原创 The EE Times 60 Emerging Startups list V6

Achronix Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) is a startup company associated with Cornell University from where it has licensed patents. In April 2006 the company announced a prototype field programmable gate array that it said can operate at clock frequencies of 1.93-GHz and that it plans to come to market in 2007. www.achronix.com

Ambric Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.), founded in 2003, is a fabless semiconductor company developing a software-programmable IC platform based on a programming model for massively-parallel embedded computing. www.ambric.com

Analogix Semiconductor Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif., and Beijing, China) a start-up with operations split between Silicon Valley and Beijing, has introduced physical-layer transceiver ICs that can achieve up to 25-Gbit/s data rate over copper wire. www.analogix.com

Arithmatica Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.) started out in Warwick, England, as a licensor of IP libraries based on proprietary math circuitry. Company is transforming itself into an EDA company selling datapath synthesis software. www.arithmatica.com

Arteris Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) started in Paris as is an intellectual-property vendor that is commercializing a packet-based on-chip network. The company recently moved its headquarters to Silicon Valley while maintaining a French subsidiary. www.arteris.com

Artimi Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), founded in 2002, is a fabless semiconductor company developing single-chip Ultra Wideband (UWB) transceivers with R&D in Cambridge, England, and sales offices in Japan and Taiwan. www.artimi.com

Athena Design Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), founded in 2003 by IC layout parameter extraction expert Dimitris Fotakis, is a provider of concurrent analysis and optimization tools that run alongside IC routing. www.athenads.com

Blaze DFM Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), founded in October 2004, provides software to support "electrical DFM" and parametric yield for sub-100-nm circuits. The company landed $10 million in series B venture capital funding in March 2007 while also disclosing completion of its previously announced merger with Aprio Technologies Inc. www.blaze-dfm.com

Boston Circuits Inc. (Burlington, Mass.), established in 2005, is a fabless multicore processor company focused on the embedded multimedia market. The gCORE family of processors ranges from eight to 16 processor cores on a single chip. www.bostoncircuits.com

Calypto Design Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), founded in 2002, is a privately held EDA company focused on bridging electronic system-level design and integrated circuit implementation with an emphasis on sequential analysis and optimization for power consumption. www.calypto.com

Cambridge Semiconductor Ltd. (Cambridge, England) was founded in August 2000 as a fabless power semiconductor spin-off company from the local university. It appointed former LSI Logic executive and Cantab-man David Baillie as its chief executive officer in March 2004. www.camsemi.co.uk

Cambrios Technologies Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.) was formed in 2003 to develop commercial applications from the directed-evolution technology. Cambrios is focusing on the development of electronic materials for the display industry www.cambrios.com

Clear Shape Technologies Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), founded in 2003, is a semiconductor design for manufacturing (DFM) software and technologies company. www.clearshape.com

Codeplay Software Ltd. (Edinburgh, Scotland), founded in 1999, develops compiler technology and software development tools aimed at advanced processor architectures including multi-core processors. www.codeplay.com

Commit Inc. (Shanghai, China) was established in February 2002 with the backing of Texas Instruments, Nokia, LG Electronics Inc. and numerous Chinese institutions as a fabless chip company to deliver TD-SCDMA terminal chipsets. http://www.commit.cn

Dafca Inc. (Boston, Mass.), a startup provider of EDA software tools that is working to apply a reconfigurable infrastructure platform for system-on-chip devices. STMicroelectronics is one of 14 companies that have signed letters of intent to use Dafca's tool. www.dafca.com

DiBcom SA (Palaiseau, France) is a fabless semiconductor company developing chipsets for mobile television reception. The company closed a fourth round of funding at 24.5 million euro (about $29.9 million) in August 2005 and included Intel Capital amongst its investors. www.dibcom.com

Emotiv Systems Inc. (San Francisco, Calif.), founded in 2003, is developing bio feedback systems based on a sensor cap. Such systems are likely to transform the way humans interact with computers and therefore with the electronic world. www.emotiv.com

EnOcean GmbH (Oberhaching, Germany) was founded in 2001 as a spin-off from Siemens AG research labs. Its charter is to create sensors that are wireless, that scavange energy from the environment and are reliable enough to be maintenance free. www.enocean.com

Handshake Solutions NV (Eindhoven, Netherlands), has worked with ARM Holdings plc to produce an asynchronous processor based on the ARM9 core. The ARM996HS, claimed to be the first commercial clockless processor, was disclosed in February 2006 along with the claim that it could cut power consumption to nearly one third that of a similar clocked processor core. www.handshakesolutions.com

Icera Semiconductor Inc. (Bristol, England), a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2002, provides chips for 3G-HSDPA handsets and datacards. It was founded by, amongst others, the founder of Element14 Ltd., a company which was eventually sold to Broadcom Corp. www.icerasemi.com

Imperas Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.) was formed in 2005 by Simon Davidmann, a serial EDA entrepreneur. The company plans to offer system development tools that combine the elaboration of both hardware and software while dealing with multiprocessing issues. www.imperas.com

Innovative Silicon Inc. (Lausanne, Switzerland) is a 2002 start-up founded by Pierre Fazan (CTO) to develop an SOI-based single-transistor memory. Now led by Mark-Eric Jones, Innovative has licensed its floating body memory to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. amongst others. www.innovativesilicon.com

InvenSense Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), founded in 2003 by CEO Steven Nasiri, is a fabless developer of motion-sensing MEMS for consumer products based on the Nasiri fabrication process. www.invensense.com

InPhase Technologies Inc. (Longmont, Colo.) was founded in December 2000 as a spinoff from Bell Labs research, with the objective of becoming the first company to bring holographic data storage technology to market. www.inphase-technologies.com

Light Blue Optics Ltd. (Cambridge, England) was founded in December 2003 by photonics experts from Cambridge University Engineering Department. They set out to produce small, portable, power-efficient image projectors suitable for use in battery-powered electronic devices such as mobile phones and digital cameras. www.lightblueoptics.com

Luminescent Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.), backed by Sevin Rosen Funds, has developed a line of RET software products for use in optical proximity correction (OPC) and phase-shift photomask (PSM) applications. www.luminescent.com

Luxtera Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.) is a fabless semiconductor company formed in 2001 to develop optical modulation devices based on a standard CMOS fabrication. The company started sampling prototype devices to potential customers in 2006. www.luxtera.com

Mirics Semiconductor Inc. (Fleet, England), a fabless RF and mixed-signal chip startup founded in 2004, has started sampling OEMs in the mobile TV, digital radio and portable media player sectors with a single chip tuner that can be used on all currently used broadcast standards. www.mirics.com

Molecular Imprints Inc. (Austin, Texas) was founded in 2001 to design, develop, manufacture and support imprint lithography systems to be used by semiconductor device and other industry manufacturers. www.molecularimprints.com

Nanoradio AB (Kista, Sweden), fabless semiconductor company specializing in components for Wi-Fi applications, has raised more than $50 million in venture capital funding since its founding in 2004. www.nanoradio.com

Nemerix SA (Manno, Switzerland), founded in April 2002, is a venture capital backed fabless semiconductor company specializing in global positioning by satellite integrated circuits, software and firmware. Cadence Design Systems Inc. was one of the investors in a $31 million VC round that was announced in September 2005. www.nemerix.com

Nemoptic SA (Magny les Hameaux, France), was founded in 1999, has raised nearly $50 million and operates a production unit in Sweden.www.nemoptic.com

Newport Media Inc. (Lake Forest, Calif.) is fabless semiconductor company that sells chips for digital audio and mobile television standards. Founded in January 2005 the company launched a highly integrated multi-standard mobile TV receiver in June 2007. www.newportmediainc.com

P.A.Semi Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) is a fabless semiconductor company developing a power-efficient multiprocessor architecture based on Power processor cores licensed from IBM Corp. The resulting modular architecture is aimed at both the embedded and high performance computing markets. The company is led by processor design luminary Dan Dobberpuhl. www.pasemi.com

Plastic Logic Ltd. (Cambridge, England) was founded in November 2000 as a spinoff from Cambridge Universitys Cavendish Laboratory. The company aims to combine plastic electronics with printing for low cost products such as flexible e-readers. The company is building a factory to make flexible active-matrix display modules in Dresden, Germany. www.plasticlogic.com

PolyFuel Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) was spun out of SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute) in 1999. It develops engineered membranes for application in fuel cells for portable and automotive applications. www.polyfuel.com

Polymer Vision Ltd. (Eindhoven, Netherlands) received 21 million euro (about $27.5 million) from Technology Capital SA of Luxemburg in January 2007 to help it launch a roll-up display technology and taking the company out of ownership of Royal Philips Electronics NV. www.polymervision.com

Prime Sense Inc. (Tel-Aviv, Israel) was founded in late 2005 as a fabless semiconductor company. It is developing a combination image sensor and image processor that it claims would give digital devices the ability to see and comprehend the world in 3D. Applications are seen in video games and communications. www.primesense.com

Raza Microelectronics Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.) was formed in 2002 by Atiq Raza, an executive who previously worked at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and NexGen Microsystems Inc. The company is producing processors for network processing. www.razamicroelectronics.com

RDA Microelectronics (Shanghai, China) was established in 2004 with the aim of becoming the leading independent Chinese design company. With $15 million from private equity firm Warburg Pincus, RDA has developed an all-CMOS RF transceiver for cell phone applications. www.rdamicro.com

ReVolt Technology AS (Staefa, Switzerland) was formed as a spinoff from Norwegian contract research institute Sintef in 2004. The company's founder and chief technology officer, Trygve Burchardt, has developed rechargeable zinc-air battery technology, which the company claims could replace lithium-ion batteries currently used in portable applications. The company relocated to Switzerland in October 2006.www.revolttechnology.com

SemIndia Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.) is a company formed by expatriate Indians in California with a mission of making India a global hub for semiconductor manufacturing. The company is is working with the Indian government, state governments, and other strategic partners and customers to create a wafer fab in India. www.sem-india.com

Sequans Communications SA (Paris, France), founded in 2003, has become a supplier of silicon and embedded software for WiMAX-based wireless LAN systems. www.sequans.com

Siano Mobile Silicon Ltd. (Netanya, Israel), founded in June 2004, develops digital television receivers tailored specifically for mobile communications and entertainment devices. www.siano-ms.com

SiBeam Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) was founded in December 2004 by a team from the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) together with several wireless and high-speed communications industry veterans. The company claims to be the first to build 60-GHz chipsets using CMOS technology. www.sibeam.com

Silistix Ltd. (Manchester, England), founded in December 2003 as a spinoff from the Amulet asynchronous logic research group at the University of Manchester in England, has received backing from Intel Capital. www.silistix.com

T3G Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing) is a fabless chip company developing chipsets for the TD-SCDMA 3G mobile communications standard. The company is backed by Royal Philips Electronics, Datang Mobile, Motorola and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. www.t3gt.com

Takumi Technology Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), founded in October 2003, is a supplier of critical dimension aware software solutions for backend tapeout defect analysis and layout optimization. www.takumi-tech.com

Tarari Inc. (San Diego, Calif.), a developer of content and XML processors, was launched in August 2002 by senior managers and employees formerly with Intels network equipment division. www.tarari.com

Tekion Inc. (Burnaby, British Columbia), founded in 2003, is developing a chip-based micro fuel cell technology to serve as a power source for inclusion in portable equipment. www.tekion.com

Tilera Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.), a developer of programmable ASICs and associated compilers, was founded by Anant Agarwal, professor of engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Agarwal serves as chief technology officer www.tilera.com

Unity Semiconductor Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) was founded in 2002 to exploit technology based on a change of resistance that can be produced in certain conductive metal oxides and giving rise to the possibility of non-volatile resistive RAM (RRAM) www.unitysemi.com

Varioptic SA (Lyon, France), founded in 2002, has developed a range of electrically-controlled liquid lenses for use in cameras. The company has concluded a licensing agreement with STMicroelectronics NV. www.varioptic.com

VeriSilicon Holdings Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China) is a fabless ASIC design foundry focusing on providing semiconductor IP, design services and turnkey services including manufacturing, packaging, testing, and delivery. www.verisilicon.com

WiQuest Communications Inc. (Allen, Texas), founded in 2003, is a fabless company developing chips for the ultrawideband (UWB) market. www.wiquest.com

XMOS Semiconductor Ltd. (Bristol, England) is a fabless semiconductor company founded by academic computer scientist David May, in 2006. The company is developing a processor architecture and configurable hardware "fabric" that promises reduced power consumption in mobile applications. www.xmos.com

Xoomsys Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.), formed in 2004, is developing scalable, distributed processing software for large-scale circuit simulation using both industry-standard circuit simulators and inexpensive Linux computing clusters. www.xoomsys.com