Empyrean Technology‘s Complete Design Solution for PMIC

Empyrean Technology‘s Complete Design Solution for PMIC
by Daniel Nenni on 11-28-2021 at 6:00 am

PMIC Design SemiWIki

Power management integrated circuits (PMICs) are integrated circuits for power management. Driven by the strong demand in consumer electronics, IoT, and the automobile industry, the design for PMIC is getting more challenging in terms of integration, reliability and efficiency. The design methodology needs to be updated… Read More


CEO Interview: Pradeep Vajram of AlphaICs

CEO Interview: Pradeep Vajram of AlphaICs
by Daniel Nenni on 11-26-2021 at 6:00 am

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Pradeep Vajram is a successful entrepreneur and a veteran in the Semiconductor / Embedded industry. He has over 25+ years of experience in having executed, at all levels of responsibilities, in design and development of ASIC products.

Pradeep has been an active investor in semiconductor and deep tech USA-INDIA corridor start-up,… Read More


CEO Interview: Charbel Rizk of Oculi

CEO Interview: Charbel Rizk of Oculi
by Daniel Nenni on 11-19-2021 at 6:00 am

Charbel Rizk CEO Interview SemiWiki

Charbel Rizk is CEO of Oculi®, a spinout from Johns Hopkins University, a fabless semiconductor startup commercializing technology to address the high power and latency challenges of vision technology.  Dr. Rizk recognized these as barriers to effective AI in his years of experience as a Principal Systems Engineer, Lead Innovator,… Read More


Taiwan Semiconductor Outlook May 1988

Taiwan Semiconductor Outlook May 1988
by Daniel Nenni on 11-12-2021 at 6:00 am

James E. Dykes

This is an interesting piece of TSMC history. From 1987 to 1988 James E. Dykes served as the first President and Chief Executive Officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.

Taiwan Semiconductor Outlook
by James E. Dykes
President & Chief Executive Officer
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

Given… Read More


S2C EDA Delivers on Plan to Scale-Up FPGA Prototyping Platforms to Billions of Gates

S2C EDA Delivers on Plan to Scale-Up FPGA Prototyping Platforms to Billions of Gates
by Daniel Nenni on 11-08-2021 at 6:00 am

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S2C has been a global leader in FPGA prototyping for nearly two decades now, and its FPGA prototyping platforms have closely tracked the availability of the latest FPGAs – including the latest FPGAs from both Xilinx and Intel.  And they are definitely delivering on the promise to advance their prototyping solutions for hyperscale… Read More


CEO Update: Tuomas Hollman, Minima Processor CEO

CEO Update: Tuomas Hollman, Minima Processor CEO
by Daniel Nenni on 11-05-2021 at 6:00 am

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Tuomas Hollman is an experienced senior executive, with proficiency that ranges from strategy to product development and business management. He began his semiconductor industry career at Texas Instruments, serving for 15 years in increasingly important roles, including general management and profit and loss responsibility… Read More


Yep – It’s Still an Analog World in this Digital Age

Yep – It’s Still an Analog World in this Digital Age
by Daniel Nenni on 11-02-2021 at 6:00 am

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With all the advances in digital technology to serve mankind’s insatiable appetite for automation, it’s easy to lose sight of the reality that we still live in an analog world.  It’s easy to take for granted that somewhere in the chain of events that takes place in the process of applying state-of-the-art computational technology… Read More


CEO Interview: Dr. Ashish Darbari of Axiomise

CEO Interview: Dr. Ashish Darbari of Axiomise
by Daniel Nenni on 10-29-2021 at 6:00 am

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Dr. Ashish Darbari is the founder & CEO of Axiomise. As founder & CEO of Axiomise, he has led the company to successfully deploy the unique combination of training, consulting, services, and verification IP to a range of customers. Dr. Darbari has expertise in all aspects of formal methods including theorem proving, property… Read More


CEO Interview: Jothy Rosenberg of Dover Microsystems

CEO Interview: Jothy Rosenberg of Dover Microsystems
by Daniel Nenni on 10-22-2021 at 6:00 am

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Jothy Rosenberg is a serial entrepreneur, founding nine different startups since 1988, two of which sold for over $100M. Currently, he’s the Founder & CEO of Dover Microsystems, the first oversight system company. Earlier in his career, Jothy ran Borland’s Languages division where he managed languages like Delphi, C++,… Read More


Successful SoC Debug with FPGA Prototyping – It’s Really All About Planning and Good Judgement

Successful SoC Debug with FPGA Prototyping – It’s Really All About Planning and Good Judgement
by Daniel Nenni on 10-21-2021 at 6:00 am

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Using FPGAs to prototype and debug SoCs as part of the SoC design verification hierarchy was pioneered by Quickturn Design Systems in the late 1980’s, and I have observed a wide variety of FPGA prototyping projects over the years.  In retrospect, three factors have determined the success of the FPGA prototyping project;

  1. A good
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