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AI-driven analog design to accelerate chip innovation

14th May 2019
Alex Lynn
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A Cambridge analogue IP company, Agile Analog, has announced that it has closed its latest Pre-A funding round with Delin Ventures, firstminute Capital and MMC Ventures for $5m. Founded in 2017, Agile Analog will use the funding to expand the existing engineering team in Cambridge and deliver analogue IP products to a wide range of waiting customers. 

Agile Analog’s AI-driven platform replaces the existing manual design process that has not fundamentally changed in 60 years.

With the explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT), AI, autonomous vehicles, the next generation of telecoms and newer smaller process nodes, the demand for new chip designs has never been greater. Analog circuits are needed on every chip to interface between the real world and the digital world. From sensors to battery connections to data transmission, analogue components are the hidden driving force behind our modern digital lives. 

Analog design, which is slow and manual is often the key bottleneck in chip design. Agile Analog’s innovative solution removes this bottleneck, giving customers exactly the type of component they want, on exactly the right semiconductor process, with industry leading quality. This enables Agile Analog’s customers to accelerate the pace of chip innovation and provide smaller, cheaper, more reliable and lower power solutions. 

By removing the restrictive manual process, Agile Analog provides access to flexible and easy to use analogue IP, enabling a broad range of customers to incorporate more analogue onto their chips and significantly reducing the size and cost of end products. 

Agile Analog technology enables a move away from simple analogue designs compensated by complex digital designs to a more balanced mix of technologies, bringing more reliable, lower power designs to market quicker.

Tim Ramsdale, CEO for Agile Analog, said: “I’m delighted with the confidence that our investors have placed in us. This investment will enable us to deliver to our customers faster and make possible a paradigm shift in the $2bn analog IP market.”

Jonathan Hay, Partner at Delin Ventures, added: “We are impressed with the team’s vision to transform analog design and reinvigorate the use of analog. Analog design is the backwater of the semiconductor industry and we think Agile Analog can change that. The team has the world-leading experience and industry connectivity to deliver on this vision. That was a key part of our decision to follow on with our Seed investment.”

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