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Published Date: Aug. 23, 2002
Company Name: XEMICS
Address: Maladiere 71
2007 Neuchatel, Switzerland
Main Telephone
Number: 0041 32 720 5511
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.xemics.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Alain Dantec
Chief Financial
Officer: Evan Rohr
Investor Relations
Contact: Alain Dantec
Business number: 0041 32 720 5511
E-mail address: info@xemics.com
Public Relations
Contact: Florence Amez-Droz
Business number: 0041 32 720 5670
E-mail address: fad@xemics.com
Industry: Semiconductor
Company description: General Information - Number of Employees: 100 - Year Founded: 1997 - Other Locations: Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. XEMICS combines its core technologies - 8-bit MCU (1) (MicroController Unit) A computer on a single chip. See microcontroller. (2) (Multipoint Control Unit) A device that is used to moderate a videoconference of three or more end points (users at computers or groups of users , sensor interfacing / data acquisition, LF to UHF (Ultra High Frequency) The range of electromagnetic frequencies from 300 MHz to 3 GHz. In the U.S., analog television has used UHF channels 52 to 69 in the 700 MHz band. RF transceivers, audio Codecs, GPS, and Bluetooth with low-power, to provide core technology benefits - wireless connectivity silicon solutions for autonomous battery operated and/or power sensitive terminal equipment. XEMICS' products connect people and the physical world to the networks - the Internet, the phone and other networks. XEMICS' products provide functionality in the areas of sensing, local processing and communication. In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , they deliver sounds/voice, pressure, temperature, acceleration, time, position, speed, or other type of sensor data through a short-range wireless link, and in the other direction they deliver data/commands to the sensors and actuators. XEMICS products can be used in portable products for "wirelessly connected" people, and in "wirelessly connected" homes and buildings, including hospitals and factories. XEMICS delivers system-level, application-optimized solutions. That's complete electronics and software, which reduces OEM's complexity and time to market. XEMICS focuses on highly integrated cost optimized devices and providing excellence in support to customers. The key benefits of all product lines are low operating power consumption, operating power supply compatible with battery supply, high integration and high performance. The combination of these products provides the complete sensor interface, local processing and wireless communication solution. Beyond these "generic" benefits, each line has unique functions. The XE1200 series are low cost single chips and come with a bit synchronizer that simplifies the software design on the MCU side. The XE1400 series incorporates an ultra low power An ultra low power, or ULP device, is an electronic gadget that has milli- or micro-watt power consumption. Some examples of ultra-low power devices:
Market Type - Wireless Communications: 40% - Consumer Products: 35% - Industrial: 25% Product Type - System-on-Chip: 30% - Transceiver: 35% - Microcontroller: 20% - Audio CODECs: 10% - Bluetooth: 5% Product Overview and Description Wireless - XEMICS' wireless products for short-range communication are highly integrated solutions for facilitating connections between mobile or fixed equipment. Operating in the ISM bands, they are ideal for applications in the consumer, industrial and communications markets. Combined with XEMICS' data acquisition or audio products, they provide complete solutions for wireless sensing equipment and wireless headsets. - XE1200 Series - The XE1200 series is a family of short range ultra low power wireless data communication transceivers. The XE1200 product family covers a number of license free ISM bands ranging from 30kHz to 1GHz. The XE1200 series is ideally suited for applications such as remote sensing and metering, wireless security, digital voice communication and home automation. Bluetooth - XEMICS provides ultra low power wireless solutions for all kind of analog and digital short-range communications and highly integrated RF devices operating from only a few tens of kHz up to 900 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. . Furthermore, the world's lowest-power GPS solution and the upcoming low-power Bluetooth chipset are addressing all applications above 1.0GHz. - XE1400 Series - The XEMICS EasyBlue devices offers both generic, as well as application specific Bluetooth baseband solutions tailored to all kind of battery powered applications. The generic XE140x devices can be used to enable any existing application with the Bluetooth communication standard. If cost and performance optimized Bluetooth solutions for specific, battery operated, applications are required XEMICS' provides the solutions. GPS - The XE1600 Series is based on Trimble's FirstGPS architecture - Flexible Integration of Real-Time Software Tasks. By adapting this innovative architecture to the CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. and RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. used in the original equipment manufacturer (OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and ) product, redundant CPUs and memory are eliminated and the overall component count and product cost are reduced. The architecture uses two ICs and Trimble software. The ICs handle the processor-intensive GPS tracking and processing tasks. The FirstGPS software leverages the host CPU and memory to calculate the GPS PVT solutions, without burdening the other applications running on the mobile device. Microcontrollers - XE8000 microcontrollers are SOC-merging mixed-signal capabilities, including the 16+6 bits ZoomingADC (TM), together with an ultra low-power microcontroller core. These microcontrollers perfectly suit markets like industrial control, home automation, Internet connectivity and radio communications. XEMICS delivers Softcore versions of its CoolRISC ultra low-power 8-bit RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. core as an intellectual property (IP) product. CoolRISC 8-bit RISC core has been designed for ultra low power applications. It comes with a powerful instruction set, multiple addressing mode and a fully featured development environment. CoolRISC is available as a synthesizable softcore. CoolRISC cores are silicon-proven, from 0.5|m down to 0.18|m CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. . Data Acquisitions - XEMICS offers a range of mixed-signal Ics for data acquisition, which includes the ZoomingADC (TM) high resolution analog-to-digital converter (ADC (1) See A/D converter. (2) (Apple Display Connector) A peripheral connector from Apple that combines digital video display, USB and power in one cable. ) with its associated MCU. XEMICS' data acquisition solutions are characterized by their high level of integration and low-power operation. Audio - The XE3000 series of ultra low power audio converters are highly integrated devices. Key building blocks include microphone supply, pre-amplifier, 16-bit ADC, 16-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter ), serial audio interface and power management. The XE3006 includes Sandman Sandman induces sleep by sprinkling sand in children’s eyes. [Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 966] See : Sleep Sandman - The DoD requirements that led to APSE. functions for the ADC and the DAC, which allow for power consumption reduction of the codec and other components in the application. The sampling frequency of the ADC can be adjusted from 4 kHz to 20 kHz and the DAC from 4 to 48 kHz. Fabrication Technologies Required - CMOS - BiCMOS Foundry Partners - TSMC TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation TSMC Traffic Systems Management Center TSMC Toll Station Management Controller TSMC Transportation Supply Maintenance Command TSMC Technical Services Manager Code - Philips Semiconductor - Tower Semiconductor Other Partners - NewLogic Technologies - XEMICS and NewLogic have a licensing deal encompassing NewLogic's BOOST Core and BOOST Software IP products - Trimble Navigation Ltd - Trimble enables XEMICS' XE1610 Series with its FirstGPS technology Distribution - Future Electronics - ACAL ACAL Asociación de Archiveros de Castilla Y León (Castille and Leon, Spain) ACAL Academia de Ciencias de América Latina (Spanish: Academy of Sciences of Latin America, Venezuela) - AMEGA Electronics - Pyrecap - Matrix - ASD ASD abbr. atrial septal defect ASD Atrial septal defect, see there Corp. - Arazim Ltd. - Ameleks Corp. - Technology Marketing Solutions (TMS TMS Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (alternative medicine for depression) TMS Test Match Special (sports - cricket) TMS Texas Motor Speedway TMS Transportation Management System TMS Toyota Motor Sales ) - Jepico Corp. - Internix Inc. - Drutec Limited - CSE (Certified Systems Engineer) See Microsoft certification. CO Ltd. - Newtech Electronics Pte. Ltd. - Coolwave Communication Co., Ltd - Achieva Components China Ltd. - Apache Communication Inc - Holystone ho·ly·stone n. A piece of soft sandstone used for scouring the wooden decks of a ship. tr.v. ho·ly·stoned, ho·ly·ston·ing, ho·ly·stones To scrub or scour with a piece of soft sandstone. Enterprise Co., Ltd Customers - ABB n. 1. Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, Noun 1. ABB - an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s Automation - Phonak - Schlumberger/Actiris - Atral - InnoLabs Corporation - RoyalTek - Racewood - ATOZ - Advanced Concept Mfg. - Invensys - Endress + Hauser Financials 2001 Revenues: $11 million 2002 target revenues: $16 million Funding - A third round of venture capital financing To start an own company or to bring a new product to the market, the venture may need to attract financial funding. There are several categories of financing possibilities. If it is a small venture, then perhaps the venture can rely on family funding, loans from friends ended in October 2001, raising $6 million. Recognizing XEMICS' strong technology assets and business potential, all of the company's previous venture capital investors and two new venture capital funds participated in these rounds. These included TAT Investments, Banexi Ventures, Innoventure Capital, Cantonal Bank of Vaud, Yasuda Enterprise Development and Vontobel European Ventures. Management Team - Michel Desbard - Chairman of the Board - Alain Dantec - Chief Executive Officer - Remy Pache - Vice President, Marketing - Evan Rohr - Vice President, Finances - Serge Girardin - Vice President, Operations - Jean-Paul Bardyn - Vice President, Research & Development |
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