Chris Browy, Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing of Avery Design Systems, is a go-to expert on all things functional verification.

Avery, a well-established provider of functional verification solutions, has been around since 1998 supporting a growing and complementary line of SystemVerilog/UVM Verification IP, system-level virtual platform co-simulation and hardware-assisted verification, and gate-level simulation sign-off solutions for system-on-chip (SoC) verification. It is also a member of the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community.

I recently caught up with Browy and asked him how an engineer verifies and ensures the compliance of new chip designs with emerging standards when there is no proven system platform yet to support those standards. His informed response kicked off our conversation.

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Lanza techVentures is a new member of the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community. Its Managing Partner Dr. Lucio Lanza is no newcomer to the semiconductor community. Dr. Lanza is a well-recognized figure within the electronic system design community and an investor in early-stage electronic system design, IP and semiconductor companies. He has been a part of Silicon Valley since he left Olivetti Corporation in Italy to join Intel in 1977.

In his long career, he has been an entrepreneur, startup and engineering executive at Olivetti and Intel, giving him insight into making strategic investments. His impact was celebrated in 2014 with the Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Electronic System Design presented annually by the ESD Alliance and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA).

Currently, Dr. Lanza’s interest and investments are at the intersection of semiconductors and healthcare and the reason why he became a member of the SEMI Nano-Bio Materials Consortium (NBMC) Governing Council. The group is building an ecosystem to accelerate innovation in healthcare and medical electronics.

In my conversation with Dr. Lanza, he addresses why he believes semiconductors in MedTech is about to become the next big thing.

Smith: Why is the semiconductor industry taking a hard look at the healthcare/MedTech market segment?

Lanza: The semiconductor industry has the ability to evolve the traditional hospital-centric medical care system into a patient-centric care system and create exponential growth. Analytical power at the edge with miniaturized remote and intelligent computational engines are redefining how consumers interact with the medical community. Distance is dead and the computing power that artificial intelligence (AI) allows at the periphery will evolve healthcare to where consumers will be in charge of their own monitoring and healthcare.

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