Michel Courtoy

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets nonvolatile memory solutions. It supplies flash memory semiconductor devices for the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and the Internet computing markets. The firm produces and sells semiconductor products, including flash controllers and controller-based modules, smart card integrated circuits and modules, flash microcontrollers and radio frequency devices and modules. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

ATI Technologies, Inc. designs, makes and, sells graphics accelerators and multimedia solutions. It offers visual and graphics processors for displaying images on personal computer monitors. It also supplies graphics, video and, multimedia products for desktop, workstation & notebook personal computers, digital televisions, cell phones, and game consoles. The company sells its products through personal computer original equipment manufacturers, system integrators, add-in board manufacturers, retail stores & consumer electronics manufacturers in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The firm was founded by Kwok Yuen Ho in 1985 and is located in Markham, Canada.

Cadence Network, Inc. provides expense management solutions. It offers custom solutions, utility invoice auditing, telecom expense management, rate analysis, energy procurement consulting, invoice processing, and accounts payables. The company was founded in 1997 and is located in Cincinnati, OH.

Part of Waste Connections, Inc., Amd, Inc. provides waste management services.

Standard Chartered Bank Ltd. provides commercial and financial banking services. The firm offers credit cards, personal loans, mortgages, deposit taking and wealth management services to individuals and small to medium sized enterprises. It provides trade, finance, cash management, lending, securities services, foreign exchange, debt capital markets, and corporate finance services to corporate and institutional clients. The company is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Reflectivity, Inc manufactures optical MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical-systems) devices for high definition displays and other exciting applications. The company was founded in 1998 and is located in Sunnyvale, CA.

CHiL Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops and markets intelligent mixed-signal products using digital power techniques. The company was founded by Ramakrishna R. Sudireddy, Nishith Goel and Praveen K. Jain in 2006 and is headquartered in Tewksbury, MA.

CoAdna Photonics, Inc. develops and supplies fiber-optic solutions. It produces photonic components, modules and subsystems for optical networks to enable growth of broadband applications. The firms’ products include OvS systems for Data Center Networking and ROADM. The company was founded by Jim Yuan and Jack Kelly in October 1, 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Part of Synopsys, Inc., Xynetix Design Systems, Inc. develops software for advanced IC package design. The company is based in Rochester, NY. Corp. (California) on August 11, 1999. Xynetix Design Systems was acquired by Avant!

Part of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Silicon Perspective Corp develops, markets, and supports electronic design automation software products. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company was founded by Wei-Jin Dai. Silicon Perspective was acquired by Cadence Design Systems, Inc. on December 20, 2001.

Neolinear, Inc. develops semiconductor and circuit software. Its solutions are used in the design and re-use of analog and mixed-signal circuits. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA

Foveon, Inc. engages in the design and development of image sensors and image capture systems. The firm offers digital single lens reflex and pro, CMOS, and direct image sensors. The company was founded by Jan-Dieter Spalink, Brian Gullette Richard B. Merrill, K. Michael Munsch and Carver A. Mead in August 1997 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

iD Ventures America LLC (iD Ventures America) is a venture capital subsidiary of iD Softcapital Group founded in 1998. The firm is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

StarCite, Inc. provides online based software technologies. It also provides web-based solutions that help buyers and suppliers manage corporate meetings and events. The company was founded by John F. Pino in 1999 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

The Avanti Co. provides gas and water meters, valves and repair services. It provides water utilities, automatic meter reading, weather stations, industrial metering and product data sheets. The firm also provides on-site flow meter testing, AMR and AMI technical support, training and sewer flow monitoring services. The company was founded in 1977 by Paul Devlin and Justine Devlin and is headquartered in Avon Park, FL.

Part of Silvaco Group, Inc., Silvaco Data Systems, Inc. is a company based in Santa Clara, CA. Silvaco Data Systems, Inc. was founded by Kader Belhaddad.

EIE Materials, Inc. manufactures industrial inorganic chemical. The company is headquartered in Lexington, KY.

Metrics Technologies, Inc. engages in providing cloud solutions for Electronic Design Automation. It offers cloud simulator, verfication manager, plug & play with existing workflows, seeurity and metrics API solutions. The company is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.