SBIR involved coincident with founding the firm abd still very much involved decades later, Tanner Research, Inc. is organized around various facets of advanced microelectronics design. Through the firm's Tanner EDA division, the company has provided innovative, high performance electronic design automation software solutions to engineers in 35 countries. Tanner EDA products are used for the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal ICs and MEMS with the firm's solutions helping to speed designs from concept to silicon and are used by thousands of companies to develop devices cost-effectively for industry segments such as medical, consumer electronics, automotive, wireless, imaging, power management, RF and solar / photovoltaic. Tanner Labs, the advanced research and development arm of Tanner Research is focused on advanced microelectronics research such as MEMS, speech recognition, active pixel imagers, data acquisition systems and optical communication for commercial and government customers.