Bristlecone is recognized for its semiconductor and high-tech industry heritage in providing business technology services. The company’s services include SAP R/3 enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), supplier relationship management (SRM) and business intelligence. Leveraging dozens of semiconductor customer successes, Bristlecone has recently released its latest innovation through delivering a business technology platform that its semiconductor clients will benefit from for years to come. Now, establishing a core systems platform does not have to be a significant hurdle in the growth and management of a company. Architected as an all-in-one solution, semiconductor clients can now scale up and down its systems backbone with market conditions, switching a traditionally cumbersome capital investment into an agile technology service expense.

For additional information, contact:
Santhosh Kumar
(E) semiconductor@bcone.com
(W) www.bcone.com

Cosmic Circuits is a leading provider of differentiated analog/mixed-signal silicon intellectual property (IP) for system-on-chip (SOC) integration. Quality is ensured through full silicon qualifications, and an evolved design methodology for flexible customization is in place. The company’s WiMo analog front-end platform for wireless multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) Wi-Fi/Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is now silicon-proven in multiple flavors of 65nm/90nm nodes from top-ranking foundries. Its power-on-SOC family, power regulators in 130nm/90nm, has been expanded to 65nm (silicon-tested switching/linear regulators). In addition, new Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) D-PHY mixed-signal core-on-silicon is now offered for both transmit and receive. Also, high-performance audio platforms including class-D amplifiers (90nm silicon) have recently been introduced.

For additional information, contact:
Krishnan Ramabadran
(T) 91-80-40526200
(E) krishnan@cosmiccircuits.com
(W) www.cosmiccircuits.com

Dolphin Integration focuses on the design of virtual components of IP to enable low-power SOCs for large-volume applications. The latest innovation in its libraries, Haumea, enriches advanced process nodes with embedded memories, offering the best mix of consumption and density (BCD). Haumea combines cost reduction and ease of P&R with a unique poly/triple-metal (1P3M) occupancy.

High-resolution embedded codecs for 2009 will feature Helium with its 93dB digital-to-analog converter (DAC) below 10mW – dedicated to portable audio applications. Aiming at offering the market the longest playback capability, Helium is optimized for low power.

For additional information, contact:
Elsa Bernard-Moulin
(E) ragtime@dolphin-integration.com
(W) www.dolphin-integration.com

Helene Colin
(E) jazz@dolphin-integration.com
(W) www.dolphin-integration.com

eMemory provides non-volatile memory (NVM) IP and technology development services based on over 220 patents. Only using existing core and input/output (I/O) devices for IP design, Neobit technology is widely adapted from 0.70μm to 65nm generations. It can be applied in logic, low power, mixed mode, radio frequency (RF), high voltage, Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD), SiGe and other derivatives. There are now more than one million 8-inch production wafers shipped with Neobit and NeoFlash IP. The accumulated new tapeout (NTO) is larger than 680, and for verified IP, it is more than 400. These numbers reveal great production records and manufacturing maturity to provide added value for various product applications.

For additional information, contact:
(T) 886-3-563-1616
(E) neobit@ememory.com.tw
(W) www.ememory.com.tw

During the 2009 IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Science and Technology Symposium in January, Forza Silicon held a joint presentation with Japan Broadcasting Company NHK on video capturing equipment using FORZ33. FORZ33 allows frame rates up to 60fps at full 33.2 mega-pixel resolution and features 12-bit, on-chip ADCs. FORZ33 technology is targeted at high-resolution, high-speed, high-dynamic range digital cameras used in professional photography or digital cinematography, and in the medical, biotech, scientific, satellite and defense industries.

For additional information, contact:
Mel Stinebaugh
(E) info@forzasilicon.com
(W) www.forzasilicon.com

Intelop, a leading high-end IP developer and customization and electronic engineering design services provider, released its second-generation Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) offload engine SOC solution integrated with an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) hardware module, a Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Controller (GEMAC) and an Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) 2.0 bus interface running at 2Gbps sustained rates. It is the only module that integrates so many functions in hardware, and is a new paradigm in networking hardware acceleration. The solution implements control plane and data plane processing of TCP/IP in hardware that is at least 20 times faster than a TCP/IP software stack. In addition, it optionally provides the ability to integrate other interfaces (e.g., Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe)x4). Intelop designed, verified and implemented this SOC in Altera’s high-speed field-programmable gate array (FPGA).

For additional information, contact:
Kevin Moore
(T) 408-496-0333
(E) kevnm@intelop.com
(W) www.intelop.com

Norman Meritt
(T) 408-496-0333
(E) info@intelop.com
(W) www.intelop.com

Mixel, the leader in mobile mixed-signal IP, and Northwest Logic, a leading provider of high-performance digital IP cores, released a complete solution for the MIPI Camera Serial Interface-2 (CSI-2). This solution consists of the Mixel MIPI D-PHY, optimized for low-power operation and small silicon footprint, and the Northwest Logic MIPI CSI-2 controller core, delivered as silicon IP. The complete solution fully conforms to the latest MIPI specification. Working together, the companies provide customers with a complete, low-risk, low-power, low gate-count, full-featured, differentiated MIPI solution.

For additional information, contact:
Ashraf K. Takla
(T) 408-942-9300
(E) akt@mixel.com
(W) www.mixel.com

Outsourcing to global markets has created a proliferation of counterfeit and gray market activity. To combat this problem, New Momentum’s latest major release of brand protection software, based on the latest Microsoft .NET 3.5 technologies, makes it faster and easier to identify counterfeits and unauthorized distributors.

Semiconductor companies need comprehensive visibility into the global, open market to combat counterfeits. To stop the erosion of their brand and revenues, rapid 24/7 real-time access to this information is required. New Momentum’s technology empowers manufacturers to monitor and analyze counterfeits and gray market infringements across a wider variety of global, open market sources.

For additional information, contact:
Chris Jensen
(T) 714-803-1432
(E) cjensen@newmo.com
(W) www.newmo.com

Oracle provides industry-leading business solutions for the semiconductor industry based on best-of-breed applications, middleware and open, standards-based technology. Oracle’s supply chain solution helps semiconductor companies achieve accurate consensus forecasts, optimized inventory leveling and postponement strategies, faster planning cycles and superior on-time delivery.

The company’s semiconductor solution can improve the predictability and timeliness of demand signals. It delivers a single holistic supply chain plan that provides both long-range aggregate planning across foundries, assembly and test, as well as short-term detailed scheduling. Oracle enables lead-time reduction while reducing inventory through the optimum use of die banking or other inventory postponement strategies, resulting in higher levels of customer responsiveness. Oracle delivers complete lot-based genealogy to track wafer and die through multiple suppliers across fabrication, sorting, assembly and test, enabling transparency across the extended semiconductor supply chain. The company enables new product introduction and release planning along with operational and financial performance management analytics, providing visibility across the entire enterprise to drive real bottom-line improvements.

For additional information, contact:
(T) 800-633-0738
(W) www.oracle.com/industries/semiconductor

Sidense provides secure, low-cost, dense and reliable non-volatile one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP for use in standard logic CMOS processes with no additional masks or process steps. Sidense’s patented one-transistor 1T-Fuse™ architecture provides the industry’s smallest footprint and lowest power logic NVM solution.

Sidense’s foundry-friendly OTP memory IP is available at 180nm, 130nm, 90nm and 65nm, and is scalable to 40nm and below. The IP is available at TSMC, UMC, Chartered, SMIC, Fujitsu, IBM, Vanguard and Tower. Customers use Sidense’s OTP for analog trimming, code storage, encryption keys such as High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), radio frequency identification (RFID) and chip ID, medical, automotive, and configurable processors and logic.

For additional information, contact:
Jim Lipman
(T) 925-606-1370
(E) jim@sidense.com
(W) www.sidense.com

Virage Logic extended its comprehensive double data rate (DDR) interface IP portfolio with two new products. For high-performance market applications, Intelli™ DDR3 System Aware IP™ has been system-validated at speeds in excess of 1.6 gigabits/second on a 65nm process. Intelli DDR3 is an end-to-end solution including a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) memory controller, I/O and the industry’s first commercially available all-digital physical layer + dynamic link library (PHY+DLL). For mobile and portable markets, Intelli LPDDR2 low-power memory interface IP meets the latest Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC) LPDDR2 specification, and delivers optimal performance at the power and area required for a broad range of high-performance portable devices, enabling video, graphics and other consumer applications.

For additional information, contact:
Tarah Hartzler
(T) 503-546-1014
(E) tarah@mcbru.com
(W) www.viragelogic.com