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Alchip Technologies
Alchip Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is a leading provider of silicon design and manufacturing services for companies developing complex and high-volume system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Founded in 2002 by semiconductor veterans from Silicon Valley and Japan, Alchip provides services intended to enable customers to cost-effectively address the increasing technological complexity of silicon design and the need to reduce time to market. Alchip targets customers that focus on rapidly growing and high-volume end markets, such as entertainment devices, mobile phones, HDTV, communications equipment, computers and other electronic products. Alchip has a proven track record of delivering 100% first time silicon success which is based on its unique SoC design flows and solutions. Alchip is committed to exceeding its customers’ expectations in terms of product quality, reliable and predictable service, fast time-to-volume, and to be customers' trusted silicon partner. For additional information about Alchip, visit www.alchip.com.
AMD
Advanced Micro Devices is a leading global provider of innovative microprocessor solutions for computing, communications and consumer electronics markets. Founded in 1969, AMD is dedicated to delivering superior computing solutions based on customer needs that empower users worldwide. For more information visit www.amd.com.
Applied Materials
Applied Materials is the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology(TM) solutions for the electronics industry with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products. At Applied Materials, we apply nanomanufacturing technology to improve the way people live. Learn more at www.appliedmaterials.com.
ARC
ARC International is the world leader in configurable processor technology. ARC licenses patented configurable CPU/DSP processors and multimedia subsystems that enable customers to design products that give them a strategic competitive advantage in the marketplace. Using ARC's configurable cores and subsystems, licensees can develop highly differentiated ARC-BasedT system-on-chips (SoCs) that consume less power, are less expensive to produce and provide protection from cloning - distinct advantages over non-configurable, "fixed architecture" alternatives.
The roots of ARC International date back to the early 1990's. As part of Argonaut, a software provider to leading game companies, the design team developed highly customized microprocessors. That technology and know-how to rapidly create customized designs evolved into configurable processors and eventually the ARChitectT configurator tool.
Today, ARC's broad product portfolio is used by 120+ customers that collectively ship close to 100 million ARC-Based chips every year to high-growth embedded markets. They include wireless computing applications, mobile audio and video players, flash storage devices, digital set-top boxes, networking appliances, electronic toys and educational games, and government satellites. www.arc.com.
ARM
ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from mobile, home and enterprise solutions to embedded and emerging applications. ARMs' comprehensive product offering includes 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, 3D processors, digital libraries, embedded memories, peripherals, software and development tools, as well as analog functions and high-speed connectivity products. Combined with the company's broad partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at www.arm.com.
Azuro
Azuro is an exciting new electronic design automation (EDA) software company that is enabling electronics companies around the world to build semiconductor chips that use significantly less power than ever before. Power has become increasingly important to electronics companies as consumers demand ever more talk time, play time, and functionality in their next-generation mobile phones and wireless devices. Azuro is a company founded with a mission to deliver innovative design tools that significantly reduce the power consumption of digital chips. For more information, please visit www.azuro.com
Cadence Design Systems
Cadence enables global electronic-design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today's integrated circuits and electronics. Customers use Cadence software and hardware, methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, printed-circuit boards and systems used in consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. Cadence reported 2005 revenues of approximately $1.3 billion, and has approximately 5,000 employees. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about the company, its products, and services is available at www.cadence.com.
Calypto Design Systems
Calypto Design Systems, Inc. is the technology leader in delivering sequential analysis technology that enables SoC design teams to bridge System Level and RTL for semiconductor design, thereby saving millions of dollars in design costs and silicon re-spins. The company delivers software products to leading edge semiconductor and systems companies worldwide. Calypto is privately held with venture funding from Cipio Partners, JAFCO Ventures, Tallwood Venture Capital and Walden International. For more information visit www.calypto.com
Denali Software, Inc.
Denali Software, Inc. is a world-leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP) for system-on-chip (SoC) design and verification. Denali delivers the industry's most trusted solutions for deploying PCI Express, NAND and DRAM subsystems. Developers use Denali's EDA, IP and services to reduce risk and speed time-to-market for electronic system and chip design. Denali is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and has offices around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about Denali, its products and services is available at www.denali.com.
Dai Nippon Printing (DNP)
Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) is the world's largest comprehensive printing company and the top vendor of LSI photomasks, produced by applying fundamental printing techniques and technologies. DNP LSI Design (DLD) is a subsidiary of DNP, and provides LSI design service and shuttle service. DNP/DLD has some design centers in Japan, and can cover all design steps from Front-End design to Back-End design. DNP/DLD provides design service for various chips, for example, ASIC/Full custom, Analog and mixed signal, library and IP development and so on. The high quality of DNP/DLD's designs can be attributed to the use of state-of-art design-support hardware and software by many expert designers.
Faraday Technology Corporation
Faraday Technology Corporation is a leading fabless ASIC vendor as well as a silicon intellectual property (SIP) provider. Statistically, Faraday has been acknowledged its innovative power with over 3,000 successful designs, along with nearly 100 million ASIC chips shippedannually worldwide. Our customer satisfaction helped us achieve a 35% compound annual growth for the past decade. Our ability in attaining an economic scale in top quality ASIC products has allowed us to establish an enormous IP data bank. Faraday's ASIC and IP business models complement each other, which contributes as the key to its success. Please see faraday-tech.com
Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries.
Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications products, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited reported consolidated revenues of about 4.8 trillion yen (US$40.6 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com.
Global Unichip Corp.
Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), a dedicated full service SoC (System On Chip) Design Foundry based in Taiwan, was founded in 1998. GUC provides total solutions from silicon-proven IPs to complex time-to-market SoC turnkey services. GUC is committed to providing the most advanced and the best price-performance silicon solutions through close partnership with TSMC, GUC’s major shareholder, and other key packaging and testing power houses. With state of the art EDA tools, advanced methodologies, and experienced technical team, GUC ensures the highest quality and lowest risks to achieve first silicon success. GUC has established a global customer base throughout Greater China, Japan, Korea, North America, and Europe. Its track-record in complex SoC designs has brought benefits to customers in time to revenue at the lowest risk. For more information, please visit www.globalunichip.com
Globetech Solutions
Globetech Solutions is a premier provider of standards-based verification and test intellectual property electronic design automation solutions. Globetech addresses key challenges in electronic system level design from specification to volume production and field support. Customers, including some of the world's largest IDMs, design IP suppliers and systems manufacturers, use Globetech's products and services to increase quality, control predictability, and improve productivity. For further information, please visit www.globetechsolutions.com
LSI Corporation
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking markets. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
MindTree Limited
MindTree Limited is a global IT and R&D Services Company co-headquartered in the U.S. and India. With a passion for customer satisfaction, MindTree partners with its clients to create a transparent, value-based relationship. Our domain experts deliver business-enabling solutions by leveraging a consulting led, framework-based and IP-driven approach. MindTree's IT Services business provides a range of services to CIOs across a variety of industry segments. Our R&D Services business works with Technology companies to help build innovative products by providing Product Realization services.
MindTree was named among the Top 30 offshore service providers by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals and Fortune Magazine. Widely known for its focus on human capital development, MindTree has been consistently rated as the most admired employers by several industry surveys, including Hewitt Associates and Mercer/TNS, and is also the winner of the MAKE Award for knowledge management. MindTree is publicly listed in India. Please visit us at www.mindtree.com.
MIPS Technologies
MIPS Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, networking, personal entertainment, communications and business applications. The company drives the broadest architectural alliance that delivers 32- and 64-bit embedded RISC solutions to the embedded market, and in combination with its licensees, offers the widest range of robust, scalable processors in standard, custom, semi-custom and application-specific products worldwide. MIPS Technologies licenses its intellectual property (IP) to today’s leading semiconductor companies, ASIC developers and system OEMs.
Today, MIPS-Based™ designs are integrated in millions of products around the world, including broadband devices from Linksys, digital cameras from Canon, DTVs and entertainment systems from Sony, DVD Recordable devices from Pioneer, digital set-top boxes from Motorola, network routers from Cisco and laser printers from Hewlett- Packard. Founded in 1998, MIPS Technologies is based in Mountain View, California, with offices worldwide. For more information, please contact (650) 567-5000 or visit www.mips.com.
NEC Electronics
NEC Electronics Corporation specializes in semiconductor products encompassing advanced technology solutions for the high-end computing and broadband networking markets, system solutions for the mobile handsets, PC peripherals, automotive and digital consumer markets, and multi-market solutions for a wide range of customer applications. NEC Electronics Corporation has 25 subsidiaries worldwide including NEC Electronics America, Inc. (www.am.necel.com) and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH (www.eu.necel.com). For additional information about NEC Electronics worldwide, visit www.necel.com.
Nippon System Ware Co., Ltd (NSW)
NSW (Nippon System Ware Co.,Ltd) was established as an independent IT company in 1966. Since then, NSW has been engaged in a broad range of activities including software and device development and information processing services. NSW builds a business that supports hardware and software development and assists customers in designing LSIs for graphics, communication/networking and mechanical control applications. NSW provides its customers with total solutions based on ARM core embedded SoCs as an ARM-approved design center and provides the ARM926 SOC Development Platform board called "CORAL". The CORAL board enables customers to evaluate customers RTL on a high-load real system environment. NSW also provides design services to support customers to develop systems, front-end and back-end designs, and software development covering driver software for custom IP, firmware, and application software including variable interfaces. For more information visit www.nsw.co.jp/english/index.html.
NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors is a top 10 semiconductor company founded by Philips more than 50 years ago. Headquartered in Europe, the company has 37,000 employees working in 20 countries across the world. NXP creates semiconductors, system solutions and software that deliver better sensory experiences in mobile phones, personal media players, TVs, set-top boxes, identification applications, cars and a wide range of other electronic devices. News from NXP is located at www.NXP.com.
Sequence Design
Sequence Design accelerates the ability of SoC designers to bring high-performance, power-aware ICs quickly to market. Sequence's power and signal- integrity software solutions give customers the competitive advantage necessary to excel in aggressive technology markets, despite the demanding complexity and time-to-market issues of nanometer design. Sequence serves over 150 customers worldwide, in application segments such as consumer, wireless, mobile computing, multimedia, cell phones, digital cameras, network-on-chip processors, and other power-sensitive markets. The company was named by Reed Electronics as one of the top 10 companies to watch in the electronics industry, and was recently selected as one of high-tech's Top 100 companies by siliconindia magazine. Sequence has worldwide development and field-service operations and is privately held. Please see sequencedesign.com
Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS)
Starting from Year 2000, SiS heavily deployed in high speed interface and I/O IP. Today’s 3C products, required high speed industrial standard I/O, continue to raise SoC bar in many ways. This is a segment that increases new opportunities but also creates big hurdles to today’s SoC designers.
SiS mass-production silicon IP provides SoC designers with a large portfolio IP choices covering mixed signal IP, digital IP, high speed interface and I/O IP. When combined our quality silicon IP with our comprehensive design service and turn-key service, SiS offers SoC designers a lower risk and fast path to chip success at competitive manufacturing cost. In past years, SiS delivered more than 100+ millions of ASIC that integrated with high speed interface and I/O. For more information about SiS silicon IP, please visit SiS SoC web address at http://soc.sis.com or contact us at soc_sales@sis.com.
SMIC
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC"; NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 981) is one of the leading semiconductor foundries in the world and the largest and most advanced foundry in Mainland China, providing integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing service at 0.35um to 90nm and finer line technologies. Headquartered in Shanghai, China, SMIC has a 300mm wafer fabrication facility (fab) under pilot production and three 200mm wafer fabs in its Shanghai mega-fab, two 300mm wafer fabs in its Beijing mega-fab, a 200mm wafer fab in Tianjin, and an in-house assembly and testing facility in Chengdu. SMIC also has customer service and marketing offices in the U.S., Europe, and Japan, and a representative office in Hong Kong. In addition, SMIC manages and operates a 200mm wafer fab in Chengdu owned by Cension Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation and a 300mm wafer fab under construction in Wuhan owned by Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation. For more information, please visit www.smics.com
SOCLE Technology
SOCLE Technology is dedicated itself into providing professional SoC design platform solutions and SoC design services. SOCLE Technology offers world-leading solutions and services for ARM Platform SoC and ASIC Implementation Service. The ARM Platform SoC service focus in HMI/Communication/Connection/Control market and provide the highly integrated SoC and reference system design solutions in eBook, handheld, mPOS, HMI and PND/GPS application. The ASIC Implementation service provides the world-leading implementation platform solution in tier-one foundries and advance process technologies (65nm, 90nm and 0.13um). SOCLE Technology’s mature design platform solutions and professional design services will substantially increase your silicon success and your competitiveness of ARM based SoC. SOCLE Technology can be found on the web at www.socle-tech.com.
Sonics, Inc.
Sonics Inc. is a premier supplier of SMART Interconnect solutions, delivering high SoC design predictability and increased design efficiency. Its solutions address the growing complexity found in consumer products with voice, data and video features. Major semiconductor and systems companies including Broadcom, Samsung, Texas Instruments and Toshiba leverage Sonics’ technology in leading products in the wireless, digital multimedia and communications markets. For more information, see www.sonicsinc.com.
Tensilica
Tensilica offers the broadest line of controller, CPU and specialty DSP processors on the market today, in both an off-the-shelf format via the Diamond Standard Series cores and with full designer configurability with the Xtensa processor family. Tensilica's low-power, benchmark proven processors have been designed into high-volume products at industry leaders in the digital consumer, networking and telecommunications markets. All Tensilica processor cores are complete with a matching software development tool environment, portfolio of system simulation models, and hardware implementation tool support. For more information on Tensilica's patented approach to the creation of application-specific building blocks for SOC design, visit www.tensilica.com.
Toppan
Toppan Technical Design Center Co. Ltd. (TDC) is a total service provider for the development of LSIs utilizing various LSI technologies including digital, mixed-signal, analog, memory. The company's SoC design business began over 30 years ago, as part of Toppan Printing's photomask production business. Its expertise grew over time, and now its technical capability includes large scale system LSI design utilizing world-class IP such as ARM CPU cores and wide variety of ICs across broad range of analog technology. In addition to its design service capability, TDC is now capable of handling not only ES production, but also MP (Mass Production) of LSIs based upon strong partnerships with foundries, test houses, and assembly houses. In recent years, the demand for such full service operation - LSI design through to volume production - has grown dramatically, and this OEM Device Business is now on course to become one of our main business lines. It is the mission of TDC to create a strong value proposition for our customers. Our customers have high expectations for TDC's capabilities to provide the total solution and it is our goal to meet and exceed their expectations, to become one of the leading total service providers for LSI development in the industry, and to gain and grow the trust of our customers.
TSMC
TSMC is the world's largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, providing the industry's leading process technology and the foundry industry's largest portfolio of process-proven library, IP, design tools and reference flows. The company operates two advanced twelve-inch wafer fabs, five eight-inch fabs and one six-inch wafer fab. TSMC also has substantial capacity commitments at its wholly owned subsidiaries, WaferTech and TSMC (Shanghai), and its joint venture fab, SSMC. TSMC is the first foundry to provide 65nm production capabilities. Its corporate headquarters are in Hsinchu, Taiwan. For more information about TSMC see www.tsmc.com.
UMC
UMC is a leading global semiconductor foundry that manufactures advanced process ICs for applications spanning every major sector of the semiconductor industry. UMC delivers cutting-edge foundry technologies that enable sophisticated system-on-chip (SoC) designs, including volume production 90nm, industry-leading 65nm, and mixed signal/RFCMOS. UMC's 10 wafer manufacturing facilities include two advanced 300mm fabs; Fab 12A in Taiwan and Singapore-based Fab 12i are both in volume production for a variety of customer products. UMC can be found on the web at www.umc.com.
VeriSilicon
Founded in 2001, VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. ("VeriSilicon") is a fast growing silicon solutions company providing products and services that enable customers to meet their chip design objectives, accelerate development programs and deliver market proven silicon products - on time and at lower cost.
VeriSilicon specialises in providing expert design services, market leading licensable cores and platforms, industry standard semiconductor IP and scalable ASIC turnkey services across a broad range of application markets, including multimedia, voice and wireless communications. VeriSilicon has an extensive track record of accelerating customer ASIC designs from initial specification to silicon, achieving first silicon success - on time and on spec - and taking customer silicon through to volume production, utilizing its partner network of leading wafer foundries and packaging and test companies in Asia Pacific and China. VeriSilicon's global customer base of market leading multi-nationals to fabless start-up companies benefit from shorter development cycles, reduced cost of ownership and economies of scale provided by VeriSilicon's value-added IP platforms, flexible engagement model, superior supply chain management and strong service culture.
www.verisilicon.com
Virage Logic Corporation
Founded in 1996, Virage Logic Corporation rapidly established itself as a technology and market leader in providing advanced embedded memory intellectual property (IP) for the design of complex integrated circuits. Now, as the company celebrates its 10th anniversary, it is a global leader in semiconductor IP platforms comprising embedded memories, logic, and I/Os and is pioneering the development of a new class of IP called Silicon Aware IP(TM). Silicon Aware IP tightly integrates Physical IP (memory, logic and I/Os) with the embedded test, diagnostic, and repair capabilities of Infrastructure IP to help ensure manufacturability and optimized yield at the advanced process nodes. Virage Logic's highly differentiated product portfolio provides higher performance, lower power, higher density and optimal yield to foundries, integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) and fabless customers who develop products for the consumer, communications and networking, hand-held and portable, and computer and graphics markets. The company uses its FirstPass-Silicon(TM) Characterization Lab for certain products to help ensure high quality, reliable IP across a wide range of foundries and process technologies. The company also prides itself on providing superior customer support and was recently named Customer Service Leader of the Year in the Semiconductor IP Market by Frost & Sullivan. Headquartered in Fremont, California, Virage Logic has R&D, sales and support offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.viragelogic.com.
Vivace Semiconductor
Vivace Semiconductor was founded in October 2005 to create and deliver new secure video processing chips to address the needs of next generation consumer electronic products. Through a combination of a customized processors, highly optimized firmware and silicon proven IP, Vivace is creating highly efficient chips that address the difficult requirements of media processing. The chips support multiple video compression standards including H264/MPEG4 AVC, MPEG4 ASP, Windows Media 9, MPEG2 and VC-1 and multiple encryption standards including AES, DES, 3-DES and DVB CSA. Our chips target the emerging growth markets in portable video players and integrated digital TV platforms (LCD, Plasma, .). Vivace's chips are supported by an integrated software development environment that supports programming on multiple, heterogeneous on-chip processors.
Wipro Technologies
Wipro Technologies’ 2100+ Semiconductor / System engineers and 18,500 embedded software engineers make it the World’s largest independent R&D service provider. Combined with best-in-class methodology, EagleWision™ Wipro has one of the best first-pass-success rates for 300+ silicon and 200+ system designs delivered over the last 2 years.
Wipro (NYSE:WIT) is a $4 bn global provider of IT Services, Outsourced R&D, Infrastructure Outsourcing, Business Process Services, and Business Consulting. With 25 years in the global delivery of technology services, Wipro is the world’s largest third-party provider of R&D services and the world’s first PCMM and CMMi level company. Rated by industry analysts as a leader in global package implementation projects, CRM services, and Infrastructure Management among offshore firms, Wipro has won global recognition and awards for innovation and outsourcing excellence.
For more information visit www.wipro.com/vlsi.
