Menta is a semiconductor IP company addressing a fundamental challenge of modern computing systems: how to reconcile long silicon lifecycles with rapidly evolving requirements.
Interview with Vincent Markus, President & CEO of Menta.
A brief description of the company and its activities.
Vincent Markus: We develop standard-cell embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP that enables adaptability to be designed directly into ASICs and SoCs, without compromising reliability, qualification, or long-term trust. Our technology allows systems to evolve over time while preserving the stability and predictability required of production-grade microelectronic chips that are expected to serve industrial applications reliably over long operational lifetimes. Our mission is to address a structural challenge faced by many industries today: enabling systems to evolve while silicon must remain stable, qualified, and trustworthy for years — and in many cases, for decades.
What are the main areas of activity of the company?
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V.M: Menta focuses on a consistent set of core markets where longevity, adaptability, and trust are not optional, but fundamental requirements:
- Industrial systems, including IIoT platforms, where reducing system variants, extending product lifecycles, adapting to various sensors and maintaining operational continuity are critical.
- Aerospace and Defense, where certification, trust, and long-term protection of critical assets define every architectural decision.
- Edge systems, including Edge AI and RF-intensive platforms, where evolving standards and workloads require silicon architectures that can adapt after deployment.
- Mobility, encompassing automotive, rail, and transportation systems, where embedded intelligence, sensing, and power management must evolve over long operational lifetimes.
- Security and cryptography, where embedded hardware reconfigurability enables robust and evolvable protection mechanisms to be implemented directly within highly secure silicon devices.
Across all these markets, Menta’s role is not to add features, but to provide a structural capability: enabling silicon to evolve safely and predictably over time.
What’s the news about new products/services?
V.M: Over the past years, Menta’s embedded FPGA technology has reached a new level of industrial maturity. What is new today is not a single feature release, but the way embedded reprogrammability is now being deployed as a core architectural capability in long-lifecycle silicon platforms.
Menta is actively involved in several structuring, multi-partner initiatives, including CHASSIS and MOSAICS, among others. These initiatives define how adaptable and heterogeneous silicon platforms are designed, qualified, and maintained over time, across industrial, mobility, and security-critical domains.
Within this framework, Menta’s standard-cell embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP serves as the concrete technological foundation that enables this evolution. Combined with a mature software and integration environment, it allows customers to integrate reprogrammability directly into ASICs and SoCs using industrial-grade design flows, making adaptability practical, governable, and scalable.
The key news is the growing recognition of embedded reprogrammability as a core architectural capability for heterogeneous, long-lifecycle silicon platforms, and Menta’s role in enabling its deployment across industrial-grade designs.
What are the ranges of products/services?
V.M: Menta offers a scalable standard-cell–based embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP that enables any production silicon, manufactured worldwide, to be reprogrammed after fabrication.
Our eFPGA IP is delivered as a fully design-adaptive soft IP, allowing customers to define the size, composition, and capabilities of the programmable fabric according to their system requirements. This includes configurable logic resources, as well as optional elements such as DSP,embedded memory structures and even custom computing.
Because it is entirely based on third party standard-cells, Menta’s eFPGA IP integrates naturally into existing ASIC and SoC design flows. Customers retain full control over foundry selection, process node, standard-cell libraries, metal stack, power management strategy, and qualification constraints. Our foundry and EDA partners offer the strongest standards for yield, robustness and quality.
This approach enables Menta’s technology to be deployed across a wide range of applications — including industrial systems, mobility, aerospace and defense, edge computing, and security-critical platforms — where adaptability must coexist with reliability, predictability, and long-term availability.
Menta’s offering is intentionally focused: providing a programmable foundation that adapts to the customer’s architecture, rather than forcing architectural compromises.
What is the state of the market where you are currently active?
V.M: The market for embedded hardware reconfigurability has entered a phase of broad industrial adoption.
Custom silicon is now a mainstream strategy across industrial systems, mobility, aerospace and defense, edge platforms, and security-critical environments. In these domains, embedding programmable logic directly into ASICs and SoCs is increasingly viewed as a practical architectural choice, driven by long product lifecycles, evolving standards, and the need to manage system complexity over time.
As systems become more software-defined and workloads continue to evolve, silicon architectures are expected to support change without sacrificing predictability, qualification, or reliability. This is reshaping how programmable logic is evaluated: no longer as an experimental capability, but as an integral component of long-term platform design.
The result is a market moving beyond early experimentation toward wider deployment, including high-volume and mission-critical products, where embedded hardware reconfigurability is assessed against industrial criteria such as integration into standard design flows, lifecycle control, and long-term availability.
What can you tell us about market trends?
V.M: Several long-term trends are reshaping how custom silicon and computing systems are designed.
First, compute is moving closer to where data is generated, while workloads and algorithms continue to evolve far faster than traditional silicon design cycles. Edge and embedded systems are now expected to deliver increasing levels of intelligence under strict constraints of power, cost, and form factor. This creates a growing tension between fixed hardware and dynamic system requirements.
Second, system architectures are becoming more heterogeneous and domain-specific. Rather than relying on general-purpose compute, platforms increasingly integrate specialized acceleration for AI, signal processing, security, and sensor-intensive workloads. This modularity fundamentally changes how systems are assembled — and how they must be maintained over time.
Third, industrial constraints are tightening, not loosening. Across industrial, mobility, aerospace, and security-driven environments, qualification, reliability, supply-chain control, and long-term availability have become central design parameters.
What is changing most is not performance expectations, but the nature of the problem silicon is expected to solve.
Hardware is no longer optimized only for peak efficiency at tape-out, but for its ability to be governed, adapted, and sustained over long operational lifetimes.
As a result, flexibility is no longer a feature or a performance lever. It is becoming an architectural discipline — one that allows systems to evolve over time without increasing risk or complexity.
The platforms that will succeed are those that balance specialization and efficiency with this long-term governability.
What are the most innovative products/services marketed?
V.M: Menta’s innovation lies in how embedded hardware reconfigurability is delivered and deployed within industrial-grade silicon. Innovation in custom silicon is no longer defined by adding complexity or maximizing flexibility in isolation.
Our standard-cell eFPGA IP brings adaptability directly into ASIC and SoC architectures using qualified, foundry-standard design flows. This allows programmable logic to be integrated without introducing proprietary macros, custom bitcells, or specialized processes — a prerequisite for high-volume and mission-critical deployments.
Beyond the IP itself, Menta has developed a coherent software and integration environment that enables customers to deploy embedded hardware reconfigurability efficiently and predictably within their existing design methodologies. This combination makes adaptability usable at scale, rather than experimental or confined to niche applications.
What differentiates this approach is not a single feature, but the ability to make embedded hardware reconfigurability practical, governable, and sustainable across long product lifecycles.
This is where Menta’s innovation is expressed today: enabling silicon platforms to evolve over time, while preserving the industrial qualities required for deployment at scale.
What estimations do you have for the beginning of 2026?
V.M: The beginning of 2026 confirms the direction the industry has been moving toward over the past years.
Demand for custom silicon platforms designed for long lifecycles, adaptability, and controlled evolution continues to increase across industrial, mobility, aerospace, edge, and security-driven markets. System designers no longer view adaptability as an option, but as a non-negotiable requirement.
For Menta, this translates into continued engagement with customers and partners working on complex, long-term platforms, as well as sustained traction across multiple regions and ecosystems.
Our focus is on disciplined execution and building the operational foundations required to support sustainable growth over time.
