About Movellus
Movellus sells infrastructure intellectual property for chips, meaning pre-designed circuit blocks that chip makers license and build in. Its Aeonic line covers clock generation, detection of sudden voltage drops (droop) and power delivery, which matter because large AI chips waste energy when clocks and supply voltage are not tightly managed. The company began as a University of Michigan spinout, and its founder is Mo Faisal. It lists its headquarters in Santa Clara, California, and in March 2026 announced that its clocking technology joined the Synopsys Silicon Lifecycle Management IP portfolio.
Movellus was founded in 2014 and is based in Santa Clara, CA, United States. It is listed under ASICs, FPGAs.
Compute Technologies
- ASICs
- FPGAs
What Movellus works on
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
FPGAs
An FPGA, or field-programmable gate array, is a chip whose internal wiring can be changed after it is made. It contains a grid of small logic blocks, memory blocks and programmable connections. Loading a new configuration file, called a bitstream, turns it into a different digital circuit.
Also in United States
Mercury Systems, CAES, Verific Design Automation, Intel/Altera, Movandi
