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Ambit Design Systems, Inc.

SoC design technology
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Ambit produced tools for system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology, designed to put the functions of different computer chips on one microprocessor.

Cadence acquired Ambit in 1997. Cadence’s Paul McLellan — who used to run the engineering department at Ambit — describes how some of Ambit’s tools are in Cadence’s Genus Synthesis in this June 2020 blog.

  • HQ: Santa Clara, CA, USA
  • Known for: SoC
  • Other names: Ambit
  • Type: Company
  • Founded by: Rajeev Madhavan in 1994
  • Type: Company

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