Arm - Artisan Foundation IP Business
Acquisition in 2025
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
Acquisition in 2025
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.
Dimension Renewable Energy
Debt Financing in 2024
Dimension Renewable Energy is a company specializing in the development of renewable energy projects, leveraging over a decade of experience in the industry. The firm focuses on facilitating the transition to a clean energy economy by offering a range of services, including site acquisitions, solar energy installations, and energy storage solutions. By catering to residential, commercial, and industrial clients, Dimension Renewable Energy enables customers to not only utilize clean energy but also achieve financial savings and potential earnings through their sustainable energy initiatives.
BETA CAE Systems
Acquisition in 2024
BETA CAE Systems develops CAE software systems that meet the requirements of all simulation disciplines.
INVECAS Technologies
Acquisition in 2024
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
Acquisition in 2023
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.
Rambus
Acquisition in 2023
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.
OpenEye Scientific Software
Acquisition in 2022
OpenEye Scientific Software is a prominent company specializing in computational molecular design, with a focus on enhancing drug discovery through advanced software and toolkits. Founded in 1997 and based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, OpenEye has developed a reputation for delivering robust and scalable solutions that enable the visualization and analysis of molecular 3D structures. Their innovative approach aids in understanding the shape and electrostatics of molecules, which is crucial for pharmaceutical and biotechnology advancements. The company has recently launched Orion, a cloud-native platform that integrates its applications and toolkits, providing unlimited computational power, storage, and tools for data sharing and analysis. OpenEye’s software supports various applications, including cheminformatics, shape comparison, and crystallography, empowering smaller biotech firms to create customized solutions with ease. With additional offices in Boston, Cologne, and Tokyo, OpenEye continues to lead in the field of molecular modeling and design.
Future Facilities
Acquisition in 2022
Future Facilities is a privately-owned company established in 2004, dedicated to transforming data centers into optimal environments that minimize risk, enhance energy efficiency, and reduce both capital and operational costs. The company specializes in the development of simulation software and solutions tailored for data center design and operations, utilizing physics-based 3D digital twins. Its offerings include computational fluid dynamics software that focuses on electronics cooling analysis and energy performance optimization. In addition to software, Future Facilities provides data center management, design consultancy, and infrastructure services, enabling clients to streamline their modeling processes and improve project delivery efficiency.
Pointwise
Acquisition in 2021
Pointwise is recognized as a worldwide provider of mesh generation software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications. Pointwise software is used by expert analysts, primarily in aerospace, to achieve accurate representations of designs for analysis, leading to superior product quality and performance at a reduced engineering cost.
Numeca International
Acquisition in 2021
Numeca International is a global supplier of advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, specializing in applications for turbomachinery, marine, aeronautics, aerospace, and multi-physics. The company develops innovative technologies that enable the simulation, design, and optimization of fluid flow and heat transfer. Its software solutions provide automated, flow-integrated environments, such as Turbo, which is specifically designed for simulating rotating and turbomachinery flows. Through its cutting-edge tools, Numeca International supports engineers and researchers in enhancing their design processes and improving performance across various industries.
InspectAR
Acquisition in 2020
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
Acquisition in 2020
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.
AWR Corporation
Acquisition in 2019
AWR Corporation specializes in developing high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) software aimed at facilitating the design of advanced products such as cell phones and satellite systems. The company offers a range of software solutions, including Microwave Office for designing radio frequency and microwave circuits, Visual System Simulator for architecting communication systems, and Analog Office for managing RFIC and analog designs through various stages of development. AWR's products support the design of a wide array of wireless technologies, including amplifiers, antennas, and filters. The company's innovative technology and flexible software architecture enhance design automation across different vendor tools, thereby improving productivity and efficiency for engineers. Headquartered in El Segundo, California, AWR Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems and serves a global customer base with thousands of users.
Rocketick
Acquisition in 2016
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.
Solomon Design Automation (SDA)
Acquisition in 2014
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
Acquisition in 2014
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
Acquisition in 2014
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
Acquisition in 2014
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.
Ineda Systems
Series A in 2013
Ineda Systems Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of low-power system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, focusing on improving power consumption for wearable and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Established in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an additional office in Hyderabad, India, the company employs a hierarchical computing architecture that allows multiple CPUs to operate independently while sharing resources. This architecture enhances contextual computing, enabling devices to remain in an always-on state and optimally utilize CPUs, peripherals, accelerators, and memory based on specific applications. Ineda's products are designed for various sectors, including automotive, healthcare, fitness, and smart infrastructure, supporting applications such as traffic sign recognition, adaptive cruise control, and telehealth solutions. The company distributes its offerings through a network of partners across the United States, India, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Japan, positioning itself as a leader in low-power SoC development for both consumer and enterprise markets.
Tensilica
Acquisition in 2013
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
Acquisition in 2013
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.
Sigrity
Acquisition in 2012
Sigrity is a technology company specializing in signal and power integrity solutions. It offers a comprehensive suite of analysis tools designed to address the challenges of power and signal integrity in various electronic designs, including integrated circuits, printed circuit boards, and system packages. Sigrity's innovative software capabilities include power-aware signal integrity analysis, which helps engineers optimize their designs for high performance and reliability. The company focuses on providing robust solutions for both single die and system-in-package implementations, ensuring that clients can effectively manage power and signal integrity throughout the design process.
Nvelo, Inc. is a storage software company established in June 2010 to tackle the input/output bottleneck in computing systems. The company offers Dataplex, a cache software solution that enables devices to achieve solid-state drive performance while utilizing the cost-effective capacity of hard disk drives. This innovative technology is particularly beneficial for notebook, desktop, and server applications, allowing original equipment manufacturers and SSD vendors to enhance system performance without the expense of an all-SSD setup. Nvelo emerged as a spin-off from Denali Software, benefiting from over three years of research and development as well as business incubation. The company successfully transitioned its engineering, marketing, and business development teams from Denali, allowing for a swift market introduction of its product.
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
Acquisition in 2011
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
Acquisition in 2010
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
Acquisition in 2009
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
Series B in 2008
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.
Knowlent
Acquisition in 2008
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
Acquisition in 2008
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
Acquisition 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. 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
Acquisition in 2007
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, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing software solutions and intellectual property for semiconductor manufacturing, particularly focusing on direct write e-beam lithography. Established in 2007 and headquartered in San Jose, California, D2S utilizes its advanced computational design platform to enhance existing eBeam technology, aiming to reduce mask costs for both low- and high-volume applications. The company's TrueMask solutions support complex photomask designs at 28-nm process nodes and below, ensuring high-quality wafer production while maintaining practical write times. D2S also offers tools such as TrueMask MDP for efficient mask data preparation and TrueMask DS for comprehensive simulations to aid research and development. Their innovative applications leverage GPU acceleration to optimize the semiconductor design and manufacturing processes, catering to a global customer base.
CommandCAD
Acquisition in 2006
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.
Praesagus (Cadence)
Acquisition in 2006
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.
Verisity
Acquisition in 2005
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.
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
Series D in 2004
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
Acquisition in 2004
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
Series D in 2004
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
Acquisition in 2004
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
Acquisition in 2004
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. 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
Acquisition in 2003
Verplex Systems, Inc. is an electronic design automation (EDA) company.
K2 Technologies
Acquisition in 2003
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.
SpinCircuit
Acquisition in 2003
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.
Get2Chip
Acquisition in 2003
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
Series B in 2003
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
Acquisition in 2003
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.
Antrim Design Systems
Acquisition in 2002
Antrim Design Systems specializes in the development and marketing of portable mixed-signal intellectual property, design software, and expert design services tailored for telecom, multimedia, and consumer products. The company focuses on automating the design of high-performance analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits through innovative methodologies. By providing a suite of libraries, design tools, and services, Antrim enhances the efficiency of integrated circuit design, enabling clients to achieve levels of productivity that were previously unattainable.
Zagros Networks
Series B in 2002
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
Acquisition in 2002
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
Acquisition in 2002
DSM Technologies is a graphical tool for creation of design rules that generates DRC/LVS decks for dracula, Hercules and others.
AmmoCore Technology
Venture Round in 2001
AmmoCore Technology, Inc. was founded to develop design solutions for the rapid delivery of large-scale System ICs.
CadMos Design Technology
Acquisition in 2001
The CadMOS noise-analysis solutions were targeted at both digital and mixed signal designers working in microprocessors, DRAMs, mixed-signal SOC, and ASICs.
Silicon Perspective Corp.
Acquisition in 2001
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
Venture Round in 2000
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.
OrCAD is a software tool suite designed for electronic design automation (EDA), primarily utilized by electronic design engineers and technicians. It facilitates the creation of electronic schematics and prints essential for manufacturing printed circuit boards. The suite includes products that help manage component data and support the design of field-programmable gate arrays, complex programmable logic devices, and both analog and mixed-signal circuits. OrCAD's offerings streamline the electronic design process, making it an essential resource for professionals in the electronics industry.
Quickturn Design Systems
Acquisition in 1999
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.
Diablo Research
Acquisition in 1999
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.
Design Acceleration
Acquisition in 1999
Design Acceleration is a maker of design analysis and verification tools.
Ambit Design Systems
Acquisition in 1998
Ambit produced tools for system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology, designed to put the functions of different computer chips on one microprocessor.
Esperan
Acquisition in 1998
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
Acquisition in 1998
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.
Détente Technology
Acquisition in 1998
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.
Cooper & Chyan Technology
Acquisition in 1997
Cooper & Chyan Technology is a privately held company provides PCB and IC automatic place and router software solutions.
High Level Design Systems
Acquisition in 1996
HLDS developed, marketed, and supported electronic design automation software for the design of high-density, high-performance integrated circuits.
Redwood Design
Acquisition in 1994
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.
Parsec Software
Acquisition in 1994
IC timing analysis package (Pearl) is a privately held company operates an IC timing analysis package (Pearl).
Seed Solutions
Acquisition in 1992
Seed Solutions is a privately held VHDL simulation software company.
Pinebush Technologies
Acquisition in 1991
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.
Integrated Measurement Systems
Acquisition in 1989
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.
Valid Logic Systems
Acquisition in 1989
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.
Tangent Systems Corporation
Acquisition in 1989
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.