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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, 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. 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.