Power Forward Initiative (PFI) Community

Member Companies

Alchip

Alchip Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is a leading provider of silicon design and manufacturing services for companies developing complex and high-volume system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Founded in 2002 by semiconductor veterans from Silicon Valley and Japan.
Advisors: John Wei

AMD

Advanced Micro Devices is a leading global provider of innovative microprocessor solutions for computing, communications and consumer electronics markets. Founded in 1969, AMD is dedicated to delivering superior computing solutions based on customer needs that empower users worldwide.

Apache

Apache is an industry leading provider of power and noise solutions for chip-package-system convergence from RTL to sign-off. Apache's products address the unique power and noise challenges associated with specific design domains such as digital, analog/mixed-signal, package/PCB, and SiP, while providing an eco-platform that integrates the SoC, custom IP, and System worlds.
Advisors: Vic Kulkarni

Applied Materials

Applied Materials is the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology(TM) solutions for the electronics industry with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products. At Applied Materials, we apply nanomanufacturing technology to improve the way people live.

ARC

ARC International is the world leader in configurable processor technology. ARC licenses patented configurable CPU/DSP processors and multimedia subsystems that enable customers to design products that give them a strategic competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Advisors: Colin Holehouse

ARM

ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from mobile, home and enterprise solutions to embedded and emerging applications. ARMs' comprehensive product offering includes 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, and more...
Advisors: Dr. John Goodenough

Azuro

Azuro is an exciting new electronic design automation (EDA) software company that is enabling electronics companies around the world to build semiconductor chips that use significantly less power than ever before.
Advisors: Steev Wilcox

Cadence Design Systems

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is the global leader in software, hardware, methodologies, and services that play essential roles in accelerating innovation in today’s highly complex integrated circuits, printed circuit boards, and electronics systems.
Advisors: Dr. Chi-Ping Hsu

Calypto Design Systems

Calypto Design Systems, Inc. is the technology leader in delivering sequential analysis technology that enables SoC design teams to bridge System Level and RTL for semiconductor design, thereby saving millions of dollars in design costs and silicon re-spins. The company delivers software products to leading edge semiconductor and systems companies worldwide.
Advisors: Anmol Mathur

eInfochips

eInfochips is a technology design services and solutions company offering IP and services in Software Products and Applications, Embedded System and ASIC/FPGA since 1995. Our customers achieve their business objectives of cost competitiveness and shorter time-to-market by leveraging our “Amplified Outsourcing Model,” Operational Excellence and uncompromising commitment to quality.
Advisors: Nilesh Ranpura

Denali

Denali Software, Inc., is a world-leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP) for system-on-chip (SoC) design and verification.  Denali delivers the industry’s most trusted solutions for deploying USB, PCI Express, NAND Flash and DDR DRAM subsystems.
Advisors: Jiurong Cheng

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP)

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) is the world's largest comprehensive printing company and the top vendor of LSI photomasks, produced by applying fundamental printing techniques and technologies. DNP LSI Design (DLD) is a subsidiary of DNP, and provides LSI design service and shuttle service.
Advisors: Toshimi Kamikariya

Faraday Technology Corporation

Faraday Technology Corporation is a leading fabless ASIC vendor as well as a silicon intellectual property (SIP) provider. Statistically, Faraday has been acknowledged its innovative power with over 3,000 successful designs, along with nearly 100 million ASIC chips shippedannually worldwide.
Advisors: Lee Chu

Freescale Semiconductor

Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets.Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc.
Advisors: Magdy S. Abadir

Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited

Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications products, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success.
Advisors: Yoshimi Asada

Global Unichip Corp.

Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), a dedicated full service SoC (System on Chip) 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.

Globetech Solutions

Globetech Solutions is a premier provider of standards-based verification and test intellectual property electronic design automation solutions. Globetech addresses key challenges in electronic system level design from specification to volume production and field support.
Advisors: Stylianos Diamantidis

LSI Corporation

LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together.
Advisors: James Parker

MindTree Limited

MindTree Limited is a global IT and R&D Services Company co-headquartered in the U.S. and India. With a passion for customer satisfaction, MindTree partners with its clients to create a transparent, value-based relationship.
Advisors: S N Padmanabhan

MIPS Technologies

MIPS Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, networking, personal entertainment, communications and business applications.

Nippon System Ware Co., Ltd (NSW)

NSW (Nippon System Ware Co.,Ltd) was established as an independent IT company in 1966. Since then, NSW has been engaged in a broad range of activities including software and device development and information processing services.
Advisors: Hiroshi Iwaki

NXP Semiconductors

NXP Semiconductors is a top 10 semiconductor company founded by Philips more than 50 years ago. Headquartered in Europe, the company has 37,000 employees working in 20 countries across the world.
Advisors: Barry Dennington

Open-Silicon

Open-Silicon provides leading edge SoC and ASIC design, open market IP integration, and high-quality silicon manufacturing services to customers worldwide. The company features the industry's most flexible supply chain, the OpenMODEL™, and the MAX technologies, a showcase of leadership capabilities to allow building the best possible custom silicon.
Advisors: Colin Baldwin

Powervation

Powervation provides a new class of Auto-control digital power IC solutions that optimize power-supply performance and efficiencies for manufacturers of electronic systems used in Computing, NetComms, storage and other applications.
Advisors: Sean Foley

S3

S3 is the Connected Consumer Technology Company, providing semiconductor design services, semiconductor IP, software products, systems knowledge expertise for its global client base competing in fast-moving consumer electronics as well as wired and wireless communications markets.
Advisors: Mark Barry

Sequence Design

Sequence Design accelerates the ability of SoC designers to bring high-performance, power-aware ICs quickly to market. Sequence's power and signal- integrity software solutions give customers the competitive advantage necessary to excel in aggressive technology markets, despite the demanding complexity and time-to-market issues of nanometer design.
Advisors: Tom Miller

Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS)

Starting from Year 2000, SiS heavily deployed in high speed interface and I/O IP. Today’s 3C products, required high speed industrial standard I/O, continue to raise SoC bar in many ways. This is a segment that increases new opportunities but also creates big hurdles to today’s SoC designers.
Advisors: Michael Chen

SMIC

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is one of the leading semiconductor foundries in the world and the largest and most advanced foundry in Mainland China, providing integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing services at 0.35um to 90nm and finer line technologies.
Advisors: Feng Chen

SOCLE Technology

SOCLE Technology is dedicated to providing professional SoC design platform solutions and SoC design services. SOCLE Technology offers world-leading solutions and services for ARM Platform SoC and ASIC Implementation Services.
Advisors: Chou-Te Kang

Sonics, Inc.

Sonics Inc. is a premier supplier of SMART Interconnect solutions, delivering high SoC design predictability and increased design efficiency. Its solutions address the growing complexity found in consumer products with voice, data and video features.
Advisors: Scott Evans

Tensilica

Tensilica offers the broadest line of controller, CPU and specialty DSP processors on the market today, in both an off-the-shelf format via the Diamond Standard Series cores and with full designer configurability with the Xtensa processor family.
Advisors: Ashish Dixit

Toppan

Toppan Technical Design Center Co. Ltd. (TDC) is a total service provider for the development of LSIs utilizing various LSI technologies including digital, mixed-signal, analog, memory. The company's SoC design business began over 30 years ago, as part of Toppan Printing's photomask production business.
Advisors: Takashi Nabuchi

TSMC

TSMC is the world's largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, providing the industry's leading process technology and the foundry industry's largest portfolio of process-proven library, IP, design tools and reference flows.
Advisors: Dr. Fu-Chieh Hsu

UMC

UMC is a leading global semiconductor foundry that manufactures advanced process ICs for applications spanning every major sector of the semiconductor industry.
Advisors: Garry Shyu

VeriSilicon

Founded in 2001, VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. ("VeriSilicon") is a fast growing silicon solutions company providing products and services that enable customers to meet their chip design objectives, accelerate development programs and deliver market proven silicon products - on time and at lower cost.
Advisors: Nianfeng Li

Virage Logic Corporation

Founded in 1996, Virage Logic Corporation rapidly established itself as a technology and market leader in providing advanced embedded memory intellectual property (IP) for the design of complex integrated circuits. Now, as the company celebrates its 10th anniversary, it is a global leader in semiconductor IP platforms comprising embedded memories, logic, and I/Os and is pioneering the development of a new class of IP called Silicon Aware IP.
Advisors: Joel Rosenberg

Vivace Semiconductor

Vivace Semiconductor was founded in October 2005 to create and deliver new secure video processing chips to address the needs of next generation consumer electronic products.
Advisors: Cary Ussery

Wipro Technologies

Wipro Technologies’ 2100+ Semiconductor/System engineers and 18,500 embedded software engineers make it the world’s largest independent R&D service provider. Combined with best-in-class methodology, EagleWision Wipro has one of the best first-pass-success rates for 300+ silicon and 200+ system designs delivered over the last 2 years.
Advisors: Ron Burns