Jerry Phillippe

Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. used to make software for the design of electronic products. It used to provide verification hardware and time-to-market engineering (TtMETM) services for the design of complex ICs and electronic systems. The company's products were used by developers of high-performance computing, multimedia, graphics and communications systems. It was located in San Jose, 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.

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.

AutoESL is the leading provider of high level synthesis for FPGAs and ASICs. AutoESL was founded in 2006 based on advanced proprietary technology that was nurtured, developed, and exclusively licensed from UCLA. AutoESL has now deployed this solution at many leading edge system and semiconductor companies. AutoESL provides the fastest path from algorithms to silicon. AutoESL provides a powerful high level synthesis solution that enables: Synthesis of complex algorithms in C, C++ or SystemC into ASICs or FPGAs. Software architects to accelerate software algorithms by implementing them in silicon. System architects to take software models into silicon without manually writing RTL. Hardware architects to explore and implement the right architecture in silicon.

Aptix Corp. develops, manufactures and markets software & hardware solutions for designing and verifying complex electronic systems and SoC designs. Its software products include programs for mapping SoC designs onto multi-FPGA PSP's. The company was founded by Amr Mohsen in 1989 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Part of Daisy Holdings Ltd., Daisy Plc is a British company that wholesales telecommunications products. The company is based in Nelson, UK.