Bernard Candaele is the Head of Thales SoC & EDA Department. After a first experience at Intel, Chandler and at Cimatel, Paris (common design center for Intel/Matra-Harris) as IC designer and project leader for automotive and telecom micro-controllers, he is with Thomson-Csf since 1988. He has been the technical head of the Csam project for Thomson digital processing ASICs. He has competencies in managing EDA solution for hardware electronics development, in SoC projects and telecom and security related product developments, and in R&D activities in co-operation within European and national programs. Bernard Candaele is member of Thales hardware Steering committee, an IEEE member and he is author or co-author of more than 50 papers.