Picture shows Duolog’s founder and CEO, Ray Bulger

Duolog Technologies provides Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and services to the global semiconductor design industry. The company was established by Ray Bulger and Mark O’Donovan in the year 2000 and Enterprise Equity made its first investment in Duolog in 2003. Duolog has its headquarters in Dublin but the majority of the company’s staff are split between the company’s R&D centre in Galway and its facility in Budapest in Hungary.

In 1965 Intel’s founder, Gordon Moore, famously predicted that the number of transistors on a chip would double about every two years. What became known as Moore’s Law has proven to be amazingly prophetic and today’s chips present enormous design challenges in trying to marry huge processing capacity with other features such as low power consumption, small physical size and absolute reliability.

Duolog has applied its in-depth knowledge of semiconductor design to the development of a suite of software tools under the brand name Socrates that automate and improve vital elements of the chip design flow. The Socrates tools are used by System-on-Chip (SoC) development teams to assemble and integrate the system components, verify system integrity and generate documentation and code for downstream processing. The tasks now automated by Socrates were traditionally performed either manually or by internally-developed tools. As the scale and complexity of the chips has continued to expand, the manual route is no longer an option and internal solutions are inefficient, non-scalable and difficult to develop and maintain. Socrates offers development teams a proven, scalable and non-disruptive solution that provides real and immediate benefits, saving time, money and resources and promoting collaboration between engineering teams. Duolog is so confident of the benefits of its products that it offers customers a guaranteed ROI of less than three months.

Duolog’s current customers include Texas Instruments, NEC Corporation, and Nokia and a total of 22 companies have either bought or are presently evaluating the company’s products.