Glen M. Antle

Trident Microsystems, Inc. provides multimedia semiconductor solutions for the digital home entertainment market. The company designs, develops, and markets integrated circuits and related software for the process, display, and transmission of high quality audio, graphics, and images in home consumer electronics applications. These applications are digital TVs (DTV), PC and analog TVs, and set-top boxes. Its products include system-on-a-chip semiconductors. These provide completely integrated solutions for processing and optimizing video, audio, and computer graphic signals, in order to produce high-quality and realistic images and sound. The firm also produces frame rate converters, demodulators, audio decoder products, interface devices, and media processors. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. used to make software for the design of electronic products. It used to provide verification hardware and time-to-market engineering (TtMETM) services for the design of complex ICs and electronic systems. The company's products were used by developers of high-performance computing, multimedia, graphics and communications systems. It was located in San Jose, CA

ECAD, Inc. provides retail computer-aided design (CAD) software. The company was founded by Carole and Gene Eckert in 1987 and is headquartered in Midland, TX.

Novas Software, Inc. provides tool-independent design debug systems to companies designing complex ICs, embedded processing platforms and SoCs. Its products reduce the time it takes for engineers to locate, isolate and solve the root causes of functional design and verification problems. It is located in San Jose, CA.

Part of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Verplex Systems, Inc. develops functional verification software. The company is based in Milpitas, CA. The company was founded by Andy Lin. Verplex Systems was acquired by Cadence Design Systems, Inc. on July 14, 2003.

Part of Quickturn Systems, Inc., PiE Design Systems, Inc. develops software. The company is based in Mountain View, CA. The company was founded by Paul Huang. PiE Design Systems was acquired by Quickturn Systems, Inc. on May 25, 1993.