Silvaco
Silvaco Inc. develops and markets electronic design automation (EDA) and technology CAD (TCAD) software and semiconductor design IP (SIP). The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and has a global presence with offices located in North America, Europe, and throughout Asia. Since its founding in 1984, Silvaco has grown to become a large privately held EDA company. The company has been known by at least two other names: Silvaco International, and Silvaco Data Systems. History. Founded by Dr. Ivan Pesic (13 September 1951, Resnik, Montenegro — 20 October 2012, Japan) in 1984, the company is privately held and internally  funded. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with fourteen offices worldwide. In 2003 Silvaco acquired Simucad Inc., a privately held company providing logic simulation EDA software. Silvaco re-launched the brand by spinning out its EDA product line in 2006 under the Simucad name. As of 17 February 2010, Simucad Design Automation and Silvaco Data Systems were merged back together forming Silvaco, Inc. In 2006, Silvaco sued Intel for misappropriation of trade secrets in the case of "Silvaco Data Systems v. Intel Corp.", however ultimately the judgment of the Court was in favor of Intel. In 2012, David Halliday  was appointed CEO after the death of the company founder Ivan Pesic. In 2015, Silvaco appointed a new CEO, David Dutton. The company also acquired Invarian, Inc., a privately held company providing power integrity analysis software, and acquired Infiniscale SA, a privately held company in France providing variability analysis software. In 2016, Silvaco added semiconductor design IP (SIP) to its portfolio with the acquisition of the privately held company IPextreme, Inc. Silvaco also entered into another new market segment with the acquisition of the privately held company edXact in France. The tools from edXact are used for analysis, reduction, and  comparison of extracted parasitic netlists. In 2017, Silvaco acquired SoC Solutions, a privately held company providing semiconductor IP. In 2018, Silvaco acquired NanGate, a privately held company providing tools and services for creation, optimization, characterization, and validation of physical library IP. The company also announced a partnership with Purdue University and the Purdue Research Foundation for the commercialization of the NEMO tool suite, which is used for nanoelectronics modeling and atomistic simulation. In 2019, Silvaco appointed Dr. Babak Taheri as its new Chief Executive Officer. Prior to his appointment, he was Silvaco's Chief Technical Officer. In 2020, Silvaco acquired  the assets of Coupling Wave Solutions S.A., a privately held company providing silicon substrate noise analysis software. Silvaco also acquired the memory compiler technologies and standard cell libraries of Dolphin Design. Products. Silvaco delivers EDA and semiconductor TCAD software products and semiconductor design IP with support and engineering services. Worldwide customers include leading foundries, fabless semiconductor companies, OEMs, integrated semiconductor manufacturers, and universities. TCAD Products. Process Simulation Device Simulation Other tools EDA Products. The company supplies integrated EDA software in the areas of analog/mixed-signal/RF circuit simulation, custom IC CAD, interconnect modeling, and standard cell library development and  characterization. SPICE modeling and analog & mixed-signal simulation Custom IC CAD Interconnect Modeling Library Platform SIP Products. The company markets a wide variety of semiconductor design IP (SIP). In May 2019, the company announced that the semiconductor design IP of Samsung Foundry (SF) is now marketed, licensed, and supported through Silvaco. SIP categories include: