True Circuits, Inc.

Design Services Partners

True Circuits recognized very early the growing importance of both highly differentiated third-party IP and quality ASIC design services to companies seeking higher levels of chip integration and faster time to market. In 2003, we created an IP partnership program that we extended to a select group of design services companies called the True Partner Program. We currently have about ten of the world's largest and most respected ASIC design services companies who are members of this program. The True Partner Program offers our partners discounts on the quality IP that they license from us in exchange for the expected volume and support leverage across their large customer bases. Over the years, many fabless chip companies and IDMs all over the world have had their chips designed, developed and delivered by ASIC houses with deep experience in specifying, integrating and testing a wide variety of True Circuits timing IP.

"The increasing demand for performance-intensive handheld devices and rising time-to-market pressures heightens the need for design turnkey providers to endow ASIC customers with more predictable and robust SoC solutions. With True Circuits' PLL and DLL at TSMC 55nm, we were able to achieve low jitter for DDR 800Mbps and enter into mass production with very stable yield.

Yao Lee, Strategic Marketing Manager, Alchip Technologies

Alchip Technologies, headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is a leading fabless ASIC/SoC provider to the world's top system and semiconductor companies. Founded in 2002 by semiconductor veterans from Silicon Valley and Japan, Alchip delivers silicon design and manufacturing solutions that provide customers with time-to-market advantages. Alchip has proven its capabilities in the fabless ASIC field by successfully delivering on-time first silicon success for high-end and complex SoC designs at 0.13um, 90nm and 65nm. With 170 employees worldwide, Alchip has offices in Shin-Yokohama, Japan, Santa Clara, CA, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan and Shanghai, China. For more information about Alchip, visit www.alchip.com.

"With True Circuits' silicon-proven PLLs and DLLs in our industry-leading design portfolio and flow, our ASIC customers benefit with exceptional performance and reliability. Combined with our custom chip design expertise, these hard macros enable us to quickly and cost-effectively implement ASIC designs with analog components for high-volume applications."

Prasad Subramaniam, Vice President, Design Technology

eSilicon Corporation combines design and production expertise to develop and manufacture custom integrated circuits for leading electronics companies. The company offers system OEMs and fabless semiconductor companies a flexible, low-cost, lower-risk path to application-specific silicon. eSilicon delivers chips customized for a wide variety of applications including consumer, computer, communications and industrial devices. For more information, visit www.esilicon.com.

Brite Semiconductor is a fabless ASIC company delivering the most cost-effective, predictable and reliable custom ASIC solution to electronics product customers worldwide. Brite Semiconductor uses proven design flow and methodology with advance design capability and provides end-to-end custom ASIC solution based on a proven business model that provides a seamless, low-cost, low risk alternative to traditional models for complex ASIC design and development. For more information, visit www.britesemi.com.

Faraday Technology Corporation is a leading silicon IP and fabless ASIC vendor. The company's broad silicon IP portfolio includes 32-bit RISC CPUs, DSPs, MPEG4, H.264, PHYs/Controllers for USB 2.0, 10/100 Ethernet, Serial ATA, PCI Express, Cell Library and Memory Compiler. Faraday is one of the largest fabless ASIC companies in the Asia-Pacific region, and it also has a significant presence in other world-wide markets. Headquartered in Taiwan, Faraday has service and support offices around the world, including the U.S., Japan, Europe, and China. For more information, visit www.faraday-tech.com.

Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), a dedicated full service SoC Design Foundry based in Taiwan, was founded in 1998. GUC provides total solutions from silicon-proven IPs to complex time-to-market SoC turnkey services. GUC is committed to providing the most advanced and the best price-performance silicon solutions through close partnership with TSMC and other key packaging and testing power houses. With state of the art EDA tools, advanced methodologies, and experienced technical team, GUC ensures the highest quality and lowest risks to achieve first silicon success. GUC has established a global customer base throughout Greater China, Japan, Korea, North America, and Europe. Its track-record in complex SoC designs has brought benefits to customers in time to revenue at the lowest risk. For more information, visit www.globalunichip.com.

"Our mission is to provide predictable, reliable and cost-effective ASIC solutions, while reducing risk at each step of the process and improving time-to-market. True Circuits PLLs and DLLs are feature rich, easily integrated and well supported, helping us to deliver quality analog IP and faster design implementations to our ASIC customers."

Hans Bouwmeester, Director of IP

Open-Silicon, Inc. is a fabless ASIC company delivering 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 business model that provides a seamless, low-cost, low risk alternative to traditional models for complex ASIC design and development. For more information, visit www.open-silicon.com.

QThink offers complete front to back ASIC and SoC IC design services to leading edge semiconductor companies involved in wired and wireless communications, consumer electronics, high-speed networking, multimedia, high-speed computing, medical and military applications. QThink’s services include: Design-flow engineering and implementation • Micro architecture design • Behavioral design and verification • RTL design capture and verification • Logic synthesis • Design for test • Timing analysis • Formal verification • Floor planning and chip integration • Physical design place and route • Signal integrity analysis • Physical verification • Post tape-out manufacturing management • Professional project management. QThink currently has offices in San Diego, San Jose, Austin and Bangalore, India. For more information, visit www.qthink.com.

Socle Technology is dedicated to providing professional SoC design platform solutions and SoC design services. Socle’s main R&D team is made up of employees from major hi-technology companies around the globe and possesses broad experience in SoC design. Socle also offers world-leading design platform solutions and services for ASIC and SoC solutions utilizing ARM microprocessor cores. Socle Technology possesses solid design teams and core technologies and its services are available to major system providers and IC design companies in Taiwan, USA, Korea and China. For more information, visit www.socle-tech.com.

Founded in 2003, VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. ("VeriSilicon") is a fast growing IC design foundry providing custom solutions and SoC turnkey services. With four R&D centers in China and US, VeriSilicon's technology solutions combine licensable digital signal processing cores, eDRAM, value-added mixed signal IP portfolio and other star IP into a SoC platform that extends below 65nm process technology. VeriSilicon's design and manufacturing service provides differentiation based on specific customer requirement that ranges from initial SoC specification and application software, RTL and backend design implementation through silicon samples and volume production, utilizing multiple foundry partners, assembly and test companies in Asia and US. VeriSilicon's global customer base of market leading multinationals and fabless start-up companies benefit from shorter development cycles, reduced cost of ownership, and economies of scale. For more information, visit www.verisilicon.com.

Wavante is the consulting partner of choice to the semiconductor industry. From advising on new technologies & methodologies, to providing design implementations, our customers rely on the Wavante's broad expertise to ensure the most cost effective, and reliable route to market. By aligning the business models to its customer's objectives, Wavante has enabled many of the top semiconductor companies to achieve or exceed time to market and performance goals, while simultaneously reduce the project costs. For more information, visit www.wavante.com.