Entries by Anastasiya Sasnakevich

Global Semiconductor Market Predictions and Trends for 2030

Semiconductors make vital components of the nowadays technologies we can not see our lives without. The demand for semiconductors has grown immensely over the past few years. Organizations conduct researches evaluating current situation and providing their predictions for years to come. In 2022 McKinsey & Company provided their predictions of the global semiconductor market value […]

Optima Design Automation Receives ISO 26262 ASIL D Ready Certification from SGS-TÜV Saar

NAZARETH, ISRAEL – September 12th, 2023 – Optima Design Automation, a leader in next generation functional safety and IC-security verification, today announced that the internationally-recognized testing organization SGS-TÜV Saar GmbH of SGS Group has certified the company’s  functional safety product range for use in ISO 26262 automotive semiconductor verification projects, up to ASIL-D. “Nowadays, it should […]

The Big Six and Europe’s Place in the Global Value Chain of Semiconductor Production

2021 was a challenging year for semiconductor manufacturers. Especially in the automotive industry, as car manufacturers faced a severe shortage of semiconductor chips critical to the functioning of modern cars. This resulted in leaving cars stranded at factories waiting for their chips to be supplied. The chip shortage in 2021 was a wake-up call for […]

Optima Launches High-Performance, Pre-Silicon Semiconductor Security Verification Solution

NAZARETH, ISRAEL, June 30, 2022 — Optima Design Automation, a leader in next-generation functional safety and IC-security verification, today announced its new hardware security verification solution, Optima-SEC™. Optima-SEC™ enables the high-performance pre-silicon verification of fault injection attacks and certifies the counter-measures adopted against such attacks that target the extraction of secret information from semiconductors leveraging […]

Autonomous vehicle market: from $0 to $54 billion in 50 years

Today, on May 31st we celebrate Autonomous Vehicle Day. We would like to spread some light on the history of AVs, their development, and investment. Not everyone knows that the first autonomous vehicle was unveiled in 1977 in Japan. A Japanese professor Sadayuki Tsugawa together with his colleagues at Tsukuba Mechanical Engineering Lab launched the first-ever autonomous […]

Media Advisory: Optima Talking About Chip Security Verification at DAC22

The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is recognized as the premier event devoted to the design and automation of electronic systems (EDA), embedded systems and software (ESS), and intellectual property (IP).  DAC offers outstanding training, education, exhibits and superb networking opportunities for designers, researchers, tool developers and vendors. As part of Front-End Session in “Engineering Track” […]

Optima Design Automation Announces TUV Certification of its Entire Safety Platform for ISO 26262 ASIL-D Functional Safety Verification

Optima’s Hard Error, Soft Error and Statistical Analysis Solutions are fully certified to TCL3 by TUV NORD for immediate deployment in ISO 26262 ASIL-D projects NAZARETH, ISRAEL – June 30th, 2021 – Optima Design Automation, a leader in next generation functional safety and IC-security verification, today announced that the internationally-recognized testing organization TÜV NORD has fully […]

Media Advisory: Optima to Participate at DVCon US 2021

The Design and Verification Conference (DVCon) has gained it’s popularity in its niche as one of the top conferences for the application of languages, tools, and intellectual property for the design and verification of electronic systems and integrated circuits. DVCon US brings chip architects, systems designers, software developers, and IP integrators the latest methodologies, techniques, […]