Semiconductor Venture Fair V

Participating Companies
Actinix
Actinix is a research and development company specializing in 193 nm solid-state lasers and optical tools. Applications for our technology include interferometric immersion lithography and photomask phase metrology. Our mission is to provide our customers with the most advanced vacuum ultraviolet lasers and optical tools that cost effectively image, measure and fabricate next generation nano-scale devices.
Aivaka
Aivaka is a fabless semiconductor company focused on power management solutions targeted for the low-power portable electronics market. The Company designs, develops and builds efficient, battery independent, low-voltage DC/DC regulators for use in applications such as cell phones, digital still cameras, medical and industrial devices and MP3 players. Based on its advances to date, Aivaka's technology solves critical issues facing manufacturers of portable electronics, namely low operating voltage, low noise, increased efficiency, long battery life and reduced cost of materials. Aivaka has developed step-down regulator technology with the lowest operating voltage in the industry, and at a cost approximately 50% lower than its competitors. This new step-down regulator technology is necessary to work with all existing and new battery technologies, such as Li-Ion, NiMH, Li-phosphate and Zinc-Metal. Moreover, due to the size of Aivaka's DC/DC regulators, less space is utilized on the circuit board, thus freeing up much needed real-estate for the device manufacturers as the form factor of portable devices scales smaller. Aivaka's highly efficient regulators enable longer operating time of the device, meeting a highly demanded requirement by users.
Alereon, Inc
Alereon is a fabless semiconductor company developing innovative Ultrawideband (UWB) wireless chipsets. Our mission is to simplify networking by removing cables, allowing effortless connections between PCs, consumer electronics, PC peripherals and mobile devices. We want to change the way consumers use electronic devices to connect to the world.

Alereon was founded by industry pioneers in ultrawideband technology. The company's 120+ patent/application portfolio speaks to the experience of our team and our deep understanding of radio frequency technology. Alereon's executive team is comprised of leaders from some of the most respected companies in the technology world including IBM, Intel, Cirrus Logic, AMD, Mobilian, and Standard Micro Systems to name just a few. Backed by some of the leading venture capital firms, Alereon has assembled a team that demonstrated the first complete, fully functional 480Mbps solution in early 2005, and introduced production silicon for delivery in the first quarter of 2006

Allvia
ALLVIA, Inc. provides thru-silicon via foundry and licensing services to the semiconductor, RF, and MEMS industries in order to meet the increasing demands for 3D stacking, advanced vertical interconnects, and System-in-Package (SiP) solutions. Patented and proprietary through silicon via manufacturing technology allows for the shortest electrical path between two sides of a wafer or individual die, used for 3D die-to-die, die-to-wafer or wafer-to-wafer stacking as well as wafer level packaging (WLP). The company has developed some key pieces of equipment required for this thru-silicon via processing. ALLVIA also develops its own proprietary and patented product line providing valuable components for the high performance semiconductor packaging and assembly market. ALLVIA, Inc. has built 4000 Square Feet of Class 100/1000 Clean room and offers a full lineup of wafer processing and thru-silicon via foundry services for customers seeking quick turn custom R&D applications as well as low volume, high value production runs.
AmberWave Systems
Founded in 1998, AmberWave Systems has become a leader in the research, development and licensing of advanced technologies for semiconductor manufacturing. Realizing that research and development is the lifeblood of industry advancement, AmberWave Systems provides a bridge between promising research within universities around the world and commercialization of the results of that research. By funding and guiding university research, AmberWave Systems is bringing new technology to fruition through patents and technology licensing. In conjunction with its university research projects, AmberWave Systems conducts its own research, development and limited manufacturing in its semiconductor fabrication facility in Salem, New Hampshire. In addition, AmberWave Systems collaborates with other technology focused companies to further expand and develop its research.
Apexone Microelectronics
Apexone Microelectronics is an innovative fabless semiconductor company that designs high-performance interactive multimedia communication mixed-signal integrated circuits. Since its inception in 2002, the company has introduced more than a dozen state-of-the-art IC products into market. The products are widely used by Tier-1 OEMs including Apple, HP, Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, Huawei, Haier …globally in the booming interactive multimedia and wireless communication aoolications for mobile phones, PMPs, LCD TVs, and PCs. The company has shipped more than 60 million units of SOCs worldwide. The company has assembled a diverse team of recognized leaders who are focused on providing the best products with the highest quality and support to world-wide customer base. Apexone has received numerous global industry recognitions, including 2005 CES "Jimmy Award" winner*, 2005 "Red Herring Asia 100" winner, 2006 "FSA Outstanding Financial Award" winner as first-ever from China, 2007 "Start-up of the Year" ACE winner as first-ever outside US in history, "2007 Best Product of the Year" by ESM. * Product demo with our partner products
Applied MicroStructures, Inc.
Applied MicroStructures' Molecular Vapor Deposition (MVD™) technology enables the growth of ultra-thin films with a wide range of functionalities on a broad spectrum of substrates. MVD is a breakthrough proprietary nanotechnology technique that allows for room temperature vapor deposition of several types of organic and organometallic molecules. This innovative technique has facilitated many new emerging applications with small feature sizes that have been difficult or impossible using traditional liquid synthetic techniques. Due to its versatility, MVD is an ideal process for modifying surfaces properties. Films created using MVD can serve as hydrophobic, hydrophilic, biocompatible, protective, ordering, or reactive coatings.
Artimi, Inc.
Artimi is a fables semiconductor company developing ICs, software and reference designs that employ ultra-wideband (UWB) radio techniques to achieve high data rate wireless connectivity in portable consumer electronics. Artimi's products use WiMedia®-based Certified Wireless USB and next-generation Bluetooth® connectivity to enable consumers to easily transfer large amounts of photos, movies or other content, in just seconds-and without the tangle of wires and connectors people use today. Target devices include PCs and peripherals, digital cameras and camcorders, docking stations, wireless hubs, personal media players and mobile handsets. The company is privately funded, with headquarters in Santa Clara, California, research and development in Cambridge, UK and worldwide sales based in Taipei, Taiwan. Artimi's management team and engineers have a successful track record in establishing semiconductor
Asetek AS
Asetek is one of the leading developers of vapor phase and liquid-cooled thermal management solutions for standard pc's, servers, and entertainment centers. For a decade, Asetek has developed the very strong brand names VapoChill and WaterChill, to become the preferred choice in enthusiast-grade cooling solutions. Asetek's latest Low Cost Liquid Cooling solution is applicable to all OEMs and ODMs who take their customers seriously, and who acknowledge that low noise and smaller form factors have a place in the digital future.
ASOCS, Ltd.
Founded in 2003, ASOCS is a fabless semiconductor company, developing, implementing and marketing a Malleable Communication Processor chip and soultions targeting multi-protocol, multi-technology convergence devices. ASOCS has developed ModemX & MacX, disruptive and patented algorithm-based technologies that offer a hardware-oriented and cost effective solution to this critical market need. Our solution encompasses both wireless and cellular technologies, including GSM, W-CDMA, Wi-Fi, MDTV, GPS and Mobile-Wimax as well as other next generation wideband air interfaces , and will enable handset vendors to offer various product offerings using a single platform chipset design. ASOCS boasts an experienced management team with key professionals from wireless, cellular and algorithm development.
Aspex Semiconductor Ltd.
Founded in 2003, ASOCS is a fabless semiconductor company, developing, implementing and marketing a Malleable ComAspex is a UK fabless semiconductor company that designs and markets high performance, software programmable chips and boards, based on a patented parallel processing architecture, for image processing applications with a speciality in High Definition (HD) video compression. The company is winning significant business by providing a lower cost, reduced risk and reduced time-to-market alternative to custom designed chips. We have chosen initially to target the high value image processing market which has pressing needs for our technology which offers high performance, cost savings, faster time-to-market and increased flexibility. We have achieved success to date in the professional segment of the image processing market, which has a market potential of several billion dollars. We have over 40 customers, at varying stages of development, across broadcast and digital cinema; industrial inspection/machine vision; medical imaging, video encoding, IPTV and multi-function printers. Our technology is also applicable to high volume consumer image processing market such as HDTVs, home gateways/set top box, digital cameras and mobile handsets and the company is an advanced stage of design of a family of world class HD video compression devices, internally known as QED. We have had early stage customer discussions with a number of partners.
aspien GmbH
aspien provides advanced signal processing solutions for receivers in next generation wireless or wireline communication systems. These systems are typically characterized by higher operating speed in combination with complex state-of-the-art signal processing algorithms. On the other hand, area (i.e. cost) and power consumption is limited by the application. This poses major design challenges for digital signal processing in the base-band of the receiver. We address these challenges by means of more area and power efficient analog signal processors which outperform their digital counterparts by up to several orders of magnitude.
BridgeWave Communications
BridgeWave Communications, Inc. is the leading supplier of wireless gigabit solutions. BridgeWave is a U.S. based company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 1999 by veteran technology executives from the high-performance wireless industry. BridgeWave delivers highly-reliable, cost-effective gigabit wireless solutions for enterprise, service provider, and government networks, including municipal and military applications. BridgeWave's U.S.-designed and -manufactured gigabit wireless products are enabled by BridgeWave's proprietary transceiver and modem technologies. BridgeWave's products utilize the upper millimeter-wave radio spectrum in the recently-allocated 60-90GHz range, enabling multi-gigabit per second wireless connectivity at affordable price points. Setting the standard for product quality, BridgeWave employs Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) during design and Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS) during production to ensure the highest levels of product reliability and customer satisfaction. BridgeWave has achieved ISO9001 registration for over five years running. BridgeWave's multi-disciplinary team is the innovation leader in millimeter-wave systems. The company has been issued 6 patents for key technologies that enable BridgeWave to remain at the forefront in this industry.
BrightScale
We are a Fabless semiconductor company building an advanced video processing chip for HDTV. We provide a flexible, programmable platform for TV manufactuerers to provide Digital Video, Digital Audio and Video Post Processing in large HDTVs.
Clearshape Technologies, Inc.
Clear Shape develops software tools and technologies that enable design and manufacture of sub-90nm semiconductor ICs
Comlent Technology, Inc.
As a leading fabless radio frequency (RF) & system on chip (SoC) integrated circuit (IC) design house headquartered in Shanghai (China's first), Comlent provides RF & SoC chips to China's local ODM/OEM and brands that serve wordwide markets. Initial products include RFIC transceivers in CMOS technology for mobile handsets in different standards such as PHS/PAS and 3G (TD-SCDMA) as well as CMOS System on chip (SoC) enabling DAB/FM receiver and mobile TV for mobile terminals and portable multimedia players (PMP). Comlent has been the sole RF company sponsored by China's "National 3G (TD-SCDMA) fund" and has developed "the world's first CMOS TD-SCDMA transceiver" accepted and published on 2007 International Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC) - the first ever whole chip from a Chinese company.
DisplayLink
DisplayLink Corp (formerly Newnham Technology Inc) is a network display fabless semiconductor company that is leading the "second display revolution" by enabling flexible connections to be made between computers and displays using standard wired or wireless networking protocols. DisplayLink technology allows any number of monitors to be connected to a single PC and function independently to display different content, enabling monitor manufacturers, PC OEMs and PC accessory companies to develop USB-connected monitors, video-capable USB laptop docking stations, VoIP video phones, picture frames, etc. The DisplayLink solution is comprised of Virtual Graphics Card (VGC) software that runs on a Windows PC, and a Hardware Rendering Engine (HRE) inside the DL-120 or DL-160 graphics networking chips at the display end. The VGC software processes a stream of display information using the company's proprietary adaptive graphics protocol and transmits it over a USB 2.0, wireless USB, or Wi-Fi link to the DL-120 or DL-160 chip that reconstructs the image on the display. The Company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with main R&D and product development activities in Cambridge, UK. More information is at www.displaylink.com.
Enpirion Inc.
Enpirion is the leading supplier of Power Systems on Silicon. A fabless semiconductor company founded by leading technologists from AT & T Bell Labs the Company has pioneered the integration of silicon and magnetics to realize a complete power supply in an single IC package. The high integration level results in a 90% improvement in power density, saving significant customer board real estate and a significant improvement in time to market based on its ease of design. The Company introduced its first product, a 3 Amp/10 Watt DC-DC converter, during the 2H 2004 for which it received significant industry recognition, including "Product of the Year" from "Power Electronics Technology", EDN and "AnalogZone". Enpirion was also a nominee for the 2004 FSA "Fabless Semiconductor Company to Watch" award. The Company has since introduced three other products to expand its portfolio for both line powered and battery powered applications. The Company has a total of 22 patents granted and a further 21 pending. During 2005, Enpirion secured significant design wins with Tier 1 electronics OEMs and began its revenue ramp from these designs wins in Q4 2005.
Fresco Microchip, Inc.
Fresco Microchip Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company focused on leading edge RF, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing architectures for consumer markets. Fresco Microchip has a start-up hardened team of technology, sales, and marketing veterans in the TV semiconductor industry with strong track records, multiple design patents, and long-standing customer relationships with the world's most recognizable and respected consumer electronics brands. We are creating demodulator, intermediate frequency (IF) processor, and tuner products with a compelling, competitive advantage in the hybrid, legacy, and digital TV markets. Fresco significantly reduces system cost and improves performance across a broad spectrum of TV applications and platforms. Our revolutionary wideband IF processing (iSAW) provides the industry's best adjacent channel rejection, reduces required tuner gain, and eliminates dozens of passive components associated with traditional implementations while reducing system cost. Our solution processes any digital or legacy analog television broadcast IF signal. Television level video quality has long been the goal of legacy demodulator designers using digital technology. Fresco uses Agile Digital Signal Processing (ADSP) technology to create universal legacy demodulation in low cost CMOS. Digital technology provides television quality video without the part to part variation of the traditional analog implementation. Combining digital demodulation technology with patentable iSAW and ADSP provides the complete hybrid solution.
Fulcrum Microsystems
Founded in January 2000, based on advanced research conducted at Caltech by the company's founding team, Fulcrum Microsystems is applying a patented circuit technology and design methodology to deliver high-performance, standards-based interconnect devices for use in computing, storage, and networking applications that are differentiated from traditional switch chips by their lower latency, higher performance, higher level of integration, and improved power efficiency. Through several projects and technology partnerships, Fulcrum has proven the virtues of our technology foundation and the ability of our team to deliver complex chip products. And, with commercial products shipping in volume, Fulcrum has proven our ability to deliver complete solutions and support customers during their system design, bring-up, and production ramp. In a short time, we have earned a reputation for exceeding customer expectations with performance-leading products that function as advertised -- every time.
Hellosoft Corp.
HelloSoft is the world's leading provider of VoIP Technologies for wireline and wireless devices. The company enables mass deployment of low-cost, power-efficient, fully-featured multi-mode wireline and wireless devices by providing highly optimized RISC-based VoIP products with superior voice quality, QoS, and efficient call switching specifically designed for next generation end-points. HelloSoft's IMS/VCC stack enables seamless hand-off between cellular and Wi-Fi networks for multi-mode handsets. This comprehensive portfolio of award winning VoIP products enables OEMs, ODMs and semiconductor manufacturers to deliver VoIP enabled products with a short time to market schedule.
Hvvi Semiconductors, Inc.
HVVi is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in RF power transistors that will serve multiple wireless market applications, such as: Radar, Avionics, ISM (Industrial, Scientific & Medical), Broadcast and cellular basestations. The technology foundation of HVVi is a new silicon transistor architecture for RF, power management and precision linear applications. In 2007, the company will introduce its first product line, which is a family of 48V RF power transistors, named HVVFETs.
Iamba Networks, Inc.
Provider of end-to-end solution suite for GPON, including SoCs for the OLT (CO platform) and for ONTs (CPEs), fully manufacturable hardware designs for ONT units and OLT blades and a complete set of software for delivery of triple-play services via GPON including gigabit Ethernet, VoIP and IPTV and OMCI for GPON network management.
Imperas, Inc.
Imperas, Inc. is addressing the next inflection point in the semiconductor design and programming market. The previous major improvement in semiconductor design lifted the design entry to the register transfer level (RTL), a $1B market in 2005. The next major step forward in software tools extends the traditional hardware focus to embedded software and is therefore poised to be an even bigger opportunity. Imperas is uniquely positioned to drive and capitalize on this next inflection point with technology for optimization of mapping and deployment of parallel applications to Multi Processor System on Chips (MPSoCs). Current and immediate customer needs are addressed with technology for modeling, simulation, analysis and debug of MPSoCs developed from the ground up with unique multi-processor requirements in mind. Imperas has not yet made public announcements as to its products and direction.
iVivity, Inc.
iVivity is a leading developer of innovative protocol acceleration and management silicon and software, with solutions that address the needs of a unified network, having voice, video and data all simultaneously on the same wire. iVivity's solutions are architected to provide the highest levels of performance, with minimal impact on system resources. iVivity's core competencies include ASIC design, board design and software development. iVivity integrates hardware acceleration into multi-core designs with standard-based software, in order to ease integration, accelerate adoption, and reduce time to market for OEM manufacturers. iVivity's patented implementation of a hardware state machine protocol offload engine is the only solution today that provides full 10Gbps line-rate throughput at any packet size, with no load on the host processor. That state machine, combined with iVivity's highly-pipelined, multi-core architecture, can completely manage the entire network and storage stack, allowing the host processor to manage applications with full performance. iVivity has been developing this technology since 2000 and has been issued 3 patents, with an additional 50 + patents pending.
Kenet, Inc.
Kenet is a fabless semiconductor company, bringing its proprietary, ultra-low power analog-to-digital converter technology to market. The company exclusively licensed technology from MIT Lincoln Laboratories and has filed numerous patents of its own. Kenet's revolutionary FemtoCharge CMOS ADC technology is manufactured in standard foundry CMOS technology, is scalable with process geometry and is highly immune to digital substrate noise, making it ideal for integration into CMOS SOCs. Additionally, it offers advantages in die area efficiency while simultaneously delivering high performance and ultra-low power consumption. Kenet has publicly announced two market leading, stand-alone, analog-to-digital converters, as well as a $1.3M subcontract with BAE Systems for development of a 12-bit, 500 MSPS ADC.
KeyEye Communications
KeyEye Communications is a fabless semiconductor company enabling high performance connectivity solutions over structured copper twisted pair cabling between networking, computing and storage equipment. Our 10Gbps Ethernet transceivers (PHYs) deliver the lowest power, lowest cost and most reliable 10GBASE-T connectivity over typical data center cable reaches. KeyEye Communications' Ethernet PHY solutions enable network managers to scale their network infrastructure to 10G by leveraging the traditional value of Ethernet copper twisted pair cabling to achieve low cost, high port density and low power. KeyEye is headquartered in Sacramento, California with design centers in San Jose and Minneapolis. The team has successfully developed multiple generations of high-speed physical layer transceivers on copper media including Ethernet, Frame Relay, DSL and T1/E1 at Broadcom, LevelOne Communications, Intel and others. KeyEye investors include Menlo Ventures, American River Ventures, Blueprint Ventures, Industry Ventures and Western Technology Investment.
Kilopass
Kilopass Technology Inc develops and markets advanced embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) technology, manufactured in standard logic CMOS processes. Kilopass' objective is to offer the most process scalable secure, reliable, and cost-effective embedded non-volatile memory solutions in the industry. Kilopass' embedded NVM technology, XPM or Extra Permanent Memory, provides an excellent solution for electrically field-programmable firmware storage, security IDs and/or keys, analog circuit calibration, yield enhancement, self-repair, and IC configuration information for the flexible implementation of customer specific product features in a single chip solution. Kilopass Technology's XPM products integrate seamlessly with advanced Customer Owned Tooling (COT) and Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) markets and are available today for industry leading foundries and process geometries.
Kleer Wireless
Kleer is a fabless semiconductor company that has developed the first wireless audio technology to combine high quality audio and robust ISM band coexistence with low power consumption to address the multi-billion dollar portable, home and automotive audio markets.
Lightspeed Logic, Inc.
Lightspeed Logic is the leading provider of mask reconfigurable intellectual property (IP), to IDM and fabless semiconductor manufacturers worldwide. Our reconfigurable logic IP increases flexibility by enabling limited-mask variants resulting in time-to-market and development expense advantages, and improves manufacturability by providing a uniformly repeated tile, leading to improved yield and reduced variability impact while providing industry-leading density and performance. Lightspeed Logic's customers are using our IP to build high volume ASSP, CSSP, and SOC devices at 90, 65, and 45 nm process nodes.
MediaPhy Corporation
MediaPhy is a fabless semiconductor company focused on developing and marketing unique all CMOS single chip multimode solutions for worldwide digital mobile TV products. MediaPhy's novel system architecture enables a cost effective, high performance design on a single CMOS die that includes the RF tuner and baseband demodulator. MediaPhy Corporation is headquartered in San Jose, California, with a design center in Delhi, India.
Microbridge Technologies
Microbridge Technologies Corp. develops and delivers step-ahead electronic calibration solutions for sensor and electronics manufacturers, providing breakthrough technologies that eliminate the inefficiencies of workarounds and sub-optimized adjustment and temperature compensation solutions. Rejustors with eTC, from Microbridge, is a new category of integration ready, passive precision electronic analog adjustment technology with the advantage of temperature compensation capability, unlike the current alternatives of digital and analog potentiometers and laser trimming, and without the power dissipation, cost and application limitations of digital compensation. Rejustors are sold as discrete components and custom resistor arrays, and licensed for integration with semiconductor or MEMS based sensors or high performance analog, mixed-signal and System on Chip integrated circuits (ICs)
Mirror Semiconductor
Mirror Semi is a start up joint venture between Liberty University and TopLine Corporation. Global market. Technology innovation is Mirrored Pinout Integrated Circuits (patent pending). Mission is to change the way the electronics industry designs printed circuit boards through the use of Mirrored Pinout devices. Revenues in business model will come from being a fabless maker of Mirrored Pinout ICs as well as licensing Mirrored Pinout technology to other semiconductor companies.
Nangate, Inc.
Nangate is pioneering the development of next-generation Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software for the IC industry. The company's unique design optimization technology merges physical synthesis with the physical IP (library) creation process. On-the-fly creation of bespoke cells which perfectly fit the application as well as providing full transistor-level control of library IP during synthesis translates directly into tangible customer benefits such as lower dynamic and static IC power consumption, improved DFM characteristics, higher performance, reduced manufacturing costs and shorter time to market. As such, Nangate's products constitute a revolutionary new class of design solutions that allows customers to take much better advantage of both current and next-generation IC manufacturing technologies and will become a prerequisite for first time success in leading edge process nodes (45nm and below). Nangate was founded in 2004 by an experienced management team noted for international success in the IC industry. The company's founders gained high-end IC design experience at such companies as Vitesse Semiconductor Corp., Cray Communications and Intel Corporation. The company's sales and support functions are headquartered in Silicon Valley, USA and it has engineering operations in Copenhagen, Denmark and Moscow, Russia. Nangate also has an advanced research division in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Nano Green Technology, Inc.
Nano Green Technology Inc.-incorporated in late 2004-is a pioneering "100% green" technologically driven equipment manufacturing company that provides revolutionary cleaning process solutions for the semiconductor, TFT FPD/LCD, and data storage disk drive (DSDD)-to achieve the following:
  • Eliminate oxide etching and protect your devices and topography
  • Achieve unmatched cleaning performance
  • Improve surface roughening-and not damage the surface
  • Create a paradigm shift in processes and technologies
  • Reduce operation costs-drastically
  • Eliminate expensive chemicals used in the traditional SC-1 and SC-2 cleaning processes
  • Revolutionize all cleaning processes and remove nano particles-ionic, organic/inorganic, or metallic
  • Provide a green--and safe-environment-without any waste
In the last 40 years, there have been dramatic changes, enhancements, and improvements in almost every aspect of device designs, front-end and back-end process equipment, testing, inspection, and metrology; however, there have been little or no changes in the traditional SC-1 and SC-2 cleaning process. Now, led by a dedicated team of industry experts who have in-depth knowledge and experience in the challenges that our industry faces, Nano Green Technology's experts have invented-the first breakthrough in the cleaning industry-to radically change the way wafers and devices are cleaned-now-and in the future.
NetEffect, Inc.
NetEffect (www.neteffect.com) is a privately held company producing next generation, multi-gigabit Ethernet connectivity products. NetEffect's 10Gbps Ethernet Channel Adapters (ECAs) are based on the iWARP extensions to the Ethernet standards. iWARP enables Ethernet to once again meet even the most demanding data center needs, delivering high throughput for networking, fast access for storage and low latency for clustering applications. NetEffect gives customers the ability to continue leveraging existing investments in their standard Ethernet networking hardware and software while achieving greatly increased performance - up to 10Gbps. NetEffect's technology and business leadership has earned the company nearly $50M in two venture funding rounds. The company's technology recently became generally available after a successful beta period. Early users, such as the Ohio Supercomputer Center and Queens University, have published white papers in which they document the superior performance of NetEffect's adapters.
NoblePeak Vision Corp.
NoblePeak Vision Corp. is a company developing a new generation of camera cores and components with breakthrough night vision performance. The TriWave™ image sensor chip at the heart of the camera core product is manufactured with a silicon CMOS process originally conceived by NoblePeak's founders at Bell Laboratories. The camera core product is able to take advantage of the short wave infrared (SWIR) light source emitted by the earth's atmosphere to create visibility even in complete darkness. Video security providers do not provide adequate solutions when they are needed most-at night under all weather conditions. NoblePeak developed the NightWave™ camera core with its TriWave™ image sensor chip to capitalize on the multi-billion dollar market for night vision cameras and sensors in the commercial security, homeland security, automotive and military markets. With performance exceeding the demanding requirements for military use at a price point accessible by commercial customers, NoblePeak Vision Corp. is allowing our camera manufacturer customers to deliver solutions "From Mission Critical to Main Street™."
Octasic
Octasic Inc. develops silicon and software solutions that deliver exceptional sound quality for network and end-point equipment manufacturers within the wireless, VoP, and TDM segments of the telecommunications industry. Octasic's innovative algorithms, processors and modules are optimized to perform three key functions: echo cancellation, packetization, and compression. Octasic's easy to integrate echo cancellation software suite enables manufacturers of end-user communication equipment to deliver industry-leading sound quality. With Octasic's specialized scalable solutions, next-generation communication equipment manufacturers benefit from optimal flexibility and unmatched performance in terms of density, cost and power consumption.
Optomec
Optomec is a profitable, fast-growing equipment supplier that is a leader in the emerging field of printable electronics. Optomec's production systems leverage nanomaterials to reduce the overall size of electronics by enabling the low-cost, low-temperature maskless production of high-density (micron-scale) interconnects, embedded passives and miniaturized components. The initial markets include a range of Solar, Semiconductor, Display, Fuel Cell and Flex Circuit applications. The solution offers cost, dimensional and functional advantages, and has the further benefit of being inherently cleantech as it uses less energy, materials and chemicals than traditional methods such as screenprinting and photolithography. Optomec has sold 50 systems in 10 countries, to customers that include Samsung, Micron, GE and 3M. The Company has been contracted to provide production systems for a Top 5 Solar Cell manufacturer and is supplying subsystens to several LCD Inspection/Repair OEM's. Product sales have grown >100% over the past 2 years to more than $8 million, and are projected to accelerate as our users begin the transition to production applications.Optomec has an experienced leadership team with successful start-up experience. The Company has bootstrapped $25M in product development to build an Intellectual Property portfolio that includes 12 patents and 20+ applications pending.
PicoCal, Inc.
PICOCAL was formed to capitalize on opportunities in the field of nano-metrology and inspection equipment. The company has sales. The company completed prototypes of micromachined probes and electronics and has established interest with several key industry players. PicoCal continues to innovate with the development of a family of probes for scanning thermal microscopy, high throughput scanning probe microscopy, nanotribology, and four-point-probe electrical measurements. In addition, the company is developing a high throughput scanning probe microscope (SPM) which offers significant improvements in throughput compared to existing SPMs. Prior to the company's formation, more than $ 1M was spent on the development of its products at the Universities of Wisconsin and Michigan. The company has received more than $ 300,000 in state and federal funding and has completed more than $ 150,000 in sales. PICOCAL has exclusive licenses for patents with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and has filed for two additional patents with the USPTO.
picoChip Designs
picoChip is the leading supplier of multicore signal-processing chips, with ten-times better MIPS/$ and MIPS/W than legacy architectures or signal processing FPGAs. The company's latest device delivers 31GMACs for $30 and is in volume production. Critically, the picoChip architecture is easy to program in standard ANSI C, and has a very efficient development environment. picoChip is focussed on the wireless infrastructure market ($1.8b TAM in 2011) and already has a number of key customers. The two leading segments are: * WiMAX basestations, where picoChip is the industru standard supplier. Over 100 networks are now operational using picoChip WiMAX technology, with Sprint's deployment being one. Publically announced customers include Intel, Fujitsu, M/A-Com (public safety) - while most of the Tier One OEMs are using the technology. * Femtocells and 3G access points. This is how 3G operastors are delivering fixed-mobile-convergence and competing with VoWiFi, without needing to subsidize new handsets. picoChip invented this technology and is supplying all the key manufacturers and operators. Customers include ipAccess, Ubiquisys, Airvana, Dekolink and Korea Telecom with NEC, Thomson, Sagem as resellers.
Pintail Technologies, Inc.
Pintail Technologies is a leading provider of software for optimizing semiconductor test and yield learning. Pintail's products are based upon unique real-time data acquisition technology that runs directly on most popular semiconductor test machines. Major customers include Texas Instruments, Qualcomm and KYEC. Pintail's solutions serve three market segments: our yield learning systems provide upstream chip OEMs with real-time data access across the semiconductor supply chain; we also offer a comprehensive manufacturing support system for improving operational equipment efficiency (OEE); and our adaptive test solutions for improving quality and reducing test time are considered the most advanced commercial offerings in the industry . With over 250 systems installed worldwide, Pintail has achieved international support across the supply chain. A final round of funding is needed to expand our worldwide sales and support channels and to increase the company's profitability. Led by an experienced management team and backed by top venture capital companies, Pintail has offices in Dallas, Austin, San Jose, Seoul, Singapore, Taiwan, and Munich. www.pintail.com.
Pyxis Technology
Pyxis Technology is an EDA software company. Pyxis is developing the next generation routing software. As users begin to design at 65nm and 45nm technology nodes the current routing software solutions fall short of being able to accommodate all of the manufacturing effects that can cause significant yield loss and impact time to market. Pyxis' architecture uses silicon calibrated DFM (design for manufacturability) models and yield analysis during routing to ensure correct for manufacturing design.
RedMere Technology, Ltd.
RedMere is a fabless semiconductor company providing connectivity and networking solutions for next generation multimedia applications such as HDTV and Gaming Consoles. As the quality and display resolution of content leaps forward, the consumer electronics industry requires fool-proof deployment of supporting interface technologies. RedMere's unique MagnifEye™ chip solutions guarantee interoperability and zero customer returns by incorporating ground-breaking cable de-skew and adaptive equalization technology in its receivers. RedMere's MagnifEye™ products are unique in addressing all known cable effects, especially the skew effects in narrow gauge, low-cost cables, enabling industry-wide reductions in B.O.M. cost for HDTVs, Gaming Consoles, PVRs and Cables. The company's launch products serve the HDMI and DisplayPort markets (>100% CAGR). Furthermore, RedMere's patented MagnifEye™ technology also delivers outstanding performance in PC and storage applications such as eSATA and PCI Express. Peter Smyth (Founder and CEO), Declan Farrelly (VP Engineering) and John Horan (CTO) are veterans of the industry and were senior managers in Parthus Inc. at the time of its Nasdaq listing in 2000. The company's Board includes senior executives from Philips Semiconductor, Intel and the banking and private equity community. Headquartered in Ireland, and with offices in California and Taipei, RedMere is now rapidly expanding its operations worldwide.
Redshift Systems Corp.
RedShift has developed a technology that reduces the cost of thermal imaging cameras by enabling them to be built with standards-based fabrication methods and off-the-shelf components. RedShift's core technology - the Thermal Light Valve ™ - translates difficult to image thermal radiation into light which can be imaged by a standard CMOS camera. The Thermal Light Valve chip is based on a class of optical "active thin films" developed and telecom-qualified at Aegis Semiconductor, and currently deployed in major communications newtorks. RedShift's goal is to enable "infrared for everyone".
RFIC Solutions
RFIC Solutions Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company focused exclusively on wireless Solutions, with headquarters in SanJose, CA and a design center in India. RFIC Solutions designs highly integrated system on chip (SOC) and system on a package (SOP); custom ICs, MIC and offers optimized solutions for any wireless systems including cellular, WiFi, WLAN, WiMax and ultra wideband systems.
Scanimetrics
Scanimetrics has developed a wireless virtual probe technology to test semiconductor chips and System in Package (SiP) devices. This method solves the issues and bottlenecks imposed on semiconductor manufacturers by current testing technologies. The Technology is patented and additional patents are being filed. The Company began operations in June 2003, jumpstarted by a $50,000 prize awarded at the VenturePrize business plan competition. Scanimetrics garnered peer recognition at the Southwest Test Workshop 2004 receiving recognition as the "Most Innovative Technology Presentation" which brought the Company to the attention of several major semiconductor manufacturers. We are now engaged in joint development programs to bring this technology in to production. The Company is based in Edmonton, Alberta with its sales and marketing program located in California's Silicon Valley. It currently employs more than 25 individuals and boasts a seasoned executive team with the relevant experience and available network of technical and management resources required to manage this revolutionary technology's path to market. Scanimetrics' first customer trials have been completed and production qualification is underway.
SemiSouth
SemiSouth was founded in July 2000 by silicon carbide ("SiC") researchers Drs. Jeffery B. Casady and Michael S. Mazzola as a spin-out from Mississippi State University. SemiSouth is a power management semiconductor based semiconductor company specializing in SiC technology for high-power, high-efficiency, harsh-environment power management and conversion applications. We are a silicon carbide focused manufacturer with a strong management team that has a deep knowledge in SiC technology as well as a fundamental understanding of the power semiconductor market.
Shanghai Jade Technologies
Shanghai Jade Technologies Co., Ltd. is a fabless semiconductor company. Jade designs, markets and sales multimedia-rich SoC chips and related embedded software. Founded by a Silicon Valley veteran Dr. Jack Ouyang in April 2003, Jade is headquartered in ZhangjiangHigh-techPark, Pudong, Shanghai, PRC. Jade's goal is to be the leading provider of multimedia SoC solution for the convergent 3C market by innovative algorithm, advanced chip architecture, turnkey solution and first-class service.
Silicon Border Science Park
Silicon Border Science Park is a 4,500 acre high-tech industrial complex being built on the Mexican/American border. Located in Mexicali, Baja California, it is less than a two-hour drive from San Diego, CA. The park is designed to provide the 7x24x365 infrastructure required to support the manufacture of semiconductor wafers and other complex operations such as the design and manufacture of advanced plasma displays and bio-technology. Tax incentives have been granted by the Mexican Government that allow tenants of the park to compete with similar operations in China and other parts of Asia and the World. The location in North America provides an alternate second source to what is rapidly becoming an Asian-based high-tech supply chain. Its proximity to Silicon Valley and high tech cities throughout the US enable simple and effective communication and support compared to operations in Asia.
Siliconaire, Inc.
Siliconaire offers a portfolio of services to emerging and established enterprises. For fabless semiconductor companies, it offers a unique operations model providing world-class experience and know-how, allowing innovators to concentrate on their area of expertise. This model allows the fabless semiconductor company a cost-effective, low-risk approach to product development and manufacturing without sacrificing margins. The company also offers Information Technology and Communications (ITC) services to help emerging enterprises build a robust, scalable and cost-effective information and communications infrastructure to support their growth. Building an in-house operations or IT team is time consuming and costly, whereas Siliconaire can be engaged immediately and cost-effectively.
SiTime
SiTime is a fabless Integrated Circuit (IC) manufacturer developing silicon timing and clock circuits, which incorporate Silicon Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) mechanical resonators with custom designed mixed-signal semiconductor integrated circuits. Their patented technology enables them to create timing circuits that cut solution cost of the billions of devices used in consumer products each year by 20%-30% while delivering equal or better performance than traditional devices which use external quartz crystals. SiTime products are gaining rapid market traction among risk-averse consumer product manufacturers because they require no new technology or learning curve to incorporate into existing design or manufacturing processes. SiTime's superior technology and products are complimented by a talented tightly-knit group of 31 research and manufacturing personnel that used its deep expertise and teamwork to deliver the company's first sample products in April 2006 - only 14 months after the company was formed. Equally important, the company's strong leadership, sound business model, and market savvy gave them the rapid time-to-mindshare that ensured those early samples were eagerly received by of several billion-dollar consumer electronic companies. As the first company to use integrated MEMS technology to produce timing solutions with lower cost, smaller size, and higher reliability than current quartz-based products, SiTime is well-positioned to transform the $5 billion clock and timing marketplace.
Spangaro Systems Pty Ltd.
Originally founded in San Jose in 1993, Spangaro Systems was incorporated in 1997 as a premier provider of semiconductor design and verification expertise to leading semiconductor companies, multinational OEMs and academic research and educational institutions. The company is seeking venture financing to complete the development and commercialisation of a proprietary semiconductor hardware platform that delivers step-function improvements in time-to-market for new chip designs. Our patented Programmable Structured ASIC technology has been developed to address the fundamental challenge to profitable semiconductor design: the NRE/unit cost/time-to-market trade-off. Combining the best of FPGA and structured ASIC technologies, we can deliver a low cost, easy to design, high density, low NRE reprogrammable platform ASIC solution to lower risk, reduce NRE, shorten time-to-market and improve semiconductor product ROI.
Tarari, Inc.
Tarari, the leader in deep content inspection silicon, is headquartered in San Diego, Calif., USA. Tarari designs and develops Content Processor silicon to allow original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to accelerate and offload compute-intensive, complex algorithms used in XML/Web Services, Network Security and Digital Media environments. A fabless semiconductor company whose product line primarily includes ASICs, Tarari also offers boards and software acceleration components designed for network equipment, appliance and server vendors, as well as independent software vendors. Tarari is a privately held company with venture backing from Crosspoint Venture Partners, Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Miramar Venture Partners, XMLFund and Intel Capital.
Tekmos, Inc.
Tekmos is a fabless semiconductor company. We sell a wide variety of microprocessors, ASICs and memories. We use an obsolescence replacement strategy to penetrate large customers, and then expand our sales with other products. Our sales and manufacturing are supported with a novel approach to semiconductors that reduces our costs and provides us with manufacturing flexibility.
Teksun PV Manufacturing, Inc.
Worldwide Demand of Solar panles exceeds suppply and will remain such for the next ten years. TekSun PV Manufacturing will manufacture thin film amorphous silicon panels in large quantities that bring the prices to a new low level by economies of scale. TekSun PV will begin with 3, 40 MegaWatt / yr lines or 120 MegaWatts a year in year one, Phase two will expand us to 240 MegaWatts and phase three will expand our capacity to 480 MegaWatts, which will make TekSun PV the largest manufacturer of PV panels not only in the United States but the world. Our business model calls for the reduction of thin film silicon from ~3.00 / Watt today to less than $2.00 per Watt from our plant. 100 % of our product is destined for not roof top systems, but Large Utility scale solar power ranches in the West Texas desert were a 50 MegaWatt system would cover 650 acres of land. Alhought TekSun PV posses many pieces of intellectual property or IP, the core technology is a proven a-SI amorphous deposistion method delivered through a production line to be built, delivered and assembled by a major semiconductor equipment manufacturer in a turnkey fashion that certffies the line's capacity and throughput ratings. The panels we plan to produce are what is called gen8.5 which is 2.2 meters by 2.6 meters, which is a large is a feasible for reasonalbe shipping, handling and installation. TekSun PV is alligning with Zachry and Lauren contractors which will install these solar panels on a continous basis in several power plant projects in Texas, which is approaching power shortages as is becoming desperate for these sources of renewable power. TekSun PV has picked an existing 310,000 sq. ft. factory building in Taylor, Texas, and monies will be used to complete this building and install the thin film panel manufacturing line.
Tesla Design Automation
As identified by the industry as a whole (ITRS), as well as several leading companies such as Intel, LSI Logic and Sun Microsystems, silicon test has rapidly evolved into one of the biggest semiconductor industry challenges.Already, design size and complexity are breaking linear test economics and are putting extraordinary pressure on technology companies to deliver their product strategies within time to volume, opportunity and market constraints. As technology pushes design node size into nanometer levels, new types of defects are emerging rendering existing test techniques ineffective and existing test environments very costly. Furthermore, as Electronic System Level (ESL) design techniques aim to pack unprecedented numbers of transistors per unit area, deep submicron effects and die-level variability are making it impossible for design and verification to account for all parameters impacting silicon, resulting in increased validation costs, missed market opportunity and shrinking profit windows. TESLA Design is a dynamic EDA startup company that will leverage several man-years of patentable industrial R&D to deliver electronic system level (ESL) solutions for the converging design verification, prototype validation, silicon and system test markets. TESLA Design's mission is to deliver customer value through reducing the risk associated with validating new products during silicon ramp-up, as well as minimizing yield-related profit loss during volume production.
Tesla Design Automation
As identified by the industry as a whole (ITRS), as well as several leading companies such as Intel, LSI Logic and Sun Microsystems, silicon test has rapidly evolved into one of the biggest semiconductor industry challenges. Already, design size and complexity are breaking linear test economics and are putting extraordinary pressure on technology companies to deliver their product strategies within time to volume, opportunity and market constraints. As technology pushes design node size into nanometer levels, new types of defects are emerging rendering existing test techniques ineffective and existing test environments very costly. Furthermore, the resulting low yield due to strained fabrication and test processes is placing additional pressure to rethink design flows and methodologies. TESLA Design is a new, dynamic EDA startup company that will leverage over 8 man-years of patentable industrial R&D to deliver electronic system level (ESL) solutions for the converging design verification, prototype validation, silicon and systems test markets. TESLA Design's MISSION is to deliver customer value through reducing overall time-to-market and enhancing yield of semiconductor devices, by overcoming traditional technological and organization barriers and deploying highly integrated, scalable solutions in Design for Manufacturability (DFM).
Twist Semiconductor
Twist Semiconductor, a fabless manufacturer of integrated circuits, has already established itself as a global organization. We use foundries in Taiwan and Europe, sales agents/representatives worldwide, and two design facilities in Northern California and Europe. Our product is packaged in Asia and tested there, or in California, and shipped worldwide. Twist has been developing and selling its Uart serial communications IC products since 1999 as Twist Group. Twist Semiconductor was split off with the development of a High Voltage Integrated Process (HVIP) proprietary IC process for mixed signal analog power ICs. Markets include Medical Ultrasound, Off-line bias power, AC/DC adapters, LED/CCFL Backlighting, and MEM's drivers. Our value is smaller die size (cost), better features, and improved performance. We have completed four product designs and are working on others. About 6-8 products will be in production by late 3Q/Q4 2007, ramping upward in 2008 to be $6M for the first full production year. Twist is currently looking for funding to finish the development and manufacturing logistics for its HVIP process, to move its current HVIP designed products into volume production, design additional defined HVIP products, and expand Uart product offerings. To date, Twist has been funded exclusively by its founders.
Tzero Technologies, Inc.
Twist Semiconductor, a fabless manufacturer of integrated circuits, has already established itself as a global orgTzero Technologies is the leader in high-definition video distribution. The company's advanced ultra wideband technology can connect a range of A/V components -- displays, set-top boxes, digital video recorders and more -- without new wires. The company was founded in 2003 and is backed by tier-one venture partners. It's headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and has sales offices around the world.
Vweb Corporation
Vweb Corporation was founded by Dr. Sho Long Chen in Silicon Valley, California in January of 1998. The Company is a fabless semiconductor company focused on MPEG compression and broadband video networking technologies for the Internet based Set Top Box, Digital Home & Mobile Video and Digital surveillance market. The Company's product lines include single-chip MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263 and H.264 A/V Encode, Decode, Codec and Transcode family of chip sets to enable digital media storage and distribution applications over the Internet Protocol (IP) network. Vweb has a growing market share in IP Set-top boxes with Sumitomo / NTT, Video surveillance with Everfocus / GE and Digital Home & Mobile Video with Samsung.
Wispry
Founded in 2002, WiSpry is a fabless tunable RF IC product company targeting wireless mobile handset and other consumer applications. The proliferation of bands and services planned for next generation wireless devices is accelerating the need for a tunable RF front end. System architects have concluded that the complexity resulting from the parallel RF path approach common in current generation devices is not scalable. The WiSpry product roadmap initially includes tunable matching networks, followed by tunable filters and a complete front end module. Wispry's unique RF solutions are achieved through the integration of MEMS devices into a CMOS flow, and allows the Company to achieve impressive RF performance characteristics across all wireless LAN and WAN bands of interest. The CMOS integration also enables a logical integration path of RF functions. WiSpry has partnered with a US based fab, Jazz Semiconductor, for this effort. The Company is engaged with leading handset, notebook and wireless IC suppliers and has a funded development agreement with a major handset supplier. WiSpry is currently developing prototypes and plans to continue to engage with Tier 1 customers in 2007.
XCOM Wireless, Inc.
XCOM Wireless is a fabless semiconductor component manufacturer that is improving new wireless communication applications through drastic reductions in the size, power consumption and cost of multi-band amplifier and antenna hardware. XCOM solves the problem faced by the test equipment and wireless communication industries by replacing the present state of the art components - large, slow, unreliable mechanical relays and power-hungry, lossy, solid-state devices - with high-performance miniaturized mechanical devices (RF MEMS). XCOM has a 6-year, $9 million development history in this new device technology that has resulted in unprecedented advancements in the manufacturing, assembly and packaging of these devices. Its 11 employees, supported by relevant product development contracts, have developed a high-performance product which can be made at a reasonable cost. The team has already met and solved the major technical risks of the these technologies. XCOM is seeking $8 Million in a B-Stage investment at this time, with $2 Million committed from the A-round investors. Funds will be used to ramp up manufacturing and automated testing, and outsource to lower-cost facilities in order to meet immediate mid-volume customer fulfillment targets of volume and price. Funds will also be employed in the technical development required to address higher-volume consumer wireless amplifier and antenna opportunities.
Ziptronix
Ziptronix' mission is to advance the way semiconductor products are designed and manufactured, by developing and licensing advanced technologies in semiconductor fab processes for manufacturing extremely integtrated 3D IC devices. Ziptronix licenses the market leading solution to enable IDMs, Fabless Semiconductor Companies and merchant Fabs, to build 3D integrated circuits. With 17 issued patents, Ziptronix has developed the most scalable (i.e., consistent with Moore's law) 3D technology for highest performance and lowest cost. Ziptronix facilities include a fab BEOL R&D line for semiconductor process development, and prototyping in support of its licensing / technology transfer program. Founded in 2000, Ziptronix spun out from North Carolina's RTI International. Ziptronix' Direct Bond Interconnect (DBI) technology enables silicon devices to be bonded in a 3D fashion to maximize the density of signal paths that chips use to interconnect transistors. DBI maximizes the electrical connections between the separate components and extends bandwidth by alleviating the interconnect delays with scalable 3D routing. Ziptronix technologies are enabling the creation of true 3D integrated circuits at the gate level by delivering significant advantages including: size reduction, drastically reduced production costs, lower power consumption and increased system speed and performance.