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Wisebatt is a unique simulation tool for electronics engineers developing IoT devices. They can build virtual prototypes and collaborate to make the optimal choice between cost, battery life and performance, very early in the design cycle. Within minutes, hardware engineers access complex modeling results that would usually take weeks. Their technology leverages more than 15 years of academic research.

Cartesiam SAS is a French company founded in 2016, specializing in artificial intelligence software for microcontrollers. Based in Toulon, the company has developed NanoEdge AI, a technology that enables machine learning and data analysis directly on microcontrollers. This innovative approach allows devices to become smart, intuitive, and self-contained, enhancing their functionality while minimizing energy consumption. Cartesiam's team consists of mathematicians, engineers, data scientists, and other professionals who are dedicated to addressing key challenges in creating a more secure and efficient environment through advanced analytics and simplified deployment of AI solutions.

Riot Micro, located in Vancouver, Canada, specializes in designing cellular Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. By leveraging established design techniques from Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi, the company develops wireless chipsets that optimize cost and power for LTE Cat-M and NB-IoT applications. These chipsets facilitate cellular connectivity for a range of current-generation applications, including smart metering and vehicle telematics. As a result, Riot Micro enables the creation of diverse smart objects, such as wearables, smoke detectors, parking meters, and traffic lights, contributing to the advancement of connected technologies in everyday environments.

BeSpoon, established in March 2010 after a year of development, specializes in position-tracking products and services that deliver real-time location data with centimeter-level accuracy. The company focuses on creating sensors, system components, and software designed to enhance position-tracking capabilities, allowing for precise object localization in various environments, including rooms and production facilities. Recognizing the challenges associated with high-accuracy positioning, BeSpoon has developed innovative technologies to measure distances between transceivers with exceptional precision, addressing the demand for reliable tracking solutions in complex or noisy settings.

Alba Robot is a business-to-business platform specializing in self-driving micromobility solutions for the transportation of individuals and goods in both indoor and pedestrian environments. The company develops a fleet of advanced mobility robots and autonomous people movers, designed to operate in various settings such as airports, hospitals, and museums. By offering customizable and flexible robotic technologies, Alba Robot aims to enhance transportation efficiency and user experience in diverse mobility scenarios.

Exagan is a leading supplier of gallium nitride (GaN) based transistor devices aimed at enhancing power conversion across various sectors, including automotive, solar energy, and industrial applications. Utilizing a proprietary technology, the company focuses on accelerating the transition of the power electronics industry towards more efficient systems, thereby contributing to the reduction of CO2 emissions. Exagan's products are designed to facilitate the large-scale adoption of GaN on silicon technology, offering fast-switching power devices that improve efficiency and reduce costs in electrical converters for consumer electronics, smart buildings, and IT markets.

Norstel AB specializes in the manufacture and development of wide bandgap semiconductor materials, primarily focusing on silicon carbide (SiC) wafers and epitaxial layers. The company produces both conductive and semi-insulating silicon carbide wafers, as well as single crystal 4H layers. These materials are designed to enhance power electronics, enabling more efficient applications in various fields, including hybrid vehicles, mobile phone base stations, and radar systems. By improving energy savings and performance, Norstel's products support the advancement of innovative electronic designs.

Draupner Graphics A/S, based in Aarhus, Denmark, is a developer and supplier of TouchGFX, a software framework designed for creating high-quality graphics and animations for embedded graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Founded in 2014, the company specializes in delivering solutions that operate on 32-bit microcontrollers, ensuring minimal resource requirements and low power consumption. TouchGFX enables graphics that meet modern smartphone standards, making it suitable for a wide range of applications, including smart home systems, appliances, wearables, and audio and video devices. As of July 2018, Draupner Graphics operates as a subsidiary of STMicroelectronics N.V.

Atollic AB, founded in 2003 and based in Jonkoping, Sweden, specializes in developing advanced software solutions for embedded systems, particularly for ARM developers. The company emerged from the recognition that existing embedded software tools were inadequate in addressing the growing complexity faced by developers in various industries, including automotive and aerospace. Atollic's flagship product, the TrueSTUDIO IDE, is designed to support both individual developers and larger teams by facilitating quality code writing, project management, and efficient debugging. As a subsidiary of STMicroelectronics N.V. since December 2017, Atollic continues to enhance software quality and streamline the development process for embedded system engineering.

Biovotion has developed an accurate, wearable sensing technology, that allows for medical-quality vital sign monitoring (VSM) in daily life. The platform combines medical-quality VSM with design, wearability, convenience, and prices of the consumer market. The system (multi-sensor platform plus sophisticated algorithms) is intergrated into cloud infrastructures to provide users with data on par with standard hospital systems and can be stepwise expanded with additional physiological parameters. Current parameters include heart rate, blood oxygenation, blood perfusion, temperature and movement/activity. The first VSM generation is also expected to include heart rate variability, respiratory rate, energy expenditure, and sleep and stress monitoring. The management team is internationally recognised for its expertise in wearable monitoring. The company holds a broad IP portfolio.

DecaWave is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in the development of single-chip CMOS ultra-wideband integrated circuits (ICs) based on the IEEE802.15.4a standard. The company focuses on harnessing the potential of ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, particularly for real-time location systems (RTLS) and wireless sensor networks (WSNs). DecaWave's products support data rates of 110kbps to 27Mbps and have diverse applications across various sectors, including agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, lighting, security, transportation, and inventory management. Additionally, DecaWave offers software packages that provide embedded networking stacks and location engines, facilitating micro-location systems and enhancing location-based services for clients in consumer, industrial, and automotive markets. Through collaborations with leading companies in over 30 verticals, DecaWave continues to innovate and expand its technological offerings.

Recognizing the need for better content viewing and greater content sharing among mobile subscribers, bTendo is introducing a new era in personal projection. Just like the speaker phone enhanced the use of audio content generated from a mobile device, bTendo's advanced projection module enhances the use of multimedia content generated from similar devices. bTendo envisions the day when projection modules, available either as an embedded or companion solution, are equipped in every laptop and handheld device - be it mobile phone, PDA, multimedia player, gaming console, or digital camera. The groundbreaking laser-scanning display technology lies at the heart of myPro - bTendo's line of micro-projection modules. Enabling a big-screen projection and sharing experience of any rich multimedia content generated from a handheld mobile device, technology overcomes form factor, high power consumption and image quality constraints encountered by alternative microBased on raster scanning image rendering principles, bTendo's technology utilizes an innovative pair of MEMS scanning micro-mirrors that reflect three visible, optically-combined red, green and blue (RGB) laser beams. Incorporating unique design, which enables the use of electrostatic actuators, myPro projection modules consume low power while achieving high resolution, delivering spectacular image quality and introducing an unprecedented color gamut. Fully confident that laser scanning will be the dominant micro-projection technology of the future, bTendo has not compromised on myPro's product performance. Designed for the lowest possible cost, projection modules are perfectly suited for mass production and flexible enough to be customized to address the needs of a variety of consumer electronic device manufacturers. As a result, myPro offers the surest and easiest entry into the new and dynamic personal micro-projection era.-projection technologies. As such, myPro is ideal as an embedded solution within a wide range of handheld devices - from mobile phones and PDAs to multimedia players and gaming consoles - turning them into personal, pocket-sized projectors.

Paratek designs and manufactures adaptive RF front-end component solutions for mobile wireless applications. Paratek's product offerings for multi-mode and multi-band operation cover three major applications : Adaptive Impedance Matching Modules (AIMM), Broadband filters and pre-selectors for RF front-end devices, Radio Antenna Frequency Tuners (RAFTâ„¢). Paratek works collaboratively with customers. That means they listen closely to what your needs and milestones are, and then work to adapt their technology to yours. Applications differ, but the beauty of their adaptive approach is that they can easily fine-tune solutions based around certain operating bands, frequency ranges, and industry protocols. If your need is slightly different from the next, that's where they shine!

Synad is a fast-growing UK startup that has rapidly revealed itself as one of the most successful WLAN fabless companies and one of the few able to deliver a full dual-band multi-standard solution. Synad has a proven multimode full CMOS production-ready chipset and reference design, and powerful software suites for both wireless-LAN access point and client applications.

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.

Incard is designs, develops, and manufactures smartcards for bank, medical application, identification, entertainment, telecommunication, and transportation markets in Italy and internationally. It offers GSM SIMs, GSM and UMTS (U) SIMs, and multimedia USIM environment products; and banking cards, such as payment cards that include loyalty program, micropayment, ticketing, identification, and advanced security applications for end users and personalization bureaus. The company also provides electronic ID cards; digital signature, healthcare, and corporate security smartcards that are used for applications, such as public administration online services, protection of workstations, and qualified electronic signatures; and card bodies and packaging solutions.

Develops high-security, payment, and identification smart card systems.

CoWare, Inc. provides electronic system-level design software and consulting services primarily to IP, semiconductor, and electronics companies. The company specializes in platform-driven solutions that facilitate platform architecture design, verification, application sub-system design, processor design, DSP algorithm design, and software development. Key products include Platform Architect, a graphical environment for platform analysis; Model Designer for IP block verification; and Virtual Platform, which simulates platforms for software development teams. CoWare also offers a Model Library containing various processor, bus, and peripheral models, and Processor Designer for creating custom processors and programmable hardware accelerators. Additionally, the Signal Processing Designer enables the design and analysis of signal processing algorithms, exporting implementations as blocks. CoWare's suite of tools supports the creation and validation of virtual hardware platforms, streamlining development processes for device software.

Alcatel Microelectronics designs, manufactures and markets semiconductor components mostly for the telecommunication, automotive and peripheral markets. In 2001, the company posted sales of around €350 million.

CoWare, Inc. provides electronic system-level design software and consulting services primarily to IP, semiconductor, and electronics companies. The company specializes in platform-driven solutions that facilitate platform architecture design, verification, application sub-system design, processor design, DSP algorithm design, and software development. Key products include Platform Architect, a graphical environment for platform analysis; Model Designer for IP block verification; and Virtual Platform, which simulates platforms for software development teams. CoWare also offers a Model Library containing various processor, bus, and peripheral models, and Processor Designer for creating custom processors and programmable hardware accelerators. Additionally, the Signal Processing Designer enables the design and analysis of signal processing algorithms, exporting implementations as blocks. CoWare's suite of tools supports the creation and validation of virtual hardware platforms, streamlining development processes for device software.

A specialist developer of advanced microprocessor architectures, based in San Diego, CA.