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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.

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," said Prasad Subramaniam, Vice President, Design Technology, eSilicon Corporation. "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.

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.

InSilica is a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2003 with headquarters in Santa Clara, California, major design centers in India and Slovenia, and regional sales & support located worldwide. The company has established best in class IP, design methodologies, test and development systems, and close partnerships with leading foundries to deliver market leading deep-submicron solutions to multiple high volume markets. The company develops innovative imaging processors for the mobile camera phone market, and high value ASICs where standard flow ASIC providers can not meet the specification, cost, and time-to-market goals of the end customer. For more information, visit www.insilica.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 Bouwmeesterm, 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.

Time To Market Inc. is an ASIC Design Services corporation with offices in San Jose, USA and Hyderabad, India. TTM enables its customers to focus on their end-product features, costs, and performance while providing complete Physical Design solutions including timing-closure and DFT. TTM also offers design services for IP development, RTL coding and verification. TTM provides a very cost effective and risk free route for COT customers, fabricating their ASICS with the leading semiconductor foundries like TSMC, UMC and Chartered, using IP from world-class vendors. For more information, visit www.time2mkt.com.