About
Semifore Inc. is a privately held Delaware corporation founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mountain View California.
We founded this company because we had written register management scripts for complex designs for more than a decade. We turned our expertise and passion for this problem into a new compiler-based tool that would be useful for many companies.
Semifore offers products and services for the specification and design hardware and embedded software; we specialize in control register and address map specification and management. Our products significantly reduce the time and errors involved in developing and maintaining hardware, software, and design specifications in sync across the multi-disciplinary design teams now required to deliver system on a chip integration. We are committed to providing a consistently high level of service for our customers worldwide.
We support a variety of startup and established design teams who are developing a variety of IP cores, SOC’s, ASICs and FPGA’s. We have announced one customer to date, Cambridge Display Technology that was acquired by Sumitomo Chemical in July of 2007 and continues to use our product.
The company’s products include CSRSpec and CSRCompiler which are the third generation of control register and address map management tools. We support SystemRDL but we also support advanced functions such as hierarchical address map specification, reusable templates and object orientation. We are proficient with the following technologies:
- Digital ASIC design
- Verilog & VHDL design and verification
- XML schema validation
- Framemaker
Executive management team is:
Richard Weber, CEO
Mr. Weber has done digital and ASIC design for such companies as Data General, Stardent, Silicon Graphics, Stratum One and Cisco Systems. He received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Jamsheed Agahi, Director of Product Assurance
Mr. Agahi has more than two decades of experience as a verification engineer at Cisco Systems, StratumOne and Silicon Graphics. He developed CAD tools at Silicon Graphics and Stratum One. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Herbert (Herbie) Winsted, Director of Business Development
Mr. Winsted leads customer facing activities for world wide sales and support on major accounts. Prior to joining Semifore, Mr. Winsted provided world wide sales and support for major accounts at Cadence Design, Silicon Valley Research, and Silvar-Lisco. He held various sales and sales management positions at GEC Plessey Semiconductor and National Semiconductor. Mr. Winsted began his EDA career at Advanced Micro Devices, as a lead mask designer.