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Achronix Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) founded in New York in 2004 is a startup company associated with Cornell University from where it has licensed patents. In 2008 Achronix introduced FPGAs that operate at clock frequencies up to 1.5-GHz. www.achronix.com

Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (Shanghai, China), founded in 2004 and also known as AMEC, has been described as the Applied Materials of China. Indeed AMEC, having rolled out its initial tools, unveiled its strategy and disclosed plans to go public, has also locked legal horns with Applied. www.amec-inc.com

Arteris Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) started in Paris in 2003 is an intellectual-property vendor commercializing a packet-based on-chip network. The company has moved its headquarters to Silicon Valley while maintaining a French subsidiary. www.arteris.com

ATEEDA Ltd. (Edinburgh, Scotland), founded in 2006, specializes in testing circuits have both analog and digital sections and has developed a tool that allows analog circuits to be tested on digital testers. www.ateeda.com

Atoptech Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), founded in 2004, has developed physical design EDA tools. Aprisa, based on AtopTech’s interconnect-centric optimization technology, supports leading-edge design closure. www.atoptech.com

Azuro Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) was founded in 2002 by Paul Cunningham and Steev Wilcox. The company has developed a technology for clock-tree synthesis that supports optimization for power consumption reduction. www.azuro.com

BeSang Inc. (Beaverton, Oregon) is a fabless semiconductor company, founded in 2003 with strong Korean connections, developing a 3-D integrated circuit technology aimed at image sensor and memory business. www.besang.com

BLX IC Design Co. Ltd. (Beijing, China) was founded in 2002 by China's Institute of Computing Technology. BLX focuses on the development of 32- and 64-bit versions of its Godson processor and support for information appliances and network computing applications. www.blxcpu.com

Boston Power Inc. (Westborough, Mass.) was founded in 2005 and has made progress in developing longer lasting, faster charging lithium-ion batteries. www.boston-power.com

BridgeLux Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), founded in 2002, is a vertically integrated developer of LED chips and LED arrays for lighting applications. www.bridgelux.com

Calypto Design Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), founded in 2002, is an EDA company focused on bridging electronic system-level design and integrated circuit implementation with an emphasis on sequential analysis and optimization for power consumption. www.calypto.com

Celeno Communications Inc. (Ra'anana, Israel), founded in 2005, is a fabless semiconductor company providing Wi-Fi chips for high-defiition multimedia and entertainment home networking applications. www.celeno.com

ChipSensors Ltd. (Limerick, Ireland), founded in 2006, is developing a technology that allows the surface of an IC to be used to sense temperature, humidity, certain gases and pathogens. The technology could be used to add functions to present day chips such as processors, or to produce new types of integrated smart sensor. www.chipsensors.com

Ciranova Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), founded in 2002, is a privately held EDA company focused on offering support to authors of parameterized cells. Since early 2006 the company has offered free downloads of PyCell Studio, which can be used to create OpenAccess p-cells. www.ciranova.com