Wim Roelandts

Xilinx, Inc. engages in the design and development of programmable logic semiconductor devices and the related software design tools. It also provides design services, customer training, field engineering, and technical support. The company was founded by Ross Freeman, Bernard Vonderschmitt, and James V. Barnett in February 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

eSilicon Corp. specializes in designing, productizing, and manufacturing of application specific integrated circuits. Its services include ASIC design services, custom three-dimensional packaging, high bandwidth memory solutions, semiconductor manufacturing services, multi-project wafer, and design and test services. The company was founded by Duy-Loan T. Le, John R. Harding, A. J. Sen, and Patrick Kwok in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Aruba Networks, Inc. designs and manufactures mobility controllers, antennas, and routers. Its products include Aruba access points, which deliver Wi-Fi client access to a variety of indoor and outdoor enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) environments, virtual intranet acces (VIA), provides Wi-Fi access for android, iOS, Mac OS X and windows mobile devices, and Aruba central, a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) subscription that offers remote monitoring and troubleshooting, configuration and firmware management, compliance reporting, and provisioning. The company was founded by Keerti Melkote in February 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

AccelChip Inc. provides software solutions based on MATLAB for embedded signal processing, including intellectual property (IP), for embedded digital signal processing (DSP) design. It develops and markets design tools, integrated verification flows and parametric IP toolkits that automate the development & implementation of DSP algorithms in FPGAs and ASICs. AccelChip's proven solution integrates the domain-specific DSP design environment (MATLAB) with industry-standard hardware design flows from leading silicon & EDA vendors, such as Aldec, Altera, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Synplicity, Synopsys, The MathWorks and Xilinx. The company was founded by Dr. Prith Banerjee in 2000 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

CoWare, Inc. provides system-level electronic design automation software. The Company offers internet protocol models that support platform architecture design, verification, application sub-system designing, digital signal processing algorithm, and software development services. CoWare was 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Xilinx Technology Ventures (Xilinx Technology Venture) is the venture capital arm of Xilinx, Inc, (NASDAQ: XLNX) founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in San Jose, California.