GSA IP Conference
GSA IP Conference

Meet the Sponsors

ARM

ARM

ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, frommobile, home and enterprise solutions toembedded and emerging applications. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, graphics 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.

For more information about ARM, please visit arm.com.

ChipEstimate.com

ChipEstimate.com

The ChipEstimate.com chip planning portal is an ecosystem comprised of over 175 of the world's largest IP suppliers and foundries. These companies all share in the common vision of helping the worldwide electronics design community achieve greater profitability and success. To date, a diverse global audience of over 16,000 users has joined the ChipEstimate.com community and has collectively performed over 60,000 chip estimations. ChipEstimate.com is a property of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic-design innovation.

For more information about ChipEstimate.com, please visit chipestimate.com.

Common Platform

Common Platform

IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Samsung Electronics have forged a unique manufacturing collaboration featuring advanced, jointly-developed digital CMOS 32-nm, 45-nm, 65-nm and 90-nm process technologies. By combining the expertise and research resources of all three companies and leveraging advances such as high-k metal gates and 193-nm immersion lithography, the Common Platform™ technology collaboration is able to accelerate the availability of leading-edge technology to foundry customers in multiple 300-mm foundries. The Common Platform model is supported by a comprehensive design-enablement ecosystem.

For more information about Common Platform, please visit commonplatform.com.

Denali Software

Denali Software

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 Flash and DDR 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 Sunnyvale, California and has offices around the world to serve the global electronics industry.

For more information about Denali Software, please visit denali.com.

nSys

nSys inc.

nSys offers the world's largest portfolio of Verification IPs and Services to accelerate designs while significantly lowering the cost and risks associated in the development of ASIC/SOC. Verification IPs: nVS (nSys Verification Suite) family for standards such as: PCI (PCIe, PCI-X, SR-IOV), AMBA ( AXI, AHB, APB), Storage (SATA, SAS), Communications (Ethernet,SPI4.2), Memory (DDR3, DDR2) and standards like USB,UART, SDIO, etc. Verification Services: Independent Verification, Verification Consultancy and SystemVerilog Migration, covering every phase of front-end design cycle.

For more information about nSys, please visit nsysinc.com.

Rapid Bridge LLC

Rapid Bridge LLC

Rapid Bridge™ is the leading provider of IPs and pre-configured ASIC Platforms to reduce the complexity of nanometer designs across all market segments. Our systematic approach to IP development and ASIC platforms allows our customers to reduce power, risk, die size and IC development efforts when compared to traditional ASIC/COT whilst improving yield and reliability. LiquidIP™ is a collection of best performing (COT/ASIC comparable) metal programmable IPs and system PHYs and LiquidASIC™ is our family of high performing preconfigured ASIC slices.

For more information about Rapid Bridge LLC, please visit rapidbridge.com.

Synopsys

Synopsys

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, intellectual property (IP) and services used in semiconductor design and manufacturing. Synopsys' comprehensive, integrated portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, system-to-silicon verification and time-to-results.

For more information about Synopsys, please visit synopsys.com.

TSMC

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 libraries, IP, design tools and reference flows. The Company's total managed capacity in 2006 exceeded seven million (8-inch equivalent) wafers, including capacity from two advanced 12-inch GigaFabs, four eight-inch fabs, one six-inch fab, as well as TSMC's 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, please visit tsmc.com.

Virage Logic Corporation

Virage Logic

Virage Logic provides advanced embedded memory IP for ICs. The company's Silicon Aware IP™ (embedded memories, logic libraries, I/Os) includes silicon behavior knowledge for predictability and manufacturability. Acquiring Impinj's logic NVM (2008), extended Virage Logic's leadership in NVM markets, and acquiring Ingot (2007), expanded the offerings to DDR memory controllers. The broad product portfolio provides higher performance, lower power, higher density, and optimal yield to foundries, IDMs, fabless customers.

For more information about Virage Logic, please visit viragelogic.com