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, founded in January 2010 by researchers from Télécom ParisTech University, specializes in embedded cybersecurity solutions for connected objects and embedded systems. The company, established by Sylvain Guilley, Jean-Luc Danger, Laurent Sauvage, Hassan Triqui, and Philippe Nguyen, focuses on protecting clients from cyber-physical attacks. Secure-IC ensures that optimal security levels are achieved throughout the design process, tailored to specific vertical market applications. Its offerings are designed to safeguard sensitive datasets, providing comprehensive protection against evolving cybersecurity threats.

INVECAS aggregates IP, design, and realization solutions to provide complete ASIC solutions for a diverse range of industries and markets.

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

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.

Ineda Systems Inc. specializes in the design and distribution of low-power system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, focusing on improving power consumption for a range of applications, particularly in automotive and Internet-of-Things (IoT) sectors. The company's SoCs utilize a hierarchical computing architecture that allows multiple CPUs to operate independently while sharing resources, thus optimizing performance for various use cases. Ineda's products are essential for applications such as traffic sign recognition, adaptive cruise control, and wearable technology. The company serves diverse industries, including power management, public transportation, healthcare, and smart home systems. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an office in Hyderabad, India, Ineda Systems aims to lead the market in low-power SoC development by leveraging its experienced team and innovative technology to create a comprehensive ecosystem for wearable devices and other platforms. Its products are distributed through various partners across the United States and Asia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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. 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.

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.