CEO Interview with Dr. Sean Wei of Easy-Logic

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This is an interview with Dr. Sean Wei, CEO of Easy-Logic Technology, and serves as company background. The company was founded in Hong Kong in 2013, grew out of the EDA laboratory at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and specializes in Functional ECO solutions; its core algorithms won first place in the CAD Contest at ICCAD for three consecutive years (2012–2014). Dr. Wei has served as CEO since 2020 and previously, as CTO, led development of the core algorithms and tool architecture of the flagship product EasylogicECO. The company now serves nearly 100 paying customers, including leading semiconductor design companies in mainland China, Taiwan, the United States, and South Korea. The article states that industry data indicates over 86% of ASICs require two or more tape-outs. EasylogicECO currently supports Functional ECO, Scan Chain ECO, Low Power ECO, and Metal ECO, with Clock Tree ECO, Placement ECO, Timing ECO, and Routing ECO in development; tests show it runs several times faster than traditional tools while producing patches on average 30% better in quality, exceeding 10× in some cases. The company has also introduced the EasyAI ECO Suite, in which Auto Partition reduces patch size by more than 20% on average and up to 90% in some cases, Learning/I-Learning reduces patch size by more than 20% on average, and Smart Caching can reduce runtime by up to 80% in multi-iteration scenarios. Customers typically engage via software licensing, generally proceeding to an annual license after a successful evaluation.

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Source: SemiWiki · 10/30/2026 · View original source