James H. Hogan

Shocking Technologies, Inc. was engaged in producing voltage switchable dielectric materials. The company was founded by Robert Fleming and Lex A. Kosowsky in 2006 and was headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Tela Innovations, Inc. provides solutions addressing the challenge of scaling semiconductor design and manufacturing to advanced process nodes. The company was founded by Scott T. Becker, James H. Hogan, John Gerard Malecki and Dhrumil J. Gandhi in 2005 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA.

CLK Design Automation, Inc. provides software for semiconductor companies. It specializes in electronic design automation, static timing and variation. The company was founded by Joao Geada, Hal Conklin, Isadore T. Katz and Lee LaFrance in 2004 and is headquartered in Littleton, MA.

Smart Machines, Inc., based in San Jose, California, provides vacuum and atmospheric process tool automation through its direct drive robotics technologies. Smart Machines is dedicated to providing highly reliable and cost-effective process tool automation products for semiconductor, disk drive and flat-panel manufacturing industries

Nimbic, Inc. provides innovative 3D fullwave solutions. The company was founded by Vikram Jandhyala and Swagato Chakraborty in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Sonics, Inc. provides system Internet protocol services. It offers SonicsLX (SLX), a NoC that provides systems-on-chip designers with the connectivity needed for CPUs and other processing engines to memory. The firm provides system Internet protocol solutions, which include security, power, and memory subsystems; development tools; performance analysis solutions and topology structures for the network design. The company was founded by Drew E. Wingard, Grant A. Pierce, and Geert Rosseel in September 1996 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Solido Design Automation, Inc. provides variation analysis and design software solutions for custom ICs. The firm makes variation designer the world’s top CAD software for semiconductor variation analysis and debugging and is used to improve chip yield, improve performance, reduce die area, and reduce power consumption. The company was founded by Amit K. Gupta and Trent Lorne McConaghy in 2005 and is headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada.

Scoperta, Inc. integrates metal and amorphous alloys. It offers amorphous alloys, Vecalloy, conventional and nanostructure metals in terms of corrosion, wear resistance, hardness and scratch resistance. The firm products serve the industrial applications including offshore, marine, cutting tools, military, mining, power generation enhancing product life and performance. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Altos Design Automation, Inc. develops, manufactures and distributes software for IP development. The firm provides ultra fast characterization technology to enable IP reuse via accurate modeling of timing, noise, power and process variation. The company was founded by Jim McCanny, Ken Tseng, Kevin Chou and Wenkung Chu in January 2005 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Vayavya Labs Pvt Ltd engages in the provision of systems design and engineering tools and services. It offers product development, system modeling and virtual platforms, porting, and protocol stack development. The company was founded by Parag Naik, Venugopal Kolathur, Uma Bondada, and RK Patil in 2006 and is headquartered in Belagavi, India.

OneSpin Solutions GmbH develops and provides software solutions. The firm’s products include OneSpin technology platform, specialized apps, third party apps, and 360 DV-inspect. Its solutions include agile design evaluation, metric-driven verification, block integration validation, abstract C++ and SysC analysis, FPGA implementation QoR, and safety critical verification. The company was founded by Wolfram Büttner and Raik Brinkmann in 2005 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Perception Software, Inc. develops productivity applications for electronic systems and chip design companies. Its products include EDAConnect, AgileXPLORER, encompass product navigation, and encompass support navigation. The company was founded by Mark Hepburn, Reddy Tera, and Joe Dalton on December 01, 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Methodics, Inc. is engaged in providing intellectual property lifecycle management and traceability solutions. Its products include percipient, versic and warpstar. The firm offers functional safety, verification traceability, IP security assurance, and software design solutions. The co9mpany was founded by Simon Butler and Fergus Slorach in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.