VC Private Financings for Semiconductor Design

Arteris raises $7,500,000

Arteris Inc., the leading provider of Network-on-Chip (NoC) solutions, today announced that it has completed its Series C round of investment, raising $7.5 million and bringing total investment in the company to $25 million.  Arteris, Inc. provides Network-on-Chip (NoC) interconnect IP and associated design tools to improve the performance of system-on-chip (SoC) architectures for multimedia, […]

ChipVision raises $4,500,000

ChipVision Design Systems Inc., the low-power specialist in electronic design automation (EDA), today announced it has raised $4.5 million in a Series B internal round.  Dr. Berthold von Freyberg, Partner and co-founder at Target Partners, said, “The rapid proliferation of mobile and wireless applications has mandated the need for energy dissipation. ChipVision - with its […]

Pyxis Technology raises $5,250,000

Pyxis Technology, Inc., an electronic design automation (EDA) company offering high-performance integrated circuit (IC) auto-routing software, has raised $5.25 million in an extension to its Series-B financing.  Pyxis Technology delivers software and services to address the problems that chip designers face in the routing of nanometer-scale integrated circuits (ICs) and systems on a chip (SoCs). […]

Physware raises $2,500,000

Physware, Inc., a provider of high-speed 3D field solutions for the high-frequency package and board markets, today announced $2.5 million in venture funding.  “We are excited to work with this team,” said Alberg. “Vikram is that rare combination of technical genius and business leader, and Bala brings a solid history of execution in the EDA […]

Intrinsity raises $31,500,000

Intrinsity Inc. announced today it has completed a $31.5 million in Series E financing.  Intrinsity, Inc. is a design technology company that provides the designs, tools, technologies, and expertise so its customers can efficiently and predictably produce high performance, low-power and cost-effective products. Intrinsity’s proprietary Fast14 technology is used to create FastCore embedded cores, which […]

Carbon Design Systems raises $6,000,000

Carbon Design Systems Inc. today announced it has closed a round of funding totaling $6 million.  Carbon is the leading supplier of system-level tools to automatically create, validate and deploy software models generated from Verilog and/or VHDL descriptions. Carbon’s models are used in conjunction with SystemC simulation platforms to enable architecture profiling and software validation […]

Bluespec raises $4,250,000

Bluespec Inc., developer of the only electronic system level (ESL) synthesis for control logic and complex datapaths in chip design, today announced it has raised $4.25 million in Series C funding.  “Bluespec is able to deliver unprecedented value to those developing silicon systems and is changing the way chips and software are developed.”

Process Relations raises $1,007,920

Process Relations raises $1,007,920.  Process Relations is a software company offering software solutions and related consulting services in the area of (semiconductor) process development. The offered software solutions address customers performing semiconductor process development and developments of silicon based MEMS processes. Additional thin film technology family markets will be addressed later on. Further market extensions […]

Optichron raises $12,000,000

Optichron, Inc. raises $12,000,000. Optichron is a provider of nonlinear signal processing (NSP) solutions.  Based on powerful mathematical derivations, Optichron’s linearization technology extends the fundamental concepts of linear systems theory to nonlinear systems. Our patented nonlinear signal processing technology lets you re-think the way you design your next wireless communications system. Users of our linearization […]

Solido Design Automation raises $6,500,000

Solido Design Automation announced second round financing of $6.5 million, Solido’s transistor-level statistical design and verification software technology, which aims to ensure robust analog/mixed-signal, custom digital, and memory integrated circuit (IC) designs