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)

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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