GATeIC was founded with a mission to help the semiconductor industry transition from analog to digital domains by creating tools and technologies that help engineers create cost, time, and technical optimal IP with the push of a software button, not in days or weeks, but hours. In 2008, GATeIC's introduced its SoftGATe platform, which establishes a new category for EDA platforms. The platform includes GATeIC's IP Constellation Generator, which takes system level specifications for digital components and generates a constellation of practically tape-out ready implementations. The engineer can then select the optimal implementation, based on area-power, area-performance, or other trade-offs.