Cadence Design Systems

Arm - Artisan Foundation IP Business is a unit of Arm that specializes in the cornerstone of the semiconductor industry's physical IP ecosystem. It comprises standard cell libraries, memory compilers, and general-purpose I/Os (GPIOs)

Secure-IC is a company founded in January 2010 as a spin-off from Télécom ParisTech University, recognized for its expertise in embedded security research. Established by researchers Sylvain Guilley, Jean-Luc Danger, Laurent Sauvage, along with Hassan Triqui and Philippe Nguyen, Secure-IC specializes in providing end-to-end embedded cybersecurity solutions for embedded systems and connected objects. The company focuses on protecting clients from cyber-physical attacks and ensuring that optimal security levels are achieved at every stage of the design process tailored to specific vertical market applications. Through its offerings, Secure-IC enables organizations to safeguard their datasets effectively.

INVECAS Technologies specializes in providing comprehensive ASIC solutions by aggregating intellectual property (IP), design, and realization services. The company develops silicon IP equipment tailored for the semiconductor industry, offering custom alternatives that encompass various aspects of ASIC design. This includes embedded software and system-level approaches, software architecture, silicon manufacturing, packaging, and integration. By delivering a wide range of in-house alternatives such as validation, package design, verification, prototyping, and embedded software development, INVECAS enables its clients to effectively meet their unique requirements across diverse industries and markets.

Intrinsix Corp. is a privately held company that specializes in electronics and custom integrated circuit (IC) design engineering solutions. The company serves various industries, including aerospace, automotive, and military sectors. Intrinsix offers a range of services, including metrics-based verification, architectural modeling, silicon realization, and chip drafting. Its expertise encompasses the design of custom digital, analog, and mixed-signal integrated circuits, as well as sensors, system-on-a-chip products, and field-programmable gate array circuits.

Jasper Design Automation, Inc. is an electronic design automation company based in Mountain View, California, specializing in semiconductor design, verification, and reuse. Founded in 1999 as Tempus Fugit, Inc., it rebranded in 2003 to its current name. The company offers a range of products, including the JasperGold verification system, which provides solutions for bug detection and debugging, and the GamePlan verification planner. In addition to its software offerings, Jasper provides verification products, integrated circuit design blocks, and comprehensive customer support, including methodology consulting, training, and turnkey proof kit development. The company also delivers on-site consulting services to facilitate the deployment of structured verification methodologies, assists in writing formal test plans for specific designs, and offers turnkey verification services. Through its technology, including ActiveProp, a property synthesis tool, Jasper aims to enhance the adoption of assertion-based verification and simulation, ultimately enabling clients to achieve high value and return on investment in their electronic systems and semiconductor projects.

Forte Design Systems, Inc. is a software provider specializing in semiconductor design solutions. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with additional offices in various U.S. states and internationally in France and Japan, the company offers Cynthesizer, a silicon-proven behavioral synthesis technology that generates production-quality RTL. This innovative technology enables design teams to develop complex electronic systems from algorithmic designs using ASICs, FPGAs, and SoCs, effectively reducing design and verification time. Forte's products cater to a range of industries, including consumer electronics, digital media, wireless communications, and security. The company maintains a direct sales presence in North America, Europe, and Japan, and has established value-added reseller partnerships in Korea.

Ineda Systems Inc. specializes in the design and distribution of low-power system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, focusing on improving power consumption for a range of applications, particularly in automotive and Internet-of-Things (IoT) sectors. The company's SoCs utilize a hierarchical computing architecture that allows multiple CPUs to operate independently while sharing resources, thus optimizing performance for various use cases. Ineda's products are essential for applications such as traffic sign recognition, adaptive cruise control, and wearable technology. The company serves diverse industries, including power management, public transportation, healthcare, and smart home systems. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an office in Hyderabad, India, Ineda Systems aims to lead the market in low-power SoC development by leveraging its experienced team and innovative technology to create a comprehensive ecosystem for wearable devices and other platforms. Its products are distributed through various partners across the United States and Asia.

Tensilica, Inc. specializes in customizable dataplane processor IP cores, particularly Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) that integrate the capabilities of both CPUs and DSPs. By leveraging Tensilica's automated design tools, these DPUs can be tailored to achieve significant performance enhancements, often delivering 10 to 100 times the efficiency needed for specific signal processing tasks. Tensilica's technology is utilized in system-on-chip (SoC) designs across various industries, including mobile phones, consumer electronics, and networking equipment. The company provides a range of products, such as configurable microprocessor cores and development tools, enabling designers to create low-power, application-specific hardware and software. Its solutions are particularly relevant for embedded applications, including set-top boxes, wireless communications, and multimedia processing.

Sigrity specializes in signal and power integrity technology, offering advanced analysis solutions for ensuring the reliability of electronic designs. The company develops software tools that focus on power integrity and signal integrity, catering to various aspects of electronic systems, including integrated circuits (ICs), printed circuit boards (PCBs), and system-in-package (SiP) designs. Sigrity's unique capabilities include power-aware signal integrity analysis, which enhances the performance and stability of electronic components. By providing these technologies, Sigrity supports engineers and designers in optimizing their products for high-performance applications.

Denali Software is a prominent provider of electronic design automation (EDA) tools and intellectual property (IP) solutions for system-on-chip (SoC) design and verification. Established in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company offers widely-used products that facilitate the deployment of subsystems such as PCI Express, USB, NAND Flash, and DDR SDRAM in electronic designs. Denali's offerings are designed to simplify the design process, mitigate risks, and accelerate time-to-market for complex SoC projects. The company serves the global electronics industry, with sales and support offices located in 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.

Tela Innovations provides solutions for optimizing semiconductor design and manufacturing processes. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in California, the company specializes in lithography-optimized design solutions for integrated circuits. It offers physical IP products for ASIC and SoC designs, power optimization technologies through Gate Length Biasing, and customization services for IP blocks. Tela Innovations' technology simplifies complex processes like double exposure and double patterning, making it easier to split layouts for these techniques. The company's solutions are applicable across various functions including logic, embedded memory, analog, and I/O.

CoWare, Inc. provides electronic system-level design software and consulting services primarily to IP, semiconductor, and electronics companies. The company specializes in platform-driven solutions that facilitate platform architecture design, verification, application sub-system design, processor design, DSP algorithm design, and software development. Key products include Platform Architect, a graphical environment for platform analysis; Model Designer for IP block verification; and Virtual Platform, which simulates platforms for software development teams. CoWare also offers a Model Library containing various processor, bus, and peripheral models, and Processor Designer for creating custom processors and programmable hardware accelerators. Additionally, the Signal Processing Designer enables the design and analysis of signal processing algorithms, exporting implementations as blocks. CoWare's suite of tools supports the creation and validation of virtual hardware platforms, streamlining development processes for device software.

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 proprietary technologies and software products designed to verify the designs of electronic systems and complex integrated circuits. Its offerings cater to high-growth segments within the communications, computing, and consumer electronics markets. By automating the detection of design flaws, Verisity enables its clients to enhance product quality, expedite time-to-market, and lower overall development costs.

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.

CoWare, Inc. provides electronic system-level design software and consulting services primarily to IP, semiconductor, and electronics companies. The company specializes in platform-driven solutions that facilitate platform architecture design, verification, application sub-system design, processor design, DSP algorithm design, and software development. Key products include Platform Architect, a graphical environment for platform analysis; Model Designer for IP block verification; and Virtual Platform, which simulates platforms for software development teams. CoWare also offers a Model Library containing various processor, bus, and peripheral models, and Processor Designer for creating custom processors and programmable hardware accelerators. Additionally, the Signal Processing Designer enables the design and analysis of signal processing algorithms, exporting implementations as blocks. CoWare's suite of tools supports the creation and validation of virtual hardware platforms, streamlining development processes for device software.

Get2Chip is a developer of Volare, an architectural platform designed for chip manufacturers and IP providers to facilitate rapid system-level synthesis. The company offers an integrated front-end design environment for system-on-chip (SoC) development that encompasses tasks typically handled by separate behavioral, logical, and physical synthesis tools, as well as a floor planner and a static timing analyzer. By providing a comprehensive solution that includes ESL, RTL, and gate-level design, Get2Chip aims to streamline the design process and enhance efficiency in the semiconductor industry.

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.

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