Silicon Creations Company Update 2025

Silicon Creations Company Update 2025
by Daniel Nenni on 11-21-2025 at 6:00 am

Silicon Creations PLL

Silicon Creations continues to strengthen its position as one of the most reliable and widely used analog and mixed-signal IP providers in the semiconductor industry. Founded in 2006, the company focuses on high-performance and low-risk IP solutions including PLLs, oscillators, SerDes interfaces, and high-speed differential

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Exploring TSMC’s OIP Ecosystem Benefits

Exploring TSMC’s OIP Ecosystem Benefits
by Daniel Nenni on 10-10-2025 at 6:00 am

TSMC Booth

Now that the dust has settled let’s talk more about TSMC’s Open Innovation Platform. Launched in 2008, OIP represents a groundbreaking collaborative model in the semiconductor industry. Unlike IDMs that controlled the entire supply chain, OIP fosters an “open horizontal” ecosystem uniting TSMC… Read More


Silicon Creations at the 2025 Design Automation Conference #62DAC

Silicon Creations at the 2025 Design Automation Conference #62DAC
by Daniel Nenni on 06-16-2025 at 6:00 am

62nd DAC SemiWiki

Silicon Creations provides world-class IP for precision and general-purpose timing (PLLs and oscillators), high-performance multi-protocol and protocol-specific SerDes, high-speed I/Os, and accurate PVT sensors. Applications include high performance computing for AI, smart phones, wearables, consumer devices, … Read More


Silicon Creations Presents Architectures and IP for SoC Clocking

Silicon Creations Presents Architectures and IP for SoC Clocking
by Mike Gianfagna on 05-05-2025 at 6:00 am

Silicon Creations Presents Architectures and IP for SoC Clocking

Design & Reuse recently held its IP-SoC Days event at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara. Advanced IP is now the fuel for a great deal of innovation in semiconductor design. This popular event allows IP providers to highlight the latest products and services and share a vision of the future. IP consumers can easily get updates on… Read More


2025 Outlook with Randy Caplan of Silicon Creations

2025 Outlook with Randy Caplan of Silicon Creations
by Daniel Nenni on 01-23-2025 at 6:00 am

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Randy Caplan is co-founder and EVP of Silicon Creations. For over 18 years, Randy has helped to grow Silicon Creations into a leading semiconductor IP company with more than 500 customers in over 20 countries, and nearly 100% employee retention. Silicon Creations’ designs have been included in over 1500 mass-produced chips from… Read More


Silicon Creations at the 2024 Design Automation Conference

Silicon Creations at the 2024 Design Automation Conference
by Daniel Nenni on 06-18-2024 at 6:00 am

DAC 2024 Banner

Silicon Creations is a self-funded, leading silicon IP provider with development in the US and Poland, and a sales presence worldwide. The company provides world-class IP for precision and general-purpose timing (PLLs), oscillators, low-power, high-performance multi-protocol and targeted SerDes, and high-speed differential… Read More


EP217: The Impact and Unique Business Model of Silicon Creations with Randy Caplan

EP217: The Impact and Unique Business Model of Silicon Creations with Randy Caplan
by Daniel Nenni on 04-12-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Randy Caplan, co-founder and CEO of Silicon Creations, and a lifelong technology enthusiast. For almost two decades, he has helped grow Silicon Creations into a leading mixed-signal semiconductor IP company with nearly 500 customers spanning almost every major market segment.

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Time is of the Essence for High-Frequency Traders

Time is of the Essence for High-Frequency Traders
by Dave Bursky on 06-27-2022 at 10:00 am

Figure Simplified block diagram of Multiprotocol PMA from Silicon Creations

In the world of financial trading, nanoseconds count. The faster a trade can be accomplished, the more money a trader can make. Getting a trade in before a competitor also results in improved profits. What does this have to do with the partnership deal recently inked between Silicon Creations and Achronix? Plenty. The two companies… Read More


The Intel Foundry Ecosystem Explained

The Intel Foundry Ecosystem Explained
by Daniel Nenni on 02-15-2022 at 5:00 am

Intel Tower Semiconductor Acquisition

Exciting times for the semiconductor industry! Last week Intel announced a billion dollar fund to build a foundry ecosystem and today Intel announced they are acquiring foundry Tower Semiconductor for $5.6 billion dollars, WOW! Some people doubted Intel’s commitment to the foundry market this time. I think we can now put that… Read More


Creating Analog PLL IP for TSMC 5nm and 3nm

Creating Analog PLL IP for TSMC 5nm and 3nm
by Tom Simon on 09-01-2020 at 6:00 am

PLL Optimizations

TSMC’s Open Innovation Platform’s main objective is to create and promote partnership for producing chips. This year’s OIP event included a presentation on the joint efforts of Silicon Creations, Mentor, a Siemens business and TSMC to produce essential PLL IP for 5nm and 3nm designs. The relentless push for smaller geometries… Read More