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About Novorell

A semiconductor design services company that does one thing deeply: making integrated circuits robust against electrostatic discharge.

Who we are

Novorell Technologies is a private company operating from Dallas (US) and Europe. We provide services and solutions for implementing electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection in today’s integrated circuits and electronic systems.

Our team of international experts brings more than 50 man-years of industry and academic experience in IC ESD reliability. We cover ESD design, layout, circuit optimization, chip verification, IC qualification and troubleshooting for the Human Body Model (HBM), Charged Device Model (CDM) and system-level (IEC) stress regimes.

Our tagline is ‘Mastering reliability’, and our approach is simulation first: valid ESD models and tools, so ESD design rests on engineering and not on black magic.

Novorell operating model
Our operating model: ESD EDA solutions and services for foundries, library vendors and IC design houses.

Vesselin Vassilev, founder and CEO

Ph.D. in electrical engineering (IMEC) and M.Sc. in applied physics. More than 27 years of industry experience in on-chip ESD protection, ESD IP and circuit design, and ESD product qualification.

Leadership

Industry
IMEC (Belgium), National Semiconductor (USA) and Texas Instruments (USA, Dallas, ESD reliability).
Community
Vice General Chair and past Technical Program Committee Chair of the EOS/ESD Symposium. Board member of SME4SAME, the European association of space SMEs.
Publications
Author and co-author of more than 52 ESD papers and 4 patents. Former ESD topic editor of Microelectronics Reliability.
Expertise
ESD circuit simulation EDA and PDKs, ESD and photonics EDA, and radiation-hard high-reliability IP for ESA and industry.

Partners and community

We work with research institutes, space agencies and industry groups.

  • IMEC, Belgium (DARE rad-hard library)
  • ESA (GSTP projects, AMICSA conference sponsor)
  • FACET Ltd
  • EOS/ESD Association
  • SME4SAME
  • Hisdesat (space mission)