Ashraf Takla is Founder and CEO of Mixel Inc., which he founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Mixel is a leading provider of mixed-signal IPs and offers a wide portfolio of high-performance mixed-signal connectivity IP solutions. Mixel’s mixed-signal portfolio includes PHYs and SerDes, such as MIPI D-PHY, MIPI… Read More
Defacto Celebrates 20th Anniversary @ DAC 2023!
Defacto Technologies is a company that specializes in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software and solutions. Defacto offers a range of EDA software solutions that help streamline and optimize various stages of the front-end design process. Their tools focus on chip design assembly and integration before logic synthesis
Optimism Prevailed at CEO Outlook, though Downturn Could Bring Unpredictable Challenges
Chances are anyone who attended the CEO Outlook will say it was an engaging, entertaining and enlightening view of the chip design space, though CEO Outlook may be a misnomer as four of the seven panelists had C-Suite titles other than CEO.
Regardless, the collective view was optimistic, though caution prevailed as the economic… Read More
CEO Interview: Dr. Sean Wei of Easy-Logic
Dr. Wei has served as CEO & CTO of Easy-Logic since 2020. Prior to this role, Dr. Wei served as CTO since 2014 where he constructed the core algorithm and the tool structure of EasyECO. As the CEO, Dr. Wei focuses on building a strong company infrastructure. In his CTO role he interfaces with strategic ASIC design customers … Read More
CEO Interview: Issam Nofal of IROC Technologies
Issam Nofal is the CEO of IROC Technologies and has held various positions with the company for over 23 years as Product Manager, Project Leader, and R&D Engineer. He has authored several papers on test and reliability of Integrated Circuits. He holds a PhD in Microelectronics from Grenoble INP.
What is IROC Technologies’
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Mobiveil Marks 11th Anniversary
Ravi Thummarukudy is Mobiveil’s Chief Executive Officer and a founder. He and I recently spent an enjoyable afternoon getting acquainted as I learned more about Mobiveil. It’s an inspiring story of a technology company in the semiconductor space helping customers and prospering.
Eleven-year-old… Read More
Developing the Lowest Power IoT Devices with Russell Mohn
Russell Mohnis the Co-Founder and Director of RF/AMS Design at InPlay Inc. and his team has been using WiCkeD from MunEDA for several years. We thought the rest of the world would like to learn about his experiences.
How did you get started in semiconductors and what brought you to InPlay?
I was initially drawn to analog and mixed-signal… Read More
CTO Interview: Dr. Zakir Hussain Syed of Infinisim
Zakir Hussain is a co-founder of Infinisim and brings over 25 years of experience in the Electronic Design Automation industry. He was at Simplex Solutions, Inc. (acquired by Cadence) at its inception in 1995 through the end of 2000. He has published numerous papers on verification and simulation and has presented at many industry… Read More
CEO Interview: Axel Kloth of Abacus
A physicist by training, Axel is used to the need for large-scale compute. He discovered over 30 years ago that scalability of processor performance was paramount for solving any computational problem. That necessitated a new paradigm in computer architecture. At Parimics, SSRLabs and Axiado he was able to show that new thinking… Read More
CTO Interview: John R. Cary of Tech-X Corporation
John R. Cary is professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and CTO of Tech-X Corporation. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in Plasma Physics. Prof. Cary worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Institute for Fusion Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, prior to joining… Read More
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