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® OCTOBER 2008 FOCUSED ON EMERGING SEMICONDUCTOR COMPANIES VOL 13 ISSUE 10 Confluence believes the market for sili- Immedia con substrates within the solar industry Radar Scope Immedia Semi “is dedicated to bringing will grow from $3 billion in 2008 to more quality video into the home on demand.” Confluence Solar than $7 billion in 2012. Competitors in- Confluence Solar was founded in 2007 clude LDK, REC, Jinglung, Yingli and Peter Besen, CEO (previously GM at to produce premium quality single crys- Renesola. Confluence argues that its pre- Broadcom via the acquisition of Sand tal silicon at a cost below that of multi- mium quality HiCz™single crystal silicon Video where he was founder & CEO) crystal silicon. The company has raised will maximize the output of high efficien- Don Shulsinger, VP of Sales & Market- $12.7 million in Series A funding led by cy solar cells at a cost competitive to ing (previously VP of bus. dev. at Convexa Capital with additional invest- conventional lower quality, multi-crystal Broadcom via the acquisition of Sand ments from DC Chemical Co., Scatec silicon. Video) Adventure AS, Oceanshore Ventures and 100 Burtt Road, Suite 125 others. Confluence anticipates a Series The company anticipates providing ini- Wilmington, MA 01887 B financing round in Q1’09 of approxi- tial samples in Q4 with commercial in- Tel/Fax: 781.915.1920 mately $100 million. The company has troduction in Q2’09. Confluence www.immediasemi.com 22 employees. anticipates a significant degree of cus- tomization to compliment the high effi- According to the National Renewable ciency solar cell designs of its customers. Lakota Technologies Energy Laboratory (NREL), greater than Products in 125mm2 format and 156mm2 Lakota Technologies is a “next-genera- 90% of solar cells are made on silicon. format will be available in Q1 and Q2 tion power electronics semiconductor With the development of HiCz™ manu- respectively. company.” The company is developing facturers of solar products can receive “diodes for power-electronics, with some greater watt output than from traditional Tom Cadwell, CEO (previously president amazing technology.” multi crystal silicon platforms. & CEO of Integrated Materials, Board Ben Quinones, CEO Confluence is opening a new facility in member of Solaicx and Evergreen www.lakotatech.com Hazelwood, Missouri to develop its HiCz Solar, and president of MEMCC Asia) single crystal silicon product. The com- 1600 Park 370 Place, Bldg. A, Suite 2 pany has developed strategic relationships Hazelwood, MO 63042 with key suppliers for all critical raw Tel: 314.298.1421 IN THIS ISSUE materials, supplies and equipment includ- Fax: 314.298.1414 www.confluencesolar.com Radar Scope ...... 1 ing polysilicon. Cliff Rants ...... 2 Startup Profiles ...... 5 SIA July 2008 Global Sales ($B) SEMI’s N. American Equipment Bk/Bl People ...... 11 25.0 Funding & IPOs ...... 13 1800 0.95 Mergers & Acquisitions ...... 15 20.0 1600 Business & Financials ...... 16 0.9 1400 15.0 Market Research ...... 17 1200 0.85 Emerging Trends ...... 18 1000 10.0

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processor architectures, etc. – all competing for a slice of the high- Cliff Rants end market.

In the midst of the worst financial crisis in recent history, what is Confluence Solar – Premium Quality, Low-Cost Single Crystal Silicon the state of the semiconductor industry? Turmoil – right? Focus One VC recently told me “the demand for solar is unlimited.” That Enhancements has filed for Chapter 11, Neomagic and Alliance sets of my bubble alarm, but I do think there are many angles for are winding down, several memory makers are on the ropes, and making a buck in the solar arena. And it starts with the base sili- more than a handful of companies are trading at or below book con. Several startups are working on the unique cost and perfor- value. Doom and gloom, some may say. Blame it on the economy. mance requirements of solar grade silicon. It’s a large, The industry is mature. Semiconductor startups are a thing of the capital-intensive market, but remember – the demand is unlimited! past… Enphase – Micro-Inverter-based Solar Energy Management Systems Enough with the banter. What is the reality? Q2 financials were Enphase Energy just leaves me jazzed. Why? First, its a solar PV actually remarkably good. If you want to read something into them play, without jumping on the solar PV manufacturing bandwagon. at the 30,000-foot level, what did they say? Large cap semicon- It’s a win, regardless of the underlying PV cell technology – purely ductor companies generally did better than their smaller counter- additive, improving the efficiency of all solar modules. What’s not parts. If you know a thing or two about each company, a quick to like about that? scan indicates that the strong got stronger. Are these surprises? Big fish generally get bigger, and only the strong survive. That’s Second, I actually like the fact that the founders hail from the net- the law of the jungle – nothing new here. working world. It’s a twist…an outside view, and an approach that lends a comprehensive, large-scale systems view to the problem, As a contrarian, I believe this is a great time for “semiconductor- in contrast to myopic, PV-cell efficiency efforts. Sure, you could centric” investing. The natural process of culling the herd is tak- say that outsiders don’t know what they don’t know. In time, we’ll ing its course. Low stock prices create little incentive for talent to discover if that’s the case. stick around, and, most importantly, there’s no shortage of game changing discontinuities in the market today, like skyrocketing While others spend vast sums trying to pick up a percentage point energy costs, revolutionary display technologies, the ever expand- or two gains in PV efficiency, Enphase focuses on the balance of ing demand for mobility and more. These all require semiconduc- the energy conversion chain, an area that has lacked significant tor – if you define the term loosely – innovation, which translates innovation. There’s huge value here; it’s not difficult to grasp…or into startup activity. This issue has a vast array of startups, chas- sell, it scales easily, etc. I could go on, but you get the point – I ing myriad market opportunities, and there are at least a half dozen think Enphase is a winner. more very early stage companies that I wanted to include but am under NDA. Innovation lives on…stay tuned… Powervation – Auto-control™Digital Power ICs Powervation hasn’t revealed a great deal about its technology, Achronix – Ultra High Performance FPGAs but the little it has sounds interesting. There are numerous com- There has been little precedent for startup success in the FPGA panies, both large and small, chasing the digital power IC market, arena, thus any new development in this arena leaves me skepti- with mixed results to date. Powervation argues that its Auto-con- cal. What is it about this space that has made it nearly impossible trol digital power IC technology delivers a truly adaptive Plug- for anyone to compete against the Altera/Xilinx oligopoly? So as and-Power solution that results in system efficiency gains of up not to upset my many friends, certainly over the years competi- to 30%, a 50% improvement in transient response, and a 65% tors like Actel, Lattice, Cypress, Lucent, have had varying degrees reduction in overall component count. of success. But in general the field has been shrinking, not ex- panding. The story sounds great, but as we have seen repeatedly in this Is it the patents, tool flows, raw sales muscle, actual device at- sector, the proof is in the pudding. Many digital power companies tributes, or “no one gets fired for choosing IBM syndrome”? have made great promises, but few have delivered. Powervation Whatever the issue, be wary… But Achronix does have a wicked makes great claims, but we need to see tangible proof from cus- – as we say in Boston – solution. It’s not just the 1.5GHz speed, tomers. This market is also evolving rapidly, so Powervation will it’s the underlying picoPIPE architecture that makes that speed need to move fast as others innovate as well. possible. There’s some serious technology happening here, with years of university and self-funded research behind it – and I like SandLinks – Active-RFID Networks Using UWB that. I have repeatedly said that UWB is a solution searching for a problem. What I haven’t said is that it’s a pretty darn good solution. At Is it a slam dunk? Definitely not. All those tangible and intangible its core, UWB has several compelling advantages over narrow- factors that have made it so difficult for others in the past still band radio technologies. Sandlinks was formed to develop UWB- remain. Furthermore, is the market for a 1.5GHz device large enough based Active-RFID (Class 4) solutions that capitalize on those to sustain a startup? To IPO – unknown; to acquisition – proba- advantages. To me, that makes sense. Take an existing problem – bly. And at this performance level, the competition isn’t just FPGAs, RFID – and apply whatever technology is appropriate to develop its ASICs, other emerging course-grained device, alternative the best solution. And in this case, UWB fits that bill. ■

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in Silicon Valley. In March 2008, TJet Vubiq recently introduced its 60 GHz in- Radar Scope finalized terms for a Series A round co- tegrated radio solution, enabling commer- (Continued from page 3) led by Sigma Partners and Spark Capital cial, government, and academic mission is “to become a prominent de- along with a small strategic investment institutions to utilize the unlicensed 57- veloper of RF and mixed-signal SOCs from Varian Semiconductor Associates. 64 GHz band for application develop- with the highest performance for receiv- ment. ing video, voice, and data over wireless Compared to LCDs, OLED displays have medium.” The company has received superior viewing angle, contrast ratio, Vubiq has developed 60 GHz transmit- funding from Greenlane Investments. color saturation, brightness, power effi- ters and receivers complete with high ciency, and pixel response time. If OLED efficiency antennas and low-loss ra- SiTune recently unveiled the STN- displays can become cost competitive domes integrated into standard BGA 25T1000 Hybrid (universal) CMOS TV with LCDs, OLED will become the dom- packages. Vubiq’s technology is based tuner. The device is a highly integrated inant display technology. However, the on SiGe and CMOS. High speed base- tuner that exceeds all global digital and equipment and process technology does band signals can be interconnected di- analog TV standard requirements, while not yet exist to support large volume, low rectly to the radios, allowing up to 1 GHz consuming less than 150 mW. The STN- cost manufacturing. modulation bandwidth at 60 GHz. 25T1000 has the world’s lowest power The V60DSK01 development system consumption and is the most highly inte- Building upon a printhead concept de- enables experimentation and development grated Silicon TV Tuner, according to veloped at MIT by the company co- in the 57-64 GHz millimeter wave band, the company. The device supports both founders, the TJet approach overcomes allowing developers to define the base- analog (NTSC, PAL, SECAM) and Digital the problems inherent in other OLED band technology of their choice. Users (ATSC, DVB-T, ISDB-T) TV reception. printing technologies (such as inkjet and have a selection of differential interfaces laser transfer) and enables the printing Samples in Q4; production in Q1. for I/Q (vector) modulation, FM or AM. of OLED displays having high power Vubiq’s development system includes a efficiencies and long lifetimes. By lever- Vahid Toosi, founder and CEO (previ- 60 GHz transmitter board and 60 GHz aging the intrinsic low-cost and large area ously a senior technical staff member receiver board, each with a USB con- scalability of printing, TJet OLED tools at Ikanos and Dir. of Engineering at troller. The basic development system and process technology will allow display BroadNav Integrated Products) will cost $12,500. Majid Hashemi, Ph.D., VP of Engineer- makers the manufacture OLED displays ing (previously director of RFIC at En- at substantially lower cost than LCDs. Adam Button, CEO (previously worked tropic and director of RFIC and in investment banking and strategy Dr. Conor Madigan, Co-Founder and mixed-signal design at SiRF) consulting) CEO Gill Heydari, VP of Sales and Marketing Mike Pettus, CTO (previously Director (previously Director of Sales at Eric- Dr. Sass Somekh, Co-Founder and Ex- of Systems Engineering at Metricom) ecutive Chairman (former president of sson AB) 65 Enterprise, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 Novellus and EVP of Applied 2216, Ringwood Ave., San Jose, CA Tel: 949.226.8482, Fax: 815.572.0386 Materials) Tel: 408.324.1752, Fax: 408.521.3340 www.vubiq.com www.situne-ic.com Manush Birang, VP of Technology Eli Vronsky, VP of Engineering TJet 1430 OBrien Drive, Suite A Wi-Chi Menlo Park, CA 94025 Dr. Terri Fiez recently took a leave of TJet Technologies was founded in Oc- Tel: 650.327.2903, Fax: 650.433.5412 absence as Professor and Head, School tober 2007 to develop “the next genera- www.tjet-tech.com of EECS at Oregon State University to tion manufacturing equipment that will start a mixed-signal fabless semiconduc- allow the emerging organic light emitting tor company, along with some of his diode (OLED) display to compete with former graduate students and colleagues. and ultimately replace the liquid crystal Vubiq display (LCD).” The five MIT co- Vubiq was incorporated in 2003 and re- The company, Wi-Chi (pronounced Y- founders, Dr. Conor Madigan, Dr. Vale- ceived Series A funding in 2006, led by a Chee for wireless energy) is focused on rie Leblanc, Dr. Gerry Chen, Prof. Fortune 20 company. energy harvesting technology. In Q2’08, Vladimir Bulovic, and Prof. Martin New Enterprise Associates and individ- Schmidt, decided to locate the company ual investors provided $9 million in Series

A funding to support about a dozen peo- correction closer to the Shannon limit Achronix had 4 employees, was self ple this year and ramping up the follow- than any other coding method. Its ar- funded ($2.5 million) and did not plan to ing year. Wi-Chi is currently looking for chitecture also offers low gate count and seek additional capital. experienced analog designers. extremely low power compared to traditional implementations. After 2+ years of self-funded develop- Dr. Terri Fiez, CEO and Co-founder ment, Achronix raised $34.4 million in (Professor and Head (on-leave), The company offers ASIC-targeted RTL Series A funding led by New Science School of EECS at Oregon State) with test-benches, verification IP and Ventures and Battery Ventures and in- 7646 SW Mohawk, Tualatin, OR 97062 demonstrator cards using FPGAs in a cluding Entrepia Ventures and Easton Tel: 541.740.3970 variety of communications protocols in- Capital Investment Group. Achronix has www.wi-chi.com cluding WiFi (802.11n), WiMAX 60 employees, HQ in San Jose, and R&D (802.16e), DVB-S2, 10 Gb Ethernet, offices in Ithaca, New York and Banga- WideSail UWB, and 4G telephony (UMTS Long lore India. Term Evolution or LTE). WideSail Technologies was founded in The company’s mission is now to de- 2007 as a spin-off from McGill Univer- Gord Harling, President and CEO (pre- velop “the world’s fastest FPGAs, which sity to develop high performance error viously founding CEO of Goal Semi- use a unique patented picoPIPE™ ac- correction semiconductor IP for devel- conductor, which was sold to celeration technology capable of up to opers of digital communications ICs. In Ramtron, and Elliptic Semiconductor, 1.5 GHz peak performance.” Achronix May 2008, MSBi Valorisation, an entity a provider of security SIP) offers two product lines. The first, a spe- dedicated to commercializing innovations Dr. Shie Mannor, Chief Scientist (a fac- cialized line of products operating near and building companies based ulty member at McGill University 350 MHz for high radiation and extreme on technological advancements and where he holds the Canada Research temperature environments, has been inventions originating from McGill Uni- Chair in Machine Learning and previ- shipping for some time. versity, Université de Sherbrooke and ously co-founder and Chief Scientist Bishop’s University, as well as their af- of Kashya, which was acquired by Recently, Achronix began shipping the filiated hospitals and research institutes, EMC) world’s fastest FPGAs, according to the made an investment in WideSail. Dr. Warren Gross, Chief Architect (a company. The Speedster family delivers speeds up to 1.5GHz, which repre- All modern communications rely on er- professor at McGill University where he leads a research team focusing on sents a 3X increase in performance over ror correction of some form. WideSail’s existing FPGAs. technology addresses the errors that oc- ultra-low complexity iterative decod- cur during wired and wireless digital ers and custom high performance The Speedster family is based on Ach- communications, as well as in semicon- architectures) ronix patented (> 25 in various filing ductor and magnetic storage devices. Its 155 Rene Levesque Blvd.Ouest, #2701 stages) picoPIPE acceleration technol- products provide excellent error correc- Montreal, Quebec H3B 2K8 ogy, which speeds the way data moves tion performance at very high speeds Canada through the FPGA fabric. In the absence with much lower power than compet- Tel: 450.777.9085, Fax: 450.534.3911 of a global clock, picoPIPEs use simple ing technologies. www.widesail.com handshake protocols to efficiently control data flow, resulting in significantly Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) is improved performance, all along using being applied to a wide range of com- Startup Profiles standard RTL for design-entry and em- munications standards, including estab- ploying familiar FPGA tools. picoPIPE lished standards such as WiFi and Achronix technology can tolerate substantial vari- WiMAX where it is often treated as a Achronix Semiconductor was formed in ations in supply voltage, which enables high-performance option as well as new 2004 with a mission to develop ultra high power consumption to be lowered by standards like 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Dig- performance (>1 GHz) and extreme en- adjusting the core supply voltage. ital Video Broadcast, and Ultra Wide- vironment (-260°C to +130°C and radi- Band that rely on LDPC for improved Achronix FPGAs achieve higher ation hardened) FPGAs and ASICs based range and robustness. throughput compared with existing FP- on synchronous and asynchronous de- GAs because of the fine-grained pipe- signs. The company has an exclusive li- WideSail has created a new approach to line stages. Within conventional FPGAs, cense to four patents from Cornell. LDPC decoders that provides error signals travel on long routing tracks and When we first talked with the founders,

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(registers). es, such as 40G/100G Ethernet, CEI- 6G, 10 Gbps backplane, XFI, PCI Achronix is targeting a $1.7 billion slice Within Speedster FPGAs, the built-in of the ASIC market that traditional FP- pipelining ensures that signals only trav- Express (Generations 1 and 2), XAUI, Serial Rapid IO and Infiniband. GAs cannot reach. The Speedster fam- el on short routing tracks, reducing the ily of FPGAs removes the system capacitance of the signal at each stage. Achronix non-SerDes I/Os are also performance barriers associated with While larger devices may have slightly among the fastest in the industry. Speed- traditional FPGAs, enabling system increased latency, unlike other FPGAs, ster FPGAs include four embedded speeds of up to 1.5 GHz, 3X the perfor- they do not have decreased throughput DDR1/2/3 controllers, each offering up mance offered by any other competitor. as each pipeline stage is capable of hold- to 72 bits of data at 1066 Mbps. Having This enables its devices to be used in ing a new data token. Therefore, the in- embedded controllers saves valuable applications usually not addressed by the herent pipelining of picoPIPE technology programmable resources and alleviates FPGA market. With up to 40 lanes of allows maximum throughput to be main- design challenges related to DDR im- embedded SerDes per device, Speedster tained, regardless of how large the FPGA plementation. With performance of up also enables extremely high I/O through- is. Fine-grained pipelining also ensures to 1000 Mbps (or 1066 Mbps for DDR3) put. there is a maximum of one level of logic Achronix I/Os ensure data can be shift- per pipeline stage, allowing an extreme- ed into and out of the picoPIPE fabric The SPD60 is manufactured in TSMC’s ly fast data-token rate. fast enough to keep up with the 1.5 GHz high performance 65nm G+ CMOS pro- internal throughput. cess. Achronix has already shipped de- Leveraging picoPIPE technology for the vices to numerous customers. Early FPGA fabric has two major benefits Speedster uses familiar LUT-based fab- engagement customers are achieving compared with a traditional fabric. First, ric and standard synthesis and simula- ASIC-like performance in networking, when a design is mapped into the pi- tion tools so designers can use their telecom, test and measurement, encryp- coPIPE fabric, it can be pipelined auto- existing Verilog and VHDL RTL designs. tion and other high-performance appli- matically. Any circuit that will benefit Achronix has partnered with leading syn- cations. Additional products are in the from manual pipelining can automatical- thesis vendors to make industry-stan- works. Volume pricing for the Speed- ly achieve increased performance when dard tools and methodologies compatible ster FPGA family ranges from under mapped into picoPIPE technology. Sec- with the Speedster family. The Achro- $200 to $2,500. ond, the need for global clocks has been nix CAD environment supports both removed. picoPIPE technology uses very Synopsys (formerly Synplicity) Synpli- John Lofton Holt, founder, Chairman and fine grained local clocking to ensure data fy Pro and Mentor Graphics’ Precision CEO (previously led Integrated Strat- can travel at very high speeds. Synthesis tools for RTL synthesis. In egies Group (formerly Saber Securi- addition, the Achronix CAD environment ty Solutions), a small security Achronix FPGAs consist of a traditional technology and venture capital con- synchronous frame surrounding a pi- provides the necessary tools for physical implementation, performance opti- sulting firm in Washington, DC and a coPIPE reprogrammable logic fabric founding member of the Booz Allen containing Reconfigurable Logic Blocks, mization, timing analysis, simulation, debug, and device programming. Hamilton Commercial Information Multiplier Blocks, Block RAMs, and Pro- Assurance Consulting Practice) grammable interconnect links. Each of The SPD60, the first device in the Howard Brodsky, VP of Business Oper- these building blocks operates at 1.5 Speedster family, has 47,040 LUTs, 3.4 ations and CFO (previously VP of GHz. million picoPIPE elements, 144 18kbit Finance & CFO at ChipX and Cor- The frame provides all off-chip interfac- block RAMS, 98 18x18 multipliers, 8 porate Controller for C-Cube) es, including configurable I/Os, SerDes, 5Gbps SerDes lanes, 20 10.3 Gbps Ser- Paul Indaco, EVP of Worldwide Sales clocks, and PLLs, and forms the bound- Des lanes, 4 independent 1066 Mbps (previously VP of Worldwide Sales at ary between the picoPIPE core and these DDR2/DDR3 controllers, 16 PLLs, and Actel and Chip Express) 768 user programmable I/Os. Future

Dr. Rajit Manohar, founder & CTO (pre- Enphase Energy has concentrated on The Enphase Micro-inverter converts the viously an Associate Professor of improving inverter technology and sys- DC output of a single solar module into Electrical and Computer Engineering tems architecture that represent signifi- grid-compliant AC power. Enphase Mi- at Cornell University) cant constraints on energy harvest and cro-inverters are per-module inverters Yousef Khalilollahi, VP of Marketing system reliability. The company has pi- that are co-located with each solar mod- (previously a Marketing Director at oneered the industry’s first networked ule. The Enphase Micro-inverter turns LSI Logic custom solutions group solar energy system, which includes each solar module into a “smart” module and held director level responsibilities high-efficiency micro-inverters, com- by connecting it to the Internet, thereby in marketing and business develop- munications gateways and web-based providing visibility and analysis of solar ment at Actel) analytics and visualization. This integrat- system performance. Dr. Kamal Chaudhary, VP of Software ed system maximizes energy harvest, in- Engineering (previously a Distin- creases system reliability, and simplifies The Micro-inverters have a MTBF of 119 guished Engineer at Xilinx) design, installation and management. years providing system availability of Dr. Ravi Sunkavalli, VP of Hardware greater than 99.8%, a key consideration Engineering (previously Director of The Enphase system represents a para- for both commercial and residential in- IC Design at Velogix) digm shift in the solar market from cen- stallations. The Enphase Micro-inverter Dr. Clinton Kelly, IV, founder & VP of tral/string inverter-based systems to Systems dramatically simplify design, Advanced Research (previously led distributed Micro-Inverter-based sys- installation and management of solar sys- numerousR&D programs related to tems. Enphase systems include high ef- tems leading to Balance-of-Systems and ultra-low-power asynchronous mi- ficiency micro-inverters that convert the Labor savings of about 15%. All these croprocessors and FPGAs) DC power from each solar module to factors contribute to a greater ROI for Dr. Virantha Ekanayake, founder (pre- grid compliant AC power, eliminating the solar system owners. need for a large centralized inverter. viously an Assistant Professor in the By eliminating the need for a large, cen- Department of Electrical and Com- Solar energy system performance is af- tral inverter, installation is no longer lim- puter Engineering at Johns Hopkins fected by various factors such as mod- ited by string design, marginal designs, University) ule mis-match, obstruction shading, co-planarity, matched modules, or the 333 West San Carlos St., Suite 1050 inter-row shading, and obstacles such burden of finding a location for a loud, San Jose, CA, 95110 as dust or debris. In addition, non-uni- hot, space-consuming inverter. Mechan- Tel: 408.889.4100 form changes in temperature, irradiance, ical integration is improved, wiring time Fax: 408.286.3645 and shading create complex current-volt- is reduced, and the need for DC switch- www.achronix.com age curves, further affecting energy har- ing points is removed. Enphase’s Micro- vest. This is due to the fact that the inverter system eliminates the inverter as Enphase Energy performance of the entire system is dic- a single point of failure. The distributed Enphase Energy was founded in 2006 tated by the performance of the weak- Micro-inverter design also allows instal- to develop micro-inverter-based solar est module. lations to be expanded over time. energy management systems. In Janu- The Enphase Energy Micro-inverter Sys- The Enphase EMU (Energy Management ary 2008, Enphase raised $6.5 million in tem solves these problems by providing Unit) is a communications gateway that funding led by Third Point Ventures. each solar module the benefit of individ- allows solar performance data to be Energy recently raised $15 million led ual Maximum Power Point Tracking transmitted from the micro-inverters by new investor RockPort Capital Part- (MPPT). The Enphase’s fast MPPT al- across a standard AC power line, elimi- ners and including existing institutional gorithm achieves greater than 99.6% nating the need for additional wiring, investors Third Point Ventures and Ap- accuracy thereby maximizing energy thereby keeping installation costs and plied Ventures. harvest during variable light conditions. complexity down. Solar systems using Enphase technolo- Within the solar photovoltaic (PV) mar- Enphase Enlighten is a web-based visu- ket, industry R&D has focused largely gy have been shown to increase energy harvest by 5 - 10% over traditional in- alization and analytics tool that provides on improving the cost and efficiency of production insight on a per-module ba- solar modules. Traditional solar energy verter implementations, and in some cas- es up to 25%. sis. The system constantly monitors each installations deploy a single centralized module, automatically detects any short- inverter to convert the DC output from The Enphase system is comprised of the fall in energy production, establishes a multiple solar modules into AC power. following three components: possible cause, suggests solutions and

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Infinisim not trade off accuracy for capacity and Startup Profiles performance. RASER guarantees SPICE- Infinisim was founded to develop a high- (Continued from page 7) accurate results with an average of 50 speed, SPICE-accurate simulator for promptly alerts the owner of the issue. times speedup and capacity for large large mixed-signal circuits. Dr. Syed Za- Unlike “bolt-on” third party monitoring mixed-signal circuits. RASER is the fast- kir Hussain, Dr. Perry Gee and Dr. Di- systems that only monitor the inverter, est SPICE accurate simulator in the mar- leep Divekar have developed a number Enlighten provides visibility into the per- ket, with the ability to handle full chip of simulation products that are used formance of every individual module. capacity of millions of elements. widely today in the EDA industry. RAS- Enphase already has thousands of units ER’s team has a combined simulator de- Underlying RASER’s performance is In- in the field, with installations in commer- velopment experience of more than 50 finisim’s patent-pending Real-time Adap- cial and residential solar power systems years. tive Simulation™ (RAS™ technology, throughout the continental U.S. and Ha- which adapts to the changing circuit sim- First generation SPICE engines derived waii. Enphase products are compatible ulation environment at every time-point from Berkeley SPICE, focused on ac- with most major brands of solar mod- of the simulation while using the full de- curacy for small transistor circuits with- ules and are available from leading solar vice models and adhering to the full out any speedup optimization. Second distributors and installers. SPICE accuracy requirements. Using this and third generation Fast SPICE were technology, RASER is able to automati- derived from timing simulators and fo- Paul Nahi, President & CEO (previous- cally and simultaneously deliver SPICE cused on speedup at the expense of ac- ly CEO of Crimson Microsystems and accuracy and handle large-scale mixed- curacy. The current generation is an CEO and co-founder of Accelerant signal circuits. This novel approach has incremental enhancement to Berkeley Networks) been proven to handle 50X larger designs SPICE based on increased efficiency of Martin Fornage, Co-founder, CTO (pre- than traditional SPICE simulators while the SPICE algorithm and/or paralleliza- viously led the Hardware Engineer- concurrently providing an average of 50X tion. Whether hardware or software ac- ing group at Advanced Fiber speed improvement with full SPICE accelerated, these engines provide up to Communications and a consultant to curacy. AFC, Cerent, Cisco, Calix and other 10X speedup and capacity over SPICE. companies) RASER’s speed and capacity uniquely The complexity of today’s mixed-signal Raghu Belur, Co-founder, VP of Mar- position it to run simulations at all stages designs has surpassed the capabilities of keting (previously an early engineer of design verification, from single-block current simulation products and their at Cerent, which was acquired by to full-chip, from pre-layout to post-lay- underlying technologies. As a result, the Cisco, whereupon he managed the out. RASER reduces simulation time analysis and verification of tightly cou- team developing 10Gig interface from days to minutes while guarantee- pled analog/digital circuits, developed in products) ing SPICE accurate results. It supports 90nm-or-lower process nodes, is result- Greg Steele, VP of Operations (previ- full-chip capacity of millions of elements, ing in long simulation run times and in- ously VP of Operations and COO at providing the highest simulation cover- adequate verification coverage, which Advanced Fibre Communications, age prior to tape-out. It helps identify contributes to increased silicon failures. and CEO for the Nelson Family of analog digital interface issues missed by Furthermore, at 40nm and below de- Companies) other tools, reduces design cycle and signs, statistical variations become sig- Andrew Nichols, VP of Sales (previously minimizes mask iterations. nificant. This requires accurate model led North American Sales for Xantr- evaluations. FastSpice tools cannot de- ex Technology) RASER is targeted to those designers liver the accuracy, and commercial Bob Bortolotto, VP of Engineering (pre- who either cannot simulate a large de- SPICE tools cannot handle the capacity viously co-founder and VP of Cay- sign accurately using their current tool, at acceptable performance level. mas Systems, which was acquired by or who experience extremely long run- times. It is ideally suited to circuits like Citrix) To address these challenges, Infinisim SerDes, high-speed wireline/wireless has developed RASER™ a transistor-lev- 201 1st Street, Suite 111 communication channels, precision ana- el simulator and analysis tool specifical- Petaluma, CA 94952 log interfaces, image sensors, critical ly designed for pre-layout and Tel: 877.797.4743 paths in SoCs and clock networks. These post-layout verification of for mixed-sig- Fax: 707.763.0784 designs typically consist of large num- nal ICs. Infinisim argues that RASER is www.enphaseenergy.com bers of elements and require SPICE sim- the first simulator in the market that does ulation accuracy with high performance.

RASER is currently being used by sev- development centers in Fremont, Cali- image processing. The device is fabri- eral leading mixed-signal designers, en- fornia and Shanghai China. cated in 0.13um CMOS. abling customers to eliminate silicon spins, reduce chip design schedule by a NemoChips argues that its devices will NemoChips recently taped out its next- minimum of three weeks and dramati- usher in a new era in mobile computing generation processor, designed jointly cally improve product quality and pro- with ultra-high performance for stream- with Faraday’s SoCompiler Design Ser- duction yield. Infinisim customers have ing HD video, and power usage as much vices. The Faraday PowerSmart design already reported increased verification as 10X less than its closest competitor. flow speeds the development of low- power technologies using industry-stan- coverage prior to tape-out, the ability to The company has successfully taped out uncover significant issues related to an- dard flows along with best-in-class tools a low-power mobile video platform SoC such as PowerTheater. alog-digital interface, and the ability to leveraging Faraday’s SoCompiler Design verify larger circuits at SPICE accuracy. Services employing the Common Pow- NemoChips designers scored their big- Mahmood Panjwani, Chairman & CEO er Format (CPF)-enabled Cadence Low- gest power savings early in the design (previously co-founder, President and Power Solution. The design took 2 cycle thanks to Sequance Design’s Pow- CEO of iManage, which merged with months from netlist to tape-out while erTheater prowess in RTL power anal- Interwoven, and founder and CEO of achieving >99% leakage reduction and ysis and power prototyping where Q-Image) 65% dynamic power reduction using Sequence estimates as much as 80% of Samia Rashid, Co-founder and President advanced techniques such as Dynamic total power savings can be realized. (previously part of the start-up team Voltage & Frequency Scaling, Multi-Sup- PowerTheater is claimed to be the first at iManage) ply Voltages, and Power-Shut Off. RTL power analysis and power proto- Dr. Zakir Hussain Syed, Ph.D., Co- typing solution with the singular ability The MAP-100 is a low power, high per- to accurately analyze power at RTL and founder and CTO (previously at Sim- formance, multimedia application pro- plex Solutions, which was acquired support power management techniques cessor for mobile terminals, including such as voltage islands, mixed voltage by Cadence, since its inception where mobile handsets, portable media player he was responsible for the develop- threshold, power gating, and clock and car entertainment system. It deliv- gating. ment of verification products) ers DVD quality video to mobile devices Dr. Perry Gee, Ph.D., VP of Engineer- without video format limitation. The SoC Dr. Lifeng Zhao, President ing (previously part of the original de- is fully programmable and capable of Danian Gong, Ph.D., CTO, VP Engineer- velopment team at Simplex Solutions supporting most major video standards ing (previously president at VMChips) and director of semi-custom CAD at up to 720p 30fps video decoding with 46704 Fremont Blvd. Synergy Semiconductor) very low power consumption. An open Dr. Dileep Divekar, Ph.D., VP of R&D Fremont, CA 94538 software platform is also built around Tel: 510.252.9733 (25+ years in EDA; author of “FET this chip to provide a complete solution Modeling for Circuit Simulation”; co- Fax: 510.252.9744 for portable multimedia devices includ- www.nemochips.com authored 50+ technical publications) ing smart phones, PDA, DPF and PMP, 2130 Gold Street, Suite 250 etc. Alviso, CA 95002 Powervation Tel: 408.934.9777 The device features a 150MHz+ Pro- Powervation was founded in January Fax: 408.934.9100 grammable MediaCore Processor and 2006 to develop “a new class of Auto- www.infinisim.com 300MHz+ ARM926EJ-S Processor with control™digital power IC solutions that 16KB I and 16KB D Cache, with Jazelle optimize power-supply performance and JAVA support. The Video Hardware Co- efficiencies for manufacturers of elec- dec supports numerous standards in- Nemochips tronic systems used in computing, com- cluding H.264 Baseline, MPEG4 ASP, munications and consumer applications.” NemoChips was founded in early 2007 VC-1 SP, AVS-M, and WMV7/8/9 de- Powervation maintains corporate offic- to develop “next-generation mobile ap- coder D1@ 30fps. Other features in- es in Ireland and Palo Alto, Calif., with plication processor SoCs to provide clude a hardware encryption/decryption sales centers located throughout Asia, DVD quality audio and video for future engine, numerous I/O, memory, expan- Europe and the U.S. handheld devices.” The company is sion, and display interfaces, NTSC/PAL headquartered in Silicon Valley with video encoder with integrated DAC out- In September 2006, the company raised put, and camera sensor interface with funding from 4th Level Ventures,

Copyright 2008, Pinestream Communications, Inc. 52 Pine Street, Weston, Massachusetts 02493 USA Tel 781.647.8800 Fax 781.647.8825 www.pinestream.com [email protected] 10 / OCTOBER 2008 SEMICONDUCTOR TIMES Startup Profiles and automatically adapt the power-con- engineer with several Irish compa- trol function to compensate accurately. nies) (Continued from page 9) This stabilizes voltage conversion and Karl Rinne, Ph.D, CTO (previously a Shannon Development and the founders. transient response over a wide range of University Lecturer in the Electron- In December 2007, the company closed conditions. ics and Computer Engineering depart- US$10 million in Series A funding jointly ment at the University of Limerick and led by Intel and Scottish Equity Partners Whereas conventional analog/digital so- Principal Design Engineer with Arte- and including comparable participation lutions require complex calculations to syn Ireland, Commergy Ireland and, from Venture Tech Alliance along with a compensate the controller, Powerva- Siemens Germany) follow-on investment from 4th Level tion’s Auto-control capability regulates Frank Cassidy, VP, Finance (previously Ventures. Enterprise Ireland, a state controller behavior on a cycle-by-cycle VP of finance at Power-One) development agency, continues to sup- basis, searching for any modification in Benoit Herve, VP, Marketing (previous- port the company and retains its original the system operation. The entire system ly product line/marketing manager at investment. parameters are estimated and contained Zilker Labs and headed up strategic in a single parameter —“MOJO”, which marketing for the MOSFET and In- According to digital power market re- allows a simple adjustment knob for per- tegrated Solution Business Unit at ON search firm, Darnell Group, “The por- formance enhancement and guaranteed Semiconductor) tion of the power supply market that will stability. employ some form of digital loop con- Jeff Purchon, VP of Global Sales (pre- trol is expected to grow at an average Powervation’s Auto-control algorithm viously responsible for business de- annual rate of about 45% for the next means that the power converter is truly velopment in Asia for Enpirion and five years. By 2013, the digital power self-contained. It can be plugged direct- held VP of International Sales and converter market is projected to exceed ly into a system and immediately oper- Marketing for International Power 1.4 billion units.” ate at peak performance without user Devices, which was subsequently intervention. This Plug-and-Power ca- acquired by Power-One) Powervation recently unveiled its Auto- pability enables outstanding performance Anthony Kelly, Ph.D., VP, Digital Con- control™power-conversion technology, without advanced expertise in control trol (previously worked at Analog De- which marks a fundamental shift in the theory, firmware coding or running com- vices, Cadence and STMicro- analog/digital power-management play- plex simulations. electronics) ing field, according to the company. In a simple Plug-and-Power™package, the Patrick McNamee, VP, Operations (pre- Early test results reveal system efficien- company’s technology delivers a reliable, viously VP of product engineering at cy gains of up to 30%, along with a 50% scalable solution that reduces design Cambridge Silicon Radio) improvement in transient response. A tiny complexity and cost, and accelerates Eamon O’Malley, Ph.D., VP, Digital De- footprint adds to the advantages, which time-to-market of eco power-smart sign (previously an ASIC design en- also include a 65% reduction in overall systems. gineer with S3Group, Philips system components when compared to Semiconductors and the Circuits and At the heart of Powervation’s solution is analog solutions. PowerVation’s next- Systems Research Centre at the Uni- Auto-control, a digital control algorithm, gen solution will improve transient devi- versity of Limerick, Ireland) implemented in firmware, which pro- ation by another 50%. 100 Hamilton Avenue, #130 vides a true adaptive adjustment of the Palo Alto, CA 94301 converter to take into account all system The first product utilizing Auto-control Tel: 888.763.9888 variations, while guaranteeing stability of is Powervation’s Plug-and-Power con- the converter. Auto-control greatly sim- troller aimed at power converter solu- Block 1, International Science Centre plifies what was once the time-consum- tions in communications, computing and National Technology Park ing “black art” of designing analog consumer applications. The new chip Castletroy, Limerick, Ireland compensation loops, which were sub- will be available in Q1’09. 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CMOSIS has appointed its co-founder Van Buskirk previously was CTO and People and Chairman, Lou Hermans, Ph.D., corporate VP of engineering at Spansion. as VP of Marketing and Sales. Hermans Jeff Lewis was promoted to the new Alchimer S.A., the thin films for TSV was one of the founders of CMOSIS in position of SVP of marketing and busi- metallization company, has appointed Dr. November 2007. In November 1999, he ness development. Lewis previously Claudio Truzzi as CTO. Dr. Truzzi has co-founded CMOS image sensor start- served as VP of marketing and most previously served as CEO of IC pack- up FillFactory, a spin-off of IMEC, recently as VP of marketing and prod- aging consultancy Convergix and CTO where he served as SVP of Marketing uct operations. He continues to report and VP at CS2. Most recently, he and Sales. The company achieved sales directly to Mark-Eric Jones, Lewis worked as an independent consultant to of euro 24 million in 2004, and was ac- joined ISi in January 2006, as VP of several large players in the EMS, semi- quired by Cypress in August 2004. Guy marketing. Prior to ISi, he was presi- conductor manufacturing equipment and Meynants, CEO. www.cmosis.com dent and CEO of CiraNova, an analog wafer-level process companies. EDA company. So far, ISi has an- Dialog Semiconductor has appointed nounced license deals with AMD and Alchimer, a spin-out from France’s CEA Mark Tyndall as VP of Business De- Hynix, and expects to name other cus- (Commissariat á l’Energie Atomique), velopment and Corporate Strategy. Tyn- tomers soon. www.z-ram.com has developed materials and process IP dall previously held business for creating thin coatings on the inside development and marketing roles at INSIDE Contactless has appointed Ri- of high-aspect ratio through-silicon vias MIPS, Infineon and Fujitsu Micro chard Vacher Detourniere as CFO. (TSVs). Since conventional techniques GmbH. Dr. Jalal Bagherli, CEO. Detourniere joins INSIDE from Sipar- have reached their limit at TSV aspect www.dialog-semiconductor.com ex, a leading independent French private ratios of 3:1, Alchimer’s technology, equity and venture capital firm. Most which enables TSVs with aggressive Freescale has appointed Dr. Lisa Su as recently, he served as a partner in the aspect ratios of 10:1 and greater, is well SVP & GM, Networking and Multime- area of information and communication placed to drive the adoption of 3D IC dia. Dr. Su joined Freescale in 2007 as technologies. Remy de Tonnac, CEO. packaging. Steve Lerner, CEO. SVP and CTO, leading the company’s www.INSIDEcontactless.com www.alchimer.com Technology Solutions Organization. She replaces Lynelle McKay, the prior GM, International Rectifier has appointed Altair Semiconductor, a provider of who has resigned. Dr. Su will continue Ilan Daskal as CFO reporting to Oleg 4G mobile ICs for handheld devices, has in the role of CTO until a replacement is Khaykin, president and CEO. Daskal appointed Mark Rice as VP and GM, found. Prior to joining Freescale, Dr. Su most recently served as VP of Finance Americas. Rice previously was Direc- led global semiconductor R&D for IBM. & Business Administration for Infine- tor, Asia Business Development for DSP www.freescale.com on’s North American Communications systems at TI and VP of Americas Sales Business Group. www.irf.com for Alcatel Microelectronics. Oded KLA-Tencor has appointed Mark Melamed, CEO. www.altair-semi.com Dentinger as CFO, reporting to CEO, Intersil has completed the company’s Rick Wallace. Most recently, Dentinger internal reorganization with the consol- BitWave has appointed Navi Miglani served as EVP and CFO for BEA Sys- idation of five product lines into two as Director of Product Marketing. tems, until the company was acquired product groups: Power Management and Miglani previously held senior positions by Oracle. President and COO John Analog Mixed Signal. David Loftus has within global corporations, including RF Kispert will be leaving KLA-Tencor at been hired as SVP of Worldwide Sales Micro Devices, where he was strategic the end of 2008. Kispert served as pres- and Corporate Marketing. Peter Oak- marketing manager of the Radio Sys- ident and COO since January 2006 and lander, the former SVP of Worldwide tems Business Unit, and Sychip, where also as interim CFO since March 2008. Sales, has transitioned to the role of SVP he was marketing director. BitWave’s His management responsibilities will be of the Power Management Group. The BW1102 Softransceiver RFIC is a highly assumed by Wallace. www.kla- product lines now under Oaklander’s integrated, low power reconfigurable tencor.com leadership are Consumer; Computing; transceiver. The company will begin Industrial, Communications, Automo- volume shipments of production silicon Innovative Silicon, Inc. (ISi), devel- tive; and Specialty. The VP/GMs of In- and software later this year. Russell Cyr, oper of Z-RAM zero-capacitor floating tersil’s power businesses, Michael CMO and co-founder. www.bitwave. body memory technology, has appoint- Althar, Davin Lee, and Paul Sferraz- com ed Michael Van Buskirk as SVP of za, will report to Oaklander. Susan engineering and operations reporting to Hardman has been appointed SVP of Mark-Eric Jones, president and CEO.

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Marv Blecker where he had 20+ years of experience www.multigig.com has decided to reduce his day-to-day in various executive leadership positions, management responsibilities, become a including VP/GM of the General Prod- MVTS Technologies has appointed Jim part-time Qualcomm employee, and step ucts Division and VP/Managing Direc- Fraine as EVP of Sales. Fraine has held down from his current position as EVP tor of Xilinx Asia Pacific. Dave Bell, senior management roles with Teradyne, and president of QTL. Aberle joined President and CEO. www.intersil.com Nextest, IMS, and FEI. MVTS is a pro- Qualcomm in 2000 after supporting the vider of value-added refurbished auto- Company as outside counsel for sever- Lattice has appointed Sean Riley as matic testing equipment. Ron Maassen, al years. Most recently, he served as SVP Corporate VP and GM, High Density CEO. www.mvts.com and GM within QTL. Solutions, and Chris Fanning has been promoted to Corporate VP and GM, NEC Electronics America has appoint- Quantum Leap Packaging has ap- Low Density and Mixed Signal Solu- ed Bob Pinteric as GM of the Multi- pointed Byoung Lee as CFO. Lee was tions. Riley was previously VP of Mar- purpose Microcontroller (MCU) most recently the CFO /VP Special keting for MathStar. Fanning most Strategic Business Unit, reporting to Jim Projects at REMEC Defense & Space. recently was Corporate VP, Enterprise Trent, VP of the Multipurpose Micro- David Grooms, CEO. www.qlpkg.com controller and Automotive Group. Pin- Solutions. Riley may purchase up to SiRF has appointed Dennis Bencala as 450,000 shares of the Company’s com- teric has held a number of leadership positions including MCU marketing CFO. Michael Kelly has been promot- mon stock at an exercise price of $2.27 ed to VP of Sales. Al Heshmati has been per share pursuant to the inducement manager, infotainment operations manager, and director of a flash memory named VP of Software Engineering. stock option. Bruno Guilmart, president Bencala has been Acting CFO and Prin- and CEO. www.latticesemi.com development center while at Motorola/ Freescale. www.am.necel.com cipal Financial and Accounting Officer Luminary Micro has named Pete Zim- since August. He joined SiRF in 2000 as mer as VP of Worldwide Sales. Zimmer Nusym, a provider of functional verifi- Corporate Controller, and became Se- was most recently VP of Americas Sales cation software, has appointed Nafees nior Director, Investor Relations and at Microchip. Jim Reinhart, president Qureshy as VP of Engineering. Qureshy Business Development in August 2007. and CEO. www.LuminaryMicro.com most recently was VP of Engineering at Kelly joined SiRF in 1998 as Director, Arteris, a network-on-chip interconnect North America Sales. In August 2006, Microchip’s VP and CFO, Gordon IP company. Venktesh Shukla, president he was promoted to Senior Director, Parnell, will retire effective December and CEO. www.nusym.com North America Sales. Heshmati most re- 31, 2008. He will be replaced by J. Eric cently was Senior Director of Engineer- Bjornholt, currently VP of Finance and Plastic Logic has appointed Rik Thor- ing for GPS at Qualcomm. www. Corporate Secretary. www.microchip. becke as CFO. Thorbecke most recently sirf.com com served as VP, Global Finance for Levi Strauss & Company. Previously, he was Solaicx, the only manufacturer of MIPS announced the resignation of Jose VP of Global Finance and Audit at Elec- monocrystalline silicon ingots and wa- Franca, founder of Chipidea Microelec- tronic Arts and was a Partner in the fers to use proprietary growers designed tronica, S.A. Professor Franca resigned Technology Practice of Pricewater- exclusively for solar applications, has to pursue his personal interests and re- houseCoopers. appointed Peter Schwartz, Ph.D. as VP sume his career in academics. of product engineering. Dr. Schwartz www.mips.com Plastic Logic recently opened its com- most recently served as VP of process mercial scale plastic electronics factory and equipment for Nanoconduction. Bob Multigig, a provider of clock and tim- in Dresden, Germany, which will im- Ford, president and CEO. www. ing solutions, has appointed Ali Wehbi mediately begin building plastic electron- solaicx.com as VP of product and application engi- ic displays for Plastic Logic’s first neering, Scott Gardner as marketing consumer electronics product. The Tessera has launched a search for a new director and Stewart Speed as sales product, an electronic reader for busi- CFO following the resignation of

Charles Webster. John Keating, SVP of engineering for ARM’s physical IP based on a patented technology (53 pat- of Corporate Development, has been division. www.viragelogic.com ■ ents) that combines a chip and a silver appointed interim CFO until a perma- antenna linked together with a gold nent replacement is named. Henry bump. “Hank” Nothhaft, president and CEO. Funding & IPOs Clients and references include most of www.tessera.com Altair Semiconductor , a provider of the public transport authorities in Eu- Texas Instruments has launched its new 4G mobile ICs for handsets and hand- rope, such as RATP, as well as public “Kilby Labs”, a center of innovation held devices, has closed a $22M Series transport authorities in the largest cities designed to foster creative ideas for C funding round, in the form of a com- of the US and Asia. ASK was the sup- breakthrough semiconductor technolo- bined equity and credit investment. The plier of the 14.5 million contactless tick- gy. Kilby Labs will be located on TI’s round was led by Pacific Technology ets of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In Dallas North Campus and is inspired by Fund and joined by ETV Capital and re- 2007, the company reached a turnover the original TI lab, where Jack Kilby turning investors. The funding will be of 30.5 million euros with strong growth invented the Microchip. Ajith Amer- used to support Altair’s global expan- potential. Bruno Moreau, CEO. asekera, Ph.D., a TI Fellow, has been sion, sales and customer support, as well www.ask.fr named director of Kilby Labs. He previ- as future development of chipsets for ously served as CTO for TI’s ASIC di- WiMAX, LTE and XGP. ASOCS, developer of a wireless Multi- vision. Gregg Lowe, SVP and the Comms processor for handheld devic- Altair’s business has gained consider- es, has secured $8 million led by FinTech project’s executive sponsor. www. able momentum since its $18M Series ti.com GIMV Fund and included existing inves- B round of funding in May 2007. Less tors Vertex Venture Capital and Harel Trident Microsystems has promoted than six months after releasing the Hertz Investment House. ASOCS has Dr. Hungwen (Wen) Li from SVP of ALT2150, which is claimed to be the raised $20 million to date. Gilad Garon, Strategic Marketing to Chief Marketing smallest and most power-efficient mo- CEO. Officer and has appointed Saeid Mosh- bile WiMAX processor, Altair’s solution kelani as SVP, Engineering. Prior to is considered an industry benchmark for AVA Solar, an advanced thin-film pho- Trident, Dr. Li was SVP and Chief Mar- mobile, handheld devices, and is inte- tovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer lo- keting Officer for Huahong Internation- grated in some of the world’s leading cated in Fort Collins, Colorado, has al and founder, President and CEO of device and module manufacturers’ prod- completed its second institutional equi- RedSwitch. Moshkelani previously ucts. ty round of financing. This $104 million funding was led by DCM and served as VP of Engineering and Oper- Recently, Altair had been awarded the ations for Dust Networks and VP, En- included new investors Technology leading supplier position of chipsets for Partners, GLG Partners and Bohemian gineering and Operations, Consumer wireless devices operating on Willcom’s Division for LSI Logic via the acquisi- Companies as well as prior investors, next generation PHS (“XGP”) in Japan, including Invus. The funds will be used tion of C-Cube where he served as VP, a 4G technology similar to mobile Engineering and Operations. Sylvia to complete AVA Solar’s first produc- WiMAX. On the LTE front, Altair has tion facility in Longmont, Colorado, Summers, CEO and President. created strategic partnerships with key www.tridentmicro.com which will have the capacity to produce ecosystem members to accelerate the 200 megawatts of PV modules annual- Virage Logic has appointed Brian Sere- development and interoperability of its ly. Pascal Noronha, CEO. www. da as VP of finance and CFO, reporting LTE solution. Oded Melamed, CEO and avasolar.com to Dan McCranie, CEO and chairman. co-founder. www.altair-semi.com CriticalBlue, a provider of accelerated Daniel LaBouve was named VP of glo- ASK has secured 11 million euros in embedded software solutions, has raised bal operations, reporting to Dr. Alex funding from XAnge and CDC Entre- Shubat, COO. LaBouve takes over the $4M of private equity funding from prises (5M euro each) and CDC Inno- Toshiba and Scottish Venture Fund as operational responsibilities from Ehsan vation, an early investor (1M euro). Rashid who has been appointed to the well as previous investors Herald Ven- Founded in 1997, ASK is a manufactur- tures, Lanza TechVentures and Pentech newly created position of VP of Japan er of RFID and contactless products, sales. Sereda most recently served as Ventures. David Stewart, CEO. including cards, tickets, readers and www.criticalblue.com CFO and treasurer at Proxim Wireless. eCovers for electronic passports with LaBouve previously served as VP of over 120 million products delivered in GateRocket has completed a $3 million engineering at Innovative Silicon and VP more than 50 countries. All products are Series A round of financing led by New

Copyright 2008, Pinestream Communications, Inc. 52 Pine Street, Weston, Massachusetts 02493 USA Tel 781.647.8800 Fax 781.647.8825 www.pinestream.com [email protected] 14 / OCTOBER 2008 SEMICONDUCTOR TIMES Funding & IPOs Microstaq’s products enable energy ef- development of its Coolteq handset sili- ficiency gains of 20% or more in HVAC con due to be launched during 2009. (Continued from page 13) systems. Energy savings come from the Atlantic Ventures, Massachusetts Tech- valve’s ability to precisely and electron- Nujira High Accuracy Tracking (HAT™ nology Development Corporation and ically control fluid flow, down to 0.5% Modulator technology dynamically con- Long River Ventures. Seed-stage inves- increments, which allow systems of all trols the power supply to the circuit in tors and Angel groups also participated types to be more efficiently operated. line with the transmission performance to bring the total GateRocket has now The MEMS valves also have fewer required, enabling the creation of highly raised to $4.5 million. This round of fi- moving parts than their conventional efficient RF Power Amplifiers for 3G nancing will enable the company to en- counterparts, increasing reliability and and 4G cellular networks and DVB dig- gage more customers and broadly reducing maintenance costs. Electronic ital broadcast transmissions. Nujira is deploy its solution for FPGA verifica- controllability eliminates the need for engaged with major OEMs and has a tion and debug. Dave Orecchio, Presi- tuning. Microstaq’s products also offer strong pipeline. The company is in ne- dent and CEO. www.gaterocket.com lower overall system cost. The compa- gotiation with several more OEMs, ny is now in late stage development which will bring its market coverage to GreenVolts, a provider of concentrat- work with major HVAC OEM manufac- almost 100% in the Cellular Infrastruc- ing photovoltaic (CPV) technology, has turers. Sandeep Kumar, CEO. www. ture market, with TV Broadcast not far secured $30 million in Series B funding microstaq.com behind. Tim Haynes, CEO and founder. from Oak Investment Partners. Green- Volts is a utility-scale solar technology Nanosolar has added new capital and Nusym, a provider of functional verifi- company focused on delivering whole- brought its total amount of funding to cation software, has raised $8 million in sale-distributed generation solutions that date to just below $500 million, as part Series B financing led by Voyager Cap- can produce the lowest cost solar ener- of a strategic $300 million equity financ- ital, with Simmons Goodspeed Invest- gy on a massive scale. A portion of the ing. The Nanosolar Utility Panel gives ment Management, and a public funds will be used for its GV1 project, utility-scale power producers the solar company participating as a “strategic the world’s largest non-silicon CPV panel technology to build and operate investor”. Previous Series A investors power plant built as part of its agree- cost efficient solar power plants. AES Woodside Fund and Draper Richards, ment with Pacific Gas & Electric. The (one of the world’s largest power com- also participated. The product line is first megawatt of GV1 will be delivered panies), the Carlyle Group, EDF (the currently being evaluated on leading edge later this year. Bob Cart, founder and world’s largest electric utility), and En- designs at Nusym’s semiconductor part- CEO. ergy Capital Partners signed off on in- ners. Venktesh Shukla, president and vestments into Nanosolar through CEO. www.nusym.com Microstaq (see profile in April 2005 is- Riverstone Holdings, EDF Renewables, sue) has closed a $12.5 million Series B Percello has completed a $12 million and simultaneously formed AES Solar. Series B financing round co-led by Gran- financing round led by Good Energies, A fraction of the oversubscribed round with follow-on investments from exist- ite Ventures and Vertex Venture Capital, also included financial investors such as and including T-Mobile Venture Fund as ing investors Yaletown Venture Partners Lone Pine Capital, the Skoll Foundation, and Polygon Group. Microstaq devel- a strategic investor. The company’s $6 and Pierre Omidyar’s fund as well as million Series A was led by 7-Main Ltd. ops MEMS-based flow control valves returning investors GLG Partners, Beck that enable material energy savings in Percello was founded in 2007 to devel- Energy, and Conergy founding investor op baseband processors for the 3G and HVAC, Refrigeration, Automotive, and Grazia Equity. Martin Roscheisen, CEO other sectors. LTE femtocell market. Shlomo Gadot, Nujira, has closed $18 million in Series CEO. www.percello.com Microstaq claims to be the first compa- C funding led by new investor BankIn- ny to develop MEMS valves and com- PowerGenix, manufacturer of nontox- vest Group, New Energy Solutions Fund ic, high performance rechargeable Nick- mercialize them for macro-flow and and including existing investors Ama- macro-pressure fluid control applica- el-Zinc (NiZn) batteries, has closed $30 deus Capital Partners, 3i, Cambridge million in Series D financing led by tions at extreme temperatures. These Capital and Cambridge Angels. The characteristics make the products suit- Bessemer Venture Partners and includ- funding enables Nujira to continue with ed existing investors Advent Internation- able for a number of different applica- the commercialization of its Coolteq tions, including HVAC systems, which al, Angeleno Group, Braemar Energy products for the cellular network and Ventures, Granite Ventures, OnPoint represents roughly a quarter of all elec- broadcast markets and to accelerate tricity consumption in the U.S. Technologies and Technology Partners. The company has signed $75 million in

Copyright 2008, Pinestream Communications, Inc. 52 Pine Street, Weston, Massachusetts 02493 USA Tel 781.647.8800 Fax 781.647.8825 www.pinestream.com [email protected] SEMICONDUCTOR TIMES OCTOBER 2008 / 15 customer supply agreements since be- Netherlands. Existing investors Trident 1,800 employees worldwide, publicly ginning high-volume manufacturing in Capital and Emerald Technology Ven- held e2v is much larger than privately March of this year and is supplying NiZn tures also participated. This investment held QP Semiconductor, with sales of cells into multiple markets including accompanies a recently awarded $4.97 about $24 million and 90 employees. power tool, lawn and garden, consum- million grant from the State of Ohio’s Both firms are solidly profitable with er AA, military and light electric vehi- Third Frontier Projects, which will be strong balance sheets, and the product cles (LEV). used to further improve the Company’s portfolios of the two companies are en- manufacturing technologies. The Com- tirely complementary. John Stannard, PowerGenix’s NiZn cells pack one-third pany operates a 2 Megawatt roll-to-roll QP Semiconductor co-founder and more power and energy than existing pilot production line and is building a 25 president; Keith Attwood, e2v’s CEO. rechargeable alkaline cells. The compa- Megawatt roll-to-roll production line to www.e2v.com, www.qpsemi.com ny’s cells have also received compliance, manufacture flexible and lightweight under third-party testing, with the Eu- photovoltaic products. Xunming Deng, Samsung has sent a letter to the Board ropean Union’s Reduction of Hazardous CEO. www.xunlight.com ■ of SanDisk reiterating its proposal to Materials (RoHS) and Battery Directive acquire SanDisk for $26 per share in requirements. In the U.S., the Recharge- cash, which would deliver an immedi- able Battery Recycling Corporation Mergers & Acquisitions ate cash premium of 93% over SanD- (RBRC), which represents 90% of the isk’s closing share price on September Freescale global battery industry, recently expand- has signed a definitive agree- 4, 2008. Intoto ed its recycling program for the first time ment to purchase , a provider of in seven years to include PowerGenix’s software platform products for net- Tegal (NASDAQ: TGAL), a manufac- NiZn, the most recyclable rechargeable working and communications equipment turer of plasma etch and deposition sys- chemistry on the market. Dan Squiller, manufacturers. Terms were not dis- tems, has signed an agreement with CEO. closed. Freescale intends to apply Into- Alcatel Micro Machining Systems to’s technology and talent to create (AMMS) and Alcatel-Lucent to acquire Runcom, a pioneer in OFDMA-based high-performance applications and soft- their Deep Reactive Ion Etch (DRIE) silicon for user terminals and base sta- ware components optimized to improve and Plasma Enhanced Chemical Va- tions that comply with the IEEE802.16e- system performance, streamline devel- por Deposition (PECVD) products, and 2005 standard for WiBro and Mobile opment and enhance software support the related IP, directed at 3D wafer-lev- WiMAX applications, has secured $10 for its QorIQ multicore communications el packaging applications. The restrict- million in Series C funding from TLcom platforms. QorIQ platforms are Frees- ed stock and cash deal, valued at $5 Capital. This is only the second round cale’s new brand of communications million, is expected to close later this of financing for Runcom. The previous processors designed to take embedded month. At closing, Tegal will pay to investment round currently held by multicore to new levels of adoption. AMMS $1 million in cash and $4 mil- SMAC Partners from Germany and Lynelle McKay, SVP & GM, Freescale’s lion worth of newly issued shares of Concord from Israel was executed in Networking & Multimedia Group. Tegal common stock. 2000. Runcom is already profitable. www.freescale.com The agreement calls for the continued Runcom’s RNA200 ASIC was the first International Rectifier has rejected support by AMMS of the existing in- and most popular Mobile WiMAX com- Vishay unsolicited, non-binding proposal stalled base of DRIE tools in use by pliant ASIC in the market for user ter- to acquire all of the outstanding shares MEMS and integrated device manufac- minals with more than 250,000 sold. The of IR for $21.22 per share in cash. The turers. Tegal will continue the develop- RNU2000 Base Station System on Board Board believes that the proposal by ment of the AMMS DRIE product line, was first in the market as well with more Vishay does not value the Company and including the integration of the AMMS than 1,000 fielded. Dr. Zion Hadad, its future prospects appropriately. process modules on its Compact bridge founder and CEO. www.irf.com platform and the completion of a 300mm process chamber. Thomas Mika, Chair- QP Semiconductor Xunlight, developer of low-cost and , a provider of mis- man, President and CEO of Tegal. flexible thin-film silicon solar modules, sion-critical ICs for the military, aero- www.tegal.com, www.alcatelmicro has received $11 million of additional space and high reliability industries, has machining.com financing from institutional investors. agreed to be acquired by e2v technolo- The investment was led by Rabo Ven- gies, a developer of high technology XtremeEDA, an Ottawa-based profes- tures, a division of Rabobank, a top 25 components and sub-systems. With sional services company specializing in global financial institution based in the sales of approximately $360 million and the verification and design of ASICs and

Copyright 2008, Pinestream Communications, Inc. 52 Pine Street, Weston, Massachusetts 02493 USA Tel 781.647.8800 Fax 781.647.8825 www.pinestream.com [email protected] 16 / OCTOBER 2008 SEMICONDUCTOR TIMES M&A Tec’s fingerprint sensors in its next de- and has terminated employment for sub- sign cycle in late 2009. AuthenTec an- stantially all of its operational and engi- (Continued from page 15) ticipates an impact to its sales will occur neering employees in all worldwide FPGAs, has merged with ESLX, a US- in 2H’09. The business of this custom- locations. Beginning September 19, based company offering design and ed- er represented approximately 40% of 2008, management, acting based upon ucational services at the electronic AuthenTec’s revenue in Q2’08 and is a plan approved by the Board, eliminat- system-level (ESL) Now a wholly- expected to represent approximately 30 ed 52 positions. www.neomagic.com owned subsidiary of XtremeEDA, ESLX to 35% of revenue in Q3’08. has been renamed and will operate as a www.authentec.com NVIDIA announced a workforce reduc- US-based company, XtremeEDA USA. tion to allow for continued investment The combined companies will offer cus- ChipMOS LTD. (NASDAQ: IMOS) in strategic growth areas. As a result, tom solutions across the full spectrum announced that its consolidated subsid- NVIDIA expects to eliminate approxi- of the electronics design chain for ar- iary, MODERN MIND TECHNOLOGY mately 360 positions worldwide, or chitectural modeling, IP integration and LIMITED, has completed the US$130 about 6.5% of its global workforce. verification of highly complex chips and million investment commitment to Chip- NVIDIA will continue to invest in se- systems. Claude Cloutier, president of MOS TECHNOLOGIES (Shanghai) lective high-growth opportunities like its XtremeEDA; Jack Donovan, president LTD. with the injection of the remain- CUDA parallel computing technology of XtremeEDA USA. www.xtreme- ing US$7.5 million registered capital in and Tegra mobile single-chip computer. eda.com ■ early August. ChipMOS is a provider of Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO. semiconductor testing and assembly www.nvidia.com services with facilities in Hsinchu and Business & Financials Southern Taiwan Science Parks in Tai- NXP has announced a redesign program wan and Shanghai. that will bring NXP to a healthy finan- Alliance Semiconductor’s Board has cial situation and position the company determined to begin proceedings to dis- Initially, US$250 million of registered for future growth. The changes come solve the corporation. The company has capital for ChipMOS Shanghai was in response to a challenging economic for some time been considering wheth- committed by the Company. The Com- environment, a weak US dollar, and the er to re-invest in another business or to pany sought approval for reduction of reduction in size of the company after liquidate and distribute its net assets to registered capital to US$130 million and moving its wireless business into a joint shareholders. President and CEO, Mel such approval was granted by the venture with STMicroelectronics. Keating, has resigned to further reduce Shanghai Foreign Investment Commis- the Company’s costs, continuing the sion in July 2008. The Company does The redesign program includes major substantial cost reductions since the not believe that the reduction will ad- reduction of NXP’s manufacturing base, Company sold its operating businesses versely affect planned operations of its central R&D, and support functions. in fiscal 2007. ChipMOS Shanghai. The reduction of This program is expected to affect ap- the investment commitment and the proximately 4,500 people globally and AuthenTec (NASDAQ: AUTH), a pro- completion of the investment mean that will result in annualized savings of $550 vider of fingerprint sensors and solu- ChipMOS will not be required to make million. The restructuring cost will re- tions, updated revenue estimates for Q3 an additional US$120 million investment sult in an estimated cash out of $800 and FY2008 and reported the loss of a prior to December 7, 2008. www. million. 2009 design-in opportunity at a signifi- chipmos.com cant PC customer. Based on order trends Moving forward, NXP will focus on its and discussions with customers, Au- Focus Enhancements (NASDAQ: Automotive, Identification, Home, and thenTec now expects Q3’08 revenue to FCSE) has filed a voluntary petition for MultiMarket businesses where it has a range between $18.2 and $18.5 million relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bank- high share of innovative products and and FY2008 revenue to range between ruptcy Code. Six of the company’s sev- market leadership positions. The rede- $69 and $71 million. This represents an en Board members have resigned. Brett sign measures will establish NXP with increase from the $15.1 million report- Moyer, President and CEO. www. a strong base to achieve its mid-term ed in Q3’07 and $52.3 million reported focusinfo.com targets to deliver profitable growth with for fiscal 2007. 15% EBITA and positive cash flow. NeoMagic (Nasdaq: NMGC) announced Additionally, AuthenTec has been noti- a cessation of efforts to raise additional Changes to the manufacturing opera- fied by a significant PC customer that it capital. As a result, NeoMagic is mak- tions reflect NXP’s long term asset-light does not presently plan to use Authen- ing efforts to wind-down its operations strategy, the need for a balanced

Copyright 2008, Pinestream Communications, Inc. 52 Pine Street, Weston, Massachusetts 02493 USA Tel 781.647.8800 Fax 781.647.8825 www.pinestream.com [email protected] SEMICONDUCTOR TIMES OCTOBER 2008 / 17 geographical cost base and commitment Market Research phone growth of over 10%. www.sia- to ongoing customer programs. The online.org program entails the migration to more Worldwide sales of semiconductors advanced production processes and re- grew by 7.6% to $22.2 billion in July North America-based manufacturers duction of excess capacity in older tech- from July 2007 sales of $20.6 billion. of semiconductor equipment posted nologies, while maintaining a strong Sales grew by 2.8% from June when $884 million in orders in August 2008 manufacturing presence in Europe. NXP sales were $21.6 billion. Year-to-date and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.83, accord- plans to consolidate the majority of its sales through July were $148.3 billion, ing to SEMI. The three-month average production to two higher capability Eu- an increase of 5% from the same peri- of worldwide bookings in August 2008 ropean fabs: Nijmegen and Hamburg, od of 2007 when sales were $141.3 bil- was $884 million, about even with the and to SSMC in Singapore. lion. Sales of DRAMs and NAND flash final July 2008 level of $889 million, and memory continued to decline as a result about 36% less than the $1.37 billion in As a result, four factories are planned of continuing price erosion. Total semi- orders posted in August 2007. The three- to be sold or closed. The fab in Fishkill, conductor sales excluding memory month average of worldwide billings in New York, USA will be closed ultimate- products increased by 11.6% year-on- August 2008 was $1.07 billion, about ly in 2009. Additionally, two other fac- year and by 3.2% sequentially. 1% less than the final July 2008 level of tories are planned to be closed by 2010: $1.08 billion, and almost 37% less than the “ICN5” part of the NXP facility in 300mm for the first time accounts for the August 2007 billings level of $1.68 Nijmegen, Netherlands, and part of the the largest share of wafer manufactur- billion. www.semi.org “ICH” fab of the Hamburg facility, Ger- ing capacity and actual wafers pro- many. NXP’s fab in Caen, France will cessed, with 44% of total capacity and Worldwide semiconductor manufac- be put on the market for sale. 47% of total silicon processed. Overall turing equipment billings reached capacity utilization remains high at 89% $7.83 billion in Q2’08, 26% less than After the restructuring, NXP will invest with leading edge above 95%. Consumer Q1’08 and 29% less than the same quar- 16 to 17% of sales in R&D, which is in electronics, PCs and cell phones account ter a year ago, reports SEMI. Worldwide line with leading semiconductors com- for about 80% of panies. The changes will lead to a re- chip demand. LCD WW Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Billings ($B) duction in annual operating expenses of TV units are pro- $250 million and are expected to be im- jected to increase 2Q08/1Q08 2Q08/2Q07 Region 2Q’08 1Q’08 2Q’07 (Q/Q) (Y/Y) plemented mostly during 2009. Frans 32% this year, and Europe 0.52 0.73 0.62 -29% -15% van Houten, CEO. www.nxp.com digital set top box- China 0.47 0.81 1.22 -42% -61% es and digital still Japan 1.93 2.39 2.06 -19% -6% Transmeta (NASDAQ: TMTA) has ini- N. America 1.25 1.84 1.51 -32% -17% cameras will both Korea 1.41 1.74 1.77 -19% -20% tiated a process to seek a potential sale be up around 20%, Taiwan 1.45 2.37 3.20 -39% -55% of the Company, with the assistance of with PC unit ROW 0.80 0.67 0.63 19% 26% Piper Jaffray & Co., after actively ex- growth of about Total 7.83 10.56 11.01 -26% -29% ploring a full range of strategic alterna- 13% and cell Source: SEMI/SEAJ September 2008 tives over the past few months and after strengthening its balance sheet. This PC Shipments By Region And Form Factor (in millions), 2007-2012 year, as a result of its successful licensing activities, Transmeta will collect at Form Region Factor 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 least $265 million of cash payments for USA Desktop & 37.0 35.5 33.7 32.6 31.1 29.6 its IP and patents. x86 Server Portables 30.0 35.3 41.1 47.5 54.1 61.1 Transmeta has also entered into two Total 67.0 70.8 74.8 80.2 85.2 90.7 agreements with Intel relating to the li- Int’l Desktop & 124.1 127.7 133.0 141.1 147.6 154.7 censing of Transmeta technologies and x86 Server IP. Pursuant to these two agreements, Portables 78.0 112.8 146.2 180.3 209.0 237.2 Transmeta expects to receive cash pay- Total 202.0 240.5 279.2 321.3 356.6 391.9 ments from Intel totaling $91.5 million WW Desktop & 161.1 163.2 166.6 173.7 178.7 184.3 before the end of Transmeta’s current x86 Server fiscal quarter ending September 30, Portables 108.0 148.2 187.4 227.8 263.1 298.3 Total 269.1 311.4 354.0 401.5 441.8 482.6 2008. Les Crudele, president and CEO. www.transmeta.com ■ Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, September 2008

Copyright 2008, Pinestream Communications, Inc. 52 Pine Street, Weston, Massachusetts 02493 USA Tel 781.647.8800 Fax 781.647.8825 www.pinestream.com [email protected] 18 / OCTOBER 2008 SEMICONDUCTOR TIMES Market Research do battle with ARM. There will be no By eliminating the front grid, more sun- clear semiconductor maker “winner” in light becomes available for electrical (Continued from page 17) the short run. www.instat.com conversion. EWT provides higher light semiconductor equipment bookings capture and efficient distribution of en- reached $6.99 billion in Q2’08, 30% less The HomePNA Alliance announced ergy to the backside contacts. The Ven- than the same quarter a year ago, and that more leading North American tel- tura architecture combines the EWT 13% less than the bookings figure for cos are deploying its technology and that back contact cell design with MMA to Q1’08. www.semi.org HomePNA was installed in more North deliver a scalable, high output module American homes in the last quarter than platform. Monolithic Module Assembly Worldwide PC shipments are project- any other coax home networking solu- (MMA) enables fully automated mod- ed to grow by 15.7% in 2008 to reach tion. In addition, HomePNA announced ule assembly, applying proven, high vol- 311 million units, reports IDC. Growth that TELUS, the $9 billion Canadian tele- ume, high precision semiconductor-style will remain in double-digits through com company, has chosen the HomeP- manufacturing techniques. Peter Green, 2011, with growth above 9% in 2012, NA 3.1 technology for its TELUS TV president and CEO. www.advent boosting annual shipments to over 482 service offering. HomePNA delivers data solar.com million in 2012. ■ throughput of up to 320 Mbps over existing coax wires. www.homepna.org Ambric has introduced its Ambric Rapid Media Processing (RMP) platform, a Emerging Trends HomeGrid Forum announced contin- collection of five elements: the Am2000 iRex has launched the iRex 1000 series ued progress and cooperation towards family of Massively Parallel Processing Digital Reader. Although the iRex iLi- advancement of the International Tele- Array (MPPA) devices; the aDesigner ad products with their larger screen and communication Union’s Standardization tool suite and libraries; the Am2045 GT superior functionality have been suc- Sector (ITU-T) G.hn next generation family of reference boards; a rich set of cessful, the company recognized the home networking standard. The mem- codec IP content; and the OpenVIS need for a new generation solution for bers of the ITU-T’s G.hn Rapporteur compliance specification, which enables business. The result is the iRex 1000 Group are creating a specification for a interoperability of codecs under a com- series, offering superior functionality single MAC/PHY technology that can mon host application and hardware plat- and a 10.2-inch screen size to allow easy run over coaxial cable, phone lines, or form. Many customers and third party reading and referencing of documents power lines. homegridforum.org ■ IP providers are adopting the RMP plat- from A4 Powerpoint presentations to so- form to create a range of interoperable phisticated PDF files and from HTML codecs and video processing IP. to TXT and JPEG. www.ambric.com

Weighing less than 570 grams and only New Products Analog Devices has created a MEMS 1.2cm deep, the 1000 series is an open Advent Solar has unveiled Advent So- microphone capable of high-fidelity au- system, which synchronizes easily with lar Ventura Technology, its cell-to-mod- dio/video playback, conference calling, the PC and is able to read all common ule solar architecture. Ventura Solar TIA-920-compliant VoIP, voice recog- formats. The large display has 16 grey Technology provides a platform-level nition, and other functions. ADI com- tones and storage capacity is delivered design by combining Emitter-Wrap bined audio applications know-how with via a changeable 1GB SD card. The Through (EWT) back-contact cells with MEMS technology to design a new fam- chargeable built in Li-Ion battery has semiconductor device manufacturing ily of microphones with the industry’s sufficient power to last for several days. methods to create a highly scalable plat- highest SNR of greater than 61-dB A- iRex was founded in 2005 as a spin-off form for module manufacturing. weighted. Today, the highest quality from Philips The iRex team developed sound available in a cell phone is just 55 the electronic paper display for the Sony With Ventura Technology, Advent Solar dB. The new omni-directional input mi- Librie in 2004. Hans Brons, CEO. will develop solar cells and modules that crophones are available with digital out- www.irextechnologies.com deliver high energy output by optimiz- put or analog output and deliver the ing silicon light capture, and dramati- industry’s flattest frequency response Ultra-mobile computing could far cally improving cell and module-level from 100 Hz to greater than 15kHz. outsell desktop and notebook PCs in the connectivity to minimize resistive loss- Today, MEMS microphones account for long run, and is now garnering much es. The architecture provides higher cell- a bit less than 10% of the total market attention from semiconductor firms, to-module efficiency, while using thinner in units, but shipments are expected to reports In-Stat. Intel is gearing up to silicon wafers to reduce costs. increase by 32% yearly over the next 4

Copyright 2008, Pinestream Communications, Inc. 52 Pine Street, Weston, Massachusetts 02493 USA Tel 781.647.8800 Fax 781.647.8825 www.pinestream.com [email protected] SEMICONDUCTOR TIMES OCTOBER 2008 / 19 years to exceed 1 billion units in 2012, desktop applications. As the first digital ple, a Japanese Tier One investment according to iSuppli. Samples now. controllers to offer up to 8-phase con- bank’s 64-bit credit risk analysis code Mark Martin, VP, Micromachined Prod- trol, the CHL8316 and CHL8318 con- was accelerated from 50 hours on a ucts Division. www.analog.com/mic trollers use a number of patent-pending standard x86 desktop machine to 10 digital control techniques to meet over minutes on a single CATS-700 1U node, Cambridge Analog Technologies, a 90% power efficiency levels across vir- a speedup of 300X. In other examples, developer of ultra-low-power high-per- tually all load ranges. CHiL has also in- speedups of 80X and 91X were achieved formance analog ICs, has successfully troduced the CHL8510 server driver, a compared to the latest 8-core 3GHz x86 taped out low-power ADCs and digital new high-frequency MOSFET gate driv- servers on 64-bit Monte Carlo codes. PLLs using Cadence Virtuoso IC 6.1.3, er designed to support these new addi- the latest version of the Cadence cus- tions to the company’s family of The CATS-700 delivers 1.152 TFLOPS tom IC platform. Kush Gulati, president, multiphase digital controllers. of 64-bit floating point performance in CEO and co-founder. a 1U enclosure. It includes 24GBytes At currents ranging from 30-40A, Chil of ECC DRAM, typically consumes Celeno Communications has intro- simultaneously meets transient control 300W and is programmed in C. A single duced its CL1300 WiFi Chip for service requirements and increases server pow- 42U rack half filled with CATS-700 and providers, which can reliably stream up er efficiency by about 8%, which re- half filled with standard servers would to four concurrent and different HD sults in a 150W reduction at the voltage cost around $600K and provide perfor- streams with whole-home coverage regulator level alone on a typically con- mance equivalent to 40 racks filled with while maintaining wire-like quality of figured blade server. The 6-phase the latest 3GHz 8-core x86 servers. The experience. The CL1300 is a standards- CHL8316 and 8-phase CHL8318 con- CATS-700 system would deliver initial based 802.11 SoC targeted at wireless trollers are $2.49 and $3.29 respective- capital savings of over $9M and TCO video home networking access point ly @ 1Ku. The CHL8510 MOSFET savings over 3 years of over $11M. The applications that includes full 802.11 driver is $0.49 @ 1Ku. Ram Sudireddy, CATS-700 solution is also only 1/40th of PHY and MAC functionality, a wireless president and CEO. www.chilsemi.com the physical size and consumes 96% less network processor and an embedded energy than the unaccelerated system of CPU. ClariPhy will demonstrate its all-digital equivalent performance. CMOS 10-Gbps maximum likelihood Powered by Celeno’s patent pending sequence detection (MLSD) technolo- These results far exceed what is possi- OptimizAIR technology, the solution gy in an XFP application at ECOC 2008, ble with the latest 64-bit versions of Cell supports extreme range of over 50 Europe’s largest conference on optical and graphics processors. For a 42U rack meters (150 feet) through multiple walls communications. The demonstration with equal numbers of servers and ac- and ceilings with enough throughput for will be in combination with Sumitomo celerators, the CATS-700 solution is 3x 4 HD streams and with no packet loss Electric’s uncooled directly modulated faster and 2.8x more power efficient or visual artifacts. The CL1300 also laser technology. ClariPhy’s MLSD PHY than a system using IBM’s latest 64-bit demonstrates superior performance with is a low-power, all-digital CMOS IC that QS22 Cell blade, and 2.7x faster and 5x third party client chipsets, 802.11a/b/g delivers optimal electronic dispersion more power efficient than a system us- or 802.11n and even with very low-cost compensation (EDC) performance in ing Nvidia’s latest 64-bit Tesla 1U GPU single antenna client designs. optical links ranging from a few meters server. www.clearspeed.com OptimizAIR integrates over a standard in data centers up to 100s of kilometers in long haul telecom networks. Dr. Paul DS2 has developed major new features 802.11 core patent-pending Beam Form- for its 200Mbps powerline communi- ing MIMO to dramatically increase Voois, cofounder and CEO. www. clariphy.com cations chipsets to enable 4X faster range, Channel Aware Transmission transmission speeds than standard wire- Shaping to boost robustness and zero ClearSpeed has announced industry- less networks. The upgrade enables ser- out packet loss and Channel Aware leading results in the acceleration of vice providers like BT, Portugal Telecom Scheduling to achieve HD quality of ser- computationally intensive financial codes and Telefónica to offer affordable and vice. Shipping now. Gilad Rozen, CEO. such as credit risk analysis. Benchmark- fully self-installable IPTV services. www.celeno.com ing a number of customer applications Key new features include automatic CHiL Semiconductor has introduced on ClearSpeed’s latest product, the CATS-700, ClearSpeed showed results multi-cast capabilities, on-chip support two new high-efficiency digital multi- DSL as TR069 remote network man- phase buck controllers for VR11.1-com- on 64-bit codes that far exceed all other solutions in the market. In one exam- agement features, and complete LLTD pliant server and gaming/enthusiast protocol integration with Windows Vista

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Victor Key features of the NMI325 include - rience, better than alternatives of paper Dominguez, VP Sales. www.ds2.es 99dBm sensitivity, 120dB of variable or other electronic readers on the mar- gain, and greater than 55dB of adjacent ket today. IBM has introduced the semiconductor channel selectivity. The SoC includes a industry’s first computationally-based UHF-band radio, ISDB-T one-segment The Plastic Logic reader supports a full process for production of next genera- demodulator, plus all necessary memo- range of business document formats, tion 22nm semiconductors. Known as ry and consumes less than 60mW of such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Computational Scaling (CS), a process power. No other external memory, bal- Powerpoint, and Adobe PDFs, as well that enables the production of complex, uns or loop filters are required. Sam- as newspapers, periodicals and books. powerful and energy-efficient semicon- ples now; production in Q1. Mohy It has an easy gesture-based user inter- ductors at 22nms and beyond, this new Abdelgany, president and CEO. www. face and powerful software tools that initiative will feature support from sev- newportmediainc.com will help business users to organize and eral of IBM’s key partners initially in- manage their information. cluding Mentor Graphics and Toppan Nuvoton, a recently formed subsidiary Printing. of Winbond, has introduced the Plastic Logic’s display technology, first WAU8822 stereo-audio CODEC for por- developed at Cambridge University, uses Computational Scaling uses mathemati- table-audio applications. Novoton has high-resolution transistor arrays on flex- cal techniques to modify the shape of shipped more than one billion voice and ible plastic substrates, manufactured at the masks and characteristics of the il- audio chips in the last 20+ years under a low temperature. The reader incorpo- luminating source at each layer of an the Winbond name. Winbond spun off rates E Ink technology for great read- IC. IBM’s CS solution is an ecosystem the unit in July 2008. Ike Saeed, VP of ability and features low power that includes the following components: marketing. www.nuvoton.com consumption and long battery life. The a new resolution enhancement technique Plastic Logic reader is scheduled to ship (RET) that uses source-mask optimiza- picoChip has expanded its massively in the Q2’09. Plastic Logic’s go-to-mar- tion (SMO); virtual silicon processing multi-core product family with the in- ket strategy will include direct e-com- with TCAD; predictive process model- troduction of the PC202-10, PC203-10 merce as well as partnerships with ing; design-rule generation and corre- and PC205-10 multi-core DSPs, which publishing, distribution, retail, and oth- sponding models; design tooling; design deliver processing power of up to er information services companies. Ri- enablement; complex illumination; vari- 262GIPS and 35GMACS. The PC20xx- chard Archuleta, CEO. www.plastic ance control; and mask fabrication, 10 devices are based on the same multi- logic.com along with necessary partnerships. IBM core picoArray architecture as existing has partnered with Mentor Graphics PC20x products, but with a larger ar- RMI has launched a complete product on a new resolution enhancement tech- ray of processors, whilst retaining full solution for Media Personal Navigation nique to enable cost-effective printing code compatibility. The devices deliver Devices (mPND), driving lower cost of 2D patterns for the 22nm semicon- a 40X advantage in price-performance, GPS implementations. Based on the RMI ductor technology generation. www. and 8X higher absolute performance, Alchemy Au1250 and Au1210 SoC Pro- ibm.com/technology compared with traditional DSPs. The cessors, these high-performance pow- performance uplift is achieved by in- er-optimized processing engines allow Newport Media has unveiled a 65nm creasing the number of processor ele- mPND manufacturers the ability to dif- CMOS single-chip solution for the mo- ments in the devices from 248 to 273. ferentiate their products with new con- bile version of Japan’s Integrated Ser- The PC205-10 is at the heart of pico- sumer-centric innovations including a vices Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial Chip’s single-chip WiMAX solution, the variety of performance, power and in- (ISDB-T) digital television standard. The only offering capable of delivering true tegration features previously unavailable NMI325 Sundance J mobile digital TV IO-MIMO, a critical requirement of and to avoid the eroding margins that receiver integrates an RF tuner, demod- mobile WiMAX. Doug Pulley, CTO and are typical of single-purpose GPS ulator and all required memory into a co-founder. www.picoChip.com devices. single monolithic CMOS device. In ad-

The mPND reference design from RMI cy (1-125 MHz), operating voltage the Intel Quad-Core Xeon and 15X the implements the lowest cost alternatives (1.8V, 2.5V, 3.3V), frequency tolerance performance of TI’s DaVinci DM6467 to replace expensive GPS modules. The (±100 PPM and ±500 PPM) and stand- series DSP. Au1250 media processor provides am- by or output enable modes. Samples ple processing headroom to perform the now; production in Q4. Piyush Sevalia, The TILEPro64 is a multicore embed- complex baseband function in software, VP of marketing. www.sitime.com ded processor that integrates 64 full-fea- removing the need for external baseband tured cores, four 800MHz DDR2 hardware. For soft GPS, RMI works Staccato has introduced the Ripcord2 memory controllers and a complete ar- with GPS partners such as CSR, a leader family of single-chip, all-CMOS solu- ray of high speed I/O and PCI Express in software GPS technology. For Host tions targeted for WiMedia UWB and interfaces. It can encode 12 streams of GPS, RMI works with GPS partners Wireless USB applications. This second- 1080p H.264 video (baseline profile) and such as Nemerix and Atheros. For hard- generation family is the industry’s first execute over 20Gbps of pattern match- ware GPS, RMI works with partners implementation utilizing 65nm CMOS ing in networking applications. The such as SiGe Semiconductor. Behrooz process technology. Staccato’s Rip- TILEPro36 offers the same new fea- Abdi, president and CEO. www. cord2 supports multiple protocols, in- tures as the TILEPro64, scaled to 36 RMICorp.com cluding Wireless USB, High-Speed cores, and is ideal for mid-range (1-to- Bluetooth, Wireless IP and Wireless Au- 5 Gbps) networking and security appli- Silicon Labs has entered the consumer dio/Video. In addition, several features cations, video-conferencing endpoints, timing market with the introduction of were added to Ripcord2 including sup- and midrange multimedia applications. the industry’s highest stability 100% port for WiMedia Band Groups 1, 3 and It can deliver 5Gbps of Snort intrusion CMOS oscillator, offering a replacement 6, as well as the capability for detection prevention processing and 6 streams of for crystal oscillators (XOs) with short- and avoidance (DAA). Staccato has al- H.264 1080p video encode (baseline er lead times, lower cost, higher reli- ready shipped samples and development profile). ability and higher performance. The new kits to key customers and is currently Si500 family has the widest frequency developing several reference designs to The 2.0 version of Tilera’s Multicore range, widest selection of differential and be released in the coming months. Mar- Development Environment supports the single-ended clock formats, low total ty Colombatto, CEO. www.staccato TILEPro family and includes enhance- power consumption and the lowest jit- communications.com ments to the development tools and run- ter of any oscillator targeted at high vol- time software. A new “zero overhead ume consumer applications. The Tilera has introduced its TILEPro fam- Linux” option offers all the benefits of a product family supports frequency sta- ily, comprised of two new processors. rich Linux operating system environ- bility options ranging from +/-100 to +/ The TILEPro family improves the per- ment, with the timing predictability of a -150 ppm. Samples now; production in formance of highly threaded and shared- stripped-down task scheduler. MDE 2.0 Q4. Dave Bresemann, VP. www.silabs. memory applications through the also supports a “bare metal” program- com introduction of Dynamic Distributed ming environment with a thin services Cache (DDC) technology. Further, the layer for signal processing and data plane SiTime has introduced the world’s thin- TILEPro processors have twice the L1 applications. TILEPro64 samples next nest clock oscillator, which is one-third cache size, double the L2 cache asso- month; TILEPro36 in Q4. Omid Taher- the height of quartz-based oscillators. ciativity, and incorporate an additional nia, president and CEO. tilera.com ■ The SiT8002XT measures 3.5 mm by on-chip communication network dedi- 3.0 mm, with a typical height of 0.25mm cated to cache management. The new and is packaged in a four-pad XLLGA processors are equipped with additional Licensing & Partnerships package. The devices offers 10X better instruction set extensions for audio and Kotura, a provider of silicon photonic reliability and shock resistance than video that deliver up to 2X improvement components, announced that Sun quartz oscillators. in multimedia signal processing. Microsystems has signed a five year The SiT8002XT is fully factory-pro- The new devices offer double the per- $14M development contract with Ko- grammable, allowing samples to be de- formance of Tilera’s first generation tura for DARPA’s Ultraperformance livered in 24 to 48 hours, which is TILE64 processors, which have been Nanophotonic Intrachip Communica- significantly faster than the 8- to16- employed by more than 45 customers, tions (UNIC) program. Previously, Sun week lead times for quartz oscillators. with less than a 5% increase in power announced its participation in DARPA’s Factory-programmable features include consumption. The TILEPro64 delivers $44M program to advance a virtual su- a highly accurate output clock frequen- 35X better performance per-watt over percomputer using an on-chip network of low-cost optical interconnects.

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Licensing & Partnerships combined strengths of high performance The IT100 GSM/GPRS handset sup- devices from NEC Electronics, like the (Continued from page 21) ports the Brazilian ISDB-T mobile digi- 8- to 32-bit microcontroller series, total television standard using the NMI320 Kotura has been in mass production of gether with robust and reliable applica- ISDB-T IC. Longcheer’s clients include silicon photonics components for more tion-specific, analog/mixed-signal chips major Chinese telecom companies such than three years, and is an active partic- from ELMOS. www.necel.com, as ZTE, Konka, TCL and Gionee. ipant in the IEEE 802.3 Higher Speed www.elmos.de Study Group (HSSG), the Video Elec- Open-Silicon, a fabless ASIC compa- tronics Standards Association (VESA) The Storage Networking Industry ny, has completed its 100th tapeout. The and the Silicon Photonics Alliance. Jean- Association (SNIA) has formed the Louis Malinge, CEO. www.kotura.com Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI), company, founded in 2003, reached this which will serve to foster the growth historic milestone in its fifth year of NanoGram has selected OTB as one and success of the market for solid-state operations. Naveed Sherwani, CEO and of its contributing partners in building storage in both commercial and consum- president. www.open-silicon.com out the company’s solar pilot plant cur- er environments. www.snia.org/sssi ■ rently under construction in Milpitas, Siano’s DVB-H silicon receiver chips CA. NanoGram will use the facility to together with the SMS8021 internal chip scale-up their SilFoil technology for so- Design Wins antenna have been integrated into a new lar modules that will deliver the product Personal TV Media Player by Quantum, BroadLight announced that DASAN performance and reliability of wafer- becoming the first connected PMP in has selected BroadLight’s end-to-end based crystalline silicon modules at pric- the world featuring OSF IPDC and OMA (E2E) GPON technology in their FTTH es competitive with thin film modules. BCAST personal mobile TV and GPS products for deployment at Hanaro OTB has the process engineering know navigation. The move introduces a new Telecom planned for later this year. how as well as proprietary inkjet print- realm in portable entertainment, intro- DASAN has incorporated BroadLight’s ing and laser technologies to build the ducing high quality live mobile TV broad- BL3458 4-port GPON OLT controller equipment that effectively produces this casting of up to 30 channels onto a for OLT Equipment and the BL2345 for next generation solar cell with higher GPS-enabled device offering navigation, the ONU. DASAN is the largest broad- efficiency at lower costs. The Nano- personal assistance and location based- band equipment manufacturer in Korea. Gram solar pilot plant is expected to be services. Alon Ironi, CEO. Siemens acquired DASAN Networks in commissioned in Q2’09. Dr. Kieran May 2004. Didi Ivancovsky, Founder Drain, president and CEO. www. and VP of Marketing u-blox’s latest positioning engine, u-blox nanogram.com, www.otb-group.nl 5, has been selected by Microsoft for a Newport Media is providing the sys- new “GPS Locator” USB stick, which NEC Electronics and ELMOS Semi- tem solutions for Longcheer Holdings, will be bundled with the next release of conductor are going to join forces dem- a Chinese manufacturer of 2G and 3G MapPoint, Microsoft’s business travel onstrated by entering into a worldwide cellular handsets, upcoming release of and map software package. The new u- long-term partnership. The agreement TV-enabled 2G handsets. The TV350 blox 5 GPS chipset is a highly integrat- will encompass the joint development, GSM/GPRS handset supports the widely ed, cost-efficient GPS engine that offers cross-use of engineering and manufac- deployed DVB-T digital television stan- users accurate positioning in a small turing services as well as common mar- dard using Newport Media’s NMI305 package without compromising on per- keting of products for the automotive DVB-T SOC. The DT100 GSM/GPRS formance. Nikolaos Papadopoulos, pres- and industrial markets. Customers of handset supports DVB-H as well as ident of u-blox America. www. both companies will benefit from the DVB-T using the NMI310 DVB-T/H IC. u-blox.com ■

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Next Qtr Current Qtr Last Qtr Yr-ago Qtr Sales Company Symbol Outlook Sales Net Margin GM Sales Net Sales Net GM Growth Qtr Ending Avago n/a n/a 439 44.0 10% 39% 411 17.0 381 -167.0 -3% 15% 2Q08 2-Aug Gennum GND n/a 34 6.4 19% 76% 33 4.8 26 -1.5 73% 31% 3Q08 31-Aug Metalink MTLK n/a 3 -6.6 -244% 63% 1 -9.8 3 -5.6 44% 8% 2Q08 30-Jun Copyright 2008, Pinestream Communications, Inc. 52 Pine Street, Weston, Massachusetts 02493 USA Tel 781.647.8800 Fax 781.647.8825 www.pinestream.com [email protected] SEMICONDUCTOR TIMES OCTOBER 2008 / 23

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Micron – DRAM Barometer SanDisk – Flash Barometer

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✔ Achronix – Ultra High Performance FPGAs ✔ Powervation – Auto-control™ Digital Power ICs ✔ Confluence Solar – Premium Quality, Low-Cost Single Crystal Silicon ✔ Quantum – Silicon Chips for Light Absorption & Emission ✔ Enphase – Micro-Inverter-based Solar Energy Mgmt. Systems ✔ SandLinks – Active-RFID (Class 4) Networks using UWB ✔ Immedia – Video ICs? ✔ SiTune – Hybrid (universal) CMOS TV Tuner ✔ Infinisim – High-speed, High Cap. SPICE-Accurate Simulator ✔ TJet – Manufacturing Equipment for OLED Displays ✔ Lakota Technologies – Diodes for Power Electronics ✔ Vubiq – 60GHz Radio Modules ✔ Nemochips – Mobile Multimedia Application Processors ✔ Wi-Chi – Energy Harvesting ICs ✔ Passif – Unknown ✔ WideSail – Error Correction Semiconductor IP

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