Monia
Chiavacci
Senior Principal Architect at SiFive, Inc.
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Monia Chiavacci Bio (LinkedIn)
Monia is a globally recognized expert in automotive functional safety. From graduating cum laude from a technical institute dominated by male students to being one of only a few female founders of a semiconductor company, Monia has continued to make an impact on the industry. Prior to joining SiFive, Monia started the pioneering company, Yogitech, in Italy in 2000 with the vision of bringing advanced and highly reliable integrated electronics closer to peoples’ lives. Yogitech became the “one-stop shop” for Functional Safety (FuSa) applied to a systems-on-a-chip (SOC). In 2016 Intel acquired Yogitech, in a resounding success for Monia’s startup. Monia became Intel’s FuSa Director of IoT. Today Monia is recognized as one of the world’s key experts in FuSa and is the author of many technical papers and has five patents.She joined SiFive in 2022 to develop state of the art FuSa technology based on the RISC-V architecture. At SiFive, she established the FuSa methodology and design principles from scratch and also helped architect FuSa-enabled IPs, including CPU cores and other SOC elements. This has already resulted in key customer wins for SiFive in the automotive market and has been critical foundational technology to the launch of three new automotive products. It is expected the FuSa implementations will save thousands of consumer lives.
