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Rajeev Madhavan Interview
With increasing consolidation facing the EDA (electronic design automation) sector, it is worth remembering how much of the EDA innovation used to be driven by new start-ups. Here, you will be able to read again the interview that we carried out with Rajeev Madhavan in 2006 (courtesy of The Chilli RED, our premium content service), hoping it will inspire more entrepreneurs to contemplate starting out on their own and break out of the EDA logjam.

Photon Fab
One of the biggest barrier faced by European start ups , is access to low cost prototyping on advanced silicon technologies. With the help and funding from the European Union as part of its FP7 Support Action, IMEC ( Belgium) and CEA-LETI ( France) , who together have a research revenue of €420 m, are re-launching , PhotonFAB , multi-project wafer silicon photonics prototyping service . Photonic integrated circuits are used in applications such as communication networks, sensors, monitoring and bio-analysis. will lower the design effort, risk and costs for start-ups ands SMEs.