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Synopsys VCS
Synopsys VCS, short for Verilog Compiled Simulator, is a high-performance simulator for Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL sold by Synopsys as the core of its verification suite.
SystemVerilog
SystemVerilog is a hardware design, specification, and verification language standardized as IEEE 1800, covering behavioral, RTL, and gate-level modeling plus testbenches with assertions and constrained random verification.
T.J. Rodgers
T.J. Rodgers, also known as Thomas J. Rodgers, is an American semiconductor entrepreneur who co-founded Cypress Semiconductor in 1982 and ran it as chief executive until 2016.
Ted Hoff
Ted Hoff, born 1937 in Rochester, New York, is an American engineer who proposed the architecture of the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor, becoming Intel's first Fellow in 1980.
Tencor Instruments
Tencor Instruments was a San Jose, California maker of wafer inspection and measurement equipment for chip manufacturing, founded by Karel Urbanek and merged with KLA in 1997.
Teresa Meng
Teresa Meng (孟怀萦) is a Taiwan-born electrical engineer who pioneered all-CMOS Wi-Fi, founded Atheros Communications, and in 2019 became the first woman to receive the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
Thomas W. Williams
Thomas W. Williams is an EDA scientist and former IBM researcher known for co-inventing Level Sensitive Scan Design in 1977 and winning the 2018 Phil Kaufman Award.
TiE; founder of Aspen Semiconductor
TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) is a nonprofit entrepreneurship network founded in Silicon Valley in December 1992, whose cofounder Narpat Bhandari also founded chip company Aspen Semiconductor.
Tom Brightman
Tom Brightman is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Cyrix Corporation in Richardson, Texas in 1988 with Jerry Rogers, and is credited with the processor behind the first sub-$500 personal computer.
Transitron Electronic Corp (semiconductor company)
Transitron Electronic Corporation was an American semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1952 by brothers Leo and David Bakalar in Massachusetts, once among the largest US diode and transistor makers.
Varian Associates
Varian Associates was an American technology company founded in 1948 by klystron inventors Russell and Sigurd Varian, becoming one of the first Silicon Valley companies.
Verilator
Verilator is an open-source SystemVerilog simulator and lint system that converts Verilog and SystemVerilog designs into C++ or SystemC models, often about 30 times faster than traditional simulators.
Walden C. Rhines
Walden C. Rhines is an American semiconductor and EDA executive who was CEO of Mentor Graphics from 1993 to 2017, after 21 years at Texas Instruments.
Walter C. Benzing
Walter C. Benzing, known as Walt Benzing, was an American chemical engineer who joined Applied Materials in 1967 and spent about a decade as its ambassador to Japan.
Weili Dai
Weili Dai (戴伟立) is a Shanghai-born American businesswoman who co-founded the semiconductor company Marvell Technology Group in 1995 with her husband Sehat Sutardja, and served as its president.
Wellfleet Communications
Wellfleet Communications was a networking company in Bedford, Massachusetts, founded in 1986 by Paul Severino, that became the number-two maker of multiprotocol routers behind Cisco.
Wilfred Corrigan
Wilfred Corrigan is a semiconductor executive who founded and led LSI Logic from 1981 to 2005 after serving as president and chief executive of Fairchild Camera and Instrument.
William M. Holt
William M. Holt is an American semiconductor engineer who spent 42 years at Intel, retiring in 2016 as head of its Technology and Manufacturing Group.
William Wang
William Wang is a Taiwanese-American business executive who co-founded Vizio in 2002, built it into a leading North American TV brand, and sold it to Walmart for about $2.3 billion.
Winston Chen
Winston Chen (陳文雄) is a Taiwan-born American engineer and executive who invested $100,000 in Solectron in 1978 and led it to $18 billion in revenue by 2000.
Zilog
Zilog is an American semiconductor company founded in 1974 by Federico Faggin and Ralph Ungermann after leaving Intel, best known for creating the Z80 microprocessor.