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ATEEDA secure £750,000 investment
from AIIL and SCIF (July
2008)
ATEEDA concluded a new investment of £750,000
with Archangel Informal Investment and the
Scottish Co-Investment Fund to support high
levels of demand for its unique Analog Semiconductor
Test Technology. The investment also sees
the addition to the board of senior EDA
industry figure, Colin Adams as a non-executive
director.
ATEEDA's CEO, David Hamilton commented,
"Recognition of the benefits available
from our EDA tool, OptimATE, is growing
fast. This new investment will allow us
to support the high levels of interest in
replacing analog tests with simple digital
ones. In addition, Dr Adams' wealth of senior
management experience at market leading
EDA companies will be a great asset to ATEEDA's
board."
John Waddell, CEO, AIIL said "Despite
the current economic challenges we are very
pleased our investors and SCF have supported
this opportunity to invest in an Edinburgh
company which has real global ambition.
We are confident that Colin, whom we know
through our Edinburgh University ties, will
add value."
Colin Adams, Director said "ATEEDA
has some great technology and a unique value
proposition. It is a privilege to be able
to work with a local company with such global
potential."
Read the full press release ...
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ATEEDA founder member of Synopsys Hspice
Integrator Program (March2008)
ATEEDA has become a founder member of Synopsys’s
HSpice Integrator Program. The HSPICE Integrator
Program enables qualified EDA vendors to
integrate their products with the de facto
standard HSPICE simulator, HSPICE RF simulator,
and WaveView Analyzer™. In addition,
qualified HSPICE Integrator Program members
have access to HSPICE integrator application
programming interfaces (APIs). Collaboration
between HSPICE Integrator Program members
will enable customers to achieve more thorough
design verification in a shorter period
of time from the improvements offered by
inter-company EDA design solutions.
Read the press release ...
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ATEEDA joins EE Times Silicon 60 Emerging
Startups (February
2008)
15 new entrants to global list of most
significant new semiconductor companies.
ATEEDA is one of only 15 new entrants to
be recognised by the voice of the industry,
the EE Times, for inclusion on its 'Silicon
60'. This elite global list of companies,
which highlights the best emerging companies
in the field of semiconductors, can be viewed
in full at EE
Times.
Peter Clarke, the European Editor of the
EE Times said, "The startups on the
Silicon 60 list are companies involved in
semiconductor chips, memory, MEMS, EDA software,
embedded applications, foundry manufacturing,
semiconductor production equipment, electronics
subsystems, packaging and materials that
have made an impression on EE Times editors.
They are emerging companies to watch - for
a wide variety of reasons. The companies
in version 7.0 of the EE Times Emerging
Startups list have been selected by editors
based on a mix of criteria including: technology,
intended market, maturity, financial position
and management and investment profile. At
this iteration 15 companies have been brought
on to the list."
ATEEDA's CEO, David Hamilton noted, "It
is particularly pleasing to have ATEEDA's
significance recognised within a Californian-Corporations
dominated list. It demonstrates how major
new technologies like ours can emerge to
serve a global market."
ATEEDA, founded in 2006, specializes in
testing mixed signal devices which have
both analog and digital sections. The company
has developed the world's first effective
software electronic design automation (EDA)
tool, OptimATE, that allows analog sections
to be tested on digital testers, enabling
manufacturers to save substantial amounts
of time and money.
OptimATE is ATEEDA's core product, offering
a unique combination of features and benefits,
particularly for mixed signal semiconductor
manufacturers. Benefits include dramatically
reduced production test time, reduced and
test cost, simplified analog test equipment
requirements, and improved statistical information
about test coverage assisting with reliability.
Read the press release ...
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ATEEDA wins Scottish
Software Award for best Emerging Software
Business 2007 (November
2007)
Ateeda were judged the company that best
demonstrated a sound business case with
significant growth aspirations backed by
a strong management team.
Read the press release ...
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ATEEDA joins panel of industry leaders
(14th September 2007)
ATEEDA joins panel of industry leaders
at IFF 2007 - 5th Annual International System
& SoC Forum.
ATEEDA CEO, David Hamilton, will join the
panel of industry leaders at IFF 2007 in
Prague on October 10-12th 2007 to bring
an analog test-cost-reduction perspective
to an examination of the forum theme "System
Level Design - The End-To-End Imperative"
concentrating on issues surrounding SoC
design in a disaggregated world.
Other Keynote and Panel speakers include:
Massimo Vanzi, CEO, Accent Technologies,
Jon Lanson, Vice President, Amkor Technology,
Martin Gibson, Partner, Atlas Ventures,
John Heugle, President & CEO, austriamicrosystems,
Scott McGregor, President & CEO, Broadcom,
John Scarisbrick, CEO, Cambridge Silicon
Radio, Kevin Meyer, Vice President, Chartered
Semiconductors, Dave Stewart, CEO, Critical
Blue, Jack Harding, President & CEO,
eSilicon, Stan Boland, President & CEO,
ICERA, Rudy Lauwereins, VP Nomadic Embedded
Systems, IMEC, Frederic Reblewski, Founder
& CEO, m2000, Hanns Windele, Vice President
Europe, Mentor Graphics, Mattias Voigt,
General Manager - Engineering Group, NEC
Electronics, John O'Brien, CEO, S3 Group,Rich
Goldman, VP Strategic Market Development,
Synopsys.
ATEEDA, founded in 2006, specializes in
testing mixed signal devices which have
both analog and digital sections. The company
has developed the world's first effective
tool that allows analog sections to be tested
on digital testers, enabling manufacturers
to save substantial amounts of time and
money.
OptimATE is ATEEDA's core EDA product, offering
a unique combination of features and benefits,
particularly for mixed signal semiconductor
manufacturers. Benefits include reduced
production test time, reduced test cost,
simplified analog test equipment requirements,
and improved statistical information about
test coverage. Validation of the technology
is at an advanced stage with several major
integrated device manufacturers (IDMs).
Further details of the forum at futurehorizons.
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ATEEDA JOINS
SYNOPSYS in-Sync PROGRAM
(27th April 2007)
Interoperability between Synopsys’
HSPICE Circuit Simulator and Ateeda’s
OptimATE formalized Edinburgh, UK —
April 26, 2007— ATEEDA, a leading provider
of mixed-signal test tools and services,
today announced it has joined Synopsys,
Inc.’s in-Sync program to develop and
support interoperability between ATEEDA’s
OptimATE© mixed-signal test tool and
Synopsys’ HSPICE® simulator, the
gold standard for accurate circuit simulation.
ATEEDA, founded in 2006, specializes in
testing mixed signal devices which have
both analog and digital sections. The company
has developed the world's first effective
tool that allows analog sections to be tested
on digital testers, enabling manufacturers
to save substantial amounts of time and
money.
OptimATE is ATEEDA's core EDA product,
offering a unique combination of features
and benefits, particularly for mixed signal
semiconductor manufacturers. Benefits include
reduced production test time, reduced test
cost, simplified analog test equipment requirements,
and improved statistical information about
test coverage. Validation of the technology
is at an advanced stage with several major
integrated device manufacturers (IDM’s).
ATEEDA’s CEO David Hamilton said “I
am keenly aware of the need for our product
OptimATE every time we see designs from
high-volume, mixed-signal IDMs. The reduction
in test time achievable on the analog portion
using OptimATE and Synopsys’ HSPICE
circuit simulator is compelling. Achieving
full interoperability with Synopsys’
HSPICE tool through the Synopsys in-Sync
program is very important for us.”
"Synopsys has a long history of working
with standards bodies and industry organizations
to advance tool interoperability,"
said Karen Bartleson, director of Interoperability
at Synopsys, Inc. "Through the in-Sync
interoperability program, Synopsys enables
EDA vendors, including ATEEDA, to identify
and implement interoperable design flows
that help maximize productivity."
Read the press release ...
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ATEEDA Secures
Funding (5th February
2007)
ATEEDA
SECURES FUNDS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR TEST TECHNOLOGY
IDMs trial world-leading solution for testing
mixed signal integrated circuits
ATEEDA, a spinout led by a top team of
serial entrepreneurs, has raised seed funding
to commercialise leading-edge semiconductor
technology with the potential to deliver
dramatic cost savings for mixed-signal integrated
device manufacturers (IDMs).
The company, which is headed by Chief Executive
and Co-Founder David Hamilton, secured backing
from a consortium of backers led by Chairman
and Cofounder Peter Denyer. It also included
the Scottish Seed Fund which is managed
by Scottish Enterprise, the Synergy Fund
which is managed by Scottish Equity Partners,
and the University of Strathclyde.
Hamilton, who has led research and development
projects for major hi-tech companies, heads
a highly experienced team. It includes Cofounder
and Chief Financial Officer Bill Buckie
and fellow Cofounder and Non-Executive Director
Jane Karwoski McCracken, both of whom have
been involved with several high-growth businesses,
as well as Peter Denyer, a serial technology
investor and entrepreneur.
ATEEDA, founded in 2006, specializes in
testing semiconductor circuits known as
mixed signal devices which have both analog
and digital sections. These are the fastest
growing area of the semiconductor business
and found in virtually all consumer products.
There are well-established methods for testing
digital sections but ATEEDA has developed
the world's first effective test for analogue
sections on digital testers, enabling manufacturers
to save time and money. David Hamilton,
CEO of ATEEDA said: "We have developed
the solution semiconductor manufacturers
have been seeking for years. Our technology
marks a significant step-change for the
industry and we're hugely excited by our
global growth prospects."
The technology was developed from a project
at the Department of Electronic and Electrical
Engineering at the University of Strathclyde
in Glasgow. It was funded by Scottish Enterprise's
Proof of Concept programme and also supported
by the Technology Talent Initiative.
Chairman Peter Denyer said:" We are
delighted to be backed by funders with such
excellent track records in this dynamic
sector. I look forward to helping ATEEDA
build a world class business."
Rob Moffat, Synergy Fund Manager for Scottish
Equity Partners, a leading UK venture capital
firm with more than £300 million under
management, said: "ATEEDA has the hallmarks
we seek in an early stage start-up - world
class technology and a large market opportunity
supported by an effective technical team
and experienced board."
The seed funding round, in which law firm
Morton Fraser acted for ATEEDA, will enable
the company to accelerate its product development
plans by expanding its internal engineering
team and strengthening relationships with
its strategic customers and development
partners.
Trials of the technology, which dramatically
reduces the cost of testing electronic circuits
during the production process, are already
underway with several major integrated device
manufacturers.
Pat McHugh, Scottish Seed Fund Manager
for Scottish Enterprise commented: "ATEEDA
is a great example of a young innovative
company with the potential to grow quickly
and become a global leader in its field.
Startup and young growing companies in Scotland
now have access to finance through the Scottish
Seed Fund."
Stuart Mackenzie, Spin-out Company Development
Manager at The University of Strathclyde
said: "ATEEDA's breakthrough marks
the latest example of world class technology
spun out of The University of Strathclyde.
The project benefited from early support
from Scottish Enterprise and the new funds
will enable ATEEDA to take advantage of
major growth opportunities.
OptimATE© is ATEEDA's core product,
offering a unique combination of features
and benefits, particularly for mixed signal
semiconductor manufacturers including: reduced
production test time; reduced test cost;
simplifies test equipment requirements;
and improved statistical information about
test coverage.
It was developed by a team with a unique
mix of expertise in analog circuit design,
artificial intelligence and digital signal
processing as well as both academic and
commercial experience.
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ATEEDA Test
Beta release (5th
April 2006)
Mixed Signal specialist announces EDA tool
to allow testing of analogue circuits using
Digital ATE equipment.
ATEEDA CEO, David Hamilton today announced
the internal Beta release of a new EDA tool
which promises to bring significant benefits
to the rapidly growing market niche of mixed
signal semiconductor manufacturing. Dr Hamilton
commented:
"This is a very significant milestone
for ATEEDA. ATEEDA Test is for use in-house
in close collaboration with our customers.
It will let us design test programs for
our customers' existing and new mixed signal
products. Specifically, it lets our customers
test the analogue parts of the mixed signal
devices much more easily at waferprobe.
They already use Digital Automatic Test
Equipment (ATE) at waferprobe. ATEEDA enables
them to enhance their capability to test
the analogue section at the same time. Typically
the test time for even small analogue sections
falls from the order of seconds to milliseconds
using ATEEDA."
"This is a huge advantage and the
opportunities for cost cutting and increasing
test coverage in this area are very exciting.
There is no other product which can deliver
these benefits in spite of many engineers
having tried to do so for a long time. In
some devices, the projected manufacturing
cost savings run into several $Ms and several
$100Ks is common. One of the features of
ATEEDA's approach that Test Managers find
most attractive is the intuitive nature
of how it works. Most engineers are already
aware of step-testing and our time domain
approach brings this right up to date. We
simply introduce modern signal processing
techniques to ensure the 'Step-like' signals
we put in are so well matched to the circuits
under test that any faults are immediately
obvious."
"We have put a lot of effort into
the user interface and ATEEDA can directly
read in our customers' netlists and transistor
models (e.g. HSpice). The test vectors can
subsequently be deployed and run on their
Digital testers with ease."
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ATEEDA appoints non-executive director
(5th April 2006)
Jane Karwoski
McCracken joins board of ATEEDA Ltd.
Former CEO of All-Hotels.com, Jane Karwoski
McCracken has been appointed to the board
of EDA Mixed Signal Specialist Tool provider
ATEEDA Ltd. Jane McCracken brings a wealth
of experience having successfully guided
dotcom company All-Hotels though the challenging
post dotcom-crash period. "Jane will
strengthen the board and, being based in
the United States, will provide a valuable
perspective and linkage to our North American
customers." noted ATEEDA's CEO, David
Hamilton. Jane commented "I split my
time between the United Kingdom and the
United States and am very happy to join
ATEEDA at this interesting period for the
company."
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ATEEDA strengthens
management team (2nd
April 2006)
Experienced Chairman and Chief Finance
Officer appointed to ATEEDA board.
ATEEDA has announced the appointment of
Peter Denyer
as non-executive Chairman and Bill Buckie
as CFO for ATEEDA Ltd. ATEEDA's CEO, David
Hamilton commented 'We are delighted to
have people with such extensive domain expertise
and experience join us. This is an exciting
time for the company and we all look forward
to introducing world class EDA products
aimed at improving the quality and cost
effectiveness of mixed signal manufacturing'.
Peter Denyer founded and built the Vision
Group which introduced the world's first
CMOS camera and has gone on to help a number
of technology companies. Bill Buckie was
CFO at Pharmagene, one of the world's first
biotechnology companies and has since provided
executive and non-executive direction for
several technology companies.
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