Harry L. Dickinson

Artisan Components, Inc. develops and manufactures high density embedded memories. The firm's products include standard cell libraries, embedded memories, input/output cells, analog functions, and high-speed interface IP. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Cygnus Solutions, Inc. develops software development platforms based on an open source model. The company was founded by Michael Tiemann, David Henkel-Wallace and John Gilmore and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Bigfoot Networks, Inc. provided networking hardware and software for gamers and mass-market consumers. It offered Killer gaming network cards for online games, voice chat, and other applications, and delivered networking performance for online games. The company was founded by Grim Bob, Michael Cubbage, and Harlan T. Beverly in 2006 and was headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Mentor Graphics Corp. provides electronic design automation systems-advanced computer software and emulation hardware systems, which are used to automate the design, analysis, and testing of electronic hardware and embedded systems software in electronic systems and components. It markets products and services primarily to large companies in the military/aerospace, communications, computer, consumer electronics, semiconductor, networking, multimedia, and transportation industries. The firm operates through the following geographical segments: United States, Europe, Japan, Pacific Rim, and Others. The company was founded on February 4, 1981 and is headquartered in Wilsonville, OR.