Dirk Seynhaeve

Mentor Graphics Corp. provides electronic design automation systems-advanced computer software and emulation hardware systems, which are used to automate the design, analysis, and testing of electronic hardware and embedded systems software in electronic systems and components. It markets products and services primarily to large companies in the military/aerospace, communications, computer, consumer electronics, semiconductor, networking, multimedia, and transportation industries. The firm operates through the following geographical segments: United States, Europe, Japan, Pacific Rim, and Others. The company was founded on February 4, 1981 and is headquartered in Wilsonville, OR.

Blaze DFM, Inc. provides software solutions and services. It provides services to the integrated device manufacturers, fabless semiconductor companies, and silicon foundries. The company was founded by Dr. Puneet Gupta, Dr. Dave Reed, and Dr. Andrew B. Kahng in 2004 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Synplicity LLC develops software solutions for the design and verification of semiconductors. The company was founded by Alisa Yaffa and Ken McElvain in February 1994 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.

Tharas Systems, Inc. designs and develops hardware-assisted verification components. The company offers its solutions to designers of complex integrated circuits and electronic as well as embedded systems. It also offers services such as custom-processor hardware assisted engine for verilog, mixed language verification, delivering fastest compile, run time speed-up, combined with ease-of-use and extensive debugging capabilities. The company was founded in 1998 by Subbu Ganesan and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Part of Siemens AG, Escalade Corp is a company that develops graphical design software application tools. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. Escalade was acquired by Mentor Graphics Corp. on May 09, 2000 for $3.50 million.

AutoESL is the leading provider of high level synthesis for FPGAs and ASICs. AutoESL was founded in 2006 based on advanced proprietary technology that was nurtured, developed, and exclusively licensed from UCLA. AutoESL has now deployed this solution at many leading edge system and semiconductor companies. AutoESL provides the fastest path from algorithms to silicon. AutoESL provides a powerful high level synthesis solution that enables: Synthesis of complex algorithms in C, C++ or SystemC into ASICs or FPGAs. Software architects to accelerate software algorithms by implementing them in silicon. System architects to take software models into silicon without manually writing RTL. Hardware architects to explore and implement the right architecture in silicon.