Membership List

Accent Srl

Italian engineering and world level state-of-the-art knowledge in microelectronic design. Founded in 1993, Accent Corporation offers the services of an organization at the forefront for its quality, breadth of knowledge and operative flexibility not only in Europe but worldwide. With application expertise in telecommunication, networking, consumer and automotive electronics, Accent has successfully completed the development of hundreds of complex SOCs and ASICs, integrating the most popular microcontrollers (ARM, MIPS, ARC) and DSPs with a variety of established architectures I/O peripherals and on-chip busses (OCP, Sonics MicroNetwork, ARM Amba), from product specifications to ASIC tape-out and FPGA mapping, to factory hand-off.

Advanced Architectures

Advanced Architectures (A2) designs high-performance computer systems, subsystems and components. A2's strengths include the conceptual design and architecture of complete systems including custom DSPs and CPUs. Advanced Architectures is unique as a design house by being able to provide a leadership role in the development of complete systems from concept through manufacturing. A2's proficient interfacing with sales, marketing, manufacturing, and finance ensures corporate success. A2's design experience includes implementing structured design methodologies, performing HDL modeling simulation, performance analysis, logical design, packaging and detailed implementation.

AerieLogic

AerieLogic is a french-based Formal Verification company that was created in August 2005 by a team of experienced engineers and PhDs in Formal Verification and Assertion-based Verification. The company proposes robust state-of-the-art OEM products for integration by third-party EDA or CAD companies. Aerielogic's formal verification products include imPROVE-HPK/HDL and the (OCP) Hardware Protocol Kit. AerieLogic also proposes services in the domain of Assertion-based Verification. AerieLogic's ABV tools help design teams verify their designs and enable them to enhance their design verification flows with an advanced assertion-based methodology.

Agnisys

Agnisys offers hardware design verification as a service. We have carried out several verification projects successfully. Our staff has worked and led verification teams at world class companies. We are familiar with the latest in Verification Technology from industry leading EDA companies. We use all that skill set to give you solutions that you can use quickly and effectively.

Alcatel

Alcatel designs, develops and builds innovative and competitive communications networks, enabling carriers, service providers and enterprises to deliver any type of content, such as voice, data and multimedia, to any type of consumer, anywhere in the world. Relying on its leading and comprehensive products and solutions portfolio, stretching from end-to-end optical infrastructures, fixed and mobile networks to broadband access, Alcatel's customers can focus on optimizing their service offerings and revenue streams. With sales of EURO 25 billion in 2001, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries.

Alpha Data

Alpha Data, founded in 1993, provides a comprehensive range of FPGA based computing products backed with flexible I/O and software that are suitable for IP development, prototyping and embedded processing. OCP-based design will be supported on our platforms making them ideal tools to enable standards based IP development with FPGA technology. From PCI desktop to embedded computing, Alpha Data products are capable of providing high performance interaction with FPGA applications using PCI, PCI-X and PCI Express.

Arasan

Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. is a leading supplier of Reusable Intellectual Property (IP's) cores, semiconductors and electronic design services. Arasan's Total Technology Solution provides customers with not just source IP, but Firmware, Software Drivers, Interface Customization, Hardware Design Kits, and Verification Tests. Our product portfolio is focused on Bus Interfaces and includes IP's for USB 1.1 & 2.0, PCI, SDIO and CE-ATA technologies. Arasan's products and services enable businesses to develop products faster that are directly targeted to market requirements.

ARC International

ARC International is a world leader in embedded silicon and software SoC IP. ARC's solutions minimize risk for customers developing a wide range of next-generation wireless, networking, industrial control, storage and consumer electronics products. ARC introduced the industry's first user-customizable 32-bit RISC/DSP processor core and the industry's first USB Hi-Speed On-The-Go IP. ARC's turnkey embedded solutions, combining the processor core with a real-time operating system, development tools and peripheral hardware and software IP, enable developers to optimize the design and performance of their applications. By providing designers with a single source for all major embedded silicon and software IP building blocks, ARC dramatically reduces their number of suppliers, thereby reducing cost, reducing risk and reducing time to market.

Artec Design

Artec Group is an electronic design service company ranging form ASIC/FPGA to schematic/layout and system software design. Over 30 customer projects are finished per year consisting mainly of embedded CPUs, wireless communications devices ( RFID, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPRS), and network encryption devices ( SSL and IPsec accelerators). The design ends usually with small-volume production (up to 3000/year) in our daughter company. ASIC division specializes in network encryption accelerators. The VPNow product line multi-threaded encryption engine is verified in silicon. The next level products will contain protocol analysis and task offloading engines built around the existing VPNow core.

Arteris

Arteris is the leading developer and solution provider of Network-on-Chip (NoC) IP, tools, and services. The Arteris solution is used by fabless semiconductor providers and integrated device manufacturers in applications where multiple SoCs are being integrated into a single design, process geometries are 90nm and smaller, and multiple processors and IP blocks are integrated into a single solution.

The Arteris NoC IP and tools enable performance levels three times higher than bus-based alternatives at lower power, smaller die area and with much simpler development processes, enabling IP re-use and development cost savings.

Asic's World Services LTD

ASICs World Services, LTD. specializes in providing top-notch IP Cores and design services. We will assist you in any phase of the design cycle, or take your idea from the conceptual stage to final product. With over 60 years of experience in the field, we have a long list of successfully completed projects.

Axell

Beach Solutions

Beach Solutions is a venture funded, privately owned company pioneering the development of innovative EDA solutions and design tools for IP packaging, integration and re-use. Beach Solutions received a first round of venture funding in 2000. Further funding was received from MTI Partner in the UK in a second funding round in 2002.

Boston Circuits

Boston Circuits, Inc. ("BCI") is a fabless microprocessor company focused on providing complete multi-core processor solutions for the embedded multimedia market. BCI was established in 2005 by a team of industry professionals who recognized the need for a new direction in embedded processors. Our mission is to liberate embedded processing from the confines of custom hardware, proprietary platforms, and desktop hand me downs. By delivering a truly scalable, standards based platform, BCI will drive the evolution of embedded processing for the coming decade and beyond. Boston Circuits is developing the next generation embedded multicore processor to address these markets. Using a new architecture called Grid On Chip, multiple processor cores are placed directly on an on-chip network to enhance performance, reduce power consumption and increase flexibility. The gCORE family of multicore processors house 8 to 16 processors integrated with system resources such as PCI Express and USB providing developers with a scalable solution across a broad price performance spectrum.

Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is the leading provider of highly integrated silicon solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of voice, video and data services. Using proprietary technologies and advanced design methodologies, Broadcom designs, develops and supplies complete system-on-a-chip solutions and related hardware and software applications for every major broadband communications market.

Cadence Design Systems

Cadence is the largest supplier of electronic design technologies, methodology services and design services. Cadence solutions are used to accelerate and manage the design of semiconductors, computer systems, networking and telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics and a variety of other electronics-based products. With approximately 5,300 employees and 2002 revenues of approximately $1.3 billion, Cadence has sales offices, design centers and research facilities around the world. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California and traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CDN.

Carbon Design Systems

Carbon is delivering a high-performance virtual system prototyping solution--SOC-VSP(tm)--that enables a system prototype to be rapidly assembled and functionally validated on the desktop months before silicon. Carbon's new software approach allows multiple levels of abstraction to be validated together including C, SystemC, RTL, IP cores, transaction-level, and instruction-level models. The key to SOC-VSP is silicon accuracy and performance; the ability to execute billions of cycles and boot embedded operating systems, all with desktop software.

CAST, Inc.

CAST provides general purpose IP (gpIP), a broad range of popular and standards-based cores that includes processors, interfaces and application-specific functions for multimedia and encryption. Operating since 1993 with a focus on making IP practical and affordable, the company is an advocate of industry standards such as OCP and has established a reputation for high-quality products, simple licensing and responsive technical support.

Celoxica

An innovator in Electronic System Level (ESL) design, Celoxica is turning software into silicon by supplying the design tools, boards, IP and services that enable the next generation of advanced electronic product design. Celoxica technology raises design abstraction to the algorithm level, accelerating productivity and lowering risk and costs by generating semiconductor hardware directly from C-based software descriptions. Adding to a growing installed base, Celoxica provides the world's most widely used C-based behavioral design and synthesis solutions to companies developing semiconductor products in markets such as consumer electronics, defense and aerospace, automotive, industrial and security.

Chips & Media

Chips&Media, Inc. is a leading multi-standard video codec solution provider, based in Seoul, Korea (Republic of). Chips&Media's video codec technologies cover the full line-up of video standards such as MPEG-2, MPEG- 4, DivX, Xvid, H.264, VC-1 from CIF to HD resolution. The company has been providing its advanced ultra low power multi-codec video IP's to top-tier semiconductor companies based in U.S., Korea, Taiwan, China and Japan.

CircuitSutra

CircuitSutra Technologies Pvt Ltd. is an emerging company started in 2005, with a clear goal to become Indispensable Software Partner to the Semiconductor Industry. CircuitSutra provides SystemC based TLM modeling services to SoC / IC companies which include creating model of the target system at various abstraction levels (Functional view, Programmers View, Architectural view, Verification view).

Cologne Chip

Under the name "C3IP", Cologne Chip AG offers several innovative ASIC IP cores to the market. All IP cores are based on DIGICC Technology, a new revolutionary technology for ASIC projects: It meets mixed mode requirements with pure digital logic, independent from process technology and chip geometry. Available IP cores are Voice CODECs, ISDN line interfaces and PLLs.

CNFM

CNFM (National Consortium for Microelectronic training) is a network of universities charged with developing and promoting training for undergraduate, post graduate and PhD students in France. The goal of this consortium is to provide microelectronics CAD tools, fast prototyping FPGA platform, training courses and to promote interest in microelectronics design from nanotechnologies sciences to SoC design.

ControlNet India

ControlNet India (CNIPL) is a fabless ASIC design house based out of Goa, India with the state-of-art infrastructure and about 140 engineers. CNIPL has the following service offerings: off-shore for RTL to GDSII (complete COT flow), concept to Systems in the Networking space, embedded software development using VxWorks, embedded Linux & PSX, and integration of existing IP into systems with rapid prototyping (FPGA). ControlNet India enables creation of rich intellectual capital resources and transforming this into IP solutions.

CoWare

CoWare, the leading supplier of SystemC-based, system-level electronic design automation software, is revolutionizing system on chip (SoC) and embedded software development by enabling engineers to create design platforms optimized for specific market requirements. Its software is employed today by major systems, intellectual property (IP) and semiconductor companies worldwide.

CrèVinn Teoranta

CréVinn is a Silicon Design Consultancy and IP Development company. We develop technology, both ASIC and FPGA-based, for the networking, computing, automotive and industrial markets worldwide.

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is a supplier of COTS components and systems to the embedded computing market, with a focus on products for the defense and aerospace segment. Our embedded computing solutions provide the most innovative and complete product integration services for high density data processing requirements while performing under the most rugged operating conditions. Our product expertise includes high-performance embedded computing, state-of-the-art radar and graphics solutions, high-speed communication, custom software design and hardware engineering, and manufacturing services.

DAFCA, Inc.

DAFCA, Inc. is an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company focused on silicon debug and error fixing for Systems-on-Chip (SoCs). Our products reduce the time from prototype silicon to volume production from months to weeks. DAFCA's solution combines a library of reconfigurable on-chip debug hardware resources and sophisticated EDA tools that enable at-speed, on-demand observation and control of otherwise inaccessible internal signals. DAFCA's reconfigurable distributed debug infrastructure is the industry's first commercially-available debug solution that enables on-chip assertion-based debug and error fixing.

Denali Software

Denali is focused exclusively on providing the highest quality solutions for memory system design. Memory is integral to virtually every type of electronic system, from network switches and routers, to web servers and wireless personal data assistants(PDAs). Memory is emerging as the key economic and technological factor achieving the high data bandwidths required by these systems. Denali is focused exclusively on providing innovative solutions which optimize the design of advanced memory systems, from information to implementation.

Design And Reuse

Design & Reuse (D&R) was founded in October, 1997 as a web portal for added-value information in the field of electronic virtual component, i.e. IP (intellectual property) and SoC (system-on-chip), with an early success. D&R, a privately held company being profitable since its creation and having experienced significant successes in both fields, plans to go to a next step by a first round VC deployment in early 2002.

Digital Blocks

Digital Blocks is a leading developer of Embedded Processor & Peripherals and Video & Image Processing intellectual property for SoC designers. Through Digital Blocks silicon-verified IP cores, global technology systems companies can reduce their development costs and risks and accelerate product time-to-volume goals.

Digital Dynamics Corp.

Digital Dynamics Corporation is an EDA/ESL company focusing on creation of utility tools and services for electronic design. The advent of ESL and role of SystemC in this technology has provided a new direction in presenting tools and services based on this standard and other HDL's. At the front end of all Digital Dynamic Corporation's tools is ROSTA (Reconfigurable Open System Tools and Applications). This uniform integrated environment provides a unique convenient platform for invocation and utilization of the Company's ESL tools. Tools include SystemC to VHDL/Verilog translator, VHDL/Verilog to SystemC translator, testbench generators (with SystemC features), waveform editors, and other EDA/ESL design utilities.

Digital Media Professionals

Digital Media Professionals Inc. is focusing on developing very high performance graphics processor based on revolutionary physical model based rendering which is covering wide range of graphics applications including high end gaming to embedded IP solutions. DMP will provide support for the OpenGL ES programming interface in our next generation visualization products.

Dolphin Integration

Dolphin Integration is a provider of Mixed Signal Virtual Components, peripherals and cores like 8051/251, ADC, DAC, Codecs, PLLs and Embedded Memories, with Integration Platforms for SoCs, like VHDL-AMS in SMASH simulator, offered with delegation of consultants for Empowering Services in Microelectronics.

Doulos

Doulos is the independent global leader for the development and delivery of training solutions for SoC design and verification, including IP modelling and integration. Doulos has over 15 years experience in the development of training solutions addressing a broad range of challenges in electronics development. Its in-house specialist team has core expertise covering all aspects of complex system design and verification, including an industry-leading capability in deployment of SystemC based methods. Doulos know-how is delivered through scheduled classes in the United States and Europe and directly on customer sites on a worldwide basis through team-based training programs.

Duolog

Duolog Technologies is a leading provider of intellectual property and design services in software and IC technologies. With a design team of highly experienced engineers, we consistently deliver quality solutions to industry leading clients in the next generation communications sectors. At Duolog, we operate to repeatable, measurable and traceable procedures and fixed metrics to ensure reliable deliveries. The continual development of intellectual property (IP) in partnership with customers is fundamental to our design methodology. Duolog is committed to honest, open partnerships with clients.

EADS Astrium

EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space company) is a large European aerospace corporation formed by the merger on 10th July 2000 of Daimler Chrysler Aerospace AG (DASA) of Germany, Aérospatiale-Matra of France and Construcciones Aeronauticas SA (CASA) of Spain. EADS develops and markets civil and military aircrafts, as well as missiles, space rockets, satellites and relays systems. The company is headquartered in the Netherlands and operates under Dutch law.

eASIC Corporation

eASIC is offering an innovative Universal Fabric for deep submicron IC designs. Its patented technology of Single-Mask Customization can be used for the following functionality: Logic (configured by via mask and Bit-Stream), PLD (programmed by Bit-Stream, allows desktop programmability), RAM,dual-port (configured by via-mask). eASIC employed OCP technology in its eChip130.5 test project featuring multi-core architecture and million gates configurable chip for platform-based designs.

École Polytechnique de Montréal/ GRM: Group de Recherche en Microélectronique

École Polytechnique is the Engineering school of Montreal University, focusing on microelectronic research.

EDA Consortium

The EDA Consortium is the international association of companies that provide tools and services that enable engineers to create the world's electronic products. EDA is the critical technology used to design electronics for the communications, computer, space technology, medical and industrial equipment and consumer electronics markets, among others. The EDA Consortium also produces the Market Statistics Service (MSS), which is the only source of quarterly, detailed EDA and IP revenue data reporting. This valuable report is used by industry stakeholders to better track product category trends, develop business forecasts, and measure market growth.

EDA Express

EDA Express administers an informational site of EDA tools for Japanese engineers.

eInfochips Inc.

eInfochips Inc. over eight years in Silicon Valley has emerged as a leading company providing ASIC design and verification services. Working with multi-million gate SoC designs and IP blocks, the 90+ engineers' ASIC team in India design center has considerable experience at designing and verifying complex ASICs and expertise in FPGA design and system validation. The spectrum of capabilities extends in executing projects end-to-end or part right from Specification to Silicon, with knowledge spanning design entry in both Verilog and VHDL, simulation, synthesis, automated verification methodologies using e, C/ C++, System C & PLI, physical layout & implementation and board design. While the company has significant capability of developing reusable 'e' based Verification Components - eVCs, which are eRM compliant as standard product, it also offers flexible engagement models: for developing custom eVCs and providing long term/short term and offshore/on-site consulting.

Elliptic Semiconductor

Elliptic provides middleware and semiconductor intellectual property (IP) cores for secure communications ranging from low power to multi-gigabit per second implementations. Elliptic DRM solutions encompass all major rights management solutions from mobile handsets, personal media players and set top boxes. Demanding customers in markets such as implantable devices, wireless, storage, digital rights management (DRM), RFID and high performance communications trust Elliptic IP cores. For more information please visit www.ellipticsemi.com.

ENSTA

Originally founded in 1741, the École du Génie Maritime merged with four other schools in 1970 to become ENSTA which is today one of the top 10 institutes of higher education for engineering in France. Its students are selected from among the brightest science students of each generation. Situated in Paris, ENSTA offers high-level training in science, excellent research facilities, an international network and numerous extra-curricular activities.

Esterel Technologies

Esterel Technologies provides methodologies and tools that automate the specification to implementation of RTL and safe, embedded code. Esterel Technologies' solutions include executable specifications, automatic test bench creation and automatic code generation. The solutions are used for the development of mission and safety critical systems, SoC validation and protocols.

ETIS/ENSEA

ETIS is a commun research unit at the National School of Electronics and its Applications (ENSEA), the University of Cergy - Pontoise (UCP).The research activities of ETIS are structured into four research teams:Circuit architecture for image processing and signal,Information, communications, imaging,Indexing multimedia and data integration and Neurocybernétique. ETIS is contributing to the doctoral program in signal processing and image on the site of Cergy.

European Electronic Chips & Systems Design Initiative (ECSI)

ECSI is a European Association, established in 1993 by the larger industrial developers of electronic systems and manufacturers of integrated circuits in Europe (STMicroelectronics, Ericsson, Italtel, Nokia, Intracom, Alcatel, Siemens, Thales, MBDA, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, among others) with participation of many academic and research centers that bring expertise on design methodologies, techniques and standards.

Evatronix

Evatronix S.A. provides IP cores & electronic design services. The company focuses on development of commodity IP cores, revitalizing industry standard architectures for use in system-on-chip design. Evatronix product offer ranges from microcontroller cores based on legacy instruction set architectures like Z80, 68000, 80186 with best selling 8051 compliant microcontroller cores family, through serial bus interfaces (USB, I2C, Firewire and others) to Ethernet media access controller cores. Many of our products are AMBA interfaced cores. All IP cores are available worldwide through the distribution network from CAST, Inc.

Design services offered by Evatronix focus on functional redesign of obsolete parts and FPGA circuit design (Altera & Xilinx). The company also specializes in verification environment services with focus on testbenches and bus functional models (BFM). In order to ensure high quality of its IP cores and sustained organizational growth towards perfection, a well documented Quality Management System was defined and implemented at Evatronix. In March 2003 it was successfully audited for its compliance to ISO 9001:2000 standard by TÜV Cert, a Certification Body of German RW TÜV.

EVE

EVE offers the broadest range of hardware-assisted verification solutions on the market, from acceleration to fast emulation and prototyping with the most cycles per dollar. EVE products lead to a significant shortening of the overall verification cycle of complex integrated circuits and electronic systems design. EVE products also work in conjunction with popular Verilog and VHDL-based software simulators from Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems and Mentor Graphics.

First Silicon Solutions (FS2)

First Silicon Solutions (FS2) specializes in hardware verification and debug technologies including OCI® (On-Chip Instrumentation) custom silicon IP, development tools and design services for programming, testing and debug of embedded systems in FPGA, SoC, SOPC, ASSP and ASIC designs. FS2 IP blocks, hardware, software tools and full system solutions are used at several stages in the development cycle from system design and verification to software development and debug. FS2 products enable silicon vendors and their customers to take designs from "first silicon" to production faster, with greater design performance and higher quality. FS2 products include the MED (Multicore Embedded Debug) System, an integrated debug architecture with on-chip diagnostic features for analysis of complex designs containing multiple processors, embedded buses and IP subsystems. FS2 System Analyzers and debug blocks are used with processor IP cores from MIPS Technologies, LSI Logic, Mentor Graphics, CAST and other leading IP vendors. The FS2 CLAM® System, a configurable logic analyzer and FS2 Navigator®, an Embedded Bus Analyzer (for SiliconBackplane and AMBA AHB) provide high performance embedded trace and system debug capabilities.

Forte

Forte Design System's Cynthesizer significantly reduces the time needed to create complex chips and systems by automatically generating high-quality RTL designs from reusable, retarget-able C++/SystemC description. Cynthesizer is silicon-proven with uncompromising quality of results. It is the only behavioral synthesis product that offers designers a complete environment including TLM and power-aware synthesis, verification, and co-simulation. Cynthesizer has been used on over 100 designs and is in production use in many of the largest systems and semiconductor companies worldwide.

FueTrek Co., Ltd.

FueTrek Co,. Ltd was established in April of 2000 to pursue new business opportunities in the mobile phone market. They provide evolutionary, proprietary technologies for mobile devices. FueTrek uses LSI designing technology to provide various products such as a Sound Generator IP and a 3D Graphics IP. In addition, FueTrek provides a total solution by utilizing their well-established relationships between veteran designing experts, content providers, handset manufacturers and semiconductor vendors.

GDA Technologies

GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCI-Express, Ethernet, RapidIO and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India.

GreenSocs

GreenSocs™ provides collaboratively developed, peer reviewed, Open Source SystemC infrastructure. GreenSocs™ will work with OCP, OSCI, SPIRIT and other organisations to help provide the engineering effort required to develop standards. Where appropriate, It will also provide open source implementations of SystemC infrastructure compliant with those standards.