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Intrinsix Corp. is a privately held company provides an electronics and custom integrated circuit (IC) design engineering solutions and services.

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.

InspectAR is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence and augmented reality. The company focuses on cross-referencing datasheets and design files are an unnecessary fumble while working on electronics. The path forward is our new wave tool that leverages AR technologies to translate your board's information into the physical domain.

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.

AWR®, the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA, is a provider of software solutions that quicken the pace at which high-tech products like cell phones and satellite systems are developed. When AWR software is part of the design process, engineers can deliver cutting edge, affordable products faster, more reliably, and at a lower cost. The company's key differentiator is its core technology, which embodies years of knowledge and expertise in RF, microwave, and millimeter wave design. Its open and flexible software architecture provides design automation across vendor tools, helping users to maximize productivity through the ability to choose the best tool for each part of the design process. AWR continually strengthens its product portfolio with innovative new technologies, the most recent of which are the ACE™, RFA™, and AXIEM™ tools. Headquartered in El Segundo, CA, AWR is a privately-held, growing company with thousands of users world-wide.

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.

Sigrity specializes in signal and power integrity technology, offering advanced analysis solutions for ensuring the reliability of electronic designs. The company develops software tools that focus on power integrity and signal integrity, catering to various aspects of electronic systems, including integrated circuits (ICs), printed circuit boards (PCBs), and system-in-package (SiP) designs. Sigrity's unique capabilities include power-aware signal integrity analysis, which enhances the performance and stability of electronic components. By providing these technologies, Sigrity supports engineers and designers in optimizing their products for high-performance applications.

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.

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, 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.

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 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.

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.

Verisity, Ltd. provides technologies and software products used to verify designs of electronic systems and complex integrated circuits for the communications, computing, and consumer electronics markets worldwide.

Neolinear is a software developer specializing in analog and mixed-signal silicon design. The company's technology plays a crucial role in the development of mixed-signal chips that integrate both analog and digital circuitry, primarily targeting the consumer and communications markets. As semiconductors become more differentiated by their analog components, Neolinear's rapid analog design solutions are essential for enhancing the performance and functionality of these chips.

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.

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.

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).

OrCAD is a proprietary software tool suite used primarily for electronic design automation (EDA). The software is used mainly by electronic design engineers and electronic technicians to create electronic schematics and electronic prints for manufacturing printed circuit boards.

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.

Cooper & Chyan Technology is a privately held company provides PCB and IC automatic place and router software solutions.

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

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.