Carol Hallett

Mentor Graphics Corp. provides electronic design automation systems-advanced computer software and emulation hardware systems, which are used to automate the design, analysis, and testing of electronic hardware and embedded systems software in electronic systems and components. It markets products and services primarily to large companies in the military/aerospace, communications, computer, consumer electronics, semiconductor, networking, multimedia, and transportation industries. The firm operates through the following geographical segments: United States, Europe, Japan, Pacific Rim, and Others. The company was founded on February 4, 1981 and is headquartered in Wilsonville, OR.

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.

Phoenix Technologies Ltd. designs, develops, and sells systems software products for PCs, peripherals, and information appliances. It develops basic input/output systems (BIOS), the software that loads a computer's operating system each time it is turned on. The company was founded by Rich W. Levandov in 1979 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Tharas Systems, Inc. designs and develops hardware-assisted verification components. The company offers its solutions to designers of complex integrated circuits and electronic as well as embedded systems. It also offers services such as custom-processor hardware assisted engine for verilog, mixed language verification, delivering fastest compile, run time speed-up, combined with ease-of-use and extensive debugging capabilities. The company was founded in 1998 by Subbu Ganesan and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Real Intent, Inc. provides system on chip (SoC) and field-programmable gate array (FPGA)sign-off verification solutions. Its products include Ascent for early functional verification before synthesis; and Meridian for advanced sign-off verification not possible with simulation or static timing analysis. The company was founded by Prakash Narain and Rajiv Kumar in 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

EVE-USA, Inc. provides electronic research and development services. The company was founded by Luc Burgun on September 9, 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.