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PDF Solutions Inc.
333 West San Carlos Street
Suite 700
San Jose, CA 95110
United States - Map
Phone: 408-280-7900
Fax: 408-280-7915
Web Site: http://www.pdf.com

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Index Membership:N/A
Sector:Technology
Industry:Technical & System Software
Full Time Employees:375

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
PDF Solutions, Inc. provides infrastructure technologies and services to enhance yield and optimize performance of integrated circuits (ICs) in Asia, the United States, and Europe. It offers manufacturing process solutions that include process research and development, and process integration and yield ramp; volume manufacturing solutions; and design-for-manufacturability (DFM) solutions, such as logic DFM, circuit level DFM, memory DFM, and pdBRIX Physical IP solutions. The company also offers characterization vehicle (CV) infrastructure, which includes CV test chips, pdCV analysis software, and pdFasTest electrical wafer test system; Yield Ramp Simulator software that analyzes an IC design to compute its systematic and random yield loss; Circuit Surfer software, which estimates the parametric performance yield and manufacturability of analog/mixed-signal/radio frequency (RF) blocks; and pDfx environment that enhances the manufacturability of ICs. In addition, it provides pdBRIX platform, which includes software for identifying and developing a set of physical IP building blocks; dataPOWER YMS platform that collects yield data, loads, and stores it in a database, and allows product engineers to identify and analyze production yield issues; Maestria FDC software, which provides fault detection and classification capabilities to identify sources of process variations and manufacturing excursions by monitoring equipment parameters; and YA-FDC service and software platform that allows online modeling to create real-time virtual measurements of final product attributes during processing. PDF Solutions sells its technologies and services through direct sales force, sales representatives, and strategic alliances to integrated device manufacturers, fables semiconductor design companies, and foundries. It has collaboration agreements with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and SVTC Technologies, LLC. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    PDF Solutions Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 6-Nov-09 is better than 24.7% of CGQ Universe companies and 4.1% of Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Dr. John K. Kibarian Ph.D., 44
    Co-Founder, Chief Exec. Officer, Pres, Director, Member of Strategic Committee and Member of Special Option Committee
    $ 250.00K $ 0
    Dr. Kimon W. Michaels Ph.D., 42
    Co-Founder, VP of Design for Manufacturability
    $ 220.00K $ 0
    Mr. Keith A. Jones , 39
    Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and VP of Fin.
    $ 210.00K $ 0
    Mr. David A. Joseph , 55
    Chief Strategy Officer
    $ 258.00K $ 0
    Dr. Cornelius Hartgring Ph.D., 55
    VP of Client Services & Sales
    $ 254.00K $ 0
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-08 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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