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Podcast EP151: How Pulsic Automates Analog Layout for Free with Mark Williams
Dan is joined by Mark Williams. Mark is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Pulsic. He has over 30 years of experience in the EDA industry and was one of the team that pioneered shape-based routing technology in the 1980s while working at Zuken-Redac.
Mark explains the unique “freemium” model for automating analog… Read More
Podcast EP150: How Zentera Addresses Development Security with Mike Ichiriu
Dan is joined by Michael Ichiriu, Vice President of Marketing at Zentera Systems. Prior to Zentera Mike was a senior executive at NetLogic Microsystems where he played a critical role in shaping the company’s corporate and product strategy. While there, he built the applications engineering team, and helped lead the organization… Read More
Podcast EP149: The Corporate Culture of Axiomise with Laura Long
Dan is joined by Laura Long, Director of Business Development at Axiomise. She has over 15 years of experience in business development and has built a strong expertise working with clients with a presence and/or residence in various countries of the European Union, in the UK and in the Americas.
Dan explores the corporate culture… Read More
Podcast EP148: The Synopsys View of High-Performance Communication and the Role of Chiplets
Dan is joined by John Swanson, who is the HPC Controller & Datapath Product Line Manager in the Synopsys Solutions Group. John has worked in the development and deployment of verification, integration, and implementation tools, IP, standards, and methodologies used in IP-based design for over 25 years at Synopsys.
Dan explores… Read More
Podcast EP147: CachQ’s Harnessing of Heterogeneous Compute with Clay Johnson
Dan is joined by Clay Johnson, CEO and co-founder of CacheQ Systems. Clay has more than 25 years of executive management experience across a broad spectrum of technologies including computing, security, semiconductors and EDA tools.
Dan discusses the CacheQ QCC development platform with Clay. This platform enables software… Read More
Podcast EP146: How Rapid Silicon Will Change Innovation with Naveed Sherwani
Dan is joined by Dr. Naveed Sherwani, a well-known semiconductor industry veteran with over 35 years of entrepreneurial, engineering, and management experience. He is widely recognized as an innovator and leader in the field of design automation of ASICs and microprocessors. Naveed now serves as CEO of Rapid Silicon, aiming… Read More
Podcast EP145: How Achronix Drives Industry Innovation with Robert Blake
Dan is joined by Robert Blake, Chief Executive Officer of Achronix Semiconductor. He has worked in the semiconductor industry for over 25 years. Prior to Achronix he was the Chief Executive Officer of Octasic Semiconductor based in Montreal, Canada. Robert also worked at Altera, LSI Logic and Fairchild.
Robert explains how Achronix… Read More
Podcast EP144: How Andes Supplies RISC-V Cores to the World with Frankwell Lin
Dan is joined by Frankwell Lin. Frank co-founded Andes Technology in 2005 and served as President from 2006. He became Chairman and CEO in 2021. Under his leadership, Andes is recognized as a top supplier of embedded CPU IP in the semiconductor industry.
Dan explores how Andes became such a strong supplier of RISC-V cores with Frank.… Read More
Podcast EP143: FPGAs, eFPGAs and the Emerging Chiplet Market
Dan is joined by Nick Ilyadis, Senior Director of Product Planning at Achronix. With over 35 years of data and semiconductor engineering and manufacturing experience and 72 issued patents under his name, Nick is a recognized expert on software and hardware development and quality control.
Dan explores the emerging chiplet market… Read More
Podcast EP142: The Drive Toward a More Sustainable Semiconductor Industry with EMD Electronic’s Anand Nambiar
Dan is joined by Anand Nambiar, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Semiconductor Materials at EMD Electronics, the North American Electronics business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. Anand has over 23 years’ experience in the semiconductor industry. His previous roles include Associate Director – Quality… Read More
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