CEO Interview with Dr. William Wang of Alpha Design AI

CEO Interview with Dr. William Wang of Alpha Design AI
by Daniel Nenni on 02-21-2025 at 6:00 am

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William Wang is the CEO and founder of Alpha Design AI, a generative AI startup transforming chip design and verification through ChipAgents, an agentic AI development tool for RTL and verification engineers. ChipAgents accelerates design, debugging, and verification of hardware description languages (HDL), integrating… Read More


CEO Interview: Sivakumar P R of Maven Silicon

CEO Interview: Sivakumar P R of Maven Silicon
by Daniel Nenni on 06-25-2021 at 6:00 am

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Sivakumar P R is the Founder and CEO of Maven Silicon. He is responsible for the company’s vision, overall strategy, business, and technology. He is also the Founder and CEO of Aceic Design Technologies.

Sivakumar is a seasoned engineering professional who has worked in various fields, including electrical engineering,… Read More


Design for the System Age

Design for the System Age
by Bernard Murphy on 06-17-2016 at 7:00 am

Of late, it has become painfully obvious that the value of electronics is in the system. And since systems demand continuing improvement, increasing performance and decreasing cost (once partially guaranteed by semiconductor process advances) is now sought through algorithm advances – witness the Google TPU and custom… Read More


A Brief History of RTL Design

A Brief History of RTL Design
by Daniel Payne on 09-27-2012 at 9:00 pm

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RTL is an acronym for Register Transfer Level and refers to a level of hardware design abstraction using Registers and logic gates. Here’s an example schematic showing one DFF as a register, and one inverter as a logic gate.


Figure 1: RTL diagram of a DFF (D Flip Flop) and InverterRead More