CEO Interview: Da Chuang of Expedera

CEO Interview: Da Chuang of Expedera
by Daniel Nenni on 12-03-2021 at 6:00 am

Da Chuang CEO Expedera

Da is co-founder and CEO of Expedera. Previously, he was cofounder and COO of Memoir Systems, an optimized memory IP startup, leading to a successful acquisition by Cisco. At Cisco, he led the Datacenter Switch ASICs for Nexus 3/9K, MDS, CSPG products. Da brings more than 25 years of ASIC experience at Cisco, Nvidia, and Abrizio.… Read More


Continuous Integration of RISC-V Testbenches

Continuous Integration of RISC-V Testbenches
by Daniel Nenni on 12-02-2021 at 6:00 am

RISC V Results

In my last blog post about AMIQ EDA, I talked with CEO and co-founder Cristian Amitroaie about their support for continuous integration (CI). We discussed in some detail how their Design and Verification Tools (DVT) Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and Verissimo SystemVerilog Linter are used in CI flows. Cristian… Read More


Ansys to Present Multiphysics Cloud Enablement with Microsoft Azure at DAC

Ansys to Present Multiphysics Cloud Enablement with Microsoft Azure at DAC
by Daniel Nenni on 12-01-2021 at 2:00 pm

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Ansys and Microsoft  collaborated extensively over the past year to optimize and test Ansys’ signoff multiphysics simulation tools on the Azure cloud. Microsoft has invited Ansys to present the joint results in Azure’s DAC booth theater in San Francisco this year.

Two presentations are planned: covering the enablement of AnsysRead More


CEO Interview: Mo Faisal of Movellus

CEO Interview: Mo Faisal of Movellus
by Daniel Nenni on 12-01-2021 at 6:00 am

Mo Faisal Movellus

Prior to founding Movellus, Dr. Faisal held positions at semiconductor companies such as Intel and PMC Sierra. Faisal received his B.S. from the University of Waterloo, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and holds several patents. Dr. Faisal was named a “Top 20 Entrepreneur” by the University of Michigan Zell… Read More


Siemens EDA will be returning to DAC this year as a Platinum Sponsor.

Siemens EDA will be returning to DAC this year as a Platinum Sponsor.
by Daniel Nenni on 11-29-2021 at 10:00 am

Siemens EDA DAC

The 38th Design Automation Conference is next week and this one is for the record books. Having been virtual the last two years, next week we will meet live once again. I think we may have all taken for granted the value of live events but now we know how important they are on both a professional and human level, absolutely.

“The… Read More


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

Pradeep Pic 2020

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

S2C EDA Prodigy Logix Matrix LX2

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