Key Takeaways
- Defacto Technologies, founded by Dr. Chouki Aktouf, specializes in innovative SoC design solutions and is known for its SoC Compiler tool which is a market leader in pre-synthesis.
- In 2024, Defacto positioned itself as a leader in front-end SoC integration, focusing on incorporating not only RTL but also IP-XACT, UPF, and SDC for better efficiency and cost reduction.
- The company is addressing the challenge of integrating AI technologies into their R&D projects, aiming to introduce AI-based automation in their tools to assist designers with varying levels of expertise.
Chouki Aktouf is Founder & CEO of Defacto Technologies and Co-Founder of Innova Advanced Technologies. Prior to founding Defacto in 2003, Dr. Aktouf was an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Grenoble – France and leader of a dependability research group. He holds a PhD in Electric Engineering from Grenoble University.
Tell us a little bit about your company.
We provide since more than two decades innovative SoC design solutions for RTL designers and SoC architects. Defacto’s SoC Compiler tool is becoming the “De Facto” software to build large SoCs pre-synthesis by including not only RTL but also IP-XACT and design collaterals such as UPF and SDC. The Physically awareness of the Defacto tool strengthens its market positioning to meet aggressive PPA goals. The company is also known by its high-quality support which is provided to the end-users and also the innovation Defacto brings every year to the market to help building SoCs faster and cheaper.
What was the most exciting high point of 2024 for your company?
The main accomplishment of Defacto was to position as a real leader in the front-end SoC integration, when having RTL but not only. IP-XACT, UPF, and SDC also need to be considered towards better efficiency, and cost.
What was the biggest challenge your company faced in 2024?
In 2024, one of the biggest challenge was to succeed in R&D projects considering AI technologies. In the new Defacto products, we will be announcing AI-based automation to confirm our tool as the De Facto solution for SoC creation pre synthesis and help designers even with less expertise to benefit from the tool.
How is your company’s work addressing this biggest challenge?
We work closely with leading R&D teams in France and in Europe to help solving technical challenges.
What do you think the biggest growth area for 2025 will be?
We believe AI-based EDA will be the main topic for the coming year.
How is your company’s work addressing this growth?
The company has engaged since several years with best Research labs in Europe to work closely on advanced AI-based technologies for EDA.
What conferences did you attend in 2024 and how was the traffic?
The main conference we attended this year was DAC. We feel that DAC is coming back from COVID since the past year and we were pleased to see a good affluence, in particular during the first day. We eager to see 2025!
Will you attend conferences in 2025? Same or more?
In 2025 we plan to attend DATE which will be close to our Headquarters in Grenoble, France. Of course DAC will be the main event and we will be announcing big new capabilities. We also plan to attend ITC since we have a regrowth activity around DFT with many news to highlight.
How do customers engage with your company?
The best is either to drop us an email (info_req@defactotech.com) or contact us on website (https://defactotech.com/contact). We are known in the market as highly reactive, in both technical and business sides. So we encourage to contact us to set up presentations, demos and evaluations.
We also have an upcoming Innova Webinar that you can also attend:
We hope to meet you there.
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