CEO Shelley Henry speaks at ESD Alliance Executive Outlook and DAC 2026 as industry embraces AI-driven engineering
Moores Lab AI today announced CoverageAgent™, a new AI-powered solution designed to automate coverage closure, one of the most time-consuming and resource-intensive phases of semiconductor development. The announcement marks the next step in the company’s broader vision for agenttic silicon engineering, a future in which dedicated AI agents help engineers navigate every stage of chip development from specification to tapeout.
We’re building a new generation of engineering tools that help teams move faster, make better decisions, and bring better products to market. Spend less time fighting complexity. You can spend more time building your future. ”
— Sherry Henry, Moores Lab AI CEO
This announcement comes at a turning point for the company. CEO and co-founder Shelly Henry will be speaking at two of the semiconductor industry’s most influential events: tomorrow’s ESD Alliance Executive Outlook 2026 and next month’s DAC 2026.
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At the ESD Alliance Executive Outlook CEO Panel, Henry will join other industry leaders to discuss how AI is reshaping the semiconductor ecosystem and changing the way engineering organizations operate. Then, at DAC 2026, he will participate in the panel “Leveraging AI for SoC Verification: Disruptive or Collaborative?” with EDA and semiconductor industry leaders to explore the emerging role of agenttic AI in chip design and verification.
Taken together, these discussions reflect the larger industry changes that Moores Lab AI has been building towards since day one.
Founded by engineers who have spent decades designing, verifying, and delivering complex silicon, Moores Lab AI is born from first-hand experience with the realities of chip development: endless debug cycles, unpredictable coverage terminations, fragmented workflows, and increasing schedule pressures.
Shelley Henry, CEO and co-founder of Moores Lab AI, said: “We started it because we knew how hard it was to build chips. We spent late nights before tape-out. We chased bugs across thousands of waveforms. We struggled with closing coverage and changing requirements. We believe the future of engineering isn’t about working hard. It’s about removing friction so engineers can focus on creating.”
CoverageAgent represents the latest step towards that future.
Coverage termination remains one of the most persistent bottlenecks in the industry, often requiring weeks of manual analysis, exclusion reviews, and iterative regressions before teams can confidently move forward with sign-off. CoverageAgent intelligently analyzes coverage results, identifies meaningful gaps, and recommends exclusions with supporting evidence, helping validation teams converge faster with higher confidence.
The product builds on the momentum of VerifAgent™, Moores Lab AI’s verification platform, currently deployed by 15 semiconductor companies. Customers use the platform to accelerate validation workflows, increase engineering productivity, and reduce time spent on repetitive tasks that would traditionally take months of development effort.
But the company’s ambitions extend beyond verification.
Moores Lab AI provides an ecosystem of specialized engineering agents designed to support the entire silicon development lifecycle, from understanding design intent and generating verification plans to debugging faults, closing coverage, validating signoff readiness, and ultimately supporting broader SoC engineering workflows.
Unlike general-purpose AI tools, these systems are built specifically for semiconductor engineers, by semiconductor engineers.
“Our vision is simple,” Henry said. “The complexity of chip development continues to grow, but engineering teams don’t have to absorb all of that complexity themselves. We’re building a new generation of engineering tools that help teams move faster, make better decisions, and bring better products to market. Spend less time fighting complexity and more time building the future.”
As AI becomes increasingly integrated into semiconductor workflows, Moores Lab AI believes the industry is entering a new era in which agent systems augment human expertise, eliminate repetitive tasks, and allow engineers to focus on innovation rather than process.
DAC 2026 visitors can meet the Moores Lab AI team, see live demonstrations of CoverageAgent and VerifAgent, and learn more about the company’s Agentic Silicon Engineering roadmap.
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