Steve Teig is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Perceive. He serves as Chief Technology Officer at Xperi. Teig also serves as Venture Partner at R7 Partners. He was also the Founder, President, Chief Technology Officer & Board Member at Tabula. He is the inventor of Tabula's Spacetime 3-Dimensional Programmable Logic Architecture. In 2012, Tabula has been recognized with an Edison Award, an American Business Gold Award, inclusion in MIT's "TR50" list of the 50 most innovative companies worldwide, and as #3 in the Wall Street Journal's "Next Big Thing" list of the most promising venture-backed startup companies. Prior to founding Tabula, Steve Teig was CTO of Cadence Design Systems (NSDQ:CDNS). Steve joined Cadence through its acquisition of Simplex Solutions (NSDQ: SPLX), where he was also CTO. At Simplex, Steve invented and led the technology development for the X Architecture, which radically improves chip design by pervasively incorporating diagonal wiring. He served as the Chief Technology Officer at Simplex Solutions.