Semitech Semiconductor provides power line communication (PLC) semiconductor devices that enable the transformation of the electricity grid into a smart grid that connects utilities to their customers. By connecting utilities to their customers, Semitech's devices enable a worldwide communications network over the existing power grid. Semitech's products are used in smart meters, smart grid monitors, solar panels and inverters, and street lighting, implementing a connected system that is more reliable and flexible than existing approaches. Semitech is based in Singapore and Melbourne, Australia.

Semitech's family of PLC devices delivers a range of solutions and bandwidth for smart grid communications. Semitech's products have consistently proven to be the most robust solutions for broad deployment in noisy power grid environments.

Semitech's SM2200 enables communications over noisy power lines where other parts fail. As a result, the SM2200 is used in PLC applications where reliability, distance, data rate and noise immunity are required, including China's power grid where Semitech has been used since 2008. The SM2200 uses modulation and signal processing technology that is adjustable in speed but also "frequency agile" to deliver highly robust and reliable communications. The SM2200 adapts to noisy environments, choosing the most effective transmission frequency. It also employs a multi-access scheme to provide additional robustness and enables communication with multiple nodes simultaneously, thus providing the customer with better results via the highest throughput and the most reliable communication available.

Semitech recently announced its SM2400 multi-standard orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) narrowband PLC modem to provide reliable communications for IEEE 1901.2, PRIME, G3 and proprietary smart grid metering deployments.

EE Times ACE selected Semitech as a 2011 Start Up of the Year Finalist.

"Semiconductor companies are global from day one. Our GSA membership helps keep Semitech connected to the global fabless semiconductor community with the information, contacts, visibility and tools that we need as a leader in smart grid communications devices."

–Mike Holt, VP of Marketing and Sales, Semitech Semiconductor

Cavendish Kinetics designs, manufactures and markets tunable radio frequency (RF) circuits based on third-generation microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology and innovative semiconductor processes. Cavendish's products are designed to address a serious challenge facing the wireless industry: how to pack more features and services into wireless devices without adding more radios or increasing the device size.

The family of digitally-controlled, variable capacitors offers the highest quality factor and best tuning range in the industry and are ideally suited for handset antenna tuning, impedance matching circuits, power amplifier (PA) load adjustment and tunable RF filters.

Cavendish's unique technology enables the design of cellular handsets, laptops, netbooks, tablets and other consumer wireless devices with improved performance, lower power and smaller RF systems.

Products incorporating Cavendish Kinetics' semiconductor products:

• Deliver a more satisfying experience for the end user while significantly improving the network efficiency of the cellular operators.
  
• Provide 3G and 4G systems with improved RF signaling, which dramatically increases data throughput and reduces call re-tries and dropped call rates.
• Reduce component counts, which make it faster and less expensive to design better-performing wireless devices.
• Use less power to get the same transmission power since the antenna and RF systems can be tuned to remain in their design windows regardless of the environment.
• Have smaller form factor since the devices are the smallest in the industry and can be used as bare-bumped die when incorporated into a tuning module.

"GSA provides a unique, focused forum on issues that affect the semiconductor industry supply chain and hosts events where current information and issues are discussed by industry experts."

– Larry Morrell, Executive Vice President, Marketing & Sales, Cavendish Kinetics