Alain Labat

VaST Systems Technology Corp. provides tools and models for embedded system design automation. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Tera Systems, Inc. designs complex system-on-chip semiconductors. The firm's products provide early visibility into design quality, performance, and manufacturability issues to help shorten the design cycle, reduce project cost, and prevent downstream problems in implementing the physical design. The company was founded by Tommy Eng and Richard Gordon in 1995 and it is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Sequence Design, Inc. manufactured electronic design automation equipment. The company offered Power-Aware SoC Design Flow, which enables power-aware SoC design from system level to signoff; Power Theater, a set of power tools that creates power efficiency for SoC designs; Columbus-RLC Extraction for nanometer SoC designs; Columbus-Turbo, an extraction for nanometer standard-cell designs; Columbus-AMS, a RLC extraction for analogs; and CoolTime, a cell-based electrical integrity solution for concurrent analysis of voltage drop, power, electromigration, timing, and signal integrity for nanometer SoC designs. The company was founded in 1995 and was headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Jasper Design Automation, Inc. provides software solutions for semiconductor design, verification, and reuse, based on state-of-the-art formal technology. The company was founded by Joe Higgins and Vigyan Singhal in 1999 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.