Synopsys

Synopsys is a technology company that specializes in electronic design automation (EDA), semiconductor intellectual property (IP), and software quality and security solutions. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an office in Tokyo, Japan, Synopsys provides tools that automate the chip design process, enhancing design accuracy and productivity. Its offerings include software for designing application-specific integrated circuits and system-on-chip solutions, alongside consulting services. The company focuses on helping businesses manage and test their software for security and quality, addressing the growing needs of semiconductor and systems companies as they increasingly adopt in-house chip design and integrate more complex digital solutions.

Antun Domic

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Baya Systems

Series B in 2025
Baya Systems is a pioneer in chipset-based semiconductor technology, focusing on the development of modular systems that enhance intelligent computing across a range of applications. The company specializes in chiplet technology, which allows for the creation of efficient semiconductors by decomposing complex designs into smaller, modular components. This innovative approach enables the semiconductor industry to effectively manage increasing complexity and reduce design cycles, positioning Baya Systems at the forefront of advancements in semiconductor design and manufacturing.

Intrinsic ID

Acquisition in 2024
Intrinsic ID B.V. is a digital authentication company specializing in security solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and embedded applications. Founded in 2008 and based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with operations in Korea, the company has developed the SRAM Physical Unclonable Function (SRAM PUF) technology that utilizes manufacturing variations in semiconductors to generate unique IDs and cryptographic keys. Its product offerings include Broadkey, Citadel, Quiddicard, and Quiddikey, which facilitate secure key management, key provisioning, and anti-counterfeiting measures. Intrinsic ID's solutions are employed to enhance the security of payment systems, ensure secure connectivity, authenticate sensors, and protect sensitive military and government data.

Piketec

Acquisition in 2023
PikeTec GmbH, founded in 2007 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in the testing and verification of embedded software, particularly for control units and regulation systems in the automotive sector. The company develops the Time Partition Testing (TPT) tool, which enhances the efficiency of software development processes. PikeTec offers a range of services, including consulting on test processes and methods, engineering support for various testing phases, and tailored training programs for users of TPT. Their expertise helps clients ensure the safety and reliability of their embedded systems through comprehensive testing strategies and tool integration.

MorethanIP

Acquisition in 2021
MorethanIP, founded in 2000 in Munich, Germany, is a privately owned and profitable design and intellectual property (IP) house specializing in advanced ASIC solutions for Ethernet networking technologies. The company focuses on high-speed communications and embedded system devices tailored for both telecom and datacom sectors as well as industrial applications. MorethanIP develops IP for multi-gigabit high-speed applications based on specific customer requirements, facilitating their time-to-market and cost-effectiveness. With a strong foundation led by experienced telecommunications engineers, MorethanIP continues to deliver innovative solutions in the rapidly evolving landscape of networking technology.

Moortec Semiconductor

Acquisition in 2020
Moortec Semiconductor Ltd. is a company based in Plymouth, United Kingdom, specializing in analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) designs for the semiconductor industry. Founded in 2005, Moortec develops embedded process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) monitoring solutions tailored for advanced node system on chip (SoC) designs, ranging from 40nm to 7nm. Its product offerings include process detectors, voltage monitors, temperature sensors, and PVT controllers, which enable enhanced performance optimization and statistical analysis for integrated circuit development. Moortec's in-chip sensing technologies support critical applications such as dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS), adaptive voltage scaling (AVS), and power management control systems. The company serves a diverse range of sectors, including consumer electronics, automotive, medical, and telecommunications, providing essential support for IP application, integration, and device testing throughout the production process.

QTronic

Acquisition in 2019
QTronic GmbH is a Berlin-based company that specializes in developing tools and platforms for automotive software automation. Founded in 2006, QTronic focuses on enhancing software and systems development for the automotive industry. The company’s flagship products include Silver, a virtual ECU platform that enables the transfer of development tasks from physical environments to Microsoft Windows PCs, and TestWeaver, an intelligent test automation solution that features a powerful test case generator requiring minimal specification. With a strong emphasis on simulation and testing tools, QTronic provides innovative services that streamline the development process for automotive software, positioning itself as a key player in the sector.

Kilopass

Acquisition in 2018
Kilopass Technology Inc specializes in the development and marketing of advanced embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) technology. This technology is manufactured using standard logic CMOS processes and is designed for system-on-chip (SoC) applications. Kilopass' flagship product, XPM or Extra Permanent Memory, offers solutions for firmware storage, security IDs and keys, analog circuit calibration, yield enhancement, self-repair, and IC configuration information. The company's technology integrates seamlessly with advanced Customer Owned Tooling (COT) and Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) markets, providing reliable, secure, and cost-effective NVM solutions for various industries. Kilopass' innovations address long-standing challenges in NVM integration and are compatible with leading foundries and process geometries.

Sidense

Acquisition in 2017
Sidense is a leading developer of silicon-proven embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP). The company specializes in patented one-time programmable OTP memory and logic NVM solutions that are designed for code storage and processor configuration. Sidense's technology enables semiconductor and systems companies to integrate IP cores into their system-on-chip (SOC) designs, helping to differentiate products with a lower footprint.

WinterLogic

Acquisition in 2016
WinterLogic is a technology leader specializing in fault simulation software, primarily serving the automotive, safety-critical, and security sectors. Its solutions are instrumental in the design and verification of advanced System-on-Chips (SoCs) within these industries.

Elliptic Technologies

Acquisition in 2015
Elliptic Technologies, established in 2001, specializes in supplying security software and semiconductor IP offload engines. The company offers embedded security services for various applications such as wired/wireless networking, digital media, home entertainment systems, and IoT sensor networks to vendors, device manufacturers, service providers, and content creators. Its team brings extensive experience from developing System-on-Chip designs at Chrysalis-ITS.

SpringSoft

Acquisition in 2012
SpringSoft is a software company specializing in electronic design automation products. Founded in 2012 and based in California, it provides a range of services that include the design and development of silicon-to-software systems. SpringSoft focuses on verification of integrated circuits, embedded systems, and systems-on-chips, catering to the semiconductor and electronic systems industries. Additionally, the company offers expertise in automotive, IoT, FinFET technology, and power-saving solutions, along with services such as prototyping, software integrity, methodology consulting, design flow deployment, and SoC integration and verification.

Ciranova

Acquisition in 2012
Ciranova, Inc. is an electronic design automation company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, established in 2002. The company specializes in developing interoperable tools for custom chip designers, enabling the creation and migration of legacy analog intellectual property (IP). Ciranova offers products such as PyCell Studio, which streamlines the processes of PCell and layout generator creation for deep submicron technologies, and PCell Xtreme, which facilitates the transition of PCells written in proprietary languages to multi-vendor OpenAccess environments. In addition to its software solutions, Ciranova provides a range of consulting services, including custom layout generator development, Python code development, layout consulting, and analog and mixed-signal design services, helping engineers integrate complex RF and analog content into high-density, high-speed nanometer-scale silicon.

ExpertIO

Acquisition in 2012
ExpertIO is a company that specializes in internet protocol verification services, focusing on the development of system architectures that identify and verify internet protocol addresses for various computer hardware. With extensive industry experience and a proven track record, ExpertIO delivers high-quality results in Verification IP for industry-standard protocols. In addition to its core services, the company also offers consulting services aimed at verification test coding and design debugging, ensuring comprehensive support for clients in the technology sector.

Extreme DA

Acquisition in 2011
Extreme DA Corporation, established in 2003 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, specializes in electronic design automation (EDA). The company focuses on variation-aware parametric yield analysis, optimization, and sign-off of integrated circuit designs prior to manufacturing transfer. Its key products include GoldTime for variation-aware timing analysis, ROAD Suite for statistical analysis and optimization across various circuit types, Variability solutions for comprehensive variation data, and GoldX IC for extraction purposes.

nSys Design Systems

Acquisition in 2011
nSys Design Systems specializes in the development of verification intellectual property (VIP) for a wide range of standard interfaces and protocols, including PCIe, Ethernet, USB, SATA, and more. The company boasts the world's largest portfolio of verification IPs, each accompanied by a comprehensive set of components such as Bus Functional Models (BFM), monitors, assertion-based checkers, and test suites designed for compliance testing and functional coverage. nSys's VIPs are available in native SystemVerilog and Verilog, with source code options, and are compatible with various simulation languages like 'e', SystemC, OpenVera, and VHDL across all major simulators and platforms. In addition to its VIP offerings, nSys provides verification services, including independent verification, SystemVerilog migration, and verification consulting, catering to sectors such as storage, communications, consumer memory, and mobile applications.

Ciranova

Venture Round in 2010
Ciranova, Inc. is an electronic design automation company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, established in 2002. The company specializes in developing interoperable tools for custom chip designers, enabling the creation and migration of legacy analog intellectual property (IP). Ciranova offers products such as PyCell Studio, which streamlines the processes of PCell and layout generator creation for deep submicron technologies, and PCell Xtreme, which facilitates the transition of PCells written in proprietary languages to multi-vendor OpenAccess environments. In addition to its software solutions, Ciranova provides a range of consulting services, including custom layout generator development, Python code development, layout consulting, and analog and mixed-signal design services, helping engineers integrate complex RF and analog content into high-density, high-speed nanometer-scale silicon.

Synfora

Acquisition in 2010
Synfora, Inc. is a technology company specializing in program-in chip-out (PICO) technology, which enables the development of application engines from sequential untimed C algorithms. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Synfora has additional offices in Japan, South Korea, France, India, and Taiwan. The company provides software tools, services, and intellectual property focused on accelerating the design of systems-on-chips and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Its flagship products, PICO Express and PICO Express FPGA, optimize the design process by identifying levels of parallelism to meet throughput requirements and synthesizing algorithms into hardware application engines, making integration into larger systems seamless. Synfora's technology is applicable across various sectors, including audio, video, imaging, wireless, and security.

Virage Logic

Acquisition in 2010
Virage Logic is a prominent provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) that specializes in the design of complex integrated circuits. The company offers a diverse and differentiated product portfolio, including embedded memory solutions such as static random access memory (SRAM) and non-volatile memory (NVM), as well as logic libraries and development infrastructure for embedded testing and repair of on-chip memory. With a clientele exceeding 400 foundries, integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), and fabless companies, Virage Logic supports its customers in achieving enhanced performance, reduced power consumption, increased density, and optimal yield. The company's offerings are designed to accelerate time-to-market and time-to-volume, making it a trusted partner within the semiconductor industry.

CoWare

Acquisition in 2010
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.

VaST Systems Technology

Acquisition in 2010
VaST Systems Technology Corporation specializes in tools and models for embedded systems design automation. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company offers a range of engineering solutions including CoMET, a system engineering tool for creating software simulation-based virtual prototypes of system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs, and METeor, a software development environment tailored for embedded systems. Additionally, VaST provides Metrix, which analyzes the behavior and performance of hardware and software components within virtual prototypes, and a peripheral device builder for modeling peripheral devices. The company's services also encompass architecture and systems engineering, embedded software development, and applications in wireless, consumer, and automotive markets. VaST Systems Technology serves clients globally, with offices in key locations including Austin, Munich, Paris, NSW, and Tokyo. It operates as a subsidiary of Synopsys Inc.

ZEROSOFT

Acquisition in 2010
Zerosoft Inc. is a privately held company provides concurrent simulations of a hardware design.

PRO DESIGN Electronic

Acquisition in 2008
Pro Design Electronic GmbH is a company based in Bruckmühl, Germany, specializing in engineering, development, and manufacturing services for the electronics industry. Established in 1981, the company offers a range of products and services, including the CHIPit family of ASIC/SoC prototyping systems, which facilitate algorithm validation, design verification, and hardware/software co-development. Additionally, Pro Design provides tools for design partitioning, implementation, and debugging, along with hardware bring-up and software validation services.

Ciranova

Series D in 2008
Ciranova, Inc. is an electronic design automation company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, established in 2002. The company specializes in developing interoperable tools for custom chip designers, enabling the creation and migration of legacy analog intellectual property (IP). Ciranova offers products such as PyCell Studio, which streamlines the processes of PCell and layout generator creation for deep submicron technologies, and PCell Xtreme, which facilitates the transition of PCells written in proprietary languages to multi-vendor OpenAccess environments. In addition to its software solutions, Ciranova provides a range of consulting services, including custom layout generator development, Python code development, layout consulting, and analog and mixed-signal design services, helping engineers integrate complex RF and analog content into high-density, high-speed nanometer-scale silicon.

LEDA Systems

Acquisition in 2004
LEDA Systems Inc., founded in 1995, is a leader in the field of mixed-signal and analog silicon intellectual property (IP) design and development. LEDA is a single, comprehensive source for silicon-proven mixed-signal IP. It has licensed its technology to more than 50 customers for the development, manufacture and sales of high-performance integrated circuits (ICs).

Analog Design Automation

Acquisition in 2004
Analog Design Automation (ADA) is a company that specializes in the development of automated circuit optimization software specifically tailored for analog, mixed-signal, and custom integrated circuits. Founded in 1999 in Saskatoon, Canada, by a group of six engineers from the University of Saskatchewan, ADA focuses on optimizing device sizing and biasing to enhance circuit performance. The company gained initial funding through a combination of grants and investments, including significant contributions from various venture capital firms. In 2004, ADA was acquired by Synopsys Inc., a leading provider of electronic design automation solutions. Through its innovative tools, including the IP Explorer, ADA has made significant advancements in the large-scale optimization of analog integrated circuits, streamlining the design process for engineers in the semiconductor industry.

Tharas Systems

Series C in 2003
Tharas Systems is a technology company that specializes in accelerating Hardware Description Language (HDL) simulation for System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. Their primary product, the Hammer, offers hardware-accelerated emulation-like performance and capacity, along with software-like debugging capabilities. Tharas Systems markets its solutions based on ease of use, tool compatibility, and cost-effectiveness, aiming to address the performance bottleneck experienced by designers in this field.

InnoLogic Systems

Acquisition in 2003
InnoLogic Systems is a privately held company specializing in symbolic simulation services for equivalence checking in electronic design. The company has developed advanced equivalence checking technology that allows users to specify variables as inputs, enabling the simulator to propagate Boolean expressions instead of traditional binary values. This innovative approach provides greater coverage than conventional binary simulation, allowing electronic designers to enhance their confidence in the quality of their designs. By offering comprehensive functional verification solutions for full custom silicon implementation, InnoLogic Systems helps reduce overall verification costs and improve the efficiency of the design process.

Adaptive Silicon

Series A in 2000
Adaptive Silicon licenses Programmable Logic Cores for the purpose of adding programmability to system-on-chip devices. This programmability permits multiple designs to be built on a single silicon die and enables products to be re-programmed after they are built and in service.

Interactive Silicon

Series B in 1999
Interactive Silicon is a technology-based, intellectual property company that is turning LOTS of heads with its breakthrough memory technology.

Smartech Oy

Acquisition in 1999
Smartech Oy (Tampere), an independent provider of system-on-a-chip (SOC) designservices.

Everest Design Automation

Acquisition in 1998
Everest Design Automation is a privately held shape-based, top-level-routing technology targeted at handling the complexities of SOC.

Compiled Designs GmbH

Acquisition in 1993
Compiled Designs is a privately held company provides VHDL modeling and simulation services. Compiled Designs GmbH is based in Munich, Germany.
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