The privately held company was founded in 1981 by Helmut Mahr and has over 90 employees worldwide, with various facilities for research, design, and sales in Germany, France and the U.S. The headquarters of the parent company Pro Design Electronic GmbH is located near Munich, Germany. The US headquarters is located in San Jose, CA.

CHIPit – The Multifunctional Hardware and Software Verification Solution
The CHIPit product line of verification platforms provides verification and validation throughout the SoC and ASIC project life cycle. CHIPit platforms give design and verification engineers unprecedented speed and flexibility to validate algorithm performance, verify hardware implementation and assist in hardware/ software co-development and co-verification.

The multifunctional CHIPit systems can be used in different design verification phases such as behavior prototyping, co-simulation, accelerated regression testing or pre-silicon software development. The CHIPit platforms can handle capacities up to 20 million ASIC gates and run at speeds of up to 200 MHz.