Sigasi continues its 2026 aerospace and defense tour
DEFSEC Atlantic 2026
September has already taken Sigasi from the Bengaluru Space Expo in India to the Industry Space Days in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. In early October, the journey continues across the Atlantic: Sigasi will be at DEFSEC Atlantic 2026 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from October 6–8
DEFSEC will also be our third major defense-focused event of 2026, following GOMACTech in New Orleans in March and Eurosatory in Paris in June. Different countries, different programs and different operational environments — but the engineering challenge we hear is remarkably consistent: FPGA and ASIC teams need to move faster without giving up control.
From space to defense, the hardware challenge is converging
At Bengaluru Space Expo (BSX) and the ESA Industry Space Days , the focus was on space systems: long product lifecycles, complex FPGA and ASIC designs, mixed-language projects and engineering processes where discovering a semantic problem late can be extremely expensive.
Defense programs face many of the same engineering realities.
The systems may be different, but the underlying hardware increasingly depends on sophisticated programmable logic and custom silicon. Designs are larger. Teams are distributed. Existing VHDL has to coexist with Verilog and SystemVerilog. Traceability and reproducibility matter. And AI coding agents are starting to generate and modify RTL at a speed traditional engineering workflows were never designed around.
That is precisely where deterministic engineering infrastructure becomes important.
AI makes RTL generation faster. It does not make engineering deterministic.
At Eurosatory , one of the central conversations around Sigasi was how defense organizations can benefit from AI-assisted engineering without losing control of the RTL development process.
AI agents can generate HDL quickly. They can suggest fixes, refactor code and work across multiple files. But they remain probabilistic systems. They do not inherently know whether the code they generated is correct in the context of the complete engineering project. For professional FPGA and ASIC teams, that distinction matters. A piece of RTL can look perfectly reasonable in isolation while still containing problems related to hierarchy, libraries, types, scopes, interfaces or dependencies elsewhere in the project.
Sigasi therefore does not try to replace the coding agent, we make the coding agent useful for hardware design by providing the deterministic semantic layer around it: validating generated and handwritten HDL in full project context, providing reproducible diagnostics and allowing engineers to understand what the agent actually changed.
AI can generate HDL fast. Sigasi keeps engineers in control.
Why DEFSEC Atlantic
DEFSEC Atlantic brings the Canadian and international aerospace and defense community together in Halifax for three days of exhibition, B2B meetings and industry exchange. The 2026 edition takes place at the Halifax Convention Centre from October 6–8. For Sigasi, it is an opportunity to continue conversations we started earlier this year at GOMACTech and Eurosatory.
At GOMACTech, the discussion centered on trusted and assured microelectronics, semiconductor development, supply-chain resilience and engineering infrastructure for government and defense programs. We showed how deterministic, project-aware analysis can move problems earlier in the development process, support mixed-language RTL projects and provide a controlled foundation for AI-assisted development. Eurosatory broadened that conversation. AI, digital technologies, industrial resilience and multi-domain systems were prominent themes across the event.
DEFSEC gives us the opportunity to continue that discussion with the Canadian and international aerospace and defense community.
What we will be talking about in Halifax
For teams developing mission-critical FPGA and ASIC systems, the important question is no longer simply whether AI can write RTL. It can. The more important questions are what happens after the agent writes the code:
- Does the RTL make sense in the complete project?
- Did the change introduce new dependency, type or interface problems?
- Can engineers understand its impact quickly?
- Can diagnostics be reproduced across the team and in CI?
- Can AI-generated changes fit into existing review, verification and governance processes?
- Can teams reduce unnecessary AI retries instead of spending more tokens generating another version of the same problem?
Sigasi is built around those questions. Our semantic project model understands hierarchy, types, scopes, dependencies, libraries, interfaces and mixed-language designs, giving both engineers and AI agents project-aware feedback instead of another probabilistic opinion. And as AI becomes more capable, that deterministic layer becomes more important, not less. More generated code means more iterations, more tool calls and more changes that engineers ultimately need to understand and validate.
Three defense events. One consistent message.
From GOMACTech in the United States, to Eurosatory in France, and now DEFSEC Atlantic in Canada, our message throughout 2026 has remained consistent:
Accelerate with AI. Validate with determinism.
Defense engineering teams should be able to use modern AI tools without turning verification, review and governance into an even larger bottleneck. Sigasi helps make that possible by providing deterministic semantic validation at the point where RTL is being created — whether it is written by an engineer, generated by an AI agent, or increasingly developed by both working together.
If you will be at DEFSEC Atlantic in Halifax from October 6–8, come to the Flanders Investment & Trade booth C203 in the COVE exhibition hall and talk to us about AI-assisted RTL development, mixed-language FPGA and ASIC projects, deterministic validation and how to integrate Sigasi into your existing engineering workflow.
Meet the experts
If you want to make sure to have a time slot available, you can plan a meeting with our experts in person or, if you can’t make it to Halifax this year, online.
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