David P. Burow

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.

Arithmatica, Inc. provides datapath design automation solutions. The company was founded by Tony Curzon-Price and David Burow in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Claria Corp. provides on-line marketing services. It offers behavioral marketing and personalization technology services. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Numetrics provides a unique suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to semiconductor companies that enables unprecedented predictability of development plans, including schedules and role staffing, reliably measures project schedule risk, and benchmarks development performance against the industry's best-in-class. In use by seven of the top 12 semiconductor companies, the solution leverages Numeric's patented IC design complexity calculation engine, which is calibrated with statistical data from more than 1,500 benchmarked chip projects compiled from more than 40 semiconductor companies. Numeric's NMX ERP™ solution enables superior project schedule estimation, risk analysis, resource planning, execution pipeline analysis and benchmarking. The company is headquartered at Cupertino, CA. NMX-ERP's Bottom Line Value: Projects finish on time, within budget and have competitive cycle times, all of which translates to higher revenue, profits and market share. Numeric's customers include major semiconductor and systems companies in North America, Europe and Asia.

Viewlogic Systems, Inc. was a worldwide supplier of electronic design automation software. The company's design tools enabled electrical engineers to design state-of-the-art electronic products more efficiently, while reducing both development costs and time to market. The company offered software for both UNIX and Windows-based computing platforms, along with a broad range of support services.

Part of Tech Mahindra Ltd., CrossCheck Technologies, Inc. is a company that provides test technologies associated with microchips. The company is based in San Jose, CA. CrossCheck Technologies was acquired by Duet Technologies, Inc. on December 23, 1996.

Part of Synopsys, Inc., Silicon Architects, Inc. is a software design company. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. Sharp, Faysal A. Sohail, Abbas El Gamal. The company was founded by Steven J. Silicon Architects was acquired by Synopsys, Inc. on May 11, 1995.

CrossCheck, Inc. provides payment approval and transaction processing services to merchants throughout the US. It processes and approves various check transactions annually for retailers, dealer outlets, and small businesses. The company was founded by Timothy LaBadie in 1983 and is headquartered in Petaluma, CA.