ASE Speaker

Dr. Naveed Sherwani
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Open-Silicon

Dr. Sherwani has focused his career on one topic — ASICs. He has over 19 years of experience in technical engineering and general management and currently serves as the President and CEO of Open-Silicon, which he founded to bring cost-effectiveness, predictability and reliability to the ASIC market. Prior to founding Open-Silicon, Dr. Sherwani was the founder and General Manager of Intel Microelectronics Services, where he led efforts to promote the use of disciplined ASIC methodologies to improve design efficiency and time-to-market.

Naveed lead the development of Athena, the Intel microprocessor design methodology and environment that has been used in the development of leading microprocessors. Prior to joining Intel, he worked as a consultant for various telecommunications and computer companies, mainly focusing on ASIC design flow and cell-library design to improve time-to-market. He also served as a Professor at Western Michigan University, where his research concentrated on VLSI Physical Design Automation, combinatorics, and graph algorithms.

Dr. Sherwani is the author of the main textbook on Physical Design, “Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation,” which is widely used at major universities around the world. In addition, he has authored or co-authored 3 books and over 100 articles on various aspects of Physical Design Automation and ASICs.

In the last 15 years, he has been a frequent speaker at DAC, ICCAD, the International Conference on VLSI and other major conferences around the world.

Dr. Sherwani received his Ph.D from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.


About Open-Silicon, Inc.
Open-Silicon, Inc. is a fabless ASIC company delivering the most cost-effective, predictable and reliable custom ASIC solution to electronics product customers worldwide. Open-Silicon’s OpenMODEL™ is the semiconductor industry's first end-to-end custom ASIC solution based on a revolutionary business model that provides a seamless, low-cost, low risk alternative to traditional models for complex ASIC design and development. For more information, visit Open-Silicon’s website at www.open-silicon.com or call 408-523-1200