Jul 22, 2026 · 45 min · 14 segments
Language models aren't the only path to intelligence. For physics, the primitive is fields.In this episode of the Mission Matters Podcast, Maggie Gray and Akhil Iyer sit down with Pratap Ranade, CEO &…
Pratap RanadeGuest
Akhil IyerHost
Maggie GrayHost
So maybe just to level set for people who aren't as familiar with the world of electrical and RF engineering, what is the current state of design tools for these kinds of engineers? And maybe just contrast that with your Atlas platform.

So if we look at it, you have let's say you're building a new autonomous autonomous aircraft.

like probably a metal box of some sort that has to go through withstand G-forces, go through various temperature regimes, probably like do some degree of insulation to sort of EW.

And then you're running specific software on it, probably low-level software on the flight computer.

If I put, if I change how the software behaves, I'm going to drive more compute.

I might heat up my, I'm going to generate more heat, right? I'm going to generate different behavior.

interact very deeply, right? And you can imagine, you know, someone once mentioned to me, the problems always emerge at the seams between teams.

And so the problem here is you have a mechanical engineering group, an EE group, and a software group.


So you have three different, very large incumbent tool chains that you can imagine aren't the most sophisticated and don't play nice with each other.

So maybe just to level set for people who aren't as familiar with the world of electrical and RF engineering, what is the current state of design tools for these kinds of engineers? And maybe just contrast that with your Atlas platform.

So if we look at it, you have let's say you're building a new autonomous autonomous aircraft.

like probably a metal box of some sort that has to go through withstand G-forces, go through various temperature regimes, probably like do some degree of insulation to sort of EW.

And then you're running specific software on it, probably low-level software on the flight computer.

If I put, if I change how the software behaves, I'm going to drive more compute.

I might heat up my, I'm going to generate more heat, right? I'm going to generate different behavior.

interact very deeply, right? And you can imagine, you know, someone once mentioned to me, the problems always emerge at the seams between teams.

And so the problem here is you have a mechanical engineering group, an EE group, and a software group.


So you have three different, very large incumbent tool chains that you can imagine aren't the most sophisticated and don't play nice with each other.
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