Peter Robinson

AXIOM Design Automation, Inc. designs verification and simulation tools for creating semiconductors. Its integrated verification environment combines simulator with test bench automation, assertion based verification, debugging and coverage analysis to ensure that designs are fully verified. The company was founded in 1999 by Badruddin Agarwala, Vivek Bhat and Tarak Parikh and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA

LSI Corp. designs, develops, and markets high-performance storage and networking semiconductors. Its products include custom and standard product integrated circuits that are used in disk drives, solid state drives, high-speed communications systems, computer servers, storage systems, and personal computers. The company was founded on November 6, 1980 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

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.

0-In Design Automation, Inc. develops and supports functional verification products that help verify multi-million gate application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The company was founded in 1996 and is located in San Jose, CA.