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The Caspia Technologies team is proud to announce that our Co-Founder Farimah Farahmandi will lead a tutorial at the 2024 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design in Newark, NJ on Monday October 28, 2024. This tutorial will elaborate on how CAD tools can verify the security and trust of SoC designs against various threats – including information leakage, malicious functionality, fault injection, and side-channel attacks.
The Caspia Technologies team is proud to announce that two of our co-founders, Dr. Mark Tehranipoor and Dr. Farimah Farahmandi, will be attending the VLSI-SoC’24 Conference in Morocco.
Dr. Tehranipoor will deliver the keynote presentation on “Secure Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging: New Attack Surfaces and Grand Challenges Ahead,” while Dr. Farahmandi will present two papers.
Dan is joined by Dr. Walden Rhines. Wally is a lot of things, CEO of Cornami, board member, advisor to many and friend to all. In this conversation, Wally discusses his decision to join Caspia Technologies as Chairman of the Board.You can read the press release announcing this here:
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GAINESVILLE, Fla., Sept. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Caspia Technologies — a pioneer in the development of hardware security verification for modern SoCs and electronic components today announced the addition of three executives to its management team. Richard Hegberg joins the company as CEO, Marc Corbacho as CRO and Dr. Jeremy Lee as VP of engineering.
“Based upon my prior history, I have the highest confidence in Rick and Marc. Along with Jeremy, this team brings a wealth of knowledge about chip and system design, along with a deep appreciation for the importance of hardware security,” said Dr. Walden Rhines, chariman of the board at Caspia Technologies. “We are facing a new era of design challenges that stem from highly sophisticated cyberattacks that are fueled by AI. It is time to add security verification to chip and system design, and that is Caspia’s mission.”
Richard Hegberg is the former CEO of three semiconductor start-ups. He has held executive roles at SanDisk/WD, Qualcomm, Atheros, Numonyx/Micron, ATI/AMD, and VLSI Technology. Marc Corbacho is the former VP of sales at Mentor Graphics, now Siemens EDA. Dr. Jeremy Lee holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Connecticut. He has a broad background in testability and design for test at Texas Instruments and Anora Labs.
Logic verification has always been a critical part of the chip and system design flow. It represents about 50% of the overall design investment. A new dimension of design robustness is now emerging – resilience to cyberattacks. Thanks to emerging AI technology, the ability to compromise system hardware with the goal of either inflicting harm or stealing valuable data is rapidly expanding. The need to add hardware security verification alongside logic verification is now a requirement for success. Caspia Technologies is leading the way with the industry’s first end-to-end security verification EDA tool suite.
“For many years, security resilience was important primarily in military applications,” said Rick Hegberg. “Thanks to a combination of the value of data, the mission-critical nature of almost all system hardware, and AI-enhanced intrusion capabilities, the security threat is now ubiquitous. I am excited to introduce the industry’s first end-to-end security verification flow – the work at Caspia will change the course of semiconductor history.”
About Caspia Technologies
Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, Caspia Technologies is a privately held company that is pioneering a holistic approach to chip and system security verification. Caspia’s founding team brings together over 75 years of experience in various fields of the semiconductor market, including design, fabrication, test, EDA development, and importantly security and trust. Caspia delivers security-focused solutions to both public and private customers to enhance electronic designs and microelectronics physical hardware assurance.
The Caspia Technologies Team is honored to announce that one of our founders, Dr. Farimah Farahmandi, has received the ACM/IEEE DAC Under 40 Innovators Award. This award recognizes up to five young innovators worldwide, under 40 years old, who are making significant contributions and shaping the future of the design automation field in industry, research labs, start-ups and academia.Dr. Farahmandi was recognized for her outstanding work in Hardware Security Verification and Validation. Her innovative solutions in security verification are the backbone of many of Caspia’s products.
DAC24 dinner and panel discussion, “Redefining Innovation in Chip Design with GenAI“ took place at the Waterbar in SF on Monday night.
Dr. Wally Rhines, Chairman of the Board for Caspia Technologies, took part in the panel discussion hosted by Cadence, AWS and NetApp. The panel took questions and had a discussion around how the semiconductor industry is on the brink of a transformative era driven by the convergence of Generative AI (GenAI) and data-driven insights.
As the digital landscape evolves, GenAI coupled with a robust data strategy, unlocks unprecedented opportunities and security challenges driving growth, innovation, and competitive advantage across multiple facets of the semiconductor industry. The former Mentor Graphics CEO and EDA icon outlined the need for a new EDA tool flow based around security tools that find vulnerabilities early in the process and avoid costly escapes.