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Podcast EP260: How Ceva Enables a Broad Range of Smart Edge Applications with Chad Lucien
Dan is joined by Chad Lucien, vice president and general manager of Ceva’s Sensing and Audio Business Unit. Previously he was president of Hillcrest Labs, a sensor fusion software and systems company, which was acquired by Ceva in July 2019. He brings nearly 25 years of experience having held a wide range of roles with software, … Read More
Podcast EP259: A View of the History and Future of Semiconductor Manufacturing From PDF Solution’s John Kibarian
Dan is joined by John Kibarian, president, chief executive officer and co-founder of PDF Solutions. He has served as president since 1991 and CEO since 2000.
John explains the evolution of PDF Solutions from its beginnings in 1992 to the present day. John describes moving from TCAD tools for design teams to a yield optimization … Read More
Podcast EP258: How Pragmatic Semiconductor Opens New Markets with Non-Silicon, Bendable Technology
Dan is joined by Dr. Emre Ozer, Senior Director of Processor Development at Pragmatic Semiconductor. With 67 worldwide patents, and over 60 peer-reviewed publications to his name, he has extensive experience in CPU microarchitecture with particular expertise in performance modelling, fault tolerant CPUs, embedded machine… Read More
Podcast EP257: IC Mask Design’s Unique Layout Training with Ciaran Whyte – Always Ask Why
Dan is joined by Ciaran Whyte, one of the founding members of IC Mask Design. As Chief Technical Officer he is responsible for all technical activity and the development and administration of all training courses. Cíaran has been training layout engineers for over 25 years and has completed layout training with over 600 engineers… Read More
Podcast EP256: How NoC Tiling Capability is Changing the Game for AI Development with Andy Nightingale
Dan is joined by Andy Nightingale, VP of product management and marketing at Arteris. Andy has over 37 years of experience in the high-tech industry, including 23 years in various engineering and product management positions at Arm.
Dan explores with Andy the significance of the recently announced tiling capabilities and extended… Read More
Podcast EP255: The Growing Proliferation of Semiconductors and AI in Cars with Amol Borkar
Dan is joined by Amol Borkar, Product Marketing Director at Cadence. Since joining in 2018 as a senior product manager, he has led the development of many successful hardware and software products, including Tensilica’s latest Vision 331 and Vision 341 DSPs and 4DR accelerator targeted for various vision, automotive and AI edge… Read More
Podcast EP254: How Genealogy Correlation Can Uncover New Design Insights and improvements with yieldHUB’s Kevin Robinson
Dan is joined by Kevin Robinson, yieldHUB’s Vice President of operations and sales. With over 23 years of experience as a test engineer in the semiconductor industry, Kevin brings a wealth of knowledge and dedication to his dual role. At yieldHUB, Kevin leads both sales and operations teams, playing a crucial role in delivering… Read More
Podcast EP253: Democratization of AI with Christopher Vick of Lemurian Labs
Dan is joined by Christopher Vick, the Vice President of Engineering at Lemurian Labs, bringing over three decades of experience from top tech companies such as Qualcomm, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems. Throughout his distinguished career, Christopher has played a key role in developing technologies used by billions.
Notably,… Read More
Podcast EP252: A Review of the Q2 2024 SEMI Electronic Design Market Data report with Wally Rhines
Dan is joined by Dr. Walden Rhines. Wally is a lot of things, CEO of Cornami, board member, advisor to many and friend to all. Today he is the Executive Sponsor of the SEMI Electronic Design Market Data Report.
Wally reviews the latest report with Dan. Overall growth was strong at 18.2% vs. Q2 2023. Employment for the sector was also … Read More
Podcast EP251: An Overview of DVCon Europe with Jakob Engblom
Dan is joined by Jakob Engblom this year’s vice chair and keynote chair for DVCon Europe. He’s been in the virtual platforms field since 2002, most recently as director of simulation technology ecosystem at Intel. His interests include simulation technologies, software and hardware testing and validation, programming… Read More
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