Winterlogic Inc

WinterLogic is an electronic design automation (EDA) company that develops software used by semiconductor companies for the design and development of their most advanced integrated circuits (IC) and systems on a chip (Soc). With expertise in high-speed fault simulators and fault management environments for Verilog designs, WinterLogic’s unique technologies dramatically improve fault simulation performance. WinterLogic’s ZOIX is widely recognized as the leading fault simulator on the market. At least twelve of the top twenty semiconductor companies use WinterLogic Z01X. WinterLogic was founded in 2005 by three EDA industry veterans, Jason Campbell, Bryan Walsh and Brian Davenport, for the purpose of maintaining, developing and supporting fault simulation technology. In the 1990s, an engineering group from ZYCAD, who provided a hardware accelerator for fault simulation, began work on a software version of their compiler. Soon they created a spinoff company called Provis to commercialize the new technology, and ZOIX was commercially launched by Provis in By 2005 Provis was running out of venture capital money. Three of its employees acquired the company’s assets in an employee buyout and founded WinterLogic. WinterLogic was sold to Synopsys in March of 2016.