Podcast EP68: The Foundation of Computational Electromagnetics

Podcast EP68: The Foundation of Computational Electromagnetics
by Daniel Nenni on 03-25-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Dr. Matthew Commens, product manager Ansys. Matt discusses an upcoming webinar series on the inner workings and capabilities of Ansys simulation software. How the series began, the impact and benefits and a view of the future are all covered.

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Podcast EP67: Corigine Combines Emulation and Prototyping

Podcast EP67: Corigine Combines Emulation and Prototyping
by Daniel Nenni on 03-18-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Jeff Critten, VP of sales at Corigine. They discuss the unique capabilities of Corigine that allows support of both emulation and prototyping in one platform.

Jeff Critten has been in the EDA industy for over 25yrs.  He started with Cadence as a verification AE in 1997 and moved into a sales role where he was promoted… Read More


Podcast EP66: The Data Center Revolution, the Speedata Point of View

Podcast EP66: The Data Center Revolution, the Speedata Point of View
by Daniel Nenni on 03-11-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Jonathan Friedmann, a serial entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Speedata. Jonathan discusses the current challenges of big data analytics and how Speedata fits into the landscape.

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in these podcasts belong solely to the speaker, and not to the speaker’s employer,… Read More


Podcast EP65: Trust But Verify – The Backstory of Applied Materials and Cornami with Wally Rhines

Podcast EP65: Trust But Verify – The Backstory of Applied Materials and Cornami with Wally Rhines
by Daniel Nenni on 03-04-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by CEO of Cormani Wally Rhines. Wally discusses the recent strategic investment in Conrami made by Applied Ventures (the venture capital arm of Applied Materials Inc.). Wally explores what type of business models and manufacturing optimization can be made possible if fully homomorphic encryption (HFE) can… Read More


Podcast EP64: The real story behind Fairchild Semiconductor

Podcast EP64: The real story behind Fairchild Semiconductor
by Daniel Nenni on 02-25-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by John East, the former CEO of Actel. In the sixth episode of Semiconductor Insiders John explained the beginnings of Fairchild Semiconductor and the significance of the Traitorous Eight.

In this follow-up discussion, John recounts the rise and fall of Fairchild Semiconductor. This is a turbulent and significant … Read More


Podcast EP63: The growing importance of interconnect architecture

Podcast EP63: The growing importance of interconnect architecture
by Daniel Nenni on 02-18-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan and Mike are joined by Matt Burns, technical marketing manager at Samtec. Matt focuses on why interconnect architecture has become so important for state-of-the-art system designs. The markets that are driving these requirements, along with the challenges and how to address them are provided.

The discussion concludes… Read More


Podcast EP62: Exploring the VSORA architecture

Podcast EP62: Exploring the VSORA architecture
by Daniel Nenni on 02-16-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Jan Pantzar, VP sales and marketing of VSORA, a provider of high-performance silicon intellectual property (IP) and chip solutions for artificial intelligence, digital communications and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) applications based in France.

Dan and Jan explore the VSORA architecture… Read More


Podcast EP61: A deep dive on Intel and semiconductors with Stacy Rasgon

Podcast EP61: A deep dive on Intel and semiconductors with Stacy Rasgon
by Daniel Nenni on 02-11-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is again joined by  Stacy Rasgon, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, U.S. Semiconductors at Bernstein Research. Stacy is an unusual semiconductor analyst as he holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from MIT. His substantial technical knowledge allows for a deep dive on Intel and other semiconductor topics that you will… Read More


Podcast EP60: Knowing your bugs can make a big difference to elevate the quality of verification

Podcast EP60: Knowing your bugs can make a big difference to elevate the quality of verification
by Daniel Nenni on 02-04-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Philippe Luc, director of verification at  Codasip. Philippe has spent over 20 years in verification which includes an extensive and successful career at Arm. Philippe gained engineering experience with a list of significant achievements during his time there, including:

  – Design and verification… Read More


Podcast EP59: A brief history of semiconductors and EDA with Rich Goldman

Podcast EP59: A brief history of semiconductors and EDA with Rich Goldman
by Daniel Nenni on 01-28-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by good friend and fellow boater Rich Goldman. Rich has a storied career in EDA that began at TI with Morris Chang and Wally Rhines, continued through a long career at Synopsys and included a book collaboration with Neil Armstrong, Stephen Hawking and Brian May (the lead guitarist for Queen),

Dan and Rich cover a lot … Read More