Gary Meyers

Exar Corp. engages in the design, development, and sale of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits; as well as advanced sub-system solutions for the industrial and embedded systems, high-end consumer, and infrastructure markets. Its product portfolio includes power management, connectivity, and communications products; as well as data and storage products for network security and storage optimization solutions. The company was founded in April 1971 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

LSI Corp. designs, develops, and markets high-performance storage and networking semiconductors. Its products include custom and standard product integrated circuits that are used in disk drives, solid state drives, high-speed communications systems, computer servers, storage systems, and personal computers. The company was founded on November 6, 1980 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

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.

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.

Oasys Design Systems, Inc. develops electronic design automation software. It provides RealTime, a fundamental shift in how register transfer level (RTL) synthesis is used to design and implement SoCs and ASICs. The firm also offers RealTime designer, RealTime explorer, and request evaluation services. The company was founded by Paul van Besouw, Johnson Limqueco and Harm Arts in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Aera Technology, Inc. develops configurable on-demand software solutions. It is a ?domain-based? Business Intelligence (BI) company that brings together cloud, Big Data, and BI stack to deliver insights into supply chain. The firm's application provides thousands of metrics, tickers, and configurable analytics. It serves a diverse set of industries including: apparel and sportswear, mining, medical equipment, electronics, and energy companies. The company was founded by Shariq Mansoor in 2005 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

SpiraTech Ltd. designed and develops electronic system-level design tools. The company provides abstraction conversion tools with its CohesiveTM family of multi-level Bus Functional Model solutions include test benches, transaction level models, RTL Models, emulators, FPGA prototypes, hardware, and software debuggers. The company was founded in March, 2000 by Chris Jones, Kamal Hashmi, Steve Hodgson, and Zak Shaar and was headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom.