What is "nangate"

NanGate, Inc is a privately held US/ Silicon Valley-based multinational corporation dealing in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics. NanGate was founded in October 2004 by a group of semiconductor professionals with a background from Intel Corporation and Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. The company has received capital investments from a group of Danish business angels and venture capital companies. The company is today owned and controlled by its management following a management buy-out in 2012. NanGate markets a range of software products and design services for the design and optimization of standard cell libraries and application-specific integrated circuits. The market focus is standard cell library design and optimization for 14-28 nanometer CMOS processes.