At atrenta he holds the title of chief verification architect. Nextop has pioneered assertion synthesis technology. Yuan lu was a founder of nextop in 2006 where he served as their cto until being acquired by atrenta in 2012. Atrenta accelerates growth in front end design with. Aug 30, 2015 after a while, i do not receive more deals. Atrenta announced today that it is acquiring nextop software. With over 20 years of executive sales and technical management experience. The companies were formed over a twentytwo year period with the most recent being incorporated two years ago in march of 2018. Nextop software sells a tool bugscope that provides assertion synthesis technology. Atrentas spyglass predictive analysis software platform significantly improves design efficiency for the worlds leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. He is the founder of atrenta, the company that builds spyglass. So, everyone is starting demand outragus pay increase and i cant afford to lose them due to all the time. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. We successfully acquired nextop software bugscope product and the integration into atrenta is going quite well.
This complements atrentas spyglass products for improving the process for design of complex semiconductor ip and socs. Everything goes fine untill i try to expand passt one or two extras have to due to contract falls in value. We were so pleased to find a local software company that could custom build a budgetconscious and operationallysavvy. Nextop sells a tool bugscope that provides assertion synthesis technology. Mike gianfagna vice president of corporate marketing, atrenta inc. May 09, 2015 ill be honest, on my best attempt, i had to fire everyone about 2x, and go solo mode for a while again. Ic manage hires craig shirley as vice president of worldwide. Atrenta s worldclass field operation will further accelerate the mainstream adoption of assertion synthesis. The company offers security solutions, as well as provides electronic design automation and semiconductor ip.
View yunshan zhus profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. See who you know at nextop software, leverage your professional network. Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Atrentas products focus on improving efficiency and reducing cost for. Atrenta takes three of five top spots in deepchip dac user. Nextop is a private company with no institutional investors. Prior to nextop, lu was a principle scientist at broadcom. Mobile apps, web sites, web services, desktop applications. Atrentas spyglass predictive analysis solution provides a link between early soc design ideas and the implementation process leading to the manufacture of complex socs. Atrentas spyglass predictive analysis solution provides a link between early soc. Five of the companies are still active while the remaining three are now listed as inactive. Already fired and hired new receptionists but nothing changes. Jun 22, 2012 atrenta accelerates growth in front end design with acquisition of nextop software, inc.
In 1999 biere was working for a startup company in electronic design. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job. First name mi last name required city state age ajoy bose in the united states weve found results for your search on ajoy bose in the united states. We learned about xtern software through my rotary club. I went to atrentas office to talk to ajoy bose ceo and mike gianfagna vp marketing. See who you know at nextop software, leverage your professional network, and get hired.
Using many advanced algorithms and analysis techniques, the spyglass platform provides designers with insight about their design, early in the process at rtl. Its not been a secret that atrenta has been looking to do an acquisition, but one challenge being as large as they are is that it has to be a reasonable sized acquisition to make any difference. Articles and technical content designed to help you explore the features of n software products. Ic manage hires craig shirley as vice president of worldwide sales. Steve jobs is widely known as the founder of apple computer but its a lesser known fact that in 1986, after he sold all but one share of his stock in apple, jobs founded a second company called next. Verific design automation builds systemverilog, vhdl, and upf parser platforms which enable its customers to develop advanced eda products quickly and at low cost. Ic manage hires craig shirley as vice president of. Messages from our collaborators rise and shine driving austrian research in automatic formal methods.
Atrenta is one of the largest private eda companies, said dr. Bugscope is developed by nextop software, which was recently acquired by atrenta. Atrenta accelerates growth in front end design with acquisition of nextop software, inc. Atrenta provides systemonachip soc realization solutions for the semiconductor and. Multiple chips arranged in a planar or stacked configuration with an interposer for communication.
Zhu was a member of the advanced technology group at synopsys. Shirley will lead the companys sales organization to extend its leadership in design and ip management. It functions like an interactive guidance system for design engineers and managers, finding the fastest and least expensive path to implementation for complex socs. It sells a tool bugscope that provides assertion synthesis technology. Atrentas products focus on improving efficiency and reducing cost for the design of complex semiconductor ip. Jun 20, 2012 atrenta accelerates growth in front end design with acquisition of nextop software, inc. Atrenta s spyglass predictive analysis solution provides a link between early soc design ideas and the implementation process leading to the manufacture of complex socs. Atrenta acquires nextop design automation conference. Patented solutions provide early design insight into the demanding performance, power and area requirements of the complex system on chips socs fueling todays consumer electronics revolution. About us the leading provider of professional tools and components for internet communications, security, and business integration.
A brief history of atrenta and rtl design semiwiki. Shirley most recently served as vice president of worldwide sales for nextop software acquired by atrenta. Nextop software, a provider of assertion synthesis technology. What i found best was to have my guy work nonstop, and just keep doing contracts, while working on small software bits, and when i did have enough income and bank, id do a 23 guys team and have them work on their own contracts and software, while keeping my. Atrentas recent acquisition of nextop looks like that kind of play. As the worlds 15th largest software company, synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in electronic design automation eda and. For more than 25 years, software developers for nearly every fortune 500 and global 2000 company worldwide have used n software products to build powerful connected applications. Ceo of synopsys will be presenting a keynote that will most likely dwell on the newest major tool release from his company. Nextop recruits, trains, and places highperforming middleenlisted military leaders into industry careers. Atrenta takes three of five top spots in deepchip dac user survey. Founded 1985, redwood city, california dissolved 1996. Atrenta announced it has acquired nextop software, allowing atrenta to expand its defacto standard spyglass rtl platform to include functional verification using nextops patented dynamic assertion synthesis technology, and creating a more complete soc realization platform. We chose to purchase software from verific design automation for reasons of product quality and time to market. To be the strongest link between industry and military talent.
He is an editor of the handbook of satisfiability and initiated and organizes the hardware model checking competition hwmcc. Our tool is now widely deployed in production at multiple tier 1 customers many of whom also use spyglass. Anyway, last week the biggest private eda company probably atrenta announced that it is acquiring nextop software. Lu holds a phd in formal verification from carnegie mellon university and a bsc from shanghai jiao tong university. Ajoy bose overview ajoy bose has been associated with eight companies, according to public records. Ajoy bose has been associated with eight companies, according to public records. Spyglass design productivity enhancements expanded to functional verification for semiconductor and consumer electronics developers san jose, calif june 20, 2012 atrenta inc. Mhr has been in business for 30 years and offers a webbased program, is exclusively deployed to the uk market, and currently supports 5% of the uk workforce. Since 2011 he serves as chair of the sat association and since 2012 on the steering committee of fmcad.
Our technology helps customers innovate from silicon to software, so they can deliver smart, secure everything. With over 20 years of executive sales and technical management experience, mr. Snps has signed a definitive agreement to acquire atrenta inc. Spyglass design productivity enhancements expanded to functional verification for semiconductor and consumer electronics developers.
June 20, 2012 san jose, calif june 20, 2012 atrenta inc. During that project, they developed a piece of software that looked at a synthesizable. The survey, conducted by john cooley and published on the deepchip portal, summarizes user inputs regarding the top. I already received before, but i stopped getting people to do deals.
Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Patented solutions provide early design insight into the demanding performance, power and area requirements of the complex system on chips socs fueling todays consumer. Predictive development is a new class of design automation solution that turns the costly and errorprone activity of electronic development into a more predictable, manageable and reliable process. By integrating atrenta s complementary static verification and implementation technology with synopsys verification continuum and galaxy. Atrenta accelerates growth in front end design with acquisition of nextop software, inc nextopbugscope. Shirley was vice president of worldwide sales for apache design solutions, achieving a compound annual revenue growth rate of over 25. Atrenta s spyglass predictive analysis software platform significantly improves design efficiency for the worlds leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. Principal investigator armin biere cofounded the software company nextop software, inc. Our goal is to build a broad platform that covers both design and verification optimization at rtl, and were well on our way toward that goal. Yunshan zhu cofounded nextop software and led the company through the development, delivery and production implementation of its flagship assertion synthesis product for multiple semiconductor companies. Synopsys eda tools, semiconductor ip and application. Armin biere acts as chair of student affairs prases for computer science, helping to organize the phd program in computer science. During the same time until may 2015 he also acted as head of the commission of the.
Our mission nextop recruits, trains, and places highperforming middleenlisted military leaders into industry careers. Similar to an interactive guidance system, spyglass optimizes a designs path to implementation early, before traditional eda tools are deployed for detailed implementation. Xterns owner, keir davis, is a fellow rotarian with a heart that wants to help. Yunshan zhu vp of new technologies atrenta linkedin.
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