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)

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.

Rambus Inc. is a semiconductor solutions provider that specializes in designing, developing, and licensing chip interface technologies and architectures for digital electronics. The company's product portfolio includes high-speed memory interface chips, such as Fully Synchronous DRAM and Dual Edge Clocking, which enhance data transfer efficiency and precision. Rambus also offers various technologies like Variable Burst Length, FlexPhase, and Channel Equalization to improve signal integrity and system performance. Its architectures and chip interfaces, including the XDR and XDR2 Memory Architectures, are utilized in a wide range of applications, from personal computers and gaming consoles to consumer electronics. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Los Altos, California, Rambus generates most of its revenue from markets in the United States and Asia, focusing on providing innovative solutions for computing, gaming, and graphics industries.

Integrand Software, Inc. is a developer of electronic design software solutions specializing in the design of high-frequency, RF, and mixed-signal integrated circuits for the semiconductor and electronics industries. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, the company offers advanced simulation tools, including its flagship product, EMX®. This tool enables designers to accurately and efficiently simulate large RF circuit blocks, characterize passive components, and analyze interconnect parasitics. EMX is noted for its speed, accuracy, and user-friendly interface, which help shorten design cycles and reduce risks in bringing innovative products to market. Integrand Software operates as a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. since February 2020.

Rocketick Technologies, established in 2008 and headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel, specializes in GPU-based simulation acceleration solutions for chip verification. The company's flagship product, RocketSim, enhances functional verification processes by integrating GPU-based acceleration with existing simulators, enabling 10x faster simulations for complex designs. This solution is currently employed by several semiconductor customers, helping to reduce time to market for new chip designs. As of 2016, Rocketick operates 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.

Founded in 1999, Jasper Design Automation specializes in electronic design automation. It offers products like JasperGold for bug detection and GamePlan for verification planning. The company provides verification products, IC design blocks, customer support, methodology consulting, training, and turnkey proof kit development. They also offer on-site consulting services to deploy structured verification methodologies.

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.

TranSwitch Corporation specializes in the design, development, marketing, and support of integrated digital and mixed-signal semiconductor devices tailored for the telecommunications and data communications sectors worldwide. The company offers a range of products, including optical transport solutions like SONET/SDH/PDH mappers and framers, as well as tributary switching and grooming devices. TranSwitch also provides broadband access products, such as ATM controllers and FTTP protocol layers, alongside carrier Ethernet products that facilitate the transport of traditional circuit data over modern networks. Additionally, the company develops voice over Internet Protocol products for various gateway markets and offers software for device control, reference design models, evaluation boards, and OEM product support. Its clientele includes OEMs in public network systems, WAN and LAN equipment, and communications testing, as well as government entities, universities, and private laboratories. TranSwitch distributes its products through a direct sales force, representatives, and distributors.

Tensilica, Inc. is a leading provider of customizable dataplane processor IP cores, specializing in the development of Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs). These DPUs merge the functionalities of CPUs and DSPs, achieving performance improvements of 10 to 100 times by allowing customization through Tensilica's automated design tools. The company's offerings include configurable and pre-configured microprocessor cores, development tools, and an integrated suite of software development resources. Tensilica's solutions are particularly suited for system-on-chip designs across a range of embedded applications, including set-top boxes, consumer electronics, and wireless communications. With a strong presence among system OEMs and major semiconductor companies, Tensilica's technology supports a variety of products such as mobile phones, digital TVs, and networking equipment, enabling designers to create efficient, application-specific hardware and software solutions.

Cosmic Circuits is a developer of analog and mixed signal intellectual property (IP) cores tailored for electronic devices. The company specializes in providing silicon-proven IP solutions across various nanometer technology nodes, including advanced offerings in connectivity and mixed-signal technologies at 40nm and 28nm, with ongoing developments for 20nm and FinFET processes. Its diverse product portfolio includes data converters, analog front-end platforms for wireless and audio applications, power management solutions, clocking systems, and interfaces for mobile industry processors. By enabling efficient manufacturing of systems for audio, speech, temperature, and music detection, Cosmic Circuits supports innovation in the electronics industry.

Azuro is an electronic design automation (EDA) company that specializes in software tools for designing digital semiconductor chips. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with research and development based in Cambridge, UK, Azuro offers products such as PowerCentric, a clock tree synthesis and post-CTS chip optimization tool, and Rubix, which focuses on clock concurrent chip optimization. The company's technologies aim to enhance chip speed, reduce power consumption, and expedite time to market for semiconductor designs. Azuro has successfully completed over 40 tapeouts since the launch of its first product in 2005, serving notable customers including Broadcom, NVIDIA, and Texas Instruments. The company remains privately held.

Altos Design Automation, Inc. specializes in characterization technology that facilitates the creation of library views for timing, signal integrity, and power analysis applications. The company offers products such as Liberate, a cell library characterizer designed for nanometer models used in statistical static timing analysis, and Variety MX, a statistical timing model generator for embedded memories. These solutions support ultra-low power and high-speed design styles, including power gating cells and state retention registers. Altos Design Automation markets its products directly in Europe, India, and North America, while also distributing through partners in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. Founded in 2005, the company is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Denali Software, established in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is a prominent global provider of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, intellectual property (IP), software, and design platforms for System-on-Chip (SoC) design and verification. The company specializes in delivering widely-used solutions for integrating PCI Express, USB, NAND Flash, and DDR SDRAM subsystems into electronic designs. Denali's products and services aim to simplify complex SoC designs, mitigate risks, and accelerate time-to-market for developers worldwide, 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.

Founded in 2005, Tela Innovations specializes in lithography-optimized standard cell libraries for integrated circuits. Its solutions aim to reduce die area and enhance performance by offering customizable IP blocks and power optimization technology.

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 headquartered in Cupertino, California. Founded in 2003, it specializes in providing integrated chip project planning solutions to the electronics and semiconductor design communities through its ChipEstimate.com portal. The company develops and markets the InCyte chip estimation systems, which integrate intellectual property (IP) and manufacturing process models to facilitate accurate chip estimations. Its offerings include InCyte Lite, designed for project feasibility analysis during the early architectural stage, and the InCyte Enterprise system, which generates refined chip specifications and customized estimations tailored to corporate requirements. Additionally, Chip Estimate provides enterprise-level IP reuse management solutions and a range of resources, including verification IP and semiconductor IP, to support design professionals. The company was previously known as Giga Scale Integration Corporation and became a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems in 2008.

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. Its comprehensive product suite includes Platform Architect, a SystemC-based graphical environment that facilitates platform analysis; Model Designer for the verification of IP blocks; and Virtual Platform, which offers simulation packages for software development teams. Additionally, CoWare provides a Model Library containing processor, bus, and peripheral models, as well as Processor Designer, which enables the creation of custom processors and programmable hardware accelerators. The company's Signal Processing Designer allows for the design and analysis of signal processing algorithms, exporting implementations as functional blocks. Together, these tools and services support the development, distribution, and validation of virtual hardware platforms essential for device software development.

Invarium, Inc. is a company based in San Jose, California, that specializes in providing advanced patterning synthesis solutions for the semiconductor industry. Established in 2003, Invarium focuses on enhancing pattern accuracy on silicon for integrated circuit (IC) designs, particularly for sub-90-nanometer technologies. The company's flagship product, DimensionPPC, accelerates time-to-volume production, thereby assisting IC designers and manufacturers in achieving improved layout printability. Invarium operates as a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., further extending its capabilities and reach within the semiconductor sector.

D2S designs and develops software and intellectual property to enable direct-write e-beam lithography for semiconductor manufacturing. Its platform maximizes existing eBeam technology to reduce mask costs for low- and high-volume applications. It offers TrueMask MDP, a full-chip mask data preparation solution capable of handling complex mask shapes at 28-nm and below while keeping write times practical on existing equipment; TrueMask DS, a mask-wafer double simulation platform for R&D exploration, hot-spot analysis, and defect categorization; and Wafer Plane Analysis Engine, which provides aerial image simulation of 2D contours from CD-SEM measurements. The company also provides GPU-accelerated tools for simulation and process optimization, supporting model-based processing for nano-scale device manufacturing. Based in San Jose, California, D2S serves customers worldwide.

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.

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.

Inphi Corporation is a provider of high-speed analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, primarily serving the communications, data center, and computing markets in the United States. The company specializes in products that enhance data transmission capabilities, including amplifiers, encoders, multiplexers, and clock recovery devices, operating at speeds up to 100 Gbps. These solutions are integral to the functionality of servers, routers, switches, and storage systems, addressing bandwidth bottlenecks and optimizing throughput while minimizing latency. Inphi collaborates with system vendors to create proprietary simulation models that predict performance prior to semiconductor fabrication. The company's extensive product line also supports applications in test and measurement equipment and military radar systems. Inphi sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers and indirectly through module manufacturers and original design manufacturers. 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 of software focused on analog and mixed-signal silicon design. The company specializes in creating mixed-signal chips that integrate both analog and digital circuitry, catering primarily to the consumer and communications markets. Neolinear's advanced analog design technology plays a vital role in enhancing the performance and differentiation of semiconductors, which are increasingly reliant on sophisticated analog components.

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.

CoWare, Inc. specializes in providing platform-driven electronic system-level design software and consulting services tailored for IP, semiconductor, and electronics companies. Its comprehensive product suite includes Platform Architect, a SystemC-based graphical environment that facilitates platform analysis; Model Designer for the verification of IP blocks; and Virtual Platform, which offers simulation packages for software development teams. Additionally, CoWare provides a Model Library containing processor, bus, and peripheral models, as well as Processor Designer, which enables the creation of custom processors and programmable hardware accelerators. The company's Signal Processing Designer allows for the design and analysis of signal processing algorithms, exporting implementations as functional blocks. Together, these tools and services support the development, distribution, and validation of virtual hardware platforms essential for device software development.

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

K2 Technologies specializes in the design, development, and marketing of software tailored for the semiconductor industry. The company focuses on creating software solutions that facilitate design, verification, process development, lithography, and pattern generation. By providing a highly automated approach to design finishing and mask data preparation, K2 Technologies helps its clients reduce costs, minimize cycle times, and eliminate errors in their processes. Through its innovative software products, the company aims to enhance efficiency and productivity within the semiconductor sector.

Get2Chip is a developer of Volare, an architectural platform designed for chip manufacturers and intellectual property (IP) providers. The company focuses on enabling rapid system-level synthesis, facilitating the design and development of complex systems-on-chip (SoC). Get2Chip offers an integrated front-end design environment that streamlines various stages of the design process, encompassing electronic system level (ESL), register transfer level (RTL), and gate-level design. By consolidating tasks that are typically handled by separate synthesis tools, floor planners, and static timing analyzers, Get2Chip enhances efficiency and reduces time-to-market for its clients in the semiconductor industry.

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 specializes in providing physical analysis solutions and design products for the semiconductor and electronics industries. The company offers a range of software and services tailored to assist electronic and semiconductor firms in the chip design process, ensuring efficient and effective design practices. By focusing on physical design, Celestry aims to enhance the capabilities of its clients in developing advanced electronic components.

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).

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 is a company that specializes in developing electronic design automation (EDA) tools and products aimed at enhancing the design process for integrated circuits. The company focuses on creating characterization and modeling solutions for standard cells, memories, and complex input/output interfaces. Its flagship product, SiliconSmart, provides comprehensive timing, power, and signal integrity models in various industry-standard formats. By offering these advanced tools, Silicon Metrics helps design teams reduce the risk of silicon re-spins caused by hidden timing flaws, thereby improving the efficiency and reliability of integrated circuit designs.

Quickturn Design Systems designs, manufactures, sells, and supports emulation and cycle-based simulation system-level verification solutions for computer chip and electronic system design. It also produces 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.