Robert O. Conn

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.

Xilinx, Inc. engages in the design and development of programmable logic semiconductor devices and the related software design tools. It also provides design services, customer training, field engineering, and technical support. The company was founded by Ross Freeman, Bernard Vonderschmitt, and James V. Barnett in February 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Research Triangle Institute is a non-profit organization which provides research and development services. It offers surveys and data collection, statistics and data science, assessment and analysis, program design and implementation, and research technologies and analytical laboratory. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

siXis has created the next generation of embedded computing modules that pave the way for smaller, higher performing, scalable and lighter electronics that use less power. siXis' patent-pending approach uses Silicon Circuit Board (SiCB) technology, which combines bare-die and packaged components on large-area silicon substrate, providing superior size, weight and power characteristics in an industry-standard BGA package. Using a number of variations, including different CPUs, FPGAs, memory and oscillators, siXis custom embedded computing modules deliver higher performance in a smaller, energy efficient package for a diverse group of markets including communications, high-performance computing, networking, medical imaging, test and measurement, aerospace and defense.