Companies around LSI: Elastix Corporation

Elastix Corporation is a global company that works in collaboration with scientists from the LSI Department. It is the first company that "lands" in the 22@BCN Business and Technology district in Barcelona as a result of... the Landing programme. This is a joint initiative of the UPC Innova Entrepreneurial Programme and Ramon Llull University Innovation Park. It is aimed at attracting international high tech companies to Barcelona.

Elastix Corporation was born last summer as a resoult of fifteen years research. Their founders have an important research experience and they have strong connections with very important universities around the world. Their President and CEO, Vigyan Singhal got his PhD from Berkeley and the Vice President, Emre Tuncer received his PhD from Texas University at Austin. Both of them chose Barcelona because of its research. More specifically they were interested in the work of one LSI faculty member: Professor Jordi Cortadella. He is now Chief Scientist and will be in charge of R+D in Barcelona.

Elastix's heart is at Silicon Valley, but now it also will be in Barcelona. Vigyan Singhal has publicly and openly shown his trust on the potential of the city. The company has also PhD staff in the UK and Italy and is involved in a strong process of expansion all around the world.

Elastix designs more efficient microelectronic circuits which are able to do the same work with less energy. This makes these circuits especially interesting for areas with strong business potential, as the mobile phone sector. Their technological base is the asynchronous circuits. These circuits have no signal coming from any outside clock and they synchronize themselves by means of the input signals. They generate internal elastic clocks, which regulate their frequency according to the circuit needs. As much interesting and as big their business potential is, the design of these circuits is specially complicated and here is where the research of professor Cortadella and his colleagues becomes so important. Their methods for automated circuit design and verification were crucial for Elastix decision to choose Barcelona. The basic principles that guide professor Cortadella's contribution and the technology developed by Elastix were published four years ago in an article that won the Best Paper Award in the ASYNC conference 2004.

- Professor Cortadella Web Page: http://www.lsi.upc.es/~jordicf/ 

- Elastix's page: www.elastix-corp.com 

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