{"id":19624,"date":"2025-11-10T08:44:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/?p=19624"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:54:12","slug":"introducing-bugged-out-a-new-bite-sized-podcast-for-verification-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/2025\/11\/10\/introducing-bugged-out-a-new-bite-sized-podcast-for-verification-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing BUGGED OUT \u2014 A new bite-sized podcast for verification engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m excited to share something I\u2019ve been working on for a while \u2014 my new podcast, <strong>BUGGED OUT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve been in verification long enough, you know the truth: <strong>Every chip has bugs.<\/strong> The real challenge \u2014 and the real creativity \u2014 is in how we find and fix them quickly. This podcast is about that work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each episode is <strong>10\u201315<\/strong> minutes, designed for a commute, a coffee break, or that moment when your simulation farm is spinning and you finally have a minute to think. I sit down with engineers, architects, and researchers who are reshaping verification \u2014 and we talk honestly about what\u2019s changing, what\u2019s working, and what still keeps teams up at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No slides.<br>No corporate polish.<br>Just real conversations \u2014 and a few good \u201cin the trenches\u201d stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the first conversations I\u2019m sharing is with <strong>Jake Wiltgen<\/strong>, Director of IC Verification Solutions at Siemens EDA. And this one is special \u2014 because DFT is having a moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the episode, Jake and I talk about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How he actually end up in the world of <strong>Design-for-Test<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How to explains DFT to someone with no background \u2014 in a few sentences<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why <strong>DFT sign-off<\/strong> is increasingly becoming a <strong>critical bottleneck<\/strong> at tape-out<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And how solutions like <strong>Questa One<\/strong> aim to reduce that friction and accelerate closure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But we didn\u2019t stop at tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We dug into the mega-trends reshaping test:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Technology scaling \u2192 smaller geometries, more failure modes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Design scaling \u2192 more logic, more compression, tighter margins<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>System scaling \u2192 devices that must work across years, temperatures, mission profiles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And we talked about reliability, aging silicon, in-system test, and how car ECUs, data center accelerators, and safety-critical compute are changing test strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally, we ended with what I think is the real heart of the conversation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the right balance between automation and engineering intuition?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tools are improving \u2014 dramatically. But verification is still a human craft.<br>And that\u2019s not changing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Listen to the Conversation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>BUGGED OUT with Jacob Wiltgen<\/strong><br>Now available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/verificationacademy.com\/bugged-out-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Verification Academy<\/a><br><em>(Additional platforms coming as episodes roll out.)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why I Started Bugged Out<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve spent decades studying verification practices across the industry. 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