Engineer Spotlight: Shafy Eltoukhy, Head of SiFive's DesignShare Program

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AAC's Chantelle Dubois had a chance to speak one-on-one with the head of SiFive's DesignShare program, Shafy Eltoukhy, to learn more about the DesignShare program, the benefits to IP sharing, and what he believes will be important for the future of SoC design.

Dec. 21, 2017 – 

Shafy Eltoukhy is a seasoned engineer, with over 35 years of experience in the semiconductor world. He began his career shortly after graduating with a PhD in Device Physics from the University of Waterloo in 1982 to work with Intel Corp as a senior device engineer. Shortly after, he parted ways in order to co-found Actel, an FPGA company now known as Microsemi.

Since then, Eltoukhy has been involved with establishing other silicon and semiconductor companies, including Lightspeed Logic and Open-Silicon Corp, both of which specialize in ASIC design and production. In 2014, he returned to Microsemi as Vice President of the Analog Mixed Signal unit before eventually joining the SiFive team, where he now leads the DesignShare program–an initiative that intends to bring down the barriers to innovation in System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design.

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