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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.

Artisan Components, Inc. develops and manufactures high density embedded memories. The firm's products include standard cell libraries, embedded memories, input/output cells, analog functions, and high-speed interface IP. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Preview Systems, Inc. designs, developes and markets technology that enables distribution and licensing of digital goods over the Internet and via other digital media. Digital goods includes software, music, video and documents that can be produced, delivered and licensed electronically. The products of the Company helps publishers, distributors and resellers to implement networks for the electronic data distribution. The firm is located in Sunnyvale, CA.

Clear Shape Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures semiconductor. Its products transform ideal-GDSII design to true silicon-accurate design by quickly and accurately accounting for systematic manufacturing variations due to lithography, RET, OPC and Copper on both device and interconnect. The company was founded by Thomas Kailath in 2003 and is located in Santa Clara, CA.

Ponte Solutions, Inc. develops and markets unique model-based software products, that are used to predict and enable optimization of semiconductor yields at the design stage. It has offices in Mountain View-California, Grenoble-France, Tokyo-Japan and Yerevan-Armenia. The company was founded in 2002 and is located in Mountain View, 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.

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.

Capella is the industry leader of wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology for use in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) and optical cross connect (OXC) applications. Capella's intelligent subsystems provide the best performing wavelength management products on the market offering dynamic, remote reconfigurability with fully integrated optical channel monitoring (OCM), essential technology for next-generation ROADMs. Capella was founded in 2000. Privately held and located in San Jose, California, Capella has a seasoned management team with experience from leading telecom and technology companies. Additionally Capella has an extensive intellectual property portfolio with 27 patents issued and over 30 pending. The company has been funded by leading ventures funds including Formative Ventures, Levensohn Venture Partners, Lucas Venture Partners, Rustic Canyon Partners and Silicon Valley Bank.

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.

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.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Silicon Valley Plc provides electronic related services.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, 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.

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and operates technical professional association. It provides membership and services, societies and communities support, publication services, and conferences and events. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Kadent Corp. provides accounts receivable management solutions. It offers solutions to the community hospitals and hospital systems, physician practices, municipal courts systems and utilities. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Reading, PA.

XJet Ltd. engages in the development, production, and marketing of 3D printing manufacturing solutions for metal and ceramic. It offers additive manufacturing systems, propriety consumable liquid inks, and after-sale services. The company was founded by Hanan Gothait and Ofir Baharav in February 2005 and is headquartered in Rehovot, Israel.

Black Diamond Ventures LLC (Black Diamond Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Christopher B. Lucas. The firm is headquartered in Glendale, California.

Peripheral Systems, Inc. is a private company that specializes in the wholesale distribution of electrical power equipment. The company is based in Oklahoma City, OK and has subsidiaries in the United States.

Ichor Systems, Inc. engages in the production of gas and chemical delivery modules. Its products include turnkey process equipment, gas panels, chemical blend and dispense modules. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Overture, Inc. is a web marketing company which offers keyword advertisements placed on an Internet portal site. The company was founded on September 7, 2002 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

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.

N.E.I. Treatment Systems LLC designs and builds vessel ballast water treatment systems. The firm offers Venturi Oxygen Stripping system in crude oil tanker, product tanker, bulk carrier, tment and ballast tank protection. The company was founded by Peter Drummond McNulty in 1997 and is headquartered in Lake Oswego, OR.