Synfora, Inc.

Synfora was founded in 2003 to commercialize PICO (Program-in Chip-out) technology developed at Hewlett-Packard Labs over a 7 year period. Synforaís investors include ATA Ventures, Foundation Capital, and U.S. Venture Partners. Hewlett-Packard licensed PICO technology, including 85+ patents, to Synfora and is also an investor in the company. Synfora has 25+ employees at offices in Mountain View, Bangalore, and Japan.

Synfora provides software tools, services and IP that accelerate the design of systems-on-chips (SoCs). The patented PICO technology enables designers to effortlessly target low power designs, eliminates months of manual design effort by automatically generating synthesizable RTL and increase reliability by significantly enhanced verification methodologies including automatic generation of RTL testbench and SystemC models. The tool allows user full control over critical design choices that affect performance, speed and area.