EE Times has an interview by Sean Murphy with Paul van Besouw. It covers Paul’s background, leaving Cadence to found Oasys, and a good summary of where the company is today, including the agreements announced recently with Juniper Networks and with Xilinx.

However, I think the interview is interest to anyone running a small EDA company (or something similar) since it shows how Oasys bootstrapped themselves using sweat equity, then used the prototype to raise more money and ramped the company from there to the point that where it is today. Of course it is still a story in progress. Watch this space…