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Dave Kelf
Dave Kelf is the CEO of Breker Verification Systems, a San Jose-based EDA company whose test suite synthesis technology automates verification of large, complex chips including more than half of the world's RISC-V processor core projects. A UK-trained engineer turned marketing and business leader, Kelf spent three decades across Cadence, Synopsys, Co-Design Automation, Novas, and OneSpin, where he helped introduce and grow the SystemVerilog language and the Verdi debug environment. He rose from Breker's chief marketing officer to chief executive in October 2021 and has since guided the company through back-to-back years of 35 percent revenue growth.
Breker Verification Systems
Breker Verification Systems is a Silicon Valley EDA software company that pioneered Test Suite Synthesis - automatically generating multi-threaded, self-checking test cases that verify complex systems-on-chip far faster than hand-written testbenches. Founded in 2003 by Adnan and Maheen Hamid, Breker is a founding contributor to the Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard and a leader in RISC-V and SoC verification, with its SystemVIP libraries deployed across more than 15 commercial RISC-V projects.