Neel Natekar is a Senior Product Manager at Siemens EDA for Analog/Mixed-signal circuit simulation products. He partners with R&D and customers to shape cutting-edge EDA software for Custom IC verification. He has over 13 years of experience in the semiconductor industry spanning roles in Analog/Mixed-signal IP design and integration as well as EDA product engineering and management.

He has an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley. He is the recipient of 4 US patents in circuit design.

Lih-Jen Hou is a Senior Technical Product Manager at Siemens EDA for Analog and Mixed-signal circuit simulation products. He has over 10 years of experience in the Semiconductor industry with analog design roles in IC development, and pre/post sales application engineering in semiconductor foundry and EDA segments industry. He is currently focused on product marketing of next-generation EDA technologies with Siemens EDA’s Custom IC Verification Division, leveraging his design and customer engagement experiences. He has an M.S. in NanoEngineering from National TsingHua University.

Cooper Robertson is a Technical Product Manager for the Solido Characterization Suite, where he helps drive the development and adoption of advanced characterization and AI-driven solutions for semiconductor design. Prior to his current role, he spent three years as an Applications Engineer supporting Solido Characterization Suite customers and helping them optimize their characterization workflows. His passion is enabling customers to improve efficiency, reduce development time, and accelerate time to market through industry-leading technology. Cooper brings both technical expertise and practical customer experience to his work with design teams around the world. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Physics from the University of Saskatchewan. He also earned a Master of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering from Carleton University. Through his work, Cooper is dedicated to advancing innovative solutions that help customers address increasingly complex design challenges.

Dr. Hsu has 20-year CMOS analog circuit design experience and 10-year EDA system integration experience. Besides CMOS integrated circuit design, Dr. Hsu also has much MEMS and heterogeneous integration experience, and his PhD. research is semi-passive smart contact lens platform for eye disease diagnosis.

Gavin leads the Front-End CAD team at M31 Technology, developing the design flow for M31's foundation IP — standard cells, memory compilers, and IO — from EDA view generation and library characterization through IP release QA.

He brings 12+ years of ASIC implementation experience in constraint validation, DFT implementation, hierarchical timing closure, and post-sim verification — a background that shapes how he defines IP quality, working backward from downstream sign-off. His current focus is turning Liberty quality from case-by-case debug into an automated gate, using Solido Analytics to codify recurring findings into release rules.

Join this session to explore Solido Analytics’ easy-to-use features of comparing all Liberty(.lib) metrics cross datasets and corners.

See how Solido Analytics looks at every measurement and data point in Liberty (.lib) files, checks them side-by-side or against a baseline, and finds differences, trends, or errors.