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About Precision Innovations

Precision Innovations was launched in 2019 to develop and deliver Industrial quality open-source solutions using OpenROAD™ as the foundational application for ASIC and SoC IC design software.
 
OpenROAD targets an autonomous, No-Human-In-the-Loop design NHIL design with a 24-hour turnaround time and no loss of PPA design quality.
 
Precision’ solutions enable Rapid Design exploration and RTL-GDSII implementation that reduce design costs, break down barriers to gain expertise, deliver on schedule and tool access that currently prevent designers from innovating and implementing at full potential.
 
Precision closes these critical gaps by developing and supporting closed-tool extensions to OpenROAD that enable differentiated features, flows and PDKS across the technology spectrum including advance nodes for commercial users and ecosystem partners. 
 
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Mission

To accelerate semiconductor innovation by advancing open-source chip design

Our Team

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Leadership

Tom-Spyrou

Tom Spyrou

CEO
Matt-Liberty

Matt Liberty

V.P. Engineering
Indira-Iyer

Indira Iyer

Head - Customer Success

Advisory Team

Andrew Kahng

Andrew B. Kahng

Distinguished Professor of CSE and ECE, UC San Diego
Tom Feist

Tom Feist

Embedded-Entrepreneur-Initiative

Engineering Team

Cho Moon

Distinguished Engineer
Vitor Bandeira

Vitor Bandeira

Cloud and DevOps Architect

Eder Monteiro

Software Engineer
Osama Hammad

Osama Hammad

Software Developer

Jeff Ng

Product Engineer

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Tom-Spyrou

Tom Spyrou is the CEO of Precision Innovations Inc and is the chief architect and technical program manager for the OpenROAD™ system. Tom is a well-known EDA system architect. He was most recently a Senior Principal Engineer in Intel’s Programmable Solutions business unit working on the Quartus FPGA compiler.

Tom has worked for over 30 years as an EDA Technologist and has gained extensive experience in areas including Static Timing Analysis, Logic Synthesis, Power Grid Analysis, Database Technology and Floor-planning.

He has led the development of leading-edge commercial engines and products such as PrimeTime, Voltage Storm, First Encounter, and the Open Access Database.

Tom has been driving EDA algorithms to utilize parallel programming approaches with both multi-process and multi-threaded techniques. He has a BS from Carnegie Mellon University in ECE and an MS from Santa Clara University.

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Matt-Liberty

Matt Liberty is a senior developer with the OpenROAD™ project and Vice President of engineering for Precision Innovations. He has worked at Intel, Altera, Cadence, Synopsys, and various EDA startups.

Matt has nearly thirty years of experience in EDA. Areas of expertise include static timing, noise analysis, RC parasitic extraction, databases, routing, GUIs, FPGAs, and software system architecture. Matt has a BSEE from University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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Indira-Iyer

Indira Iyer is an EDA expert and industry consultant at Precision Innovations. She is a core team member of the OpenROAD™ project. Her role at Precision Innovations, which is the key technology partner to OpenROAD™, is to grow and expand customer engagements and outreach through key technical and strategic business development.

Indira has over 25 years of global experience as a technology and business leader in the EDA, semiconductor, and energy industry. She has successfully led key roles in Product and Application engineering, Product Marketing and Sales creating and managing products for ASIC/SoC digital and analog/mixed signal design flows.

She performed leadership roles at major EDA companies: Siemens/EDA, Metasoftware Inc, Cadence Design systems and design startups like Magma Design Automation, Monterey Design and Synfora Inc.

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Andrew Kahng

Andrew B. Kahng is Distinguished Professor of CSE and ECE and holder of the endowed chair in high-performance computing at UC San Diego. He was visiting scientist at Cadence (1995-97) and founder/CTO at Blaze DFM (2004-06). 

He is coauthor of 3 books and over 500 journal and conference papers, holds 35 issued U.S. patents, is a fellow of ACM and IEEE, and the 2019 Ho-Am Prize laureate in Engineering.  He has served as general chair of DAC, ISPD and other conferences, and from 2000-2016 as international chair/co-chair of the ITRS Design and System Drivers working groups.

He served as  PI of “OpenROAD™” https://theopenroadproject.org/, a $17M U.S. DARPA project targeting open-source, autonomous (“no human in the loop”) tools for IC implementation.

He served as the initial PI and director of TILOS https://tilos.ai, an NSF AI Research Institute, until August 2023.  Some recent talks can be seen at his lab homepage: https://vlsicad.ucsd.edu/

Tom Feist

Tom Feist has thirty-eight years’ experience in sales, strategic marketing and business development in Cybersecurity, Electronic Design Automation and Semiconductor industries.

Prior to starting 1st2Market Consulting LLC, he was a Senior Director of Marketing at Xilinx Inc. responsible for Design Tools, Methodology, Intellectual Property (IP) and boards and kits used by over 100K systems, hardware and software engineers worldwide.

Before this Feist was the VP of Marketing and Sales at AccelChip Inc. At Mentor Graphics, Inc., he was Group Director of Product Marketing, responsible for Mentor’s synthesis technologies and as Vice President of Marketing for Exemplar Logic. Prior he has served as a Product Marketing Manager, Technical Marketing Engineer, Account Manager, and Senior Field Application Engineer in the EDA industry.

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Cho Moon brings over 25 years of experience in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). He has led advanced technology node development for industry-leading tools such as PrimeTime, Fusion Compiler, and First Encounter at Synopsys, Blaze DFM, Cadence, and other prominent EDA and semiconductor companies.

He is proficient in static timing analysis, pre-route and post-route optimization, Engineering Change Order (ECO), logic synthesis, and formal verification. Cho excels at collaborating across functional teams to deliver innovative solutions.

He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Vitor Bandeira

Vitor Bandeira’s responsibilities include developing and maintaining cloud and local infrastructure to ensure performance, scalability, and security.

This also includes implementing DevOps practices to streamline processes and improve operational efficiency. A key aspect of this role is maintaining the Google Cloud infrastructure and CI/CD systems to deliver a fast developing open-source EDA project.

Vitor also contributes to several tool features and documentation.

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Eder Monteiro is a Software Engineer at Precision Innovations and is involved in the OpenROAD project. He has worked on the OpenROAD project since 2019, and in these years, he has developed or supported several tools.
 
With seven years of experience in EDA, Eder has expertise in databases, pin placement, routing, and software architecture. Eder has a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
Osama Hammad

Osama Hammad is a dedicated Software Developer at Precision Innovations Inc., contributing to the OpenROAD project. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the American University in Cairo, graduating with highest honors.

Osama specializes in maintaining the Detailed Routing Module for OpenROAD, where he has implemented distributed routing solutions, integrated new platforms, and developed essential database management tools. His background includes roles in embedded engineering, digital design, teaching, and project management.

Jeff Ng runs Product Engineering for Precision Innovations, where he is responsible for working with customers to define OpenROAD product features. His responsibilities also include technical issue resolution and account management.

Jeff brings 30 years of software product development and operations experience. He has led software engineering, product engineering and product operations organizations at Cadence, Apple, Intel, Altera and many startups. Jeff has focused on technical solution definition, architecture, and product deployment, leading to customer success and award-winning products.

Jeff holds his BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.

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