EnOcean GmbH
Oberhaching, Germany
www.enocean.com

MISSION
Wireless, batteryless and maintenance-free sensors.

PRODUCTS
Transmitters with a range of up to 300 meters in free space; transceivers for mesh-network and ZigBee applications with EnOcean's batteryless sensors.

MONEY
Latest round of funding in March 2005, led by new investor SAM Private Equity, raised $11.9 million for expansion in the United States and to support further miniaturization and integration of its technology in ASICs and MEMS. Shareholders include BayTech Venture Capital, enjoyventure Management, Siemens Technology Accelerator GmbH, Siemens Venture Capital GmbH, Wellington Partners and 3i Group plc.

PERSONNEL
Co-founder and CEO Markus Brehler, co-founder and executive vice president Andreas Schneider, co-founder and CTO Frank Schmidt

ET CETERA
STM250 solar-powered RF magnet-contact radio module eliminates dependence upon batteries, which EnOcean calls the principal deficiency of wireless security systems.

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Frontier Silicon
Cambridge, England
www.frontier-silicon.com

MISSION
Complete semiconductor and modular solutions for digital multimedia products.

PRODUCTS
Chorus FS1010 programmable multimedia processor; T-DMB portable-multimedia chip set; Mercury FS4031 DAB, CD, FM/AM audio reference design.

MONEY
Privately funded company; key shareholders include Quilvest Group, ACT Venture Capital, Apax Partners, Alta Berkeley, BlueRun Ventures, Digital One and Imagination Technologies.

PERSONNEL
Founder and CEO Anthony Sethill, CTO Martin Jackson

ET CETERA
Roadster T-DMB, a mobile digital television version of the Roadster automotive DAB module, enables the reception of terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasts in vehicles. Initially aimed at car manufacturers in South Korea, where the first commercial T-DMB services were launched by six major broadcasters in the Seoul area.

Fulcrum Microsystems
Calabasas Hills, Calif.
www.fulcrummicro.com

MISSION
Apply a patented circuit technology and design methodology to deliver high-performance, standards-based interconnect devices for computing, storage and networking applications

PRODUCTS
FM2224, a 24-port 10-Gbit Ethernet switch chip with 24 integrated Xaui serdes interfaces that can be independently configured to operate in 10-Gbit/s, 2.5-Gbit/s and 10/100/1,000 Ethernet modes; FM2112, a 24-port switch chip with eight 10-Gbit Ethernet interfaces and 16 lower-speed interfaces, all of which can be configured to operate in 2.5-Gbit/s and 10/100/1,000 Ethernet modes.

MONEY
Raised $56 million from investors Granite Ventures, Infinity Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Palomar Ventures and Worldview Technology Partners.

PERSONNEL
President and CEO Bob Nunn, co-founder and CTO Uri Cummings, co-founder and vice president of research and development Andrew Lines

ET CETERA
Fulrcum's technology is based on advanced research conducted at Caltech by the company's founding team.

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Handshake Solutions
Eindhoven, Netherlands
www.handshakesolutions.com

MISSION
Highly disciplined methodology for designing self-timed circuitry that allows commercial exploitation of clockless technology, which promises low power consumption, low electromagnetic emissions and low ground bounce.

PRODUCTS
Standard intellectual-property blocks implemented in self-timed technology, such as the HT80C51 microcontroller core.

MONEY
Handshake operates within the Philips Technology Incubator, a program that strives to turn promising technologies into successful business entities.

PERSONNEL
CEO Wouter van Roost, COO Rik van de Wiel, CTO Ad Peeters

ET CETERA
Fabless semiconductor manufacturer Malaysia Microelectronics Solutions will use the HT80C51 8-bit IP core in a new smart-card controller IC.

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Icera Semiconductor
Bristol, England
www.icerasemi.com

MISSION
Wireless platforms for the next generation of mobile terminals.

PRODUCTS
Baseband processor and modem software support HSDPA, UMTS, GSM and Edge multimode capability; Livanto ICE8020 wireless soft-modem IC for mobile-phone and wireless data card applications.

MONEY
Completed a $10 million extension to its 2004 Series B funding round, with funding now totaling $32.5 million. Investors include Accel Partners, Atlas Venture and Benchmark Capital

PERSONNEL
Co-founder, president and CEO Stan Boland; co-founder and vice president of silicon Simon Knowles

Imperas
Palo Alto, Calif.
www.imperas.com

MISSION
Tools to design and program using a unified systems-design automation approach combining hardware and software issues.

PRODUCTS
NA

MONEY
Funded by Accel Partners and Pond Ventures.

PERSONNEL
Founder, president and CEO Simon Davidmann

ET CETERA
Claims its small team — including an engineering office in the U.K. — has more than 200 years of relevant collective experience.

Innovative Silicon
Lausanne, Switzerland
www.innovativesilicon.com

MISSION
Develop and license innovative memory technology for system-on-chip/MPU applications.

PRODUCTS
Z-RAM (zero-capacitor RAM), which harnesses floating-body effect, resulting in a single-transistor cell structure.

MONEY
Funded by leading European and U.S. venture capital firms. The first round of financing in 2003 brought in $6 million. Austin Ventures joined with existing investors to lead a $16 million Series B round of investment.

PERSONNEL
President and CEO Mark-Eric Jones, chief scientist Serguei Okhonin, chairman and CTO Pierre Fazan

ET CETERA
Innovative Silicon has seen memory designs of its ZRAM taped out at 90 nanometers. Intellectual-property adviser Neil Steinberg is a registered U.S. patent attorney who has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is also a member of the Massachusetts and District of Columbia Bars, and the Bar of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Inovys
Pleasanton, Calif.
www.inovys.com

MISSION
Decrease test time and cost by leveraging design-for-test methodologies, such as structural test, which verifies the semiconductor's internal circuits rather than its functional behavior.

PRODUCTS
Ocelot, Personal Ocelot, Ocelot ZFP test systems.

MONEY
Raised $16.3 million in Series C financing. Investors include Advantest, CMEA Ventures, HIG Ventures, Hotung Ventures, Palomar Ventures, Storm Ventures, Synopsys SoC Venture Fund and TechFarm Ventures.

PERSONNEL
CEO Paul Sakamoto, founder and CTO Phil Burlison, chief scientist Al Crouch, founder and vice president of software development and applications engineering Ric Dokken

ET CETERA
Has identified Cadence Design Systems, Dynamic Details, Intest, Mentor Graphics and Synopsys as partners.

InPhase Technologies
Longmont, Colo.
www.inphase-technologies.com

MISSION
To become the first company to bring holographic data storage technology to market.

PRODUCTS
InPhase Tapestry drive has reached prototype phase.

MONEY
Investor firms include New Venture Partners, Signal Lake, Hitachi Maxell, Bayer MaterialScience, Madison Dearborn Partners, Newton Technology Partners, Alps Electric, Yasuda Enterprise Development, Japan Asia Investment and Nanotech Partners. B.J. Cassin is among individual investors.

PERSONNEL
Chairman Steve Kitrosser, president and CEO Nelson Diaz, CTO Kevin Curtis, vice president of media development Lisa Dhar

ET CETERA
InPhase was founded in December 2000 as a Lucent Technologies venture, spun out of Bell Labs. Founders include the principal systems and material scientists from Bell Labs who invented the company's core holographic-storage technology.

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Kilopass Technology
Santa Clara, Calif.
www.kilopass.com

MISSION
Leading-edge nonvolatile embedded-memory technology, leveraging standard CMOS processes.

PRODUCTS
XPM nonvolatile embedded memory, offered as intellectual property.

MONEY
Founded in 2001 and completed second round of funding in October 2005, with $8.8 million from U.S. Venture Partners, BlueRun Ventures and iGlobe Partners.

PERSONNEL
CEO Bernie Aronson, vice president of product operations Yeng Peng

ET CETERA
Licensed XPM to Zoran. Revealed in November it had completed qualification of its XPM IP on TSMC's 0.18-micron CMOS logic process.

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Luminescent Technologies
Mountain View, Calif.
www.luminescent.com

MISSION
Lithography technology for the semiconductor industry.

PRODUCTS
Luminescent Explorer, a complete inverse-lithography technology (ILT) capability for small blocks.

MONEY
Sevin Rosen Funds.

PERSONNEL
CEO David Fried, co-founder and CTO Dan Abrams, co-founder and CFO Jack Herrick

ET CETERA
China-based foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. will evaluate Luminescent's ILT products in SMIC's production environment for 65-nanometer and finer process nodes.

Luxtera
Carlsbad, Calif.
www.luxtera.com

MISSION
Create an array of complex photonic devices in CMOS.

PRODUCTS
Now in prototype. Caltech provided initial base of IP and serves as an ongoing R&D partner.

MONEY
Investors include Sevin Rosen Funds, New Enterprise Associates, August Capital, California Institute of Technology and others.

PERSONNEL
Co-founder, president and CEO Alex Dickinson; co-founder, vice president of technology, Cary Gunn; senior vice president, product development, Laszlo Gal

ET CETERA
Sun Microsystems Inc. has chosen Luxtera as a technology partner to develop high-bandwidth, low-latency dense wavelength-division multiplexed optical interconnects.

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Micromem Technologies
Toronto
www.micromeminc.com

MISSION
Company has spent five years developing magnetic RAMs in collaboration with the University of Toronto, professor Harry Ruda and Ontario Centers of Excellence Inc.

PRODUCTS
Once fully developed, its 128-bit MRAM will target radio frequency identification tags.

MONEY
Shares trade on the NASD over-the-counter bulletin board. Company reported revenue of $1,633 and net loss of $2.65 million for the nine-month period ended July 31. Accumulated deficit is $53.14 million. Micromem continues to raise capital to fund operations, and garnered $2.11 million in the nine months ended July 31.

PERSONNEL
President and CEO Joseph Fuda, chief technical officer Cynthia Kuper, lead scientist Harry Ruda

ET CETERA
Demonstrated a 1-bit prototype to its board of directors in February.

Mitrionics
Lund, Sweden
www.mitrionics.com

MISSION
Mitrion virtual processor eases software programming of an FPGA-based acceleration system, making high-performance computing accessible to those with no hardware design experience.

PRODUCTS
Massively parallel soft-core Mitrion virtual processor is available via device-locked license valid for a single FPGA, or floating license valid for any FPGA of the same type. Software development kit includes the Mitrion-C compiler, debugger, simulator and processor configurator tuned to implement the Mitrion virtual processor. A programmer's edition of the SDK is mainly for algorithm development for the Mitrion virtual processor.

MONEY
Founded in 2000, company received $800,000 in seed financing from TeknoSeed AB in November 2002, and $3 million in startup financing from Creandum and Teknoinvest AS in March 2005.

PERSONNEL
Chairman Per Andersson; president and CEO Anders Dellson; co-founder, vice president and CTO Stefan Moh; co-founder and chief engineer Pontus Borg

ET CETERA
Mitrionics Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, is based in Culver City, Calif. The company is working with supercomputer maker Cray Inc. to program via software FPGAs integrated into Cray's XD1 system.

Molecular Imprints
Austin, Texas
www.molecularimprints.com

MISSION
Imprint lithography systems for high-resolution and three-dimensional pattern recognition by semiconductor device makers and other industry manufacturers. Has licensed Step and Flash Imprint Lithography (S-FIL)-related technology for the lifetime of the patents. S-FIL technology was invented at the University of Texas at Austin under professors Grant Willson and S.V. Sreenivasan.

PRODUCTS
The entry-level Imprio 55, based on S-FIL technology, has been available since May 2004. The Imprio 100 middle-level S-FIL tool for small-scale manufacturing facilities was released January 2003. The Imprio 250, the most advanced S-FIL tool for device and process prototyping and preproduction at 65-nanometer and finer nodes, was launched February 2005.

MONEY
Founded in 2001, company has raised more than $60 million to date, including $17 million in September in the first closing of a planned $25 million Series C financing round. Participants included Dai Nippon Printing, Alloy Ventures, Motorola Ventures, Harris & Harris, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Hakuto, Asset Management Partners and others.

PERSONNEL
CEO Mark Melliar-Smith, co-founder and CTO S.V. Sreenivasan, co-founder Grant Willson

ET CETERA
S-FIL technology won an EE Times ACE Award for Most Promising New Technology in March. Among companies that work solely on imprint lithography, Molecular Imprints claims to be the largest.

Morpho Technologies
Irvine, Calif.
www.morphotech.com

MISSION
High-performance reconfigurable DSP cores and broadband wireless technologies for software-defined radio.

PRODUCTS
M-rDSP cores are available for licensing. Offerings will expand over the next two years with a new-generation architecture that will retain code compatibility while allowing more parallelism, improved I/O and memory bandwidth. The company will also license physical-layer software as part of a vertical solution enabling broadband radio.

MONEY
Has raised roughly $20 million to date, including first close of a $10 million Series C funding round in April, co-led by Smart Technology Ventures and BridgeWest LLC. Has also received investments from Cadence Design Systems Inc. and Freescale Semiconductor Inc.

PERSONNEL
CEO John Rayfield, co-founder and chief scientist Fadi Kurdahi, co-founder Nader Bagherzadeh

ET CETERA
Founded in 2000. Has taped out and will have test silicon of MS-2 software radio engine in early 2006; the MS-2 will appear in end devices in 2007 time frame.

Multibeam Systems
Santa Clara, Calif.
www.multibeamsystems.com

MISSION
Electron-beam system with about 10 beams for use in high-throughput maskless lithography applications.

PRODUCTS
Plans to have multiple e-beam system ready in 2007 time frame.

MONEY
Privately held company has raised about $10 million in venture funding to date (excluding NIST funding). Lead investor is DynaFund Ventures.

PERSONNEL
President T.S. Ravi, CTO William Parker, vice president of engineering Dan Miller, vice president of systems engineering Allen Carroll

ET CETERA
Received $2.8 from National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop multiple e-beam column. Has demonstrated multiple-layer e-beam column to board of directors.