David C. Zaretsky

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.

AccelChip Inc. provides software solutions based on MATLAB for embedded signal processing, including intellectual property (IP), for embedded digital signal processing (DSP) design. It develops and markets design tools, integrated verification flows and parametric IP toolkits that automate the development & implementation of DSP algorithms in FPGAs and ASICs. AccelChip's proven solution integrates the domain-specific DSP design environment (MATLAB) with industry-standard hardware design flows from leading silicon & EDA vendors, such as Aldec, Altera, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Synplicity, Synopsys, The MathWorks and Xilinx. The company was founded by Dr. Prith Banerjee in 2000 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

BINACHIP develops and markets software products and services that enable embedded systems developers to design and implement high-performance applications within their price/performance and time-to-market constraints. It also enables seamless migration of software from older-generation, general-purpose, embedded processors into newer hardware, and mixed hardware/software platforms of the future. BINACHIP’s core technology is the result of work done at Northwestern University by co-founder Professor Prith Banerjee and his team. He is currently Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. BINACHIP is privately held with offices in San Jose, Calif., and Glenview, Ill.