Electronic News sat down to discuss the future of system-on-a-chip (SoC) design with Sanjay Srivastava, CEO of Denali Software; Grant Pierce, CEO of Sonics; Doug McCafferty, president of Beach Solutions; Joachim Kunkel, VP of engineering, Synopsys solutions group; and Lauro Rizzatti, U.S. general manager of Emulation and Verification Engineering. What follows are excerpts of that conversation.