Keynote

An Introduction to Efinix, a new breed of FPGA company

Jay Schleicher

Senior Vice President Software Engineering at Efinix

Abstract: Efinix® FPGAs are a new class of programmable logic devices built on the company’s proprietary Quantum® architecture, designed to deliver optimal power, performance, and area (PPA) for a broad range of applications. Rather than a fixed proportion of logic and routing, Efinix FPGAs use a scalable array of eXchangeable Logic and Routing (XLR) Cells, which can be used as logic and/or routing as determined by the compiler.

This talk will describe the origin of Efinix, what we have achieved to date, and where the company is heading in the future. It will also give a behind the silicon look into how the Quantum fabric enables efficient logic utilization, fast timing closure, and low power consumption, making Efinix FPGAs ideal for edge AI, vision systems, industrial control, communications, and embedded computing.

Speaker: Since 1990, Jay has been involved in nearly every aspect of FPGA software development, such as new architecture development and support, research, synthesis, IP development, Q/A, verification, and simulation. At Efinix, his goal is to build a complete, best-in-class RTL-to-bitstream FPGA CAD flow.
Previously, Jay spent 23 years at Altera leading software and IP teams in a variety of areas. For example, he led the team that developed an in-house synthesis tool that is considered a best-in-class tool. Jay also led the software team that analyzed and experimented with new architectural features, and assessed, from a software perspective, whether a feature would be desirable or undesirable.
Jay has extensive experience reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating patentable ideas, and he has authored or co-authored more than 50 patents.