SAN FRANCISCO — Electronic system level (ESL) tool provider Tenison Design Automation said Tuesday (Aug. 2) that it closed more than $4 million in private equity funding from several prior and new investors, including Sigma Technology Management and CLS Holdings plc.
In a statement issued Tuesday, Martin Harding, Tenison CEO, said he was delighted by the investment support.
"This funding will provide Tenison with the means to strengthen our position as a leader in providing design tools for companies designing SoCs who require high performance software models for exploration and verification,” Harding said.
Tenison (San Jose, Calif.) provides a technology, VTOC, that Harding believes can bridge the "model gap" between register-transfer level (RTL) and ESL by synthesizing models from RTL to higher levels of abstraction, creating C++ and SystemC models.