Podcast EP210: How VSORA is Opening New Horizons for Generative AI and ADAS Applications

Podcast EP210: How VSORA is Opening New Horizons for Generative AI and ADAS Applications
by Daniel Nenni on 03-01-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Jan Pantzar vice president of sales and marketing at VSORA, a provider of high-performance generative AI and ADAS chip solutions based in France. Mr. Pantzar gained extensive experience in the semiconductor, IP and software industries through building and managing organizations around the globe. Previous … Read More


Podcast EP209: Putting Soitec’s Innovative Substrates to Work in Mainstream Products with Dr. Christophe Maleville

Podcast EP209: Putting Soitec’s Innovative Substrates to Work in Mainstream Products with Dr. Christophe Maleville
by Daniel Nenni on 02-23-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Dr. Christophe Maleville, chief technology officer of Soitec’s Innovation. He joined Soitec in 1993 and was a driving force behind the company’s joint research activities with CEA-Leti. For several years, he led new SOI process development, oversaw SOI technology transfer from R&D to production and managed… Read More


Podcast EP208: A Conversation with This Year’s Kaufman Award Recipient, Dr. Lawrence Pileggi

Podcast EP208: A Conversation with This Year’s Kaufman Award Recipient, Dr. Lawrence Pileggi
by Daniel Nenni on 02-16-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Dr. Lawrence Pileggi, Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Larry is the 2023 Phil Kaufman Award recipient for distinguished contributions to Electronic System Design. His pioneering contributions include circuit simulation and optimization… Read More


Podcast EP207: How Achronix is Enabling Multi-Die Design and a Chiplet Ecosystem with Nick Ilyadis

Podcast EP207: How Achronix is Enabling Multi-Die Design and a Chiplet Ecosystem with Nick Ilyadis
by Daniel Nenni on 02-09-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Nick Ilyadis, vice president of product planning at Achronix. Prior to Achronix, Nick was vice president of portfolio and technology strategy at Marvell Semiconductor and vice president and group CTO at Broadcom. Nick has also held many engineering roles during his career, starting as a chip designer and moving… Read More


Podcast EP206: An assessment of the Chiplet Ecosystem Movement with Alphawave’s Tony Chan Carusone

Podcast EP206: An assessment of the Chiplet Ecosystem Movement with Alphawave’s Tony Chan Carusone
by Daniel Nenni on 02-02-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Tony Chan Carusone, Chief Technology Officer of Alphawave Semi. Tony has been a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto since 2001 and has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and on the Technical Program Committees of the world’s leading… Read More


Podcast EP205: A Multi-Decade View of Process and Device Innovation at Intel with Paul Fischer

Podcast EP205: A Multi-Decade View of Process and Device Innovation at Intel with Paul Fischer
by Daniel Nenni on 01-26-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Paul Fischer. Paul is the director of Chip Mesoscale Processing in Intel’s Components Research. He and his team are currently working on Gallium Nitride for energy efficient power delivery and RF communications, and technologies for heterogeneous monolithic integration.

Paul discusses the innovations… Read More


Podcast EP204: A Broad View of Design Architectures and the Role of the NoC with Arteris’ Michal Siwinski

Podcast EP204: A Broad View of Design Architectures and the Role of the NoC with Arteris’ Michal Siwinski
by Daniel Nenni on 01-19-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Michal Siwinski, Chief Marketing Officer at Arteris. He brings more than two decades of technology-based strategy, marketing and growth acceleration. Prior to joining Arteris, he served as Corporate Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Cadence, and through his leadership, the company’s… Read More


Podcast EP203: A Deep Dive on the Growing Impact of Silicon Lifecycle Management with Synopsys’ Randy Fish

Podcast EP203: A Deep Dive on the Growing Impact of Silicon Lifecycle Management with Synopsys’ Randy Fish
by Daniel Nenni on 01-12-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Randy Fish, Director of Product Line Management for the Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM) family at Synopsys. Randy has over 30 years of experience in the EDA, IP and semiconductor industries.

In this broad view of SLM, Randy explains what is special about monitoring and optimizing embedded memories. It turns… Read More


Podcast EP202: A Tour of the Q3 2023 Electronic Design Market Data Report with Wally Rhines

Podcast EP202: A Tour of the Q3 2023 Electronic Design Market Data Report with Wally Rhines
by Daniel Nenni on 01-08-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Wally Rhines for a discussion of the Q3 2023 Electronic Design Market Data report that was just released. SEMI and the Electronic System Design Alliance collect data from almost all of the EDA companies in the world and compile it by product category and region where the sales occurred. It’s the most reliable data … Read More


Podcast EP201: A Retrospective of Semiconductor Innovation with Dr. Mukta Farooq, and Advice for Future Innovators

Podcast EP201: A Retrospective of Semiconductor Innovation with Dr. Mukta Farooq, and Advice for Future Innovators
by Daniel Nenni on 01-05-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by 2023 recipient of the J.J. Ebers award, Dr. Mukta Farooq. This is the highest technical award from the IEEE Electron Devices Society and Mukta is the first woman to earn this prestigious award.

Throughout her career Dr. Farooq has been a trailblazer. She was the first female to earn a Bachelors of Science in Metallurgical… Read More