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Silicon Catalyst partners with Arm to launch the Arm Flexible Access for Startups Contest
WINNER AND RUNNER-UP TO RECEIVE THE CONTEST’S LARGEST EVER TECHNOLOGY CREDIT FOR PRODUCTION TAPE-OUTS
Submission Deadline: May 17th, 2024
Silicon Valley, California – March 13, 2024 – Silicon Catalyst, the world's only incubator focused exclusively on accelerating semiconductor solutions, is pleased to announce it is partnering with Arm on the Arm Flexible Access for Startups Contest. The contest is directed towards early-stage entrepreneurial teams developing a system-on-chip (SoC) design using Arm® processor IP (intellectual property).
The 2024 Arm Flexible Access for Startups Contest is open to privately owned startup companies in pre-seed, seed and Series A funding that have raised a maximum of $20 million in funding. An Arm technology credit of $250,000 and $150,000, will be awarded to the Winner and Runner-up, respectively, and can be used to cover IP fees for a complete embedded system or contribute to the cost of a higher performance system. Both the winner and runner-up will also receive additional benefits, including a pitch review session hosted by the Silicon Catalyst Angels investment group. All contest applicant organizations will also be considered for acceptance to the Silicon Catalyst Incubator/Accelerator.
Paul Williamson, senior vice president and general manager, IoT Line of Business at Arm:
“Arm technology is for everyone, and through this contest, we are recognizing and supporting the next wave of innovators to grow their business and accelerate their SoC designs. We know that time to product and access to the largest possible market are critical for startups, which is why we created Arm Flexible Access for Startups, providing $0 access to a wide portfolio of IP, tools and support, to maximize their chance of success.”
Pete Rodriguez, Silicon Catalyst CEO:
“The winning and runner-up prizes of Arm technology credit represent significant investments for start-ups, so they can accelerate the commercialization of their products. This is a game-changer for silicon startups looking to design and deliver innovative SoC devices through the Arm Flexible Access for Startups program. As a key strategic and in-kind partner, we are delighted to again be supporting Arm through the contest and assisting the next generation of leading silicon startups to deliver commercial success and business growth.”
The contest is live now and will run through to May 17th, 2024. It will be judged by senior executives from both Arm and Silicon Catalyst, and the contest winner and runner-up will be announced in June 2024. Contest rules and application details can be found here.
Silicon Catalyst is the world’s only incubator + accelerator focused on semiconductor solutions, including Photonics, MEMS, sensors, IP, materials and Life Science. We accelerate startups from idea through prototype, and onto a path to volume production.
We have engaged with more than 1,000 semiconductor startups worldwide and have admitted over 100 exciting companies. In addition, our UK government funded early-stage incubator launched its first cohort of 11 startups on October 12, 2023.
Our companies participate in a 24-month customized incubation program. Each is guided closely by a Silicon Catalyst partner. This includes a semiconductor focused curriculum and over 40 events worldwide each year. Silicon Catalyst’s ecosystem provides everything our startups need to design, fabricate, and market semiconductor solutions:
• In-Kind Partners (TSMC, Synopsys, Arm, ST, MathWorks and over 50 more) – provide each startup several millions of dollars’ worth of goods and services including EDA tools, IP, PDKs, prototypes, design and test services, packaging and business solutions. Our companies have received over $150M in in-kind goods and services.
• Strategic Partners (including TI, ON Semi, Soitec, Bosch, Cirrus Logic, Arm, ST Micro, Sony, EMD Electronics, NXP, Mayfield and DuPont) – participate in the selection process and actively look for opportunities to partner with our startups.
• Investors – Our partnership with Mayfield and a large group of over 300 VCs, Angels, Angel groups, Corporate VCs, and Family Offices fund each journey. Silicon Catalyst Angels, created from our ecosystem, also funds our companies. Our companies have received over $600M in venture investments.
• Advisors – A valuable network of over 300 industry experts that we match to the specific needs of each startup.
• Universities, Industry Organizations, Accelerators and Government Agencies – We nurture over 400 partner relationships for the benefit of our portfolio companies. Our companies have received over $100M in grants.
Silicon Catalyst’s mission is to help semiconductor startups succeed. Join us in driving innovation!
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APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED
Our global outreach is underway to find early-stage semiconductor startups to join our incubator.
Silicon Catalyst is the world's only incubator focused on semiconductor solutions, including MEMS, sensors and intellectual property. We accelerate startups from idea through prototype, and onto a path to volume production.
The startups admitted since 2015 are developing innovative solutions in a variety of areas including energy harvesting, wearables, silicon photonics, memory technology, loT, high performance computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, wireless communications, and biomedical devices.
The Silicon Catalyst incubator utilizes our coalition of in-kind and strategic partners to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of developing semiconductor solutions. With our world-class network of mentors to advise startups, we are addressing their many challenges in moving from idea to realization and business success. We have provided our Portfolio Companies with a path to funding, free access to tools, testing and shuttle runs, along with advice on proper corporate governance and strategic execution.
Silicon Catalyst Portfolio Companies
UV-curable metal oxide thin films
Phosio is developing UV-curable metal oxide thin films, allowing deposition at ultra-low temperatures (as low as 150°C) - a significant improvement over sol-gel methods. PhosioLux® products are compatible with various solution-based deposition techniques, such as spin coating, slot die coating, and ink jetting, enabling rapid deposition at a lower cost compared to vapor deposition methods. PhosioLux® products can be patterned with direct UV exposure or techniques like nanoimprint lithography. This platform technology finds applications in transistors, OLEDs, MicroLED, and AR/VR devices.
4K-MEMS SA is developing game-changing micro NIR/SWIR sources for machine vision, hyperspectral imaging, and embedded spectroscopy. Covering the 0.8-to-5 micro wavelength range, these emitters are designed for deep integration into embedded analysis modules, meeting the growing demand for high-quality broadband infrared sources. Founded on the principle that technology should be elegant and accessible, the 4K-MEMS emitters enable chip-scale infrared analysis that will revolutionize markets including individualized food quality analysis, personalized health monitoring, and machine vision.
Accelerating & protecting compute-intensive applications
VyperCore is a fabless RISC-V processor startup
Applicable to all general-purpose programming languages, including C/C++
VyperCore's modified RISC-V processor will incorporate our novel hardware memory allocation management technology. This fundamental remodelling of hardware memory interfaces enables us to accelerate modern managed-language software, such as Python and C#, by up to a factor of 10. We can even achieve a >1.5x speedup on software written in older languages like C and C++.
Initially we are focusing on application software (as opposed to low-level system software) where we can maintain source code compatibility across languages (from Python to C/C++.) This will enable deployment of our accelerator card in data centers without developers needing to change their programs. Tweaked versions of popular open-source compilers and runtimes will be made available for early customers to retarget their applications. This is made much easier for us as the RISC-V community is already well underway porting tools to the architecture.
Schottky LSI, Inc. (SLSI) invented and patented SCMOSTM, a fundamental Circuit Technology that uses its proprietary Schottky Diode to turbocharge CMOS ICs to the PPA (Fig. 3) of the next node, or better, without the need to build a multi-billion-dollar next-node fab.
Harness the Power of Light for AI
At Neurophos, we pioneer a revolutionary approach to AI computation, leveraging the vast potential of light. Our cutting-edge technology, powered by optical metasurfaces and silicon photonics, introduces a new era of ultra-fast, high-density AI inference that outstrips the capabilities of traditional silicon photonics.
Silicon Photonics: Speed Is Key
While our metasurface ensures high density, we haven't compromised on speed. We integrate high-speed silicon photonics to feed our metasurface in-memory processor, leveraging its high modulation speeds. The result is a fast, efficient vector-matrix multiplication engine that combines the density of the metasurface with the velocity of silicon photonics modulators.
High-Density Metasurface: Size Matters
Our metasurface elements function as optical in-memory compute elements that are thousands of times smaller than traditional silicon photonics modulators, allowing our architecture to process vastly larger matrices on chip. This results in an unprecedented increase in the computational density that provides a major advantage over conventional silicon photonics. In optical computing, energy efficiency is proportional to array size, so our processor is hundreds of times more efficient than the state of the art.
The Neurophos Advantage
At Neurophos, our mission is to deliver AI computation solutions that are not just faster, but more efficient and denser. Our unique approach combines the best of optical metasurfaces and silicon photonics, offering an AI inference acceleration solution that is poised to reshape the AI landscape. Join us as we light the way to the future of AI.
OUR VISION
-Overhauling Decades of Light Emitting Diode (LED) Display Technology-
Since the invention of the first light-emitting diode (LED) over a century ago, solid-state lighting technology has since become ubiquitous, from home and commercial lighting, to various display technologies. MicroLEDs (LEDs < 100 μm), are the sought-after Holy Grail of the display industry due to their improved energy efficiency, faster response time, and higher pixel density, which lend to superior display resolution and performance compared to the MiniLED (LEDs >100 μm) technology of the past few decades. Moreover, the current manufacturing practice of selectively placing millions of tiny RGB LEDs is an extremely challenging and cost-prohibitive process.
As a stealth startup, we have developed a series of innovations that revolutionize microLED technology, from material growth to device fabrication and assembly. These novel approaches are based on our core technology: the polychromatic RGB microLED. Our polychromatic LED is a revolutionary device which replaces the century-old monochromatic LED, and promises to solve several key issues with decade-old microLED display technology.
At Q-Pixel we aim to overcome the obstacle of high fabrication costs and to dramatically streamline the LED display assembly processes. Our objective is not only to significantly reduce the cost, but also to minimize the number of defective pixels and maximize assembly speed for high-yield, high-throughput, foldable large area (>100 inch) microLED displays. Notably, our technology is also entirely transferrable to smaller displays, such as mobile phones, tablets, personal computers, and wearable devices (Smartwatches/AR/VR).
Please wait and see what Q-Pixel can do for the display industry!
Rune’s CC/CS™ data center helps solar and wind power plants address the multi-billion dollar problem of value deflation, clipping, and curtailment.
[Step 1] Rune installs CC/CS™ data centers behind-the-inverter at a solar or wind plant’s DC bus bar and doesn’t need AC supply from the grid
[Step 2] Rune autonomously determines availability of stranded and surplus power, and sends to CC/CS™ data center
[Step 3] Rune CC/CS™ data center generates revenue by performing interruptible computational workloads and power producer monetizes otherwise unmarketable power
Introducing Ultra Edge® circuit-level artificial intelligence. Transforming the smart technologies and processes driving our world.
Ultra Edge® technology, redefines a new era of circuit design, enabling predictive maintenance and improved performance of every closed-loop control system.
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little, very small, tiny
weeteq is an innovative Scottish company developing tiny technology that revolutionises Global industries. Our executive team have collectively spent over 50 years in deep tech and smart technology businesses, working for some of the world’s most respected tech companies.
We partner with other smart technology manufacturers and operators to deliver our mission of developing circuit-level artificial intelligence solutions to accelerate the sustainable growth of the smart technologies and processes driving our world.
Veevx Intelligent Memory (iRAM) Chiplets combine high performance, high density, and ultra-low power enabling the next generation in memory technology to service the demands from a wide variety of markets.
High Frequency Radar
We have developed a new solid-state high-frequency radar imaging technology. Reducing the size and cost while improving the performance. Our radar can see through fabrics, plastics and cardboard while running at video frame rates in a portable form factor.
We spun out of MIT after developing breakthroughs in THz imaging radar, building numerous antennas onto a size smaller than a credit card. This enabled us to demonstrate the first solid-state imaging radar at 300 GHz.
The 300GHz operating frequency and solid-state beam forming give us superpowers, enabling never-before applications.
The electromagnetic energy efficiently transmits through fabrics, plastics, paper and cardboard. Allowing us to see and measure in 3D what is concealed under clothing, or what is inside cardboard boxes.
The solid-state beam forming means we can steer the beam with sub-degree accuracy, making our radar more like a cellphone camera than a traditional radar, with high image resolution, low power and portability.
What we do
At ABR we develop new kinds of AI that exploit temporal neural networks. Our algorithms and the hardware we use ranges from the conventional (CPUs, GPUs, deep networks, ANNs) to the unconventional (spiking ASICs, FPGAs, adaptive controllers, SNNs). We have deep expertise in using neuromorphic (and standard) hardware and software to solve AI problems. We have developed a software platform, Nengo, that flexibly combines all these methods to get you the lowest power, fastest speeds, and highest accuracy.
Microelectronics for Critical Systems
We develop high performance microelectronic components to enable the secure collection, processing, and distribution of critical data.
About Niobium Microsystems
Niobium builds upon decades of commercial and federal cryptography and system-on-chip expertise. Our team has completed 7 tape-outs leading to production of both commercial and custom military silicon in the areas of
high-speed crypto, phased array, AI/ML, side channel resistant chips, ultra low power.
Within the lines of a fingerprint is the roadmap that makes each one of us unique. At EXOKĒRYX, our roadmap to transforming early disease detection combines principles from the semiconductor industry with breakthrough biotechnology.
Exosomes are crucial to cellular communication within our bodies and hold the key to early cancer detection.
EXOKĒRYX is revolutionizing early-stage cancer diagnostics by combining the power of solid-state electronics with exosome-based biomarker discovery.
We are developing a novel chip-based platform that leverages the dipole moments of exosomes to isolate, and transistor technology to quantify and analyze them in biological fluids to create your CancerFingerprintTM.
From a few drops of biological fluid, we can identify biomarkers with greater sensitivity than standard methods. This level of sensitivity allows for the detection of cancer and other serious disease earlier than is possible with current technologies.
Meaning we can extend quality of life by avoiding therapy pathways that are as harmful as the disease itself.
It’s time to usher in the new next generation technology.
It’s time to put our fingerprint on positive patient outcomes.
WHAT IS POLYN TECHNOLOGY?
THE WINNING BLEND OF ACADEMIA POWER OF MIND AND INDUSTRY EXPERTISE
POLYN Technology is a fabless semiconductor company with teams located in Israel, UK, USA, and France.
The Company’s unique NASP technology provides fast and easy conversion of trained Neural Networks into Tiny AI silicon chips with ultra-low power consumption, low latency and small size. NASP is Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processing of raw sensor data of any type.
NASP can be highly tailored for any specific application and yet affordable for mass market.
Enabling The Convergence of Sensing and Communications
Quantum Power Transformation (QPT) is a revolutionary start-up with a vision to help the world save energy through the development of unique IP that can revolutionise power electronics systems, radically improving efficiency & performance.
These benefit almost any consumer or industrial based electronic system; reducing power consumption, increasing efficiency and the reliability of power systems. Applications include ac:dc converters, dc:dc converters, inverters and electric motor control systems.
Zero-power sensors with uninterrupted operation and unprecedented accuracy.
RAAAM provides the highest-density embedded memory in standard CMOS
developed a unique on-chip memory technology which offers the highest-density embedded memory in a standard CMOS process, requiring no additional process steps or cost.
technology provides up-to 50% smaller memory footprint compared to the highest-density commercial solutions based on 6T SRAM.
memory IP which can be used as a drop-in replacement for SRAM,
offering a significant cost reduction, improved bandwidth, and reduced power consumption.
patented technology has already been proven in silicon with multiple test-chips of leading semiconductor foundries (e.g., TSMC, Samsung, ST Micro).
This year's CES Innovation Awards program received a record high number of over 1800 submissions. The CES Innovation Awards is one of the most respected awards for frontier electronic devices.
Kura Gallium significantly outperforms all other augmented reality headsets by every measurable metric including: field of view, transparency, form factor, resolution, brightness and depth of field. Kura Gallium are the first AR glasses in the world to achieve a full frame field of view of 150° compared to 52° by their nearest competitor. Its display is 95% transparent, allowing the displayed image to blend more seamlessly into one's immediate surroundings, representing a vital breakthrough for the telepresence, training, and medical markets. The best current alternative offers only 25% transparency, making all other AR headsets a compromised solution for outdoor use.
The company's array of best-in-class solutions which are complemented by 8K resolution, in a compact form factor (80g), with unlimited depth of field, and unrivaled brightness (100x brighter) prompted Techradar to write in advance of CES, "Kura has been working on the Gallium for a number of years now, and it's shaping up to be one of the most impressive consumer AR devices we've seen yet … a positive showing at CES 2022 could make the Kura Gallium appear to be worth investing in when it launches."
Kura's revolutionary, not evolutionary architecture, has allowed it to leapfrog the competition. Its roadmap has been to develop novel proprietary approaches to the technology ex novo rather than relying on modifying existing components and systems.
The company's award winning first product, Kura Gallium, features several breakthrough technologies including a miniature customized full color MicroLED display based on customized full color silicon. This approach represents a quantum improvement over the deployment of single color, color combiners or color conversion phosphors. Two other key breakthroughs are customized MicroLED display-driver ASICs as well as a customized pinhole waveguide designed by proprietary optical optimization software developed by Kura.
Kura Gallium includes both hardware and software, with SDK and service upgrades for premium users. The product's ability to enable a 1:1 virtual to reality ratio allows for a truly immersive experience in a telepresence environment. This stands to lay the foundation for blending Metaverse content seamlessly into a users' immediate surroundings.
Kura Technologies was recently admitted to Silicon Catalyst, the world's only incubator for semiconductor startups. Industry authority Semiconductor Review named Silicon Catalyst a Top 10 in 2021 for semiconductor manufacturing solutions. CEO Pete Rodriguez commented, "we are extremely impressed with Kelly as a technologist and Kura as a technology breakthrough startup for augmented reality, a market we see with prospectively the largest growth potential on the semiconductor horizon. Their industry-first advances in performance directly address today's biggest challenges to AR's mass adoption."
Science and Technology of Digital Agriculture
We are passionate about the food we eat, and how we can improve it through Geegah technology. We are dedicated to providing the devices and systems that free up the human mind to do fun and creative things without worrying about our food. We are developing technologies for Internet-of-Plants, being able to image soil and provide real time data on plant health, through our partners at ARPA-E and the The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
State-of-Art Biometric Sensors
Making electronic payments securely effects us all to feel safe in a world full of fraudulent intent. At our company, we are developing most advanced sensors to offer the most secure and convenient biometric sensors. Based on gigahertz (Hence, the name GEEGAH) ultrasonics we offer single chip biometric solutions with an emphasis on fingerprint sensing.
Alumni
Consumer Devices
Capacitive Imaging from SigmaSense enables OEMs and ODMs to be first to market the most intuitive, robust and innovative products to consumers.
Large Format Interactive Displays
Fully scalable. Digital. Environmentally resilient. Introducing the next evolution in Large Format Interactive Display capabilities.
Custom Implementations
SigmaSense Sigma-delta Architecture will traverse industries, environments and form factors with virtually limitless potential in application.
Artificial Intelligence is here, not only to stay, but to change our world. A long time ago Humans invented the wheel to move faster and to help relieve their muscles from heavy jobs. Today, we humans are shaping and developing the AI, to help our most important muscle, the brain, to go further and open new unthinkable landscapes, new opportunities and new jobs. Mentium has the technology to bring ultra-fast AI to low power electronics, like cameras, sensors, microphones, wearable accessories, and bring the performances of autonomous vehicles and AI cloud computing to a whole new level.
Our architecture is based on Non-Volatile Memory devices used to carry out analog in-memory computation, eliminating the memory transfer bottleneck and exploiting the inherent efficiency of analog computation. Analog computing is an old concept abandoned a long time ago due to its troubles dealing with variations and noise, leading to low precision computation. Mentium Technologies Inc. solved these issues and our technology showed incredible resilience to temperature and device variations: we are able to deliver extremely fast and efficient AI computation.
Lelantos is revolutionizing the world of gas sensing by developing a new generation of IoT compatible gas sensors targeted to high value monitoring applications in threat detection, industrial safety, environmental and air quality monitoring as well as medical diagnostics. Current gas sensors are based on optical and resistive technologies and suffer from inherent weaknesses such bulky size, high power consumption and high cost. As such they prohibit the effective monitoring in IoT oriented use cases that require large scale, pervasive sensing to be provided by autonomous, portable, battery operated sensors with wireless connectivity. In contrast, Lelantos sensors based on CMOS integrated piezoelectric resonator arrays can achieve up to 1000 times more compact size, lower power consumption and lower cost than currently utilized systems. As a foundationally superior sensing technology, Lelantos is enabling the widespread adoption of gas sensing in IoT applications and the disruption of the market providing a true chemical sensor for the Internet of Things.
OUR TECHNOLOGY
At Lemurian, our goal is to make deep learning affordable and available for everyone, from the individual researcher to industry.
The Lemurian SPU (Spatial Processing Unit) is more than an order of magnitude more efficient in terms of memory and power in comparison with legacy processors, whilst also being faster in inference.
Our processor makes use of a novel digital arithmetic which has been designed specifically in order to speed up matrix-vector multiplications which largely make up modern deep neural networks, whilst also reducing hardware complexity.
Our arithmetic and processor architecture results in tremendous power and memory savings, thereby making our processor more affordable and well suited to inference at the edge.
Espre Technologies is an innovative solutions provider developing technologies related to next generation wireless products. The company holds intellectual property related to Internet of Things (IoT) for 5G networks and embedded cooperative network solutions, carrier aggregation techniques in LTE, and A.I. applications related to real-time user wireless data capture and analytics. Espre has developed and patented an industry disruptive communications protocol that is designed to integrate within existing WiFi and cellular networks.
Espre was founded by Dr. John Terry, a recognized industry expert in wireless communication system design in the areas of chaos communications, WLAN & OFDM networks, and carrier aggregation for LTE and WiFi networks. Dr. Terry has generated over 50 issued / pending domestic and foreign patents related to wireless technology. Further company information can be found at www.espretech.com
The next generation 5G network will form the backbone of the fourth industrial revolution. We believe that by 2030 the planet will be blanketed by E-band connectivity. Existing E-band front-ends are bulky (~size of shoe-box), expensive (~$11k) and power hungry – and are not suited for small cell and massive MIMO. Multifractal is addressing this problem by developing fully integrated E-band front-ends on a single chip, in silicon (CMOS / BiCMOS). Our front-end chips will make E-band front-ends so small (size of a match-box), and so cheap (~$20), that they will cover every lamp-post and every street corner!
Multifractal's enabling technology is the ability to create high-Q E-band filters (and diplexers) on-chip in silicon and integrate them directly (still on chip) with the LNA, PA, switches and mixers, all in cheap mass producible silicon. Our customers can then feed the output of our IC directly into the digital back-end, reducing their front-end design, size, cost and effort. They do not have to worry about the RF – we do all that for them! This will enable miniaturization of the entire E-band front-end, for the first time allowing small cell and massive MIMO.
OUR TECHNOLOGY
01 / THROUGHPUT
We manufacture synthetic DNA-derived molecules and large combinatorial libraries in predefined locations for mass-screening of important biological molecules
02 / DIGITAL
With CMOS technology we can unleash the full potential of digital diagnostic assays and transform molecular interactions into measurable signals
03 / APTIVEX
This is the branded name of our high-throughput technology for the discovery of novel biosensing molecules for electrochemical devices
Enabling edge intelligence
We offer highly scalable and rapidly customizable energy-efficient AI accelerators for the extreme edge applications such hearing aids, wearables, bio-medical monitoring, AR/VR and others.
Our goal is to enable the next generation of edge devices that are an order of magnitude smarter than they are today.
Adaptiva is a neural network accelerator that delivers between 10 to 100 TOp/s/W of energy efficiency. We seek to enable the next generations of smart edge devices.
What is possible today
Basic activity detection
Face Identification
Keyword spotting
We enable more
Speaker isolation
Precise activity recognition
Emotion recognition
Visual odometry
Speech synthesis
&
many others...
Trameto’s HarvestAll™ power management technology addresses the challenge of powering wireless IoT edge devices. Here, regular battery replacement is prohibitively expensive and environmentally damaging. Our technology overcomes the problem by efficiently and effectively managing even the tiniest amounts of energy as it is harvested from the surrounding environment.
HarvestAll™ power management ICs (PMICs) make energy harvesting viable in a multitude of new applications, including smart buildings, consumer electronics, asset monitoring, agriculture, wearables, healthcare and home automation.
NanoHydroChem is an advanced materials company developing and commercializing nanomaterials for energy storage applications.
AlphaICs, a fabless semiconductor company, designs and develops the best-in-class Artificial Intelligence (AI) Co-processors for delivering high-performance AI compute on edge devices. AlphaICs edge solutions include inference with learning. AlphaICs solutions are targeted toward mid-performance applications with power requirement greater than 3 watts and lower than 50 watts. The company has developed a next-generation AI Processor, called Real AI Processor (RAP™), based on a proprietary architecture. The RAP™ architecture makes use of a specialized Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), designed for accelerating AI workloads. RAP™ is highly scalable and can be scaled for mobile devices to datacenter solutions.
Phinomics uses circular DNA, an early marker of genetic and environmental change, to diagnose disease and radically improve human health. By isolating and sequencing the circular genome ("the circulome", a term we coined), we solve a genetic puzzle that unlocks a universal “stage-zero” diagnostic for disease. At scale, circulome data will revolutionize diagnostics and identify new therapies.
Oculi makes the SPU™ Sensing and Processing Unit, a complete edge vision system on a chip, that overcomes power, bandwidth and latency constraints. The Oculi SPU is a high performance, edge processing, low latency, low bandwidth, high speed sensor, and is an ideal solution to scale an intelligent network over a wide area for use cases in traffic monitoring, analytics and tolling. Oculi is deployed on a US public highway and partnering with various companies to deliver innovative solutions to market.
EMPOWERED BY INNOVATION
We are focused on providing a winning edge to our customers through our Innovation. Our R&D and Business teams are driven by this focus. Our customers victory is our victory. That approach has delivered a range of highly innovative products targeted towards the markets we focus-AI,ML & High Performance Computing, Automotive, Datacenter, Enterprise and Consumer.
BUILDING BLOCKS TO ENABLE COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
We build and license best in-class memory solutions for AI,ML & HPC, Automotive, Datacenter, Enterprise and Consumer products. Find the ideal SoC solution for your amazing products.
BEST IN-CLASS IP CORES
Our technologies are instrumental in many key segments. We offer custom features (300+) in our products, so that our customers can create strong product differentiation. We provide a unique mix of products that empowers our customers to explore new market opportunities.
Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designed to exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and University of Münster, Germany.
Sonical is revolutionizing the way we hear. In the same way you use apps on your phone, Sonical is putting apps in your ears. To make this possible we are designing and building the world’s first ear computer that has the capabilities and performance for next generation ear worn products. To make our intuitive platform accessible we are creating EarOS to unlock thousands of existing and new developers. Our ear worn solutions will enable everyone to have a personalized hearing experience and to control how they hear the world using AI and advanced audio processing.
Quadric believes the road to an autonomous future must be completely re-architected. As the need for speed becomes more important than ever for millisecond decision-making in machines, data doesn’t have time to go round-trip to the cloud. Advanced edge computing is the answer, but requires a start-from-scratch approach. By combining high performance computing with the most sophisticated artificial intelligence, Quadric’s technology is helping to realize the promise of the future: where cars will finally commute safely for us, where industrial robots will complete critical tasks, where humans will communicate with machines like never before.
Your processor needs a bodyguard.
Dover Microsystems’ CoreGuard® technology is the only solution for embedded systems that prevents the exploitation of software vulnerabilities and immunizes processors against entire classes of network-based attacks.
Forget Everything You Know About Cybersecurity
On average, all complex software contains up to 50 bugs per 1,000 lines of code. So, it’s no surprise that nearly every cyberattack relies on exploiting a software vulnerability. Today’s cybersecurity solutions focus on building defensive software around networks and applications to protect our embedded systems. Rather than securing the system, this approach actually increases a system’s vulnerability by adding yet another layer of inherently flawed software. As a result, companies and individuals are left even more exposed.
Compact 60 GHz Radio for Wireless Backhaul
MICROHORN PHASED-ARRAY ANTENNA
The phased array antenna automatically scans and locks onto the strongest signal by electromagnetically shaping and steering the beam. There are no moving parts.
GIGABIT THROUGHPUT
Full bi-directional throughput at gigabit data rates.
60 GHz Wireless Transceiver
COMPACT SIZE
The small antenna size (4 cm x 2.5 cm) is unobtrusive and perfectly suited for mounting in an urban environment.
RANGE TARGET
Support for distances up to several hundred meters.
mmTron is the world’s leading provider of innovative mmwave linear power efficient broadband products. Our focus is on high-growth segments of mmwave markets: 5G, 6G, instrumentation, defense, satellite and aerospace communications.
We work with world-class MMIC foundries and collaborate with our customers to deliver superior products, outstanding technical support and uncompromising customer service.
Ayar Labs helps companies keep up with skyrocketing volumes of data by miniaturizing fiber optic transceivers and making them in silicon chips, bringing the super-high bandwidths and low energy use of fiber optics inside computers.
AEPONYX is a fabless micro optical switch semiconductor start-up designing and marketing chips for fiber optic access to the cloud.
With its patented and patent pending technologies, combining planar Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) and Silicon Photonics, AEPONYX is building the fastest, most affordable and smallest micro optical switches for use in disaggregated switching systems and enabling tunability in both transmission and reception in pluggable transceivers.
The ever-increasing demand for network connectivity, fueled by mobile devices, video content, cloud applications, Internet of things and social networks, is the source of ever increasing power consumption issues for telecom service providers and data center operators.
This creates opportunities for optical circuit switching and a new generation of tunable transceivers, increasing the capacity on both ends of the optical fiber while lowering power consumption.
By combining Silicon Photonics with MEMS, AEPONYX is creating a unique platform that can support the next generation of optical communications.
AEPONYX’s micro optical switches are 100x faster, 10x cheaper and 10x smaller than the 3D MEMS used in commercial products within data centers and by telecom service providers.
Their speed and cost point open the door to several new applications for equipment manufacturers within fiber optic access networks, mobile networks, data centers and high performance computing.
Moreover, since optical switching can significantly reduce both power consumption as well as latency, equipment manufacturers, telecom and data center network operators have the opportunity to use optical switching to not only reduce their environmental footprint, but also to improve their services differentiation.
AEPONYX will be the market leader in MEMS-based Silicon Photonics.
Eridan Communications is a fabless technology company developing the devices and firmware for the next generation of communications hardware for 5G and beyond. We’re based in Silicon Valley, but we leverage technology partners and resources from around the world.
Owl Autonomous Imaging has recently completed and delivered a two-color infrared camera for the US Air Force. Leveraging this technology and the associated patent portfolio, Owl AI is now developing a 4D-camera that combines 1550nm Flash-LiDAR and Thermal imaging (IR) within a single solid-state mega-pixel focal plane, targeting ADAS and Autonomous vehicles. This is a unique sensor fusion solution for the industry.
Owl AI was co-founded by Chuck Gershman. Mr. Gershman has 30 years of semiconductor industry experience in executive management, marketing, engineering, business development, sales, consulting and executive advising. A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Gershman has been a member of the executive team of five startups, three of which as CEO/COO. He has had successful exits with acquisitions by Intel and PMC-Sierra. Further company information can be found at www.owlai.us
Today there is an ever-increasing demand for portable devices with extended battery life as well as greater performance. However, the supply is being limited by the efficiency of the processors and displays that comprise two of the largest energy consumers within those portable devices.
In response to the power-efficiency dilemma facing manufacturers of portable consumer electronics, Power Down Semiconductor developed Low Power Processing (or LPP™). The technology uses a “pseudo-adiabatic” technique to recycle charge and prevent CV2f losses in memory blocks, clock buffers, GPIO, and displays.
SPARK is the enabling wireless technology of the future. Its efficiency, agility and robustness allow it to address a large number of markets, many of which are ill-served by current wireless technologies. The SPARK Radio is a wireless transceiver that is more effective than any existing technology, increasing the energy efficiency of wireless communication and enhancing battery life. This is made possible by a unique architecture that provides an order of magnitude better energy efficiency than the state-of-the-art, and this improvement is achieved through key circuit and system level innovations. Our goal is to significantly extend the limited battery life of electronics that require short-range wireless communications, as well as to increase the robustness and agility of their wireless links.
Probius Diagnostics is developing an application-agnostic, embedded point-of-care (PoC) diagnostic.
The agnostic, broad-spectrum nature of our solution makes it reconfigurable for assays of proteins without the need for specific probe or label. This is unprecedented and very compelling for a wide range of PoC applications, such as rapid screening in urgent care settings, clinical trials for pharmaceutical research, ambulatory endocrine response monitoring in chronic diseases and personalized therapeutics, as well as in-field diagnostics for biothreats and food/water quality monitoring.
EcoCircuits is young fabless semiconductor company. We develop and provide smart and cost effective power management silicon solutions (PMIC) that increase the maximum power capability of batteries. Typical applications are wireless Smart Home and IoT devices. Our technology enables the use of low cost Coin Celland Lithium Thionyl Chloride batteries in these power demanding applications. We are exploring new business opportunities where our solution can boost the product performance and maximize the lifetime of batteries.
One Silicon Chip Photonics’ (OSCP’s) mission is to produce simple, light, low-cost, low-power, high-performance Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MOEMS) components and integrate them on Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) substrates to create sensors for different applications, in particular motion sensors to measure acceleration or rotation of an object.
Xceler Systems is developing a new kind of processor and platform to enable the next generation Intelligent Edge. The brain-like graph engine is built using “Digital Neurons,” with the ability to dynamically form thousands of synapses every clock cycle for computing. This Neuromorphic processor does not require the developer to learn new languages or design flows and works with a C/C++ front end.
Xceler graph processor (XGE) and the Xceler graph compiler (XGC) will enable customers to implement supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms such as association, classification and clustering to solve problems with real time constraints, on the edge. Xceler processors will provide orders of magnitude better performance at substantially lower power.
The EdgeOps™ platform is highly scalable and adaptable
– Edge Intelligent Operations platform
– Unpackage autonomous functionality
– Improve efficiency of operational equipment
– Introduce self-adaptive automation systems
– Predictive Analytics integrated with OT data
– Increase availability with self-adaptive functionality
REX Computing is developing a new, hyper-efficient processor architecture targeting the requirements for the supercomputers of today, and all the computers of tomorrow.
To do this, we are throwing out the feature creep and bloat of processors of the past 30 years, and using improvements in the world of software to greatly simplify the processor itself to only what is necessary.
In doing so, we are able to deliver a 10 to 25x increase in energy efficiency for the same performance level compared to existing GPU and CPU systems
Active Layer Parametrics (ALP Inc.) has developed a system to rapidly and accurately measure mobility and activated carrier concentration profiles with Angstrom-level resolution for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. These profiles detail the depth of electrical activation due to implant-anneal recipes. We're the only system in the world that is capable of doing these measurements on a routine basis. The goal of the company is: Improve Yield by Quick Feedback: Instead having to wait for weeks to get devices made, we could do that in a matter of minutes. Improve Device performance: By tracking process changes to electronic impact - we currently do this 'matrix-analysis'.
GMK is a fabless semiconductor startup company that provides analog and digital mixed IC and related software platform. Based on a proprietary patent portfolio, GMK is creating single-wire connectivity markets starting with smartphones and smart accessories, to IoT and wearables, on through to automotive and smart factory.
Our Vision
We are a Singapore-based company established to provide world-class compelling and affordable solutions to improve connectivity and quality of life for everyone.
Our Mission
Gigabits wireless connectivity to allow better and timely services everywhere, for everyone.
Research and Development
Collaborating with distinguished Singapore Government Research Agency A*STAR, we have the accessibility to Singapore vibrant research talents and wide range of Intellectual Properties and Patents Portfolio.
Design and Implementation
Experienced in wireless communications protocol and standardization. We have the competencies from system design and simulations to ASIC realization.
Customization of Solution
We work closely with Industry Partners to deliver customized solutions for their products and customers' requirement.
5DSENSING makes innovating CMOS sensors enabling Smart Cameras for Safe City applications 5DSENSING is an Israeli startup company that designs a future CMOS sensor with 2D NIR + 3D flash ToF for smart and safe city markets. With our sensor, a new generation of smart cameras is feasible allowing huge cost reduction of safe city installation and maintenance. We are integrating ultra low light, active night vision and 3D point cloud into a single sensor. These cameras will have big advantages over existing generations with minor additional cost.
“Soft Contact Lens Based Augmented Reality Platform”
Visual Dawn is developing a contact lens based AR hardware platform that relies upon the same hydrogel material used for corrective vision contact and sets the gold-standard for comfort. Our system is enabled by a biocompatible battery. Our biocompatible battery leverages a proprietary chemistry that eliminates the need for toxic electrolyte solution and electrode materials. Further, our chemistry is stable and doesn't exhibit the same catastrophic failure modes seen in lithium based consumer batteries, namely fire and explosion. Our lens is designed to be disposable, with an 8-hour useful battery life.
Our Technology provides reliable, high quality data by lighting and capturing all the properties of the optical light field. Instead of using AI to decipher the environment, the technology provides rich, high quality data to enable the predictive power of AI. Our products will support sensing for full autonomy, at a price point to be deployed in Level2 automation (adaptive cruise control, automatic braking)
Zeno Semiconductor, Inc. develops and licenses novel memory and logic technologies, which provide innovative paths to scaling semiconductor devices. The memory and logic technologies are manufacturable on mainstream CMOS and FinFET fabrication processes, with no new materials or equipments, with no changes to any of the existing libraries and IPs. Zeno currently has been awarded more than 50 patents.
High Speed High Resolution Lowest Power
Our patented Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) beat the competition by 10x
LIDAR ADCs for
Autonomous Vehicles
LIDAR ADCs for
Autonomous Vehicles
Next-gen comm. wireless
and wireline ADCs
Portable medical imaging
ADCs (1st customer)
Analog bottleneck
400 MHz BW 10-bit ADCs
Analog bottleneck
800 MHz BW 11-bit ADCs
Analog bottleneck
45 MHz BW 15-bit ADCs
Current ADCs cannot address next-generation bottlenecks
Lower supply voltages limits headroom and accuracy for high resolution medical imaging
Poorer "analog" transistors in lower nodes of CMOS limit bandwidth for LiDAR/5G
SMI ADCs lower system cost
Single voltage supply operation
Robust jitter tolerance
Oversampled architecture
Resistive input, easier to drive