Israel25 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led development of industry-leading HDL simulators.
Achieved consistent performance improvements across multiple product releases.
Expert in managing global teams for innovative product solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in EDA and simulation technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

SimulationPerformance TuningProduct ManagementAiVerificationEmulation

Other Skills

VCS simulator performanceHigh performance HDL simulatorsVerification ManagementAI and LLMsProduct life-cycle managementZebu emulator integrationUnified frontend and backend aspectsRTL SimulationTestbench performanceEDADebuggingSystemVerilogVerilogSoCAlgorithms

About

Successful track record for software engineering, innovative and complex software product development and operation. Broad technical background in chip design automation tools, flows and methodologies. Developing machine learning and artificial intelligence applications to solve new engineering problems. • Leading, managing and building global teams at executive level, building and nurturing the team with open culture to deliver long term growth and vision. • Operational excellence and solid product management by leading strategies to differentiate and make competitive products working across functional teams. • Proven ability of optimizing products performance, consistently delivered >2x speedups on several mature products Deep Understanding and Expertise on tool development in following areas - high performance HDL simulators - HDL emulators and fpga prototyping - rtl power analysis and power estimation - low power verification, upf - formal, static and linting tools - verification management systems - functional/code coverage, assertions - testbench - high level synthesis Specialties: Agile Management, Product Delivery, Release management, SW-HW systems, FPGA based systems, Parsers, Compilers, Software Performance and acceleration, Machine Learning, AI. Languages: C/C++, Java, python, Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL, e , all scripting languages, flex/bison

Experience

25 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

12 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

18 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Synopsys inc

5 roles

Executive Director, RnD

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Building the fastest simulator in the industry
Responsible for VCS simulator performance which under my leadership consistently improved by factor every release

VCS simulator performanceHigh performance HDL simulatorsSimulationPerformance Tuning

Executive Director, RnD

Promoted

Feb 2024 – Dec 2024 · 10 mos

Owning several products in the area of Verification Management , IDE for Verilog/VHDL development, Soc Verification using PSS:
Responsible for Product's complete life-cycle
managing multi-national, multi-disciplinary teams focusing on product development (FE, BE, Server, DB, engines, IT, QA, etc.)
delivering innovating solutions on-schedule and within budget
using AI and LLMs to provide our customers with best possible productivity and experience

Verification ManagementAI and LLMsProduct life-cycle managementProduct ManagementAI

Group Director, R&D

Promoted

Dec 2017 – Feb 2024 · 6 yrs 2 mos

Owning a product which addresses the full needs of Verification Management:
Responsible for Product's complete life-cycle
managing multi-disciplinary teams focusing on product development (FE, BE, Server, DB, engines, IT, QA, etc.)
delivering innovating solutions on-schedule and within budget
Working on best in class emulator and Simulator, focusing on:
Compiler
UPF (Low Power) modeling
Power estimation for Emulation
Capacity and Performance of Emulation
Performance of Simulation
Debug for Emulation

Verification ManagementProduct life-cycle managementProduct ManagementVerification

Director, R&D

Promoted

Apr 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Integrated the fastest Zebu emulator with the overall verification flow and VCS, focused on unified frontend, debug, low power and backend aspects of the emulation

Zebu emulator integrationUnified frontend and backend aspectsEmulationVerification