Cadence Design Systems

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.

Integrand Software, Inc. specializes in developing electronic design software solutions aimed at the global semiconductor and electronics industries. Founded in 2003 and based in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, the company provides tools for designing high-frequency, RF, and mixed signal complex integrated circuits. One of their key offerings is the EMX® simulation tool, which enables designers to efficiently simulate large RF circuit blocks, characterize passive components, and analyze interconnect parasitics. EMX enhances the design process by shortening cycles and facilitating the creation of superior products with reduced risk, emphasizing accuracy, speed, and user-friendliness. As of February 2020, Integrand Software operates as a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems.

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

Forte Design Systems, Inc. specializes in providing software products that enhance the design process for electronic systems. The company is known for its Cynthesizer technology, a silicon-proven behavioral synthesis tool that generates production-quality RTL, enabling design teams to efficiently develop complex products using ASICs, FPGAs, and SoCs. This technology is particularly beneficial for sectors such as consumer electronics, digital media, wireless communications, and security. By allowing engineers to work at higher levels of abstraction, Forte's solutions significantly reduce design and verification time. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Forte has a global presence with offices in Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington, as well as international locations in France and Japan, along with direct sales representation in North America, Europe, and Japan, and a value-added reseller in Korea.

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

Tela Innovations, Inc. specializes in lithography-optimized design solutions for integrated circuits, offering a range of products and services to enhance semiconductor design and manufacturing. Founded in 2005 and based in California, the company develops physical IP products for ASIC and SoC designs, as well as power optimization technologies, including its Gate Length Biasing solution. Tela Innovations provides pre-defined physical topologies suitable for various functions such as logic, embedded memory, analog, and I/O. Their offerings simplify the implementation of advanced lithography techniques like double exposure and double patterning, facilitating layout management for customers. Additionally, the company customizes IP blocks and provides engineering services to support the physical design implementation process, available through both design service engagements and licensing programs.

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 comprehensive chip planning capabilities. The company develops the InCyte chip estimation systems, which integrate intellectual property (IP) and manufacturing process models for precise chip estimation. The InCyte product line includes InCyte Lite, designed for early architectural feasibility analysis, and the InCyte Enterprise system, which facilitates the generation of detailed chip specifications and accurate quotations. Chip Estimate also offers enterprise-level IP reuse management solutions, enhancing efficiency in chip design. Established in 2003 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, 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. provides electronic system-level design software and consulting services primarily to IP, semiconductor, and electronics companies. The company specializes in platform-driven solutions that facilitate platform architecture design, verification, application sub-system design, processor design, DSP algorithm design, and software development. Key products include Platform Architect, a graphical environment for platform analysis; Model Designer for IP block verification; and Virtual Platform, which simulates platforms for software development teams. CoWare also offers a Model Library containing various processor, bus, and peripheral models, and Processor Designer for creating custom processors and programmable hardware accelerators. Additionally, the Signal Processing Designer enables the design and analysis of signal processing algorithms, exporting implementations as blocks. CoWare's suite of tools supports the creation and validation of virtual hardware platforms, streamlining development processes for device software.

D2S, Inc. is a company based in San Jose, California, that specializes in developing software and intellectual property for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. The firm focuses on enhancing direct write e-beam lithography to lower mask costs for both low and high-volume production of integrated circuits. D2S offers a range of solutions, including its TrueMask platform, which facilitates advanced photomask designs for 28-nm process nodes and below, enabling the use of complex shapes to improve wafer quality while maintaining practical write times. Additionally, the company provides GPU-accelerated products that optimize semiconductor design processes through innovative simulation and model-based processing. D2S serves a global clientele and aims to advance the capabilities of eBeam technology in the semiconductor sector.

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.

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

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 creates solutions that assist in design, verification, process development, lithography, and pattern generation. By focusing on highly automated software products, K2 Technologies aims to streamline design finishing and mask data preparation processes. This approach helps clients reduce costs, minimize cycle times, and eliminate errors, ultimately enhancing efficiency in semiconductor manufacturing.

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.

The company offers physical design products and software and services to electronic and semiconductor companies that design chips used.

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. By employing a top-down methodology, Antrim provides libraries, design tools, and services that enhance efficiency in the design process, enabling capabilities that were previously unattainable in the industry.

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

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

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

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.

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.