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CEO Talk: Randy Caplan from Silicon Creations

This interview was held with Randy Caplan, CEO at Silicon Creations.

Tell me a bit about your background?
 
[randy] I’ve actually spent my whole career in integrated circuit design.  I started right at the peak of the dot-com era, and followed the advice of the “experts” at the

GLOBALFOUNDRIES Introduces Avera Semi, a Wholly Owned Subsidiary to Deliver Custom ASIC Solutions

GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced the establishment of Avera Semiconductor LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary dedicated to providing custom silicon solutions for a broad range of applications. Avera Semi will leverage deep ties with GF to deliver ASIC offerings on 14/12nm and more mature technologies while providing clients new capabilities and access

PLDA and MegaChips announce a cooperation to design PCIe controllers and PCIe PHY IP on TSMC’s 16nm Process Technology

PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® IP solutions and MegaChips, a global semiconductor company specializing in ASIC Solution Services, today announced their collaboration to design a combined PCIe Controller IP and PHY IP solution. While the combination is currently targeting the TSMC 16nm process, the PCIe Controller/PHY solution will

Silicon Creations’ Fractional-N PLL Technology Leveraged at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University SoC Lab

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), today announced that the SoC Lab at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University as part of the HiPer Consortium project has successfully integrated Silicon Creations’ LC and ring PLLs (phase lock loop) intellectual property (IP) in its SoC1 chip implemented in TSMC

ASIC Design Flow – The Ultimate Guide

ASICs stands for Application Specific Integrated Circuits, and refer to semiconductor solutions design for a particular application, as opposed to other solutions like Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) which can be programmed multiple times to perform a different functions. ASIC is also sometimes referred to as SoC (System on Chip).
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Probing the Grey Matter

A new gold standard for electrical measurement in the emerging in vitro world of three dimensional models. That’s what Swiss medtech 3Brain has established by partnering with CSEM. Its Khíron chip enables fast, accurate intra-tissue measurement and continuous nutrient and oxygen supply through all tissue layers for the first time.