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Sivakumar P R is the Founder and CEO of Maven Silicon. He is responsible for the company's vision, business, and technology. Sivakumar is a seasoned engineering professional who has worked in various fields, including electrical engineering, academia, and semiconductors for more than 25 years. Before founding Maven Silicon, he worked in the top EDA companies Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens EDA as a verification consultant.

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VLSI Industry

Why Maven Silicon for upskilling your workforce?

VLSI Engineers are the pillars of the semiconductor industry, and they can only transform our industry into a trillion-dollar industry with their inventions and innovations. S...
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VLSI Industry

Chip War Without Soldiers?

Every country realizes the importance of producing skilled chip designers who could decide their success as soldiers by creating advanced AI chips for winning the Chip War. Al...
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RISC-V

Maven Silicon’s RISC-V Processor IP Verification Flow

1. Introduction RISC-V is a general-purpose license-free open Instruction Set Architecture [ISA] with multiple extensions. It is an ISA separated into a small base integer ISA...
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RISC-V

Is your career at RISK without RISC-V?

I am delighted to share my technical insights into RISC-V in this article to inspire and prepare the next generation of chip designers for the future of the open era of comput...
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VLSI Industry

Why VLSI Internship Programs are Important for Students in 2023 | Maven Silicon

Every university/college is making the internship mandatory and asking their UG students to do it while doing the engineering course itself. However, it used to be only for th...
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Newsletters

Newsletter August 2022

Creating a state-of-art destination for the world-class VLSI training for every engineer across the globe and supporting the semiconductor industry with skilled talents is our...
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Verification

SoC Verification Flow and Methodologies

We need more and more complex chips and SoCs for all new applications that use the latest technologies like AI. For example, Apple’s 5nm SoC A14 features 6-core CPU, 4 core-...
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RISC-V

RISC VS CISC

RISC is a Reduced Instruction Set Computer. We prefer RISC primarily for battery-operated light-weight applications like IoT devices that use embedded system controllers or m...
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Newsletters

Newsletter May 2022

Creating a state-of-art destination for the world-class VLSI training for every engineer across the globe and supporting the semiconductor industry with skilled talents is our...
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VLSI Training

Experts Talk: RISC-V CEO Calista Redmond and Maven Silicon CEO Sivakumar P R on RISC-V Open Era of Computing

India’s top VLSI Training Services company Maven Silicon, a RISC-V Global Training Partner, conducted an insightful discussion with the industry experts Ms. Calista Redmond,...
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RISC-V

RISC-V RV32I JALR Instruction | Maven Silicon

This video explains the RV32I JALR instruction. RISC-V is growing rapidly, follow this RISC-V video blog series to obtain knowledge about RISC-V processors, Instruction format...
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Newsletters

Newsletter December 2021

We had an excellent year in 2021, collaborating and building a robust semiconductor knowledge ecosystem globally. Our partnership with the great minds......
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RISC-V

RISC-V RV32I J-Type | Maven Silicon

This video explains the RV32I J-Type instructions. RISC-V is growing rapidly, follow this RISC-V video blog series to obtain knowledge about RISC-V processors, Instruction for...
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VLSI Industry

VLSI Design Careers | Maven Silicon

Our CEO's article 'VLSI Design Careers' published by Semiconductor Engineering, explains why aspiring VLSI engineers should consider learning processor design for their lon...
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RISC-V

RISC-V RV32I S-Type | Maven Silicon

This video explains the RV32I S-Type instructions. RISC-V is growing rapidly, follow this RISC-V video blog series to obtain knowledge about RISC-V processors, Instruction for...
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RISC-V

RISC-V RV32I B-Type | Maven Silicon

This video explains the RV32I I-Type instructions. RISC-V is growing rapidly, follow this RISC-V video blog series to obtain knowledge about RISC-V processors, Instruction for...
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Newsletters

Newsletter August 2021

Training at Maven Silicon continues to evolve at the speed of market change, bringing the young aspirants, engineers & the corporate team......
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RISC-V

RISC-V RV32I I-Type | Maven Silicon

This video explains the RV32I I-Type instructions. RISC-V is growing rapidly, follow this RISC-V video blog series to obtain knowledge about RISC-V processors, Instruction for...
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VLSI Industry

Semiconductor Industry 2.0 | Maven Silicon

Everything is changing in the Semiconductor Industry to keep pace with 50 years old Moore’s law, the number of transistors in a chip doubles about every two years. In this a...
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RISC-V

RISC-V RV32I R-Type | Maven Silicon

This video explains the RV32I R-Type instructions. RISC-V is growing rapidly, follow this RISC-V video blog series to obtain knowledge about RISC-V processors, Instruction for...
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VLSI Industry

How does Maven Silicon address the challenges of the semiconductor industry? | CEO Interview with Semiwiki

Our Founder, CEO P.R. Sivakumar shared his experience and perspectives of VLSI training in his interview with Semiwiki....
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