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Pointwise is a developer of mesh generation software specifically designed for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications. The company addresses a critical challenge in CFD by reliably generating high-fidelity meshes, which are essential for accurate simulations. Its software is utilized for grid generation and preprocessing, catering to engineers and scientists in various manufacturing and research organizations across the globe. By providing these tools, Pointwise enables clients to gain deeper insights into their designs before actual construction, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the design process.

NUMECA is focused on innovation in CFD and multiphysics analysis and optimization for design and automation.

InspectAR Augmented Interfaces Inc. is a technology company based in St. John's, Canada, that focuses on augmented reality applications for the electronics industry. Founded in 2018 and currently a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, InspectAR develops software that enhances the inspection, debugging, and reworking processes for printed circuit boards (PCBs). The platform overlays design information directly onto the physical board, allowing electrical engineers and technicians to interact with hardware more intuitively. This innovation aims to streamline the hardware prototyping process and accelerate PCB assembly, ultimately reducing errors and improving efficiency in electronic manufacturing.

Integrand Software, Inc. is a developer of electronic design software that focuses on high-frequency, RF, and mixed-signal complex integrated circuits for the semiconductor and electronics industries. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, the company offers advanced tools like EMX®, which enables designers to simulate large RF circuit blocks accurately and efficiently. This software helps characterize passive components and analyze parasitics caused by interconnects, ultimately shortening design cycles and enhancing product performance while reducing risks. Integrand Software operates as a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, further strengthening its capabilities in the field.

AWR Corporation specializes in developing high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) software that accelerates the design process for various high-tech products, including cell phones and satellite systems. Its primary offerings include Microwave Office, which assists in designing radio frequency and microwave circuits; Visual System Simulator, designed for communication system architecture; and Analog Office, which integrates tools for RFIC and analog design verification. The company's software is utilized for a wide range of applications, from amplifiers and antennas to filters and radar systems, enabling engineers to create innovative wireless products efficiently. AWR's unique technology, built on extensive industry expertise, allows for design automation across different vendor tools, enhancing productivity. The company is headquartered in El Segundo, California, and operates as a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

Rocketick Technologies Ltd., founded in 2008 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel, specializes in GPU-based simulation acceleration solutions aimed at enhancing chip verification processes. The company's flagship product, RocketSim, is a software-based simulation engine that integrates within existing simulator environments. It effectively addresses functional verification bottlenecks by providing GPU acceleration, resulting in simulations that are up to ten times faster for complex designs. RocketSim has gained traction among various semiconductor clients, establishing Rocketick as a pioneer in the field of hardware-assisted acceleration. Since April 2016, Rocketick has operated as a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems Inc.

SDA's primary technological innovation was its design framework architecture, which permitted designers to link software tools from various vendors in a common user interface and database. SDA received start-up financing from National Semiconductor and General Electric and continued to form partnership arrangements with Harris Corporation, L.M. Ericsson, Toshiba and SGS Corp.

Jasper Design Automation is an electronic design automation company based in Mountain View, California, founded in 1999. The company specializes in providing verification solutions for semiconductor design and development. Its core product, the JasperGold verification system, offers advanced bug detection and debugging capabilities, while the GamePlan verification planner facilitates effective verification planning. Additionally, Jasper Design Automation develops ActiveProp, a property synthesis tool that enhances assertion-based verification and simulation processes. The company also offers a range of services, including customer support, methodology consulting, training, and turnkey proof kit development. Furthermore, it provides on-site consulting to help clients implement structured verification methodologies and create formal test plans tailored to specific designs.

Forte Design Systems, Inc. provides software products. The company offers Cynthesizer, a silicon-proven behavioral synthesis technology that generates production-quality RTL. Its Cynthesizer is used to develop products by various electronic companies and semiconductor suppliers. Forte's synthesis technology allows design teams creating electronic systems from algorithmic designs using ASICs, FPGAs, and SoCs to reduce their overall design and verification time. It serves consumer electronics, digital media, wireless communications and infrastructure, and security industries. Forte has direct sales representation in North America, Europe, and Japan with a value added reseller relationship established in Korea. Forte Design Systems, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, California with additional offices in Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington, as well as in France and Japan.

TranSwitch Corporation designs, develops, markets, and supports integrated digital and mixed-signal semiconductor devices for the telecommunications and data communications markets worldwide. It offers optical transport products, such as SONET/SDH/PDH mappers and framers; and tributary switching and grooming devices, which include switch fabric and adjunct switching devices that enable traffic to be switched or re-arranged. The company also provides broadband access products, including ATM controllers that comprise CellBus line of products used in DSLAM and APON/BPON OLT equipment; physical layer solution; and FTTP protocol layer products. In addition, it offers carrier Ethernet products, including circuit emulation devices that provide a migration path for transporting T1, E1, T3, and E3 circuits over IP, MPLS, and tag-switched Ethernet networks; Ethernet switches to examine header information on source/destination address, VLAN tags, and MPLS labels; Ethernet controllers that manage Ethernet traffic to and from multiple physical interfaces; and Ethernet PHY, including TransPHY 10-Gigabit PHY devices. Further, the company provides voice over Internet protocol products for carrier-class media gateway, access gateway, and residential gateway markets; software programs to control its configurable devices; product reference design models for hardware and software applications; evaluation boards and reference design; original equipment manufacturer (OEM) product design support; multi-tier applications support; and product technical and design documentation services. It serves public network systems OEMs, WAN and LAN equipment OEMs, Internet-oriented OEMs, and communications test and performance measurement equipment OEMs, as well as government, universities, and private laboratories. TranSwitch sells its products through a direct sales force, sales representatives, and distributors.

Ineda Systems is a startup company that was created by industry veterans from the US and India with the ultimate goal of becoming a leader in developing low power SOC’s for use in both consumer and enterprise applications. The advisory and management team has world-class experience of working in both blue-chip companies as well as fast-paced technology start-ups. Ineda's expertise is in the area of low-power SOC/IP development, architecture, and software that is necessary to design silicon and systems that would be of use in future applications. Their products will address the wearable platforms from a ground-up manner including vertical engineering of the wearable device: silicon, system, software, application ecosystem. In addition, they will enable the ecosystem with API’s and the application development framework. In combination with their leading-edge technology Ineda silicon will be the first in the world with power usage in the envelope required by wearable devices.

Tensilica, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in customizable dataplane processor IP cores. Its Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) blend the functionalities of CPUs and DSPs, offering significant performance enhancements—ranging from 10 to 100 times—by allowing customization through automated design tools to meet specific signal processing requirements. Tensilica's DPUs are integral to system-on-chip (SoC) designs for various original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and are utilized by several leading semiconductor companies. The application of these processors spans a wide range of products, including mobile phones, consumer electronics such as digital televisions and Blu-ray players, computers, and networking and communications equipment.

Cosmic Circuits is a provider of analog and mixed signal intellectual property (IP) cores. Had silicon-proven IP solutions in connectivity and advanced mixed-signal technologies in the 40nm and 28nm process nodes, with 20nm and FinFET development underway.

Sigrity is a signal and power integrity technology provider. Sigrity provides a rich set of gigabit signal and power network analysis technologies, including a unique power-aware signal integrity analysis capability for system, printed circuit board (PCB), and IC package designs.

NVELO, Inc. (NVELO) is a storage software company founded in June 2010 to address the growing I/O bottleneck in computing systems. NVELO's product (Dataplex™) delivers the performance of Solid State Drives (SSD’s), combined with the price and capacity of Hard Disk Drives (HDD’s) through kernel-level adaptive caching and data management technologies, to bring significant value to notebook, desktop, server, and other computing devices. Formed as a spin-off from Denali Software, Inc., coincident with Denali’s acquisition by Cadence Design Systems for $315M, NVELO benefited from over 3 years of R&D and business development incubation within Denali. NVELO was able to effectively transplant the entire Dataplex engineering, marketing, and business development personnel intact from Denali to NVELO, and complete the product for market.

Azuro is an electronic design automation (EDA) company supplying software tools to design digital semiconductor chips. The company's clock tree synthesis and physical optimization technologies make chips faster, reduce chip power and accelerate chip time to market. Customers of Azuro's software include Broadcom, Cambridge Silicon Radio, NVIDIA, ST Microelectronics, and Texas Instruments. The company was founded in 2002, and has completed over 40 tapeouts since launching its first product in 2005. Azuro is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with R&D in Cambridge, UK, and is privately held.

Altos Design Automation, Inc. provides a characterization technology for the creation of library views for timing, signal integrity, and power analysis and optimization applications. It offers Liberate, a cell library characterizer that supports nanometer models for statistical static timing analysis, such as liberty SI, effective current source models, and composite current source; and Variety MX, a statistical timing model generator for embedded memories. The company also supports ultra low power and high speed design styles that include power gating cells, state retention registers, level shifters, pulse clocking, and CML. It sells its products directly in Europe, India, and North America, as well as through distributors in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. Altos Design Automation, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Denali Software is a leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) tools and intellectual property (IP) solutions focused on system-on-chip (SoC) design and verification. Established in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Denali offers widely-used solutions for deploying subsystems such as PCI Express, USB, NAND Flash, and DDR SDRAM in electronic designs. Their products and services are designed to simplify the design process, mitigate risks, and accelerate time-to-market for complex SoC projects. Denali Software serves the global electronics industry with direct sales and support offices across North America, Europe, Japan, and Asia.

Company product was an FPGA I/O Synthesis tool. As all FPGAs are re-programmable, the IO assignments change every time you make a design revision. This is a significant problem if your PCB is already in production and Taray had a tool to help alleviate the problem. They also had a memory generator for FPGAs.

Nascentric, Inc., an electronic design automation company, develops and markets simulators for analysis and functional verification of complex nanometer designs. It offers OmegaSim, a rocket-fast SPICE simulator; OmegaSim AMS, an analog/mixed-signal Fast-SPICE simulator; and OmegaSim GX, a hardware-accelerated SPICE simulator. The company’s products allow designers to simulate, analyze, and verify circuits and improve design quality. Its products also enable to analyze and optimize the mixed-signal, custom digital, and memory designs. Nascentric, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas with a regional office in San Jose, California.

Tela Innovations, Inc. develops technology for semiconductor design and manufacturing to process geometries. The company's pre-defined physical topologies are applicable for use in logic, embedded memory, analog, and I/O functions. Its solution simplifies the path to double exposure (DE) and double patterning (DP), as well as makes it easy to split layouts for DE and DP. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Campbell, California.

Knowlent Corporation, an electronic design automation software, and analog and mixed signal test-benches company, provides analog verification platforms for the analysis, characterization, and verification of analog and mixed-signal designs. Its products include Opal TBE, a simulation control environment, which runs analysis and displays compliance and waveform results; GoldSpec pre-built test suites; and Opal TBB graphical test bench builders. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Chip Estimate Corporation is an electronic design automation company that specializes in integrated chip (IC) project planning solutions. It operates the ChipEstimate.com portal, which serves the electronics and semiconductor design communities by providing chip planning capabilities. The company develops the InCyte chip estimation systems, which integrate intellectual property (IP) and manufacturing process models to facilitate accurate chip estimation. Its offerings include InCyte Lite, designed for early project feasibility analysis, and the InCyte Enterprise system, which generates refined chip specifications and customized estimations tailored to corporate needs. Chip Estimate also provides enterprise-level IP reuse management solutions. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, the company was formerly known as Giga Scale Integration Corporation and became a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in 2006.

D2S, Inc. is a company based in San Jose, California, that specializes in developing software and intellectual property for direct write e-beam lithography in the production of system-on-chip (SoC) integrated circuits. The company’s computational design platform enhances existing eBeam technology, significantly reducing mask costs for both low- and high-volume applications. D2S offers several key products, including TrueMask MDP, which prepares complex masks to minimize eBeam shot counts and cut mask write times by 20-30%, thereby improving wafer quality through integrated mask process correction. Additionally, TrueMask DS provides a simulation platform for research and development, allowing for detailed analysis of design and mask defects. The Wafer Plane Analysis Engine further aids in aerial image simulation based on data from CD SEM machines. By leveraging GPU acceleration, D2S enhances simulation and processing capabilities, facilitating advancements in semiconductor manufacturing. The company serves a global customer base and was founded in 2007.

Clear Shape Technologies, Inc. develops design-for-manufacturing (DFM) software and technologies. The company focuses on delivering a Variability Platform that allows designers to control and optimize the parametric and catastrophic impact of systematic manufacturing variations. It offers InShape, a lithography process checker; and OutPerform, a silicon validated eDFM product. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. As of August 15, 2007, Clear Shape Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

CoWare, Inc. specializes in providing platform-driven electronic system-level design software and consulting services tailored for IP, semiconductor, and electronics companies. The company offers a range of products and services that facilitate platform architecture design, verification, application sub-system design, processor design, and digital signal processing (DSP) algorithm development. Key offerings include Platform Architect, a graphical environment for platform analysis; Model Designer for verifying IP blocks; and Virtual Platform, which supports simulation for software development teams. Additionally, CoWare provides a Model Library containing various processor and peripheral models, as well as Processor Designer for creating custom processors and programmable hardware accelerators. Their Signal Processing Designer aids in the design and analysis of signal processing algorithms, while the Virtual Platform product family encompasses tools for constructing and utilizing virtual hardware platforms for device software development and validation.

Invarium, Inc. specializes in providing advanced patterning synthesis solutions for the semiconductor industry. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers DimensionPPC, a technology that enhances pattern accuracy on silicon, specifically for integrated circuit (IC) designs, while also facilitating quicker time-to-volume production. Invarium's services are particularly beneficial for sub-90-nanometer IC designers and manufacturers, addressing layout printability challenges in complex chip designs. Since its incorporation in 2003, Invarium has established itself as a key player in the semiconductor sector, operating as a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems as of 2007.

D2S, Inc. is a company based in San Jose, California, that specializes in developing software and intellectual property for direct write e-beam lithography in the production of system-on-chip (SoC) integrated circuits. The company’s computational design platform enhances existing eBeam technology, significantly reducing mask costs for both low- and high-volume applications. D2S offers several key products, including TrueMask MDP, which prepares complex masks to minimize eBeam shot counts and cut mask write times by 20-30%, thereby improving wafer quality through integrated mask process correction. Additionally, TrueMask DS provides a simulation platform for research and development, allowing for detailed analysis of design and mask defects. The Wafer Plane Analysis Engine further aids in aerial image simulation based on data from CD SEM machines. By leveraging GPU acceleration, D2S enhances simulation and processing capabilities, facilitating advancements in semiconductor manufacturing. The company serves a global customer base and was founded in 2007.

Praesagus, Inc. provides characterization and modeling products to the chemical mechanical polishing semiconductor manufacturing process. It provides professional services in various areas, including design for manufacturability analysis, design layout analysis and improvement, custom fill analysis and synthesis, characterization and test mask design, process analysis and improvement, and surface profile analysis.

CommandCAD, Inc. is a tool developer in the Design For Manufacturability (DFM) market. CommandCAD's origins go back to work done by Frank Gennari, CommandCAD founder and CTO, while he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley. Gennari started working on the identification of layout patterns that cause yield problems.

NemeriX SA operates as a fabless semiconductor company that develops ultra-low-power, semiconductors, and software solutions for global positioning system and location-based service products. Its products include analog RF receivers, baseband, and indoor global positioning system integrates chips, as well as global positioning systems based integrated chipset. The company also offers OS support for WinCE, WinMobile, WinXP, LinuX, Symbian, and Nucleus; NeX, an extended ephemeris solution that enables mobile devices to acquire immediate positioning information in difficult garage scenarios and in harshest multi-path environments; SUPL client, which is inter-operated with several independent SUPL servers. In addition, it offers solutions to enable product integration, including evaluation boards, system software reference designs, user documentation, online support, and access to designers and global cadre of application engineers. The company’s product application areas include cellular phones, battery-powered wireless and handheld terminals, personal navigation devices, personal media players, and digital still cameras. It serves proximity-based marketing, social networking, gaming and financial authentication, navigation, tracking, and emergency markets. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Manno, Switzerland. It has a design center in Cambridge, the United Kingdom; an applications center in Seoul, Korea; a technical center in Taipei, Taiwan; and sales offices in the United States, Europe, Taiwan, and Japan.

Verisity, Ltd. specializes in verification process automation solutions, offering technologies and software products that streamline the verification of electronic systems and complex integrated circuits. Serving the communications, computing, and consumer electronics markets, Verisity's proprietary tools help identify design flaws efficiently. This automation allows clients to enhance product quality, shorten time-to-market, and lower overall development costs, making it a vital resource for companies in high-growth segments of the electronics industry.

Inphi Corporation specializes in high-speed analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for the communications, data center, and computing markets in the United States. The company develops products that enhance data processing capabilities by performing functions such as amplifying, encoding, multiplexing, and buffering data and clock signals at speeds up to 100 Gbps. These solutions are critical for various applications, including servers, routers, switches, and storage systems, as well as military radar systems and test equipment that require the capture and processing of high-speed signals. Inphi's product offerings include clock and data recovery modules, demultiplexers, differential amplifiers, and serializers, among others. The company sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers and also works with module manufacturers and original design manufacturers to reach its customers. Founded in 2000 and based in Sunnyvale, California, Inphi was previously known as TCom Communications, Inc. before rebranding in 2001.

Sequoia Communications is a fabless RF semiconductor company setting new benchmarks in multimode design and integration. The FullSpectra™ common architecture, developed by Sequoia Communications, allows a single-chip transceiver to support multiple air interface protocols enabling effective communications across numerous wireless air standards. Based on the FullSpectra architecture, the SEQ7400 is a single-chip, 7-band multimode transceiver that supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA/HSPA and TD-SCDMA. The SEQ7400 uses a single polar modulator transmit architecture for all air standards, delivering the highest levels of integration in the industry. Typically external WCDMA LNAs and SAW filters are required, but the SEQ7400 integrates these functions into the chip and is the industry's first true monolithic receiver providing significant savings in bill-of-material (BOM), size and cost. The line of multimode RF products created by Sequoia Communications will continue to address the three key handset metrics of cost, size and power consumption.

Neolinear is a developer ofsoftware for analog/mixed-signal silicon design. Neolinear's rapid analog design technology is critical for the consumer and communications markets where semiconductors are increasingly differentiated by their analog content.

TransChip specializes in the design of advanced CMOS imagers tailored for mobile phones and portable devices. The company focuses on integrating image capture, color processing, and image compression into a single-chip camera module, aiming to deliver a complete and programmable camera solution that ensures superior image quality. Notably, TransChip was the first in the industry to showcase a CMOS imager with integrated digital image signal processing and JPEG compression. Its design offers a streamlined solution that reduces product costs, simplifies integration, and lowers power consumption compared to traditional multi-chip configurations. Additionally, TransChip's proprietary sensor architecture and advanced color-processing algorithms contribute to its high-quality imaging capabilities. The innovative design allows for direct streaming video from the imager to the LCD, significantly decreasing the processing demands on mobile devices and enhancing video capabilities in lower-end and mid-range phones. TransChip is supported by a skilled design and management team, along with a board of directors featuring prominent industry experts.

Q Design Automation Inc., a privately held company that makes software for migrating and optimizing integrated circuit layout, a critical bottleneck in today's computer chip designs.

ETop Design Automation is a privately held company provides design Rule Check (DRC) and Layout-versus Schematic (LVS) tools.

CoWare, Inc. specializes in providing platform-driven electronic system-level design software and consulting services tailored for IP, semiconductor, and electronics companies. The company offers a range of products and services that facilitate platform architecture design, verification, application sub-system design, processor design, and digital signal processing (DSP) algorithm development. Key offerings include Platform Architect, a graphical environment for platform analysis; Model Designer for verifying IP blocks; and Virtual Platform, which supports simulation for software development teams. Additionally, CoWare provides a Model Library containing various processor and peripheral models, as well as Processor Designer for creating custom processors and programmable hardware accelerators. Their Signal Processing Designer aids in the design and analysis of signal processing algorithms, while the Virtual Platform product family encompasses tools for constructing and utilizing virtual hardware platforms for device software development and validation.

Verplex Systems, Inc. is an electronic design automation (EDA) company.

K2 Technologies designs, develops, and markets software that assists in design, verification, process development, lithographic, pattern generation. It manufactures environments in the semiconductor industry.Designer and marketer of software designed for semiconductor applications. The company's focus lies in the development of software products in order to offer a highly automated approach to design finishing and mask data preparation, enabling the clients to reduce cost, reduce cycle times and eliminate errors.

Encompassed the tasks conventionally performed by separate behavioral, logical and physical synthesis tools, a floor planner and a static timing analyzer.

SpinCircuit is a provider of web-based supply chain management for the electronics industry sector. SpinCircuit provides a Web-enabled technology that permits design engineers to browse and place over 1 million symbols, free of charge. With the free download of SpinCircut’s eCapture schematic software, design engineers can drag and drop symbols directly into their design. SpinCircuit markets its solutions to streamline the flow of design-ready component data and supply-chain ready design information throughout the electronics supply chain.

Hier Design Inc. develops, markets, and supports hierarchical floor planning and analysis software for design of ultra deep sub-micron, multi-million gates, and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA).

Celestry Design Technologies is a provider of physical analysis solutions for the semiconductor and electronics industry.

Antrim develops and markets portable mixed-signal intellectual property, design software, and expert design services for telecom, multimedia, and consumer products. Utilizing top-down methodologies, the company is delivering libraries, design tools, and services that automate the design of mixed-signal integrated circuits with a level of efficiency previously unattainable.

Zagros Networks, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company. The company focuses on building silicon and software solutions for metro and edge communications systems. Its rate-aware switching fabrics allow network system manufacturers to create switches and routers that provide a packet infrastructure.

Plato Design Systems, Inc. Involved in scalable routing and physical design optimization for system-on-chip (SoC) products. The company's flagship product, NanoRoute, allows concurrent routing, extraction, analysis, and interconnect optimization for timing and signal integrity closure. The product is targeted at system companies, fabless semiconductor companies, and integrated device manufacturers (IDMs).

DSM Technologies is a graphical tool for creation of design rules that generates DRC/LVS decks for dracula, Hercules and others.

AmmoCore Technology, Inc. was founded to develop design solutions for the rapid delivery of large-scale System ICs.

The CadMOS noise-analysis solutions were targeted at both digital and mixed signal designers working in microprocessors, DRAMs, mixed-signal SOC, and ASICs.

Founded 1996 Silicon Perspective Corp. offers full-chip silicon virtual prototypes that provided design closure throughout the design cycle. Silicon Perspective served application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), customer owned tooling (COT), and system on chip (SoC) marketplaces. First Encounter: optimized final placement files were generated at both chip and block level for detailed routing by the customer's or ASIC vendor's existing router.

Silicon Metrics specializes in the development of electronic design automation (EDA) technology and products aimed at enhancing the design process for integrated circuits. The company creates characterization and modeling tools for standard cells, memories, and complex input/output interfaces. Its SiliconSmart products offer comprehensive timing, power, and signal integrity models compatible with various industry-standard formats. By providing these advanced tools, Silicon Metrics assists design teams in minimizing silicon re-spins caused by hidden timing issues, ultimately improving the efficiency and reliability of circuit designs.

OrCAD is a software tool suite focused on electronic design automation (EDA), primarily catering to electronic design engineers and technicians. Its main applications include the creation of electronic schematics and prints necessary for manufacturing printed circuit boards. The software also aids in the management of component data and supports the design of field-programmable gate arrays, complex programmable logic devices, as well as analog and mixed-signal circuits. OrCAD serves as an essential resource for professionals in the electronics industry, facilitating efficient design and production processes.

Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. is a privately held company which designs, manufactures, sells, and supports emulation and cycle-based simulation system-level verification solutions for the design of computer chips and electronic systems. Quickturn also manufactures Mercury hardware emulation systems.

Design Acceleration is a maker of design analysis and verification tools.

Diablo Research Co. LLC is a design services company focussed on wireless technology. It services in such areas as Bluetooth and HomeRF (radio-frequency) technology, as well as new capabilities in telemetry, global-positioning satellite (GPS) solutions, and personal wireless products.

Ambit produced tools for system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology, designed to put the functions of different computer chips on one microprocessor.

Developed the network infrastructure for Total Entertainment Network and a set-top box for Hyundai, Détente was also working with Sun's JavaSoft division on many projects including the development of Personal Java. They began pushing a concept we called JavaTV during the summer of 1997.

Esperan provides a range of hardware description language (HDL) and methodology courses -- including Masterclass, a multimedia VHDL and Verilog training package -- for ASIC and FPGA designers.

Bell Labs DA Group Of Lucent is a design automation development organization that focuses on the complex verification challenges companies face when designing integrated circuits and next-generation SoC.

Cooper & Chyan Technology is a privately held company provides PCB and IC automatic place and router software solutions.

HLDS developed, marketed, and supported electronic design automation software for the design of high-density, high-performance integrated circuits.

Redwood Design combines a simulator and synthesis tool based on a proprietary language. The company was founded by Doug Fairbairn and was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 1994.

IC timing analysis package (Pearl) is a privately held company operates an IC timing analysis package (Pearl).

Seed Solutions is a privately held VHDL simulation software company.

Pinebush Technologies is a developer and supplier of high performance visualization printing and plotting software for semiconductor (EDA), IC, CAD, GIS, A/E/C, engineering, mapping, scientific, and other technical applications.

Tangent Systems Corporation, handled the physical design of semi-custom integrated circuits. In September 1984 entered the electronic design tool market by investing more than $5 million for a 50% share of Tangent Systems, a two-month-old firm specializing in computer-aided engineering (CAE) software. In April 1988 Intergraph acquired an additional 32 percent of Tangent Systems for $3.5 million. The deal included the company's additional acquisition of six percent of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. By March 1989 Intergraph changed course entirely, deciding to exchange its 82 percent Tangent ownership for shares in Cadence Design Systems.

Valid Logic Systems is a technology company that manufactures and distributes commercial electronic design automation systems for its clients. It was founded by Jeff Rubin and Thomas McWilliams.

Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc. manufactures integrated circuit validation systems. The IMS Division continues to market, sell, service and support its line of engineering validation test systems.