Outline 00:00 - Intro 02:40 - Classic Studies 06:51 - Early Steps in Berkeley between Optimization and Circuits Theory 16:04 - Back to Italy... and back to Berkeley 26:29 - The SPICE program and the interaction with IBM 33:30 - Logic Synthesis, Simulated Annealing, Timberwolf 40:57 - The Intel x386, YACR, and ESPRESSO 47:01 - The birth of Cadence and Synopsis 1:06:01 - Corsi e Ricorsi in EDA 1:30:45 - The Shift to Automotive and Platform-Based Design 1:39:06 - Outro Links Alberto’s website: https://tinyurl.com/2w8t8fza State-space approach in problem-solving optimization: https://tinyurl.com/bdcnmbhp EDA: https://tinyurl.com/3dur7yth SPICE: https://tinyurl.com/yxm56txy Logic Minimization Algorithms for VLSI Synthesis: https://tinyurl.com/49bnw3by Simulated annealing: https://tinyurl.com/mryz45pz Timberwolf: https://tinyurl.com/mvm28wnn Intel 386: https://tinyurl.com/4z7ubb55 Cadence: https://tinyurl.com/hydjj92z Synopsis: https://tinyurl.com/463vk8mk Dracula: https://tinyurl.com/kcum5v8t Corsi e ricorsi - the EDA story: https://tinyurl.com/mwar9p44 G. Vico: https://tinyurl.com/cb4mp7nz Finite state machine: https://tinyurl.com/4ckszk2n System-level design: orthogonalization of concerns and platform-based design: https://tinyurl.com/v2t4njt4 Quo Vadis, SLD? Reasoning About the Trends and Challenges of System Level Design: https://tinyurl.com/mpmmstun Remembering Richard: https://tinyurl.com/yc6rf7u3 W. Shockley: https://tinyurl.com/w3chmutt Support the showPodcast info Podcast website: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/5n84j85j Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/4rwztj3c RSS: https://tinyurl.com/yc2fcv4y Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/bdbvhsj6 Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/3z24yr43 Twitter: https://twitter.com/IncontrolP Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/35cu4kr4 Acknowledgments and sponsors This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.