©ISTOC KPHOTO .COM/ANT ONIOKH R by Kevin Hermanns, Yarui Peng, and Alan Mantooth The Increasing Role of Design Automation in Power Electronics Gathering what is needed T he second Design Automation for Power Electronics (DAPE) workshop was held in the beautiful historical city of Genova, Italy, on 6 September 2019. This was one day after the successful European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE ECCE). With approximately 40 participants and a nice mix of industry and academic affiliations, the workshop provided outstanding presentations covering the wide field of design automation for power electronics. A very novel exchange of views was performed by breakout sessions, and the use of online voting technology to rapidly poll the attendees on Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPEL.2019.2959706 Date of current version: 19 February 2020 46 IEEE POWER ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE z March 2020 prepared questions of interest in DA provided valuable information (Figure 1). The breakout sessions were focused on group discussions about the fundamental questions in the domain of design automation, such as: 1) For DA, which aspects need research, and in which cases is it good enough? 2) What are the major bottlenecks in data quality and accessibility? How could standardization help? 3) What are the desired features for power electronics design engineers? 4) How do you verify the results of DA algorithms? 5) How do you see the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in DA? The breakout sessions tackled these questions with the final session devoted to reporting the results. A postmeeting notes 2329-9207/20©2020IEEEhttp://www.ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/ANTONIOKHR