Jamil Mazzawi

Jami Mazzawi has founded Optima in 2014 to resolve all Functional-Safety challenges for Automotive and Safety-Critical semiconductor chips. Functional-Safety is a major challenge faced today by semiconductor companies, which inhibits and reduces their ability to penetrate the automotive segment of semiconductors. Autonomous Driving is revolutionizing the structure of cars, converting them to supercomputers-on-wheels, with tens of huge and complex chips. These chips need to meet the stringent Functional Safety requirements of ISO-26262, such as ASIL-C or ASIL-D, with no adequate solution in the market. Using its cutting edge, ultra-fast, fault-simulation technology, Optima provide fully automated solutions to convert chips and IP-cores into Automotive grade meeting ASIL-C and ASIL-D requirements, Jamil has over 25 years’ experience in the semiconductor and EDA industries, both in Silicon Valley, Israel and Europe. He worked in engineering, sales and managerial positions at: Ornet Data Communication, Verisity Inc., Rambus, Sun Microsystems, Jasper Design Automation and now Optima. He was involved in developing, promoting and selling disruptive technologies and tools such as: Verisity’s eRM, constraint-random-verification methodology, later OVM and UVM, vManager, low-power formal verification flow, Fault-Simulation-Engine, Soft-error-selective-hardening, Safety-BIST and others. Jamil authored and co-authored seven patents in formal-verification of low-power design, fault-simulations, functional-safety and ISO-26262 solutions. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Technion, Israel and MBA from San Jose University, CA.