Products: Implementation Partners

ABOUT IMPROV SYSTEMS

Improv Systems, Inc. was founded in 1997, by veterans and executives of the semiconductor and EDA industries, to empower a new generation of SoC designs. The key to these designs is the effective merger of advanced IP, tools and domain expertise into an integrated methodology and solution.

The central component of the Improv methodology is a highly configurable, multiprocessor architecture called the Jazz PSA platform including the Jazz Processor. Rather than a fixed processor and instruction set, designers can create their own application-optimized processor cores - Jazz processors that are customized by the designer for their specific product or application domain. The Jazz processor is a very long instruction word (VLIW) architecture that provides high performance through parallel execution of operations. This type of processor is best suited for compute-intensive application like media processing, digital signal processing and communication applications.  www.improvsys.com

ABOUT DISCRETIX

Discretix is a leading provider of embedded security technology for mobile devices and flash memory. Discretix technology, which incorporates both hardware and software components, enables security to be incorporated into products at the chipset level, making it transparent to the end-user while protecting sensitive information from malicious attacks, viruses, fraud, and theft. Discretix’ solutions are deployed in a wide array of devices and mobile systems to enhance security, reliability, and user experience. Discretix, a privately-owned company, serves the needs of some of the world’s best-known semiconductor and device manufacturers and was ranked by Gartner as the embedded security market leader for the second year in a row in 2005. For more information, please visit www.discretix.com.

ABOUT SOCLE

Socle Technology, the leading IC design service and IP provider, announced her comprehensive and various selection of ARM based SoC platform development kits, which combine the silicon and system proven design, software and hardware solutions, to accelerate customer¡¦s ARM embedded SoC development schedule by running the IC design/verification and system prototyping together. The diversification of development kits combine different features of SoC development and verification platform and deliver the different needs for end customers. The development kits include LDK (Leopard Development Kit) which contains full set of Socle IP and hardware/software solutions; The SEDK (SoCEnable Development Kit) which provides most flexible design capacity; And the CDK (Cheetah Development Kit) which offers the Socle Structured ASIC Slice, Cheetah ASIC, for fast system prototyping.

ABOUT SMIC

SMIC (NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 981) is a pure-play IC foundry that offers 0.35nm to 90nm IC manufacturing services. Established in 2000, SMIC is headquartered in Shanghai and has three 8-inch fabs including a dedicated copper backend line. SMIC acquired its fourth 8-inch fab facility, Fab 7, located in Tianjin. In Beijing, the foundry also has a 12-inch wafer facility in production since July 2004. In May 2003, our Fab 1 was one of the two recipients of the "Top Fab of the Year for 2003" by Semiconductor International , a leading publication in the semiconductor industry. SMIC's joint ventures, a testing and assembly facility in Chengdu with UTAC and the manufacturing of on-chip color filters and micro lenses in Shanghai with Toppan, are also in production.

SMIC's technology capabilities include logic, mixed signal/RF, high-voltage circuits, system-on-chip, embedded and other memories, LCoS, and CIS among others. Key to SMIC's rapid technology development and excellent fab management is a strong R&D team made up of experienced engineers from North America, Europe and Asia, and a network of leading international technology and manufacturing partners. www.smics.com

ABOUT OPEN SILICON

Open-Silicon is a fabless ASIC company delivering the most cost-effective, predictable and reliable custom ASIC solution to electronics product customers worldwide. Open-Silicon’s OpenMODEL™ is the semiconductor industry's first end-to-end custom ASIC solution based on a revolutionary business model that provides a seamless, low-cost, low risk alternative to traditional models for complex ASIC design and development.  The OpenMODEL brings freedom of choice to the traditionally inflexible chip supply chain. We optimize the chip supply chain through a wide portfolio of fabrication process technologies, pre-qualified IP, package assembly and test solutions and a world-class design, product engineering and operations team. This approach allows our customers to take advantage of a optimized structure that ensures chip costs will be significantly lower than our competitors and in most cases COT.  www.open-silicon.com

ABOUT SAMSUNG

The Samsung Semiconductor Foundry represents a new paradigm aimed at helping fabless semiconductor companies achieve market success with advanced IC designs.  The world leader in 300mm wafer production, Samsung has deep expertise in advanced process technologies, design technologies, as well as a long, proven track record in high- volume manufacturing. Samsung Foundry offers advanced IC technologies to help our customers remain in a competitive position in product performance. Samsung Foundry offers diversified technologies, Standard Logic, Analog, High/Low Voltage, Programmable Logic and BiCMOS, etc. to match different requirements from IC designers. Samsung Foundry makes on-time availability of advanced technologies to meet customers' plans for quick introduction of new products to the market. We will continue to work with customers to develop next generation technologies.