Category Archives: guest blog

Today’s guest blog is Rob Dekker, the President and principal developer at Verific, who produce front-ends used by many EDA tool suppliers both big and small. Prior to founding Verific, Rob was at Exemplar where he was the principal developer … Continue reading →

Today’s guest blog is by Lynn Conway, who is the Conway of "Mead and Conway," the book on VLSI Design that first moved VLSI Design from its priestly guilds within a few semiconductor companies and into first the universities and … Continue reading →

Today’s guest blog is by Phil Moorby who back in the 1980s at Gateway Design Automation was the inventor of the Verilog language, for which he was given the prestigious Kauffman award in 2006. Gateway was, of course, acquired by … Continue reading →

This is the second of two guest blogs from Doug Fairbairn about Lambda magazine (which became VLSI Design) and the early days of VLSI Technology. The first blog is here. VLSI Design, VLSI Technology Amazingly enough, Xerox agreed to underwrite … Continue reading →

Doug Fairbairn was at Xerox PARC (along with Lynn Conway of Mead & Conway fame) when the VLSI design revolution began. He would go on to be one of the founders of VLSI Technology but he also realized that every … Continue reading →

Paul Slaby is CEO of Kaben Wireless Silicon. He spoke at the annual D&R conference in Grenoble last December about whether or not the semiconductor industry will (should?) restructure itself along the lines of the pharmaceutical industry, with large distribution … Continue reading →

Kathryn Kranen is the CEO of Jasper Design Automation. In Q4 last year, to the amazement of anyone watching, they closed a round of funding. More surprising still, they didn’t simply raise money from their existing investors, they brought on … Continue reading →

Today’s guest blog is from Mark Gogolewski, who is one of the founders of Denali, famous for parties memory controller and other IP. Denali was founded 14 years ago and was financed on the sweat-equity of its founders who initially … Continue reading →

Today’s guest is John Lambert. He is another Brit and is currently CEO of Virtutech (I was his VP marketing for a time). Prior to that he still has the scars from many years at Rational starting from the early … Continue reading →

Today’s guest blog is from Grant Martin, Chief scientist at Tensilica. He worked for Burroughs in Scotland (in Cumbernauld, of all places, which makes Newark look attractive), Nortel in Canada, and then at Cadence before moving to Tensilica. He literally … Continue reading →