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30 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I SEPTEMBER 2024 Feature Q&A With Stephen Chavez SIEMENS e walls are coming down between the designers of chips and PCBs. Because of the complexity of electronic systems, IC design- ers and PCB designers are increasingly finding themselves in need of information from tech- nologists upstream and downstream, from sili- con through the system level. Stephen Chavez, senior product marketing manager at Siemens, shares his thoughts on this silicon-to-systems approach and what it means for PCB designers, EDA tool providers, and system-level developers as well. Andy Shaughnessy: More technologists are pointing out the need for PCB designers to focus on silicon to systems. What does that term mean to you and to EDA companies like Siemens? Stephen Chavez: "Silicon to systems" refers to a holistic approach in electronics design where the interaction and integration of silicon (ICs, chips) are considered all the way through to the system level (PCBs, full electronic prod- ucts). For EDA companies like Siemens, this means developing tools and methodologies Silicon to Systems: Collaboration Between IC and PCB Design Continues