14 Facts About Silvaco

Silvaco is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and has a global presence with offices located in North America, Europe, and throughout Asia.

Since its founding in 1984, Silvaco has grown to become a large privately held EDA company.

In 2003 Silvaco acquired Simucad Inc, a privately held company founded in 1981 that provided logic simulation EDA software.

Silvaco re-launched the brand by spinning out its EDA product line in 2006 under the Simucad name.

In 2006, Silvaco sued Intel for misappropriation of trade secrets in the case of Silvaco Data Systems v Intel Corp.

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Silvaco acquired Invarian, Inc, a privately held company providing power integrity analysis software, and acquired Infiniscale SA, a privately held company in France providing variability analysis software.

In 2016, Silvaco added semiconductor design IP to its portfolio with the acquisition of the privately held company IPextreme, Inc Silvaco entered into another new market segment with the acquisition of the privately held company edXact in France.

In 2017, Silvaco acquired SoC Solutions, a privately held company providing semiconductor IP.

In 2018, Silvaco acquired NanGate, a privately held company providing tools and services for creation, optimization, characterization, and validation of physical library IP.

Silvaco announced a partnership with Purdue University and the Purdue Research Foundation for the commercialization of the NEMO tool suite, which is used for nanoelectronics modeling and atomistic simulation.

In 2019, Silvaco appointed Dr Babak Taheri as its new Chief Executive Officer.

In 2020, Silvaco acquired the assets of Coupling Wave Solutions S A, a privately held company providing silicon substrate noise analysis software.

Silvaco acquired the memory compiler technologies and standard cell libraries of Dolphin Design.

Silvaco delivers EDA and semiconductor TCAD software products and semiconductor design IP with support and engineering services.