Backgrounder

Company
Bluespec, Inc. provides advanced Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solutions for the design of complex semiconductor chips. Bluespec’s Electronic System Level (ESL) Synthesis toolsets significantly accelerate hardware design and modeling & reduce verification costs while delivering:

• Over a 50% reduction in time to a verified design or model
• Less than 50% of the bugs compared to RTL design

Primarily for ASIC and FPGA hardware designers and architects, Bluespec is delivering SystemVerilog-based ESL synthesis with no compromise (speed and area) RTL.  Bluespec is the only ESL synthesis solution for control logic, complex datapaths and algorithms.

Bluespec is the only ESL synthesis solution for control logic, complex datapaths and algorithms.

Bluespec presents the hardware designer an exciting new way to implement a design with correct-by-construction control logic synthesis while retaining full control over the architecture and performance of the design. The toolset allows ASIC and FPGA designers to significantly reduce design time, bugs and re-spins that contribute to product delays and escalating costs. Bluespec integrates seamlessly into Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor and Magma flows, including verification, debug and synthesis, without requiring new methodologies or tools.

Founded
June, 2003

Headquarters
Bluespec, Inc.
14-16 Spring Street
Waltham, MA 02451-1121
(directions)

Main: 781-250-2200
Fax: 781-684-1199

Email: info@bluespec.com

Investors
Atlas Venture: Waltham, MA; London, UK; Munich, Germany; and Paris, France
North Bridge Venture Partners: Waltham, MA

Funding
Bluespec has raised $17.25 million in three rounds of financing since inception.

Target Customers
Bluespec’s customers are system, silicon, IP and design services companies with requirements for developing complex ASIC and FPGA designs.

Management Team
Charlie Hauck, President and Chief Executive Officer
Rishiyur Nikhil, Chief Technical Officer
Bob Votapka, Vice President, Sales
George Harper, Vice President, Marketing

Board of Directors
Charlie Hauck, President and Chief Executive Officer
Arvind, Professor, MIT
Brian McAloon, group vice president, DSP, Media and Communications Products

                 for Analog Devices

Axel Bichara, Senior Principal, Atlas Venture
Jeff McCarthy, General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners

Bluespec is a trademark of Bluespec, Inc.