Sanjay Gangal interviewed Michiel Ligthart, President and COO at Verific Design Automation at the 2019 DVCon.
SG: Thank you very much for coming over here. I heard Verific had a 20 year anniversary.
ML: That’s correct. A couple of weeks ago, on January 31st, we celebrated Verific Design Automation’s 20th anniversary. In 1999, Rob Dekker – our founder and CTO, started the company. So, we celebrated with all the US West Coast employees and their families, and had a small party. Our Indian colleagues in the Kolkata office are going to have a similar celebration in a couple of weeks. So, it’s great fun.
NASA’s first launch didn’t reach the moon. In the quest for self-driving cars automakers are aiming for the autonomous moonshot. Competition is accelerating between major car brands, tech companies and Tesla. What advanced tech is coming to our roads and when?
Watch a replay of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s press event at CES 2018 in Las Vegas, where he unveiled new gaming technology, including Max-Q designed thin and light gaming laptops and new big format gaming displays (or BFGDs), along with a slew of auto news, including NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier processor, DRIVE IX and DRIVE AR as well as partnerships with Volkswagen, Uber, Baidu, ZF and Aurora.
Recently, we had the opportunity to interview Grant Imahara at the Arm TechCon 2017 Conference in Santa Clara, CA.
Grant is the celebrity engineer spokesperson for Mouser Electronics, the leading global New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor. Grant is an electrical engineer, roboticist, and television host. He is best known for his work on the television series MythBusters, where he designed and built numerous robots and specialized in operating the various computers and electronics that were utilized to objectively test myths. More recently, Grant has partnered with Mouser Electronics in launching its Empowering Innovation Together program, where he hosts webisodes and contributes blog posts and articles.
Grant visited our EDACafe exhibition booth at Arm TechCon for an interesting interview that covered many topics, including his relationship with Mouser Electronics.
Interview with Grant Imahara at Arm TechCon 2017
EDACafe: Can you discuss your relationship with Mouser Electronics and what you do with the company?
Grant I: I am Mouser’s celebrity engineer spokesman, which is kind of funny because generally speaking, engineers are not the rock stars and don’t often get the recognition we deserve for all the amazing things that we do. Mouser said, “Let’s take a person who is a known face from TV, who is also an engineer and make them our spokesperson.” So, here I am.
As a diversified fabless semiconductor company that sells high-end FPGA products, embedded FPGA (eFPGA) products, system-level products, and supporting EDA design tools, Achronix Semiconductor has a history of delivering innovations in programmable logic that set the bar high for performance, power, and cost.
Achronix was founded in 2004 in Ithaca, New York, and has achieved sales of over $100M YTD in 2017, making it one of the highest growth semiconductor companies globally.
The origin of the company’s name was derived from the asynchronous technology it originally supported, but has since moved to a more traditional synchronous architecture which is incorporated in all of its products today.
In 2013, Achronix delivered the industry’s most advanced FPGAs with the introduction of Speedster22i FPGA family with embedded system-level IP for high performance wireline applications. Speedster22i family was the first application-specific FPGAs that enabled and high-performance programmable designs.
In October 2016, Achronix announced the production availability of Speedcore embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP for integration into customers’ Systems-on-Chips (SoCs). Since then, the demand for Speedcore IP has been very high. Speedcore IP is designed for compute and network acceleration applications and is based on the same high-performance architecture found in the company’s Speedster22i FPGAs.
Steve Mensor, Achronix VP Marketing Interviewed at DAC 2017
All Achronix products are supported by the Achronix ACE EDA design tools that support synthesis, place and route, plus timing closure and debug tools. ACE works in conjunction with industry-standard synthesis tools, allowing FPGA designers to map their designs into Achronix FPGAs.
Here is a playlist of the Nvidia’s press event at the CES 2015.
The playlist has 9 parts:
Introducing Tegra X1, Mobile Superchip: NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveils the Tegra X1 mobile super chip, with over one teraflops of processing power, at the company’s press event kicking off CES 2015.
NVIDIA DRIVE CX Digital Cockpit Computer: NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveils the NVIDIA DRIVE CX, for creating the most advanced digital cockpit systems, at the company’s press event kicking off CES 2015.
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showcases the NVIDIA DRIVE studio demo at the company’s press event kicking off CES 2015.
DRIVE Studio Material Rendering Simulation: NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showcases how future instrument panels can be customized in high definition, at the company’s press event kicking off CES 2015.
NVIDIA DRIVE PX Auto-Piloted Car Computer: NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveils the NVIDIA DRIVE PX, for developing auto-pilot capabilities, at the company’s press event kicking off CES 2015.
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang discusses the deep learning capabilities of NVIDIA DRIVE PX, at the company’s press event kicking off CES 2015.
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showcases the computer vision capabilities of the NVIDIA DRIVE PX auto-pilot computer, at the company’s press event kicking off CES 2015.
Audi and the Future of Autonomous Driving: NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is joined by Audi’s EVP of Electronics Development, Ricky Hudi, to discuss the future of autonomous driving, at the company’s press event kicking off CES 2015.
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showcases the Surround-Vision capabilities of NVIDIA DRIVE PX, at the company’s press event kicking off CES 2015.
Samsung’s Tizen-powered SUHD TV launches a new era in UHD with its proprietary display technology, intelligent re-mastering engine and seamless Smart TV functions
Culinary advice from top chefs comes to the kitchen, while laundry and cleaning appliances become even more convenient
Milk VR service offers virtual reality content to Gear VR users
Under the banner “Creating Possibilities, Shaping the Future,” Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., today unveiled its vision for smarter living at the company’s 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) press conference. Attended by more than 1,700 industry partners and media, Samsung showcased its next generation devices and services, led by an 88-inch SUHD TV and Samsung’s Milk VR virtual reality video service. With a focus on bringing the future into the home and creating experiences that enhance consumer lifestyles, the 2015 portfolio has already received 36 CES Innovation Awards.
EDACafe participated at the 2014 International Test Conference (ITC) as an exhibitor and we also recorded 5 video interviews. Interviews can be viewed in our video section or played directly below:
The Georgia Institute of Technology, Udacity and AT&T have teamed up to offer the first accredited Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMS CS) that students can earn exclusively through the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) delivery format and for a fraction of the cost of traditional, on-campus programs.
