weasic weasic microelectronics designs and develops custom semiconductor IP in CMOS and in SiGe processes for the wireless communications and connectivity market. weasic’s high-quality IP and IC turnkey Solutions comprise analog processing blocks, mixed signal subsystems, transceiver front ends as well as wireless transceivers spanning from low GHz range up to mmWave frequencies. In addition, weasic offers a wide spectrum of services related to the integrated transceiver design and production such as system behavioral modeling, RF and microwave passive device modeling, MOS device characterization and advanced compact modeling (BSIM6, EKV3). weasic consists of a unique mix of talents with proven track record and strong motivation Emmanouil Metaxakis co-founder, CEO Emmanouil holds a degree of Electrical Engineering and a PhD both from University of Patras, Greece, in 1994 and 2004 respectively. Dr. Metaxakis has a 20 year of solid background experience in the semiconductor business. He has a deep knowledge and an extensive experience in the design of baseband, RF and microwave analog processing circuits and mixed signal circuits, in CMOS and BiCMOS processes. His specialties are GHz range VCOs, Fractional-N synthesizers and Transceiver Front Ends. Dr. Metaxakis has worked in several companies (Theta Microelectronics, Athena Semiconductors, Broadcom corp., Renaissance Wireless, ELXYS Innovations, Ceragon Networks) serving senior engineering and management positions. He, as CEO and co-founder, led the acquisition ELXYS Innovations S.A. from Ceragon Networks. Spiros Vlassis co-founder, director R&D Spiros Vlassis received his B.Sc. (1994) in Physics, the M.Sc. (1996) in Electronics and Ph.D. (2000), all from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has been working at senior level positions for established and VC-funded startup companies. He has worked in the development of high-performance transceiver ICs in CMOS and BiCMOS processes for the 802.11a/b/g/j WLAN markets with key role in the design of DC/AGC servo loops, multiband active RC, MOS-C integrated filters, VGAs, signal detectors/indicators, and TCXO drivers. Spiros Vlassis has been involved in the development of MEMS based clock generator ICs and MEMS consumer applications where he designed frequency dividers, ALC servo loops, BAW oscillator temperature stabilizer, and chopper stabilized amplifiers. Also, he has designed switched regulators and extremely low-pass filters for CMOS transceiver ICs for hearing aids. Recently Dr. Vlassis has developed a series of high speed MPHY standard compliant serial interface blocks such as burst mode CDRs, high-speed phase interpolator, PLLs and receiver jitter testing verification. Dr. Vlassis is an Associate Professor with the Electronics Laboratory, at the Physics Department of the University of Patras, Greece. He holds three patents and he has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Spiros Vlassis' research interests include ultra-low voltage analog IC design, burst mode clock and data recovery and timing circuits for multi rate serial links. George Kamoulakos co-founder, CTO George received his B.Sc. (1996) in Electronic Engineering from National Technical University of Athens and his Ph.D. (2003) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has more than 18 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Dr. Kamoulakos core expertise is in the mixed signal and RF design. When he was with Athena Semiconductors and later with Broadcom, he designed a series of critical blocks for highly linear frontends (DVBH, GSM and WLAN). While he was with ELXYS and later with Ceragon he was designing wireless transceivers for mmWave and uWave Radio Links. He has deep knowledge of fractional-N synthesizers and fast successive approximation ADCs. Dr. Kamoulakos has also a deep understanding of the semiconductor device physics mechanisms and processes. He has optimized a flash memory cell with device engineering and he has designed a novel dynamic RAM cell. George has been involved in the characterization process and the modeling of the aging mechanisms of the gate oxide of MOS devices under electrical stress. He has been involved in the critical design of ESD structures for the sensitive RF interfaces and he has also been modeling substrate isolation between analog and mixed signal blocks. Dr. Kamoulakos has participated in more than 40 Tape-outs in CMOS and SiGe processes, resulting into successful products. Matthias Bucher co-founder, director R&D Matthias Bucher holds a degree of Electrical Engineering and a PhD, both from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 1993 and 1999, respectively. Dr. Bucher is an Associate Professor with the Technical University of Crete (TUC), School of Electronics and Computer Engineering, since 2004. He has held numerous consulting positions in microelectronics industry in Europe and in California. Matthias Bucher’s research interests include ultra-low-power, ultra-low voltage analog/RF integrated circuit (IC) design, compact modelling of advanced CMOS devices, as well as the development of Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools. Prof. Bucher has been the coordinator and principal investigator of over 25 European, National and Industry-driven research projects. Dr. Bucher has published over 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals and over 60 papers in international conferences. Matthias Bucher has coordinated the development of the EKV3 MOSFET advanced compact model, which is available in a number of commercial CAD tools for circuit simulation, and is widely used in the analog/RF IC design community. 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