Hichem Belhadj

Plunify

Started in 2009, Plunify is an early mover in software tools for accelerating semiconductor chip design, specifically focusing on FPGA applications. Our earliest products include the EDAxtend platform, a private cloud platform that integrates chip design flows and the offloading of compute intensive builds for productivity acceleration. Subsequently, adding data analytics and machine learning techniques, we created new capabilities for accelerating FPGA applications in a standalone engineering tool called InTime. InTime is an expert software that solves FPGA design problems without the need to modify source code. At the engineering level, InTime delivers better results and enables higher productivity. At the company level, it enables chip design companies to significantly accelerate product Time-To-Market and reduce development costs. This is the first time that machine learning has been applied to chip design. Crucial to our approach is the ability to learn from previous results in order to provide better solutions for subsequent builds. Plunify's technology further enables the following: - Making the FPGA backend implementation details transparent from software and systems developers - Spawn multiple builds in parallel to speed up data generation and learning - Intelligent adjustments of parameters helpful towards achieving design goals - Dynamic scaling of compute resources, enabling private datacenter and the public cloud use Plunify is headquartered in Singapore with a business development office in Palo Alto, California. For more information, contact us at tellus@plunify.com.