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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

RISC-V RV32I I-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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VLSI Industry

Semiconductor Industry 2.0 | Maven Silicon

Everything is changing in the Semiconductor Industry to keep pace with 50 years old Moore’s law, the number of transistors in a chip doubles about every two years. In this a...
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RISC-V

RISC-V RV32I R-Type | Maven Silicon

This video explains the RV32I R-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

How does Maven Silicon address the challenges of the semiconductor industry? | CEO Interview with Semiwiki

Our Founder, CEO P.R. Sivakumar shared his experience and perspectives of VLSI training in his interview with Semiwiki....
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RISC-V

RISC-V RV32I Assembly – Multiplication | Maven Silicon

This video shows how we can implement the Multiplication using add and shift RV32I instructions. RISC-V is growing rapidly, follow this RISC-V video blog series to obtain know...
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RISC-V

RISC-V RV32I RTL Architecture | Maven Silicon

This video explains the RTL architecture of an RV32I RISC-V processor. Also, it shows how we can create the RISC-V RTL using basic building blocks like the adder, decoder, mem...
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Newsletters

Newsletter April 2021

We had a successful year 2020, as we were able to support our corporate customers and VLSI trainees using our cloud-based online training solutions. We are proud to inform you...
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RISC-V

RISC-V RV32I Instructions Format | Maven Silicon

This video explains all RV 32I Instruction formats, R, I, S, B, J, and U types, and how it simplifies the instruction decoder logic....
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RISC-V

RISC-V Application to Machine Language

This video explains how a RISC-V processor executes all the software applications written in the high-level language in terms of its machine language....
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RISC-V

RISC-V Execution Stages | Maven Silicon

This video explains the execution stages of a RISC-V processor and how it executes all the instructions....
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VLSI Industry

Fearless Chip Forecasts for 2021 from Semiconductor Engineering

We are delighted to collaborate with RISC-V and empower the engineering community to innovate and create new and powerful chips, primarily using open source solutions. ...
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RISC-V

RISC-V CPU Performance | Maven Silicon

We are delighted to collaborate with RISC-V and empower the engineering community to innovate and create new and powerful chips, primarily using open source solutions. ...
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VLSI Industry

Hard-To-Hire VLSI Engineers | A Perspective

We are delighted to collaborate with RISC-V and empower the engineering community to innovate and create new and powerful chips, primarily using open source solutions. ...
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Newsletters

Newsletter January 2021

We had a successful year 2020, as we were able to support our corporate customers and VLSI trainees using our cloud-based online training solutions. We are proud to inform you...
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VLSI Industry

Maven Silicon – a RISC-V Training Partner

We are delighted to collaborate with RISC-V and empower the engineering community to innovate and create new and powerful chips, primarily using open source solutions. ...
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VLSI Training

Importance of Internship for Engineering Students

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 2020

The world in the last quarter has seen a massive change with a significant impact on businesses. Needles to say, the Learning and Development Industry has taken this challenge...
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VLSI Industry

Maven Silicon featured in Business India Magazine

Business India magazine interviewed our Founder and CEO Mr. P R Sivakumar, VP Mr. Catakam Kumar, and our alumnus, and published this article meritoriously. It beautifully nar...
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Verification

SystemVerilog – Class based Verification environment

This video explains why we prefer Object Oriented Programming to create the class-based verification environment in SystemVerilog and the......
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Verification

Verification IP Vs Testbench

Anyone can create a testbench and verify the design, but it can’t be simply reused as a verification IP. Most of the module/IP level testbenches are used once to verify the ...
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VLSI Industry

Where are we heading in the Semiconductor business?

I am glad to address this question and explain to those who might always be wondering and asking everyone in the industry ‘Where are we heading?’...
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