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Axis Systems
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Axis' mission is to help customers close the verification gap. The Sunnyvale, California-based company provides comprehensive verification products and services for hardware and software designers of complex systems and systems-on-a-chip.
Axis' customers are industry leaders in diverse fields such as communications, consumer electronics, networking systems and internet security. Customers include Broadcom, Ciena, Cisco Systems, Conexant, Fujitsu, GlobespanVirata, Hitachi, IBM, Lucent, Nortel, Nvidia, Philips, Samsung, Sony Electronics, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, and Vweb.
Axis' breakthrough patented technology, ReConfigurable Computing (RCC), provides simulation, acceleration, emulation, and hardware/software co-verification in a single system. RCC uses massively parallel reconfigurable processors to accelerate the simulation of hardware design and enables verification of embedded software.

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Crossbow Technology
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Crossbow Technology, Inc. is the leading producer of embedded measurement sensor and control subsystems that combine the latest in silicon technology with proprietary software expertise. By integrating silicon micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology with the company's digital signal processing (DSP) software architecture, Crossbow is able to create a unique set of acceleration and motion sensing products that are more desirable than traditional electro-mechanical systems due to their lower cost, greater reliability and smaller size.

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SteelEye Technology
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SteelEye Technology, Inc. is a leading application reliability company bringing high availability of applications, servers, and data to enterprises of all sizes through its Next Generation Enterprise Reliability(tm) platform. The company's LifeKeeper(r) software platform offers enterprise-grade reliability while simplifying system implementation through plug-and-play support for the widest range of applications, servers, storage options, and operating systems, including Linux, Windows NT, and Solaris. Fortune 1000 companies worldwide rely on LifeKeeper to keep thousands of servers up and running, including Chase Manhattan Bank and AT&T Corporation.

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Tensilica
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Tensilica is a fast growing, venture-backed company focused on providing the ultimate in application-specific microprocessor solutions for use in today's high volume embedded systems. Tensilica was incorporated in July of 1997 by key managers and executives of four key technical disciplines: microprocessor architecture, ASIC and VLSI design, advanced software development, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA). The goal of the group was to create the world's first truly configurable and extensible microprocessor architecture and support environment, that could enable embedded system designers to build better, more highly integrated products, in less time.
The Company has an experienced management team and a great technical team with the support and backing of industry veterans and technical advisors. The Company is partnered with three leading venture capital firms: Oak Investment Partners, Worldview Technology Partners, and Foundation Capital, as well as five industry leading strategic investors: Cisco Systems, Inc., Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Ltd., Altera Corporation, NEC Corporation and Conexant Systems. The total capitalization of the company is $64.0 million.
Tensilica began working with early customers in the last half of 1998 and introduced mass production capability of its flagship Xtensa product line in February of 1999.
The Company has over 130 engineers engaged in research, development, and customer support from its offices in Santa Clara, California, Burlington, Massachusetts, Houston, Texas, Princeton, New Jersey, Oxford, United Kingdom and Yokohama, Japan, Stockholm, Sweden and Taipei, Taiwan.

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