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Mr. P R Sivakumar is the Founder and CEO of Maven Silicon and Aceic Design Technologies, leading vision, strategy, and technology. With over 28 years of experience across academia and the semiconductor industry, he has worked with companies like Synopsys, Cadence, and Mentor Graphics, supporting advanced verification and successful chip tape-outs. He focuses on Verification IPs, consulting, EDA flow development, and corporate training. A thought leader and author, he contributes to industry platforms. He has received multiple honours, including Cadence’s Outstanding Technical Achievement award, and holds a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University.

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RISC-V

A Chip Designer’s Perspective of RISC-V Traps

Understanding RISC‑V traps is essential for Chip Designers building RISC‑V CPUs, microcontrollers, and complex SoCs. It’s equally important for Embedded Engineers who de...
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Industry

IC Manufacturing and Packaging: The Engine Powering the Digital and AI World

The modern world runs on integrated circuits (ICs). From smartphones and cars to AI data centers, medical equipment, satellites, and industrial automation systems, semiconduct...
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Industry

AI is Transforming Semiconductor Industry – Upskill Today to Lead Tomorrow

The AI Era is Creating Unprecedented Opportunities in Semiconductors – But Only for Engineers Who Continuously Upskill The semiconductor industry is at the center of the...
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VLSI Industry

Design Approaches and Architectures of RISC-V SoCs

We design different kinds of System-on-Chips (SoCs/Chips) tailored for different electronic products. Let’s explore how we approach designing various electronic products lik...
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VLSI Industry

Why Maven Silicon for upskilling your workforce?

VLSI Engineers are the pillars of the semiconductor industry, and they can only transform our industry into a trillion-dollar industry with their inventions and innovations. S...
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VLSI Industry

Chip War Without Soldiers?

Every country realizes the importance of producing skilled chip designers who could decide their success as soldiers by creating advanced AI chips for winning the Chip War. Al...
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RISC-V

Maven Silicon’s RISC-V Processor IP Verification Flow

1. Introduction RISC-V is a general-purpose license-free open Instruction Set Architecture [ISA] with multiple extensions. It is an ISA separated into a small base integer ISA...
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RISC-V

Is your career at RISK without RISC-V?

I am delighted to share my technical insights into RISC-V in this article to inspire and prepare the next generation of chip designers for the future of the open era of comput...
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VLSI Industry

Why VLSI Internship Programs are Important for Students in 2023 | Maven Silicon

Every university/college is making the internship mandatory and asking their UG students to do it while doing the engineering course itself. However, it used to be only for th...
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Newsletters

Newsletter August 2022

Creating a state-of-art destination for the world-class VLSI training for every engineer across the globe and supporting the semiconductor industry with skilled talents is our...
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Verification

SoC Verification Flow and Methodologies

We need more and more complex chips and SoCs for all new applications that use the latest technologies like AI. For example, Apple’s 5nm SoC A14 features 6-core CPU, 4 core-...
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RISC-V

RISC VS CISC

RISC is a Reduced Instruction Set Computer. We prefer RISC primarily for battery-operated light-weight applications like IoT devices that use embedded system controllers or m...
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Newsletters

Newsletter May 2022

Creating a state-of-art destination for the world-class VLSI training for every engineer across the globe and supporting the semiconductor industry with skilled talents is our...
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VLSI Training

Experts Talk: RISC-V CEO Calista Redmond and Maven Silicon CEO Sivakumar P R on RISC-V Open Era of Computing

India’s top VLSI Training Services company Maven Silicon, a RISC-V Global Training Partner, conducted an insightful discussion with the industry experts Ms. Calista Redmond,...
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RISC-V

RISC-V RV32I JALR Instruction | Maven Silicon

This video explains the RV32I JALR instruction. RISC-V is growing rapidly, follow this RISC-V video blog series to obtain knowledge about RISC-V processors, Instruction format...
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Newsletters

Newsletter December 2021

We had an excellent year in 2021, collaborating and building a robust semiconductor knowledge ecosystem globally. Our partnership with the great minds......
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RISC-V

RISC-V RV32I J-Type | Maven Silicon

This video explains the RV32I J-Type instructions. RISC-V is growing rapidly, follow this RISC-V video blog series to obtain knowledge about RISC-V processors, Instruction for...
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VLSI Industry

VLSI Design Careers | Maven Silicon

Our CEO's article 'VLSI Design Careers' published by Semiconductor Engineering, explains why aspiring VLSI engineers should consider learning processor design for their lon...
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RISC-V

RISC-V RV32I S-Type | Maven Silicon

This video explains the RV32I S-Type instructions. RISC-V is growing rapidly, follow this RISC-V video blog series to obtain knowledge about RISC-V processors, Instruction for...
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RISC-V

RISC-V RV32I B-Type | Maven Silicon

This video explains the RV32I I-Type instructions. RISC-V is growing rapidly, follow this RISC-V video blog series to obtain knowledge about RISC-V processors, Instruction for...
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Newsletters

Newsletter August 2021

Training at Maven Silicon continues to evolve at the speed of market change, bringing the young aspirants, engineers & the corporate team......
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