Mission Statement CEO Power was founded in 2000 by Ty Lav in Fremont, California. Our mission is to listen and understand our customers' issues, deliver the best-in-class solutions with outstanding ROI, and impress with responsive technical support. CEO Power - Delivering Best-in-Class Technologies! CEO Power is helping large and small semiconductor companies alike to simplify the technology qualification process. With our industry experience and connections, we have chosen a select few companies and their technologies to represent as technology specialists. Rewards vs. Risks In Working with Smaller EDA Companies Semiconductor companies can greatly benefit from working with these small and medium-sized companies. Some of these benefits include: Access to leading edge technology Faster turn around time on product support Better ROI Greater tool customization It is important to keep in mind that while small companies may offer better technology, the technology's maturity must be qualified properly in order to minimize downside risks. This qualification process can prove to be successful but it can also be time consuming and costly for companies. Verification and Test Challenges Moore's law has accurately predicted the doubling of circuit design capacity every 18 months. When design size grows this rapidly, testing requirements grow exponentially. Many industry analysts and companies today understand the urgency of solving today's bottleneck in design verification and manufacturing test. Many engineers in design, verification, and test would agree that without capable, leading-edge tools, they cannot reliably predict product quality and results. This is a big problem! For large companies, this means decrease revenues and profits. For small companies, bad quality and results could determine the company's fate. EDA Industry Like many industries, the EDA industry is dominated by a few major players including Cadence, Synopsys, and Mentor Graphics which contribute to an overall product revenue market size of $3 billion according to Gartner DataQuest. While customers usually rely on these three companies to provide a breadth of EDA tools spanning a wide range of the design process, these companies are usually not where you find a great deal of innovation to solve cutting edge problems. In fact, their primary mission is to increase shareholder return. On the contrary, many small and medium-size EDA companies can start with a clean slate and can focus their efforts on either solving a new problem or finding a better and more cost effective way to solve an existing problem.