Douglas G. Fairbairn

Agility Design Solutions, Inc. develops software tools. The company offers solutions for algorithm acceleration, prototyping, and implementation in both software and hardware. Agility speeds the development of signal processing algorithms offering complete solutions for algorithm acceleration, prototyping and implementation in both software and hardware. The solutions include Agility's unique software technologies for MATLAB to C and C to FPGA synthesis and a rich portfolio of synthesizable algorithmic functions and FPGA hardware platforms. Agility completes the solutions with services delivered by a team of expert users to help customers meet deadlines and delivery requirements. Agility's customers differentiate their products with leading edge algorithms. With over 100 customers and 1000s of successful algorithm implementations in FPGA and software, Agility is a proven supplier for getting from algorithm to implementation, fast. Agility Design Solutions was incorporated in January of 2008 when Catalytic Inc. changed its name after combining with the Celoxica ESL business. The Celoxica ESL business was built on original research from Oxford and started selling commercial product in 2001. Catalytic Inc. was founded in 2001 to develop technology to go from MATLAB to C and began selling commercial product in 2005.

Silicon Design Systems, Inc. (SDS) develops electronic design automation software. It delivers quantum improvements in chip-area, performance, power consumption and flexibility over the traditional cell-based solutions. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.