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Endeavor was incorporated in 1997 to provide tools and software support for hardware and software designers in the electronic design (EDA) industry. With their philosophy of conservative growth through self-funding, David N. Glass has built up a highly skilled team of experienced and dedicated engineers with expertise in software process, software design, programming tools, and hardware tools. This team of problem solvers has focused its primary efforts on processor modeling abstractions, and interfacing them to co-simulation, existing development tools, and co-design. Endeavor is in the process of making the transition from a custom engineering company to a product company. Endeavor has established relationships with its custom development clients that have enabled it to build up a "war chest" of reusable class libraries and kernel technologies, which it has crafted into a number of processor modeling point products. Endeavor's efforts with a number of co-verification companies developing processor support packages has given it keen insight into the needs and unique requirements of these customers, as well. Being familiar with both the hardware and software development processes puts Endeavor in a useful position to create tools to simplify the practice of designing and verifying products in which the design of the hardware and the writing of software are performed in parallel, thereby shortening its customer's time to market. Endeavor has taken advantage of its corporate relationships to gain greater access to the market than many companies its size. Following a strategy of piggybacking on large customer's name recognition to gain clout has resulted in combined press releases with Synopsys, DSP Group, and LSI Logic, with more on the way. Such a strategy has had the desired outcome of gaining the attention of Fortune 500 companies, the class from which most of Endeavor's customers come.