2025 Outlook with Volker Politz of Semidynamics

2025 Outlook with Volker Politz of Semidynamics
by Daniel Nenni on 02-06-2025 at 6:00 am

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Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company. 

I am the Chief Sales Officer and I lead the global sales team and drive the overall sales process.

Semidynamics was founded 2016 as a design service company with a focus on RISC-V. This was so successful that the CEO decided to pivot the company towards its own IP sales and started… Read More


CEO Interview: With Fabrizio Del Maffeo of Axelera AI

CEO Interview: With Fabrizio Del Maffeo of Axelera AI
by Daniel Nenni on 01-31-2025 at 6:00 am

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Fabrizio Del Maffeo is the CEO and co-founder of Axelera AI, the Netherlands-based startup building game-changing, scalable hardware for AI at the edge. Axelera AI was incubated by the Bitfury Group, a globally recognised emerging technologies company, where Fabrizio previously served as Head of AI. In his role at Axelera AI,… Read More


Automating Formal Verification

Automating Formal Verification
by Daniel Payne on 01-30-2025 at 10:00 am

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Formal verification methods are being adopted at a fast pace as a complement to traditional verification methods like functional simulation for IP blocks in SoC designs. I had a video meeting with Max Birtel, co-founder of LUBIS EDA and learned more about their history, products and vision. This company started recently in 2020… Read More


How I learned Formal Verification

How I learned Formal Verification
by Daniel Nenni on 12-11-2024 at 10:00 am

Bing Xue

Bing Xue is a dedicated Formal Verification Engineer at Axiomise, with a strong academic and professional foundation in hardware verification. He completed his PhD at the University of Southampton, where he conducted cutting-edge research on Formal Verification, RISC-V, and the impact of Single Event Upsets. Bing is … Read More


Relationships with IP Vendors

Relationships with IP Vendors
by Daniel Nenni on 11-21-2024 at 10:00 am

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An animated panel discussion Design Automation Conference in June offered up a view of the state of RISC-V and open-source functional verification and a wealth of good material for a three-part blog post series.

Parts One and Two covered a range of topics from microcontroller versus more general-purpose processor versus running… Read More


Changing RISC-V Verification Requirements, Standardization, Infrastructure

Changing RISC-V Verification Requirements, Standardization, Infrastructure
by Daniel Nenni on 11-07-2024 at 10:00 am

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A lively panel discussion about RISC-V and open-source functional verification highlighted this year’s Design Automation Conference. Part One looked at selecting a RISC-V IP block from a third-party vendor and investigating its functional verification process.

In Part Two, moderator Ron Wilson and Contributing Editor … Read More


Semidynamics: A Single-Software-Stack, Configurable and Customizable RISC-V Solution

Semidynamics: A Single-Software-Stack, Configurable and Customizable RISC-V Solution
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-07-2024 at 6:00 am

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Founded with a vision to create transformative, customizable IP solutions, Semidynamics has emerged as a significant player in the AI hardware industry. Initially operating as a design engineering company, Semidynamics spent its early years exploring various pathways before pivoting to develop proprietary intellectual… Read More


Notes from DVCon Europe 2024

Notes from DVCon Europe 2024
by Jakob Engblom on 11-04-2024 at 6:00 am

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The 2024 DVCon (Design and Verification) Europe conference took place on October 15 and 16, in its traditional location at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre. Artificial intelligence and software were prominent topics, along with the traditional DVCon topics like virtual platforms, RTL verification, and validation.

Keynotes:

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The RISC-V and Open-Source Functional Verification Challenge

The RISC-V and Open-Source Functional Verification Challenge
by Daniel Nenni on 10-24-2024 at 10:00 am

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Most of the RISC-V action at the end of June was at the RISC-V Summit Europe, but not all. In fact, a group of well-informed and opinionated experts took over the Pavilion stage at the Design Automation Conference to discuss functional verification challenges for RISC-V and open-source IP.

Technology Journalist Ron Wilson and … Read More


Podcast EP250: The Inner Workings of RISC-V International and Details About the RISC-V Summit with Andrea Gallo

Podcast EP250: The Inner Workings of RISC-V International and Details About the RISC-V Summit with Andrea Gallo
by Daniel Nenni on 10-04-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Andrea Gallo, Vice President of Technology at RISC-V International. Andrea heads up the Technical Activities in collaboration with RISC-V members across workgroups and committees in growing the adoption of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture. Prior to RISC-V International, Andrea held multiple roles… Read More