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GENBAND is a global supplier of IP gateways, session border controllers and FMC security solutions. These high-performance, high-security gateway solutions are at the center of fixed and mobile networks around the globe, evolving, securing and improving communications networks.

IBiquity Digital develops and licenses a digital HD Radio technology for AM and FM audio and data broadcasting in the United States and internationally. Its HD radio technology allows digital radio signals to ride the same airwaves as analog AM and FM radio broadcasts. The company provides a Gigaware Navigation Control HD Radio Receiver accessory and a Gigaware HD Radio application for iPhone and iPod touch users to receive HD Radio FM broadcasts. iBiquity Digital Corporation was formerly known as USA Digital Radio, Inc. The company was founded in 1991 and is based in Columbia, Maryland, with additional offices in Basking Ridge, New Jersey; and Pontiac, Michigan.

As experts in broadcast and real-time data transport, Digital Fountain software optimizes the delivery of digital media over any network. Their technology eliminates the common limitations associated with digital media distribution solutions over both private and public networks, maximizing their customers' existing infrastructure investments, and enabling expanded revenue opportunities.

POWERPRECISE Solutions Inc. offers portable power management systems. The Company offers integrated circuit solutions for consumer, automotive, medical, computing and industrial applications.

ZONARE Medical Systems, Inc. develops, manufactures, and commercializes compact ultrasound systems that are used for diagnostic imaging in a range of clinical applications and settings. Its product platform, the z.one ultrasound system, is based on its unique data acquisition and image formation technology, Zone Sonography. Zone Sonography technology enables customers to maintain an ultrasound system, and add new clinical applications and advanced image processing capabilities. ZONARE Medical sells its systems through direct sales force in the United States, and through a combination of distributors and direct sales personnel in approximately 40 international markets. The company, formerly known as NovaSonics, Inc., was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Libit Signal Processing Ltd., develops, manufactures, and markets communication hardware and software solutions for broadband access. The company's core modem technologies enable efficient silicon implementation with significant cost-performance benefits. It targets its products to the cable modem, cable set-top box, and digital television markets, empowering high-speed Internet access, IP telephony and digital TV applications.

As experts in broadcast and real-time data transport, Digital Fountain software optimizes the delivery of digital media over any network. Their technology eliminates the common limitations associated with digital media distribution solutions over both private and public networks, maximizing their customers' existing infrastructure investments, and enabling expanded revenue opportunities.

NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc. was founded in 1996 by four Brown University mathematicians and cryptographers, and today ranks as one of the most innovative providers of security solutions for the New Internet Economy. Today, NTRU is a fast-growing, well-run, well-funded company delivering security solutions to the wireless data communications and content protection markets. Their focus is consumer devices and the server infrastructures that support them ... and on content protection to support digital media delivery mechanisms and protect content owners from piracy. Only NTRU enables new security paradigms and delivers.

ATL is an independent research and development company specializing in radio frequency engineering, primarily for cellular communications.

Sound ID was founded with the mission to bring personalized sound to mainstream consumers. Sound ID has accomplished this by combining deep knowledge of the human ear with cutting-edge Bluetooth technology and patented adaptive noise compensation techniques. The result is a new category of Bluetooth-compatible headsets – designed to revolutionize your personal appreciation of sound by addressing your unique hearing needs and your ever-changing acoustic environment. Noted otologist and entrepreneur Dr. Rodney Perkins created Sound ID based on his understanding that hands-free mobile devices could be designed to mimic the ear’s own sound processing abilities. From there, he brought together top scientists and engineers in psychoacoustics, product design and software development to create a truly superior product line. Founded in 2000, the company is based in Palo Alto, California.

PacketVideo's software delivers media service to people in a number of different ways. PV's Core is a rich-media application framework that eases the development process for mobile multimedia applications across networks and handsets. It was headquartered in San Diego, California.

Cymbet develops market eco-friendly, biocompatible rechargeable solid state batteries that provide electronic systems designers with new embedded power capabilities. Cymbet’s EnerChip batteries allow new concepts in energy storage application for ICs and new products for medical, sensor, RFID, industrial control, communications, and portable electronic devices. Their new single chip Power Management Real-Time Clock (PMRTC) device is a world class device and among the lowest power RTCs in the industry.

National Semiconductor is a semiconductor manufacturer, specializing in analog devices and subsystems, headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The products of National Semiconductor include power management circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers, communication interface products and data conversion solutions. National's key markets include wireless handsets, displays and a variety of broad electronics markets, including medical, automotive, industrial, and test and measurement applications.

Unitrode Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and sale of a wide range of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, modules, and non-volatile products. The company is headquartered in the United States and it was acquired on October 15, 1999 by Texas Instruments.

Calxeda provides revolutionary efficiency to the data center. Leveraging ultra-low power technology from ARM, servers built on Calxeda’s silicon and software platform consume a fraction of the power and space of today’s best-in-class servers, enabling data centers to realize significant reduction in capital and operating expenses. The Calxeda platform scales efficiently to thousands of server nodes, with unique network and storage acceleration, and is enhanced with management technology to deliver true “energy-proportional” computing. The result is a stunning breakthrough in performance efficiency, density, and scalability.

CICLON Semiconductor Device Corporation (pronounced see-clone) is a leader in the design, development, and sale of high-frequency, high-efficiency RF LDMOS and power MOSFET semiconductor solutions for high-performance information technology applications. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. As of February 11, 2009, CICLON Semiconductor Device Corp. operates as a subsidiary of Texas Instruments Inc.

Silicon Systems, Inc. manufactures and markets integrated circuits and semiconductors for telecommunications and disc memory markets.

NetBoost develops and markets hardware and software solutions for communications equipment suppliers and independent software vendors (ISVs) in the networking and communications market segments. The company was incorporated in 1997 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Texas Instruments Tucson Corp. develops, manufactures, and markets high performance analog and mixed signal integrated circuits.

WIDCOMM provides Bluetooth software, systems, and designs.WIDCOMM is an international open standard for allowing intelligent devices to communicate with each other over short range wireless links. It allows any sort of electronic equipment - from computers and cell phones to keyboards and headphones.

Intersect Technologies, Inc. was established in February, 1995, and employs 13 professionals with a combined 164 years of engineering experience. The majority of ITI's experience has been dedicated to the creation of advanced storage architectures and applications. ITI efforts have been focused on using TI digital signal processors and developing and implementing customer firmware, hardware and software tools and device drivers for mass storage applications such as hard disk drives and removable storage.

As experts in broadcast and real-time data transport, Digital Fountain software optimizes the delivery of digital media over any network. Their technology eliminates the common limitations associated with digital media distribution solutions over both private and public networks, maximizing their customers' existing infrastructure investments, and enabling expanded revenue opportunities.

Tartan, Inc. provides software and hardware tools for developers of digital signal processing (DSP) applications.

Luminary Micro, Inc. designs, markets, and sells ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers for energy, security, and connectivity markets. It offers mixed-signal microcontrollers for motion control, industrial automation, medical, transportation, appliance, and security and access applications. The company also provides evaluation kits, development kits, and reference design kits. It offers stepper motor modules, AC induction motor modules, brushless DC motor modules, brushed DC motor controller modules, serial-to-Ethernet modules, intelligent display modules with PoE and Ethernet, intelligent display modules with landscape display, and 10-pin to 20-pin JTAG adapter modules. The company also provides Stellaris Peripheral Driver Library for controlling the peripherals found on the Stellaris family of ARM Cortex-M3 microcontrollers; Stellaris Graphics Library, a set of graphics primitives and a widget set for creating graphical user interfaces on Stellaris microcontroller-based boards that have a graphical display; Stellaris USB Library, a sub-set of USB functions simplify embedded USB control; Code Samples, a code to use ARM Cortex-M3 platform with a set of sample applications; Stellaris In-System Programming Support; and Stellaris IEC 60730 Support, a test library to support its customers in class B certification process. It offers its products through a network of representatives in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific Rim, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Austin, Texas. As of May 14, 2009, Luminary Micro, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Texas Instruments Inc.

Speakeasy is one of the nation's leading broadband voice (VoIP), data and IT service providers. Speakeasy helps small businesses succeed by offering simplified voice and data solutions that improve the customer experience, increase employee productivity and help cut costs. Based in Seattle, Speakeasy has provided award-winning customer service since 1994 and joined the Best Buy family of companies in April 2007, working with Best Buy For Business to champion technology for small businesses throughout the U.S.

Berlin-based Condat AG belongs to the leading vendors of innovative software solutions in the fields of media, mobility and monitoring. Skyware Suite is Condat's product platform. It is based on proven standards and new technologies and serves as a reliable framework for customized applications.

AuthenTec is a provider of mobile and network security. The Company's diverse product and technology offering helps protect individuals and organizations through secure networking, content and data protection, access control and strong fingerprint security on PCs and mobile devices. AuthenTec encryption technology, fingerprint sensors and identity management software are deployed by the leading mobile device, networking and computing companies, content and service providers, and governments worldwide. AuthenTec's products and technologies provide security on hundreds of millions of devices, and the Company has shipped more than 100 million fingerprint sensors for integration in a wide range of portable electronics including over 15 million mobile phones. Top tier customers include Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Fujitsu, HBO, HP, Lenovo, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Samsung, Sky, and Texas Instruments. AuthenTec, Inc. was a semiconductor, computer security, mobile security, identity management, biometrics, and touch control solutions company based in Melbourne, Florida. Founded in 1998 after being spun off from Harris Semiconductor, AuthenTec provided mobile security software licenses to mobile manufacturing companies and biometrics sensor technology, such as fingerprint sensors and NFC technology to mobile and computer manufacturers.

Power Trends, Inc. was a manufacturer of proprietary DC-to-DC voltage converters for the power supply industry. It was a supplier in the market for point-of-use power solutions situated next to digital signal processors, microprocessors and other devices on the circuit board. The company was based in Warrenville, Illinois.

ISS designs, manufactures and markets high performance, intelligent sensor products that are used in electronic control systems by customers in the automotive and industrial markets. The Company's objective is to become a leading supplier of ASICs and ISDs for electronic control systems in these markets.

Graychip specializes in reconfigurable digital down converters and digital up converters for high-speed communications.

Dot Wireless, Inc., a leading expert in third generation (3G) CDMA wireless technology.

GO DSP Corporation, a leading provider of digital signal processing (DSP) software tools.

Butterfly VLSI supplies integrated silicon solutions for cable broadband access and wireless LAN markets in the home and small office environments. The company primarily focuses on research and development activities related to RF wireless technology. Its products include Monarch and Apollo chipsets for multi-handset cordless phone PC-based systems; Admiral, a chipset for wireless human input devices and data terminals, and various wireless devices and controls.

Mysticom develops plug-and-play integrated circuits (ICs) solutions for the enterprise, data center, and storage market segments. The company focuses on designing network ICs. The company provides design services for digital signal processing, analog and mixed-signal design, communications system design, and VLSI integration. The company offers PC network interface cards and LAN on motherboard solutions. It also deploys gigabit Ethernet switch equipment. Mysticom was founded in 1997 and is based in Netanya, Israel.

Envoy Networks, Inc. designs and develops various networking products. The Company offers broadband wireless infrastructure technology.

Extreme Reality enables a future where people interact with computing devices by their body motion, without touch, through any 2D camera. It is the only company to provide full-body, software-based, motion analysis and control to any computing device or operating system via a standard camera. Offered as a software development kit (SDK) and with 17 patents granted worldwide, the company’s Extreme Motion product enables developers to create a wide range of experiences (applications, games, security solutions and more) that pioneer Natural User Interfaces (NUI) while breaking the physical barriers of current hardware-based technologies. Extreme Reality was founded in 2005 and is based in Herzliya, Israel.

GENBAND is a global supplier of IP gateways, session border controllers and FMC security solutions. These high-performance, high-security gateway solutions are at the center of fixed and mobile networks around the globe, evolving, securing and improving communications networks.

Telogy Networks, Inc. develops software solutions for communications equipment manufacturers. Telogy Networks, Inc. software products enable the transmission of voice, fax, and modem traffic over IP, frame relay, or ATM networks.

Speakeasy is one of the nation's leading broadband voice (VoIP), data and IT service providers. Speakeasy helps small businesses succeed by offering simplified voice and data solutions that improve the customer experience, increase employee productivity and help cut costs. Based in Seattle, Speakeasy has provided award-winning customer service since 1994 and joined the Best Buy family of companies in April 2007, working with Best Buy For Business to champion technology for small businesses throughout the U.S.

Savi is the leader in applying big data analytics, data science, and machine learning to in-transit visibility. We develop innovative Internet of Things (IoT) and in-transit visibility solutions for the largest and most complex supply chains in the world. More than 1,000 companies and government organizations depend on Savi applications to reduce supply chain disruptions, improve delivery performance, and decrease logistics costs. For more information about Savi visit www.savi.com.

Calxeda provides revolutionary efficiency to the data center. Leveraging ultra-low power technology from ARM, servers built on Calxeda’s silicon and software platform consume a fraction of the power and space of today’s best-in-class servers, enabling data centers to realize significant reduction in capital and operating expenses. The Calxeda platform scales efficiently to thousands of server nodes, with unique network and storage acceleration, and is enhanced with management technology to deliver true “energy-proportional” computing. The result is a stunning breakthrough in performance efficiency, density, and scalability.

ICD a privately-held company that specializes in the design of radio-frequency (RF) integrated circuits (ICs).

Spectron Microsystems, located in Santa Barbara, California, develops and markets advanced system software.

IXI Mobile, Inc. engages in the development, production, and marketing of mobile messaging devices and related services. The company’s data-centric wireless mobile devices, Ogo, deliver various applications, including email, instant messaging, short messaging service, RSS, voice, Web browsing, games, headlines, and other Web information solutions. The company, through third parties, also provides hosted services, including gateways and backend servers, as well as related launch and support services. It serves mobile operators, mobile virtual network operators, and Internet service providers. The company, formerly Israel Technology Acquisition Company, is based in Belmont, California. As of January 8, 2009, IXI Mobile, Inc. operates as subsidiary of Runcom Technologies Ltd.

Alantro Communications, Inc., a privately held company that is shaping the development of the rapidly emerging wireless local area networking technology.

RF Magic is a fabless semiconductor company providing a diversified portfolio of radio frequency (RF) Systems on a Chip integrated circuits (ICs) for the next generation of consumer electronics applications. The company’s experienced engineers combine RF and digital communications systems experience with RF silicon design expertise to develop highly advanced ICs for cost-effective integration into high-volume consumer platforms. RF Magic’s RF Systems on a Chip technology is well suited to meet extreme broadband challenges facing the expanding Digital Home, Consumer Mobility and High Performance Networking markets, such as high-throughput communications, wide bandwidth channels, multiple video channels, multi-function radios and high-interference environments. More than two million of the company’s award-winning products have been shipped to customers for use in Digital Broadcast Satellite (DBS) Out Door Units (ODUs), digital broadcast set top boxes (STBs) and televisions, home media centers, and fixed wireless access modems. Employing patented design techniques, RF Magic’s broadband RF Systems on a Chip ICs offer premium performance, efficient design, lower cost, diverse functionality, and simplicity of use to Deliver the Next RF Generation.

PA Semi is a fabless semiconductor company founded in Santa Clara, California in 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl who was the lead designer for the DEC Alpha and StrongARM processors. The company previously worked on processors like Itanium, Opteron and UltraSPARC.

Wintegra is a provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks.

Chipcon, Inc. a fabless semiconductor company, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of high-performance standard radio frequency integrated circuits for use in various wireless applications.

Toccata Technologies, Inc. is a fast growing mobile game and application company based in Columbus OH with the operation in Wuxi China.

Calxeda provides revolutionary efficiency to the data center. Leveraging ultra-low power technology from ARM, servers built on Calxeda’s silicon and software platform consume a fraction of the power and space of today’s best-in-class servers, enabling data centers to realize significant reduction in capital and operating expenses. The Calxeda platform scales efficiently to thousands of server nodes, with unique network and storage acceleration, and is enhanced with management technology to deliver true “energy-proportional” computing. The result is a stunning breakthrough in performance efficiency, density, and scalability.

Founded in 1996, RadioScape develops software solutions for Digital Radio. The first area to be targeted by the company was the Eureka 147 Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) standard that was just being finalised in 1997. This standard was going to be adopted by most countries in the world and hence the potential markets for products based on it was enormous.

XtremeSpectrum is a developer of ultrawideband (UWB) impulse radio -- a wireless technology for products such as set-top boxes, digital displays, camcorders, DVD players, digital video recorders and digital cameras.

Amati Communications Corporation develops transmission equipment utilizing discrete multitoned technology for the asymmetrical digital subscriber line, high-speed digital subscriber line, and cable modem markets. Digital modems, such as xDSL, will use a digital signal processing solution at the front and back ends of every connection to the Internet and robust implementation of xDSL makes extensive use of digital signal processing semiconductor technology. Amati Communications Corporation is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 1991 by John Cioffi and the company was acquired by Texas Instruments on November 19, 1997.

Digital 5 is a provider of software for streaming multimedia content, headquartered in Lawrenceville, N.J.Provider of software and system intellectual property to enable both wireless and wired sharing of content among networked consumer electronics (CE) devices. The company offers Media Server, a PC-based software, which aggregates, manages, plays back and streams digital entertainment content, such as audio, video and photo files from PC to UPnP connected media devices in the connected home.

Innovative Design Solutions, Inc. operates as chip designer and develops analog chips.

Elastic Networks is an innovator in disruptive technologies, providing high-speed connectivity without boundaries. Today, Elastic Networks offers Ethernet-based, burst-mode DSL technology - EtherLoop - along with unique software - YesWare - geared at solving the connectivity problems of the enterprise and carrier markets.

VirtualLogix, Inc. develops and markets virtualization software solutions for connected devices and networks. It offers VirtualLogix VLX, a partitioning and virtualization software platform that allows embedded systems to run heterogeneous operating systems and applications, as well as enables multiple operating system environments to run concurrently on shared hardware. The company's products include VirtualLogix VLX for Network Infrastructure, which allows commercial or real-time operating systems, and Linux operating systems to run on the general purpose processors or digital signal processors; VirtualLogix VLX for Mobile Handsets, a virtualization solution for wireless devices; VirtualLogix VLX for Embedded Systems, a customizable solution for embedded products; and VLX Developer, an eclipse-based graphical environment that helps users to configure, build, and optimize their virtualized platforms. It also offers consulting and training services; and support programs. The company's solutions are used in 3G wireless handsets, multimedia IP devices, switching equipment, and embedded systems and applications. It serves semiconductor companies, manufacturers, OEMs, and carriers in Europe, the United States, Japan, Korea, and China. VirtualLogix, Inc. was formerly known as Jaluna SA. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Japan, Korea, and China.

ZONARE Medical Systems, Inc. develops, manufactures, and commercializes compact ultrasound systems that are used for diagnostic imaging in a range of clinical applications and settings. Its product platform, the z.one ultrasound system, is based on its unique data acquisition and image formation technology, Zone Sonography. Zone Sonography technology enables customers to maintain an ultrasound system, and add new clinical applications and advanced image processing capabilities. ZONARE Medical sells its systems through direct sales force in the United States, and through a combination of distributors and direct sales personnel in approximately 40 international markets. The company, formerly known as NovaSonics, Inc., was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Commergy, based in Cork, Ireland, provides easy-to-implement standard and customized reference designs for applications in the notebook, PC, server and communications markets. The company develops extremely high-efficiency power supply solutions, such as those for notebook adapters, that meet and exceed the latest ENERGY STAR and Climate Savers Computing Initiative recommendations for PCs. Commergy has expertise in several design areas, such as planar magnetics, power factor correction (PFC), power topology design, thermal management, EMC design and high-power density design.

DigitalThink was an electronic learning (eLearning) enterprise solutions company that strove to address the entire range of a corporation's training and education needs. Founded in 1996 by Umberto Milletti, Pete Goettner and Steve Zahm.

Radia Communications Inc., founded in May 2000, specialized in RF solutions for 802.11 applications and designs RF for communications, networking and wireless systems. Radia developed innovative approaches to next generation radio systems-on-chip and Wi-Fi RF architectures. Radia investors included Third Point Management, InnoCal Venture Capital, Firsthand Funds, Pac-Link Ventures, and Greenlight Capital Inc. The company was located in Sunnyvale, California. Radia was acquired by Texas Instruments in 2003.