Cadence Design Systems

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Seed Solutions is a privately held VHDL simulation software company.

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.