About

Weasic develops and markets mmWave Analog and Mixed-Signal IP for 5G backhaul, Automotive RADARs and Satellite Radios. Weasic’s world class design team has a strong record of successfully delivering first-pass silicon for the most challenging design specifications in performance, power consumption and silicon area. Weasic’s IP is in production with multiple customers world-wide, including some of the largest names in the industry sectors we serve. Weasic was founded in 2014 and is based in Athens, Greece.

Solution & Product

Weasic has a portfolio of ready-made IP blocks (i.e. Transceivers, Front-Ends, Synthesizers and many basic building blocks) that cover many of customer needs for this type of systems. The company's IP portfolio is constantly expanding, adding more blocks, more foundry processes in an effort to cover as many customer requirements as possible. The benefits are obvious, this strategy helps Weasic to scale its business and become the one-stop-shop IP powerhouse of choice for millimeter wave IP blocks. Apart from licensing IP blocks, Weasic can work with select, strategic customers on custom design projects, leveraging its unique experience in very high frequency designs and the unparalleled skillset of its design team.

Innovation & Scalability

Weasic products are the epitome of technical innovation in mmWave transceiver design. Weasic is constantly pushing the technical envelope, trying to meet increasingly more stringent specifications for power, performance and size. The IP that Weasic is offering is world-class and truly unique. Weasic is on a steep trajectory of growth reaping the benefits from the wide adoption of 5G communication networks, automotive Radars and Satellite communications. Weasic products offer unique advantages in terms or power consumption, performance and silicon footprint. The Weasic team is among the very few worldwide that can deliver Transceivers, Synthesizers and other critical systems for such applications and at those very high frequencies of operation. The adoption of automotive Radars for safety reasons, that are gradually becoming standard in all newly produced vehicles, the deployment of 5G networks worldwide and the need for Wide Area, low power, always connected services and communications through the use of micro satellites in areas that there is no cellular coverage, are main drivers of increasing demand for Weasic IP.

Traction & achievements

Weasic is among a handful of companies worldwide that have designed microchips for the following applications which are already in production, selling millions of units: - 5G Transceiver for Backhaul - Automotive Radar Transceiver - Synthesizers for Satellite Communications - D-band Front End at 150GHz for next generation telecommunications > Weasic is the most prolific company in IP designs fabricated by Globalfoundries, one of the top pure-play semiconductor manufacturers in the world > Weasic has established a global reach, with customer success stories in the US, in Europe and in Asia > Weasic has recruited one of the larger and most experienced design teams for mmWave applications worldwide > Weasic innovates, develops and sells state of the art technology for Automotive Radars, 5G and Satellite Communications made in Greece

Team & Why Us

The team has more than 150 man-years of experience in high-frequency Analog and Mixed-Signal IC design, in the most advanced fabrication processes. Dr Emmanouil Metaxakis (CEO) has 31 years of solid experience in integrated transceivers and synthesizers on silicon. He served in various technical, managerial and executive roles in the semiconductor industry. He was co-founder and CEO in EXLYS Innovations S.A, a Greek company acquired by Ceragon Networks in 2010. Assoc. Prof. Matthias Bucher (VC) (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete) has 32 years in Semiconductor Modeling.

Funding Needs

Weasic markets its technology in the form of Intellectual Property (IP) licenses. The next natural step for the company is the transition to the ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) business model, under which it'll eventually sell fabricated microchips to semiconductor and systems companies globally. For the transition to the ASIC model, Weasic will need 5-8 million euros in Venture Capital financing.