Elastix TM Corporation Enabling energy-efficient efficient chips. Vigyan Singhal President and CEO December 20, 2007

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1 Elastix TM Corporation Enabling energy-efficient efficient chips Vigyan Singhal President and CEO December 20,

2 Electronic chip design flow (posedge clk) if (sel) q <= d1; else q <= d2; assign p = d1 & d2 d3; EDA tools manufacturing Hand-written IC design IC layout database (GDS II) Electronic chips About different EDA tools in any design flow Tools help improve cost, performance and power of chips Elastix EDA tools can reduce energy consumption by 2X EDA companies are staffed by highly skilled programmers Many have PhD from best schools in the world 2

3 Manufacturing an electronic chip 3

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7 Transistor Counts 1,000,000 K 1 Billion Transistors 100,000 10,000 1, Pentium III Pentium II Pentium Pro i486 Pentium i Source: Intel Projected 7

8 Frequency Frequency (Mhz) Doubles every 2 years P6 Pentium proc Year Lead Microprocessors frequency doubles every 2 years Courtesy, Intel 8

9 Energy usage a major problem Power (Watts) Pentium proc 18KW 5KW 1.5KW 500W Year Power delivery and dissipation will be prohibitive Courtesy, Intel 9

10 Energy usage a major problem 10

11 Energy efficiency in electronics Automotive EMI energy 11

12 Variability in electronic chips Overclocking Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo can be overclocked from 1.83 GHz to 2.8GHz, by modifying BIOS With a better cooling fan, can overclock to 3.4GHz Manufacturing variability Environmental variability (Temperature, Voltage, ) Today s s chips are designed, sold at worst corner, and sacrifice significant performance/power 12

13 IBM S/390 processor rigid clocks 13

14 Elastix value proposition 300mWs 1.5-2X 50mWs Energy 200Mhz Performance 1200MHz 14

15 Players in semiconductor market Systems Apple, Nokia, Dell, Philips, Sony electronic chips Silicon suppliers (electronic chips) Intel, Samsung, Toshiba, ST Micro IC design software IC design blocks manufacturing EDA Cadence, Synopsys, Elastix Design IP ARM, Rambus, ChipIdea Fabs TSMC, UMC 15

16 EDA (Electronic Design Automation) Sells IC design tools Used by semiconductor companies to design electronic chips Market size: about Million Enables chip market of Million Largest companies: Cadence, Synopsys, Magma, Mentor Graphics No company has significant R&D in Spain But, EDA has roots in Spain Barcelona Design Systems (Silicon Valley) raised 40 Million,, from US investors 16

17 20 largest electronic chip suppliers Revenues from M M (Intel) to M M Global distribution USA (7) Japan (7) E.U. (4) ST Micro, NXP, Qimonda, Infineon South Korea (2) But, largest Spanish electronic chip supplier Probably DS2 (Valencia) About 1000X smaller than Intel (my guess) However, Spain does have large companies Santander, Repsol, Telefónica 17

18 But, talent is here Best engineering institutes UPC (Barcelona) UPM (Madrid) UPV (Valencia) UAB (Barcelona) Elastix Chief Scientist, Jordi Cortadella (UPC) No difficulty finding best developers Even in EDA: Barcelona Design Systems (Mar Hershenson) 18

19 Elastix is born global Global research Global team Global R&D centers Global markets 19

20 Increased consumption in China, India 20

21 Global share of industry Decline of Japan, Rise of US, Europe 21

22 Birth of Elastix research Barcelona (Spain), Torino (Italy), Berkeley, CA (USA), Heraklion (Greece) 22

23 Elastix team Development sites: Spain, USA, UK Home countries: India, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Spain, Turkey 23

24 Elastix market is global Intel TI ARM Infineon ST Micro Sony Toshiba Samsung 24

25 Have done it before My last company, Jasper Design Automation Another startup in EDA Raised 26 Million in venture funding R&D centers in Gothenburg, Sweden Minas Gerais, Brazil (VP Engineering is here!) Customers in Japan, USA and E.U. Team from USA, Sweden, Brazil, India, Ireland, Japan, Burma, China, France, Malaysia, New Zealand, Canada, Iran, Israel, 25

26 Elastix company stages Idea university research Technology software development (Sustainable) Business investment, revenues Company Product legal entity, administration (help from LANDING, in Barcelona) 26

27 US venture capitalist view of Elastix Strengths Team and experience Market opportunity Customer validation Risks Centered in Barcelona Cannot see comparables in chip industry Are afraid of corporate regulations Do not know if it will be easy to grow Both a strength and a risk Requires IC design paradigm change May have to wait for Series B, for US VC investment (2 years) 27

28 Want centre of gravity in Barcelona Why Barcelona Jordi Cortadella is here Talent is available Could have been Newcastle, UK New Delhi, India Need to take advantages of Barcelona incentives LANDING has been great! Corporation laws Government aid and grants Administration.. just like any other Catalan company 28

29 Opportunity to add to Barcelona s s image 29

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