GainSpan Licenses Cosmic Circuits IP

Update: Cadence Completes Acquisition of Cosmic Circuits (May 23, 2013)

Bangalore, INDIA and Campbell, California, 28th May, 2012:-Cosmic Circuits, a leading provider of Analog and Mixed-Signal Silicon IP Cores announced that Gainspan,a leader in low power embedded Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi connectivity has licensed Cosmic’s IP for use in its product development.

Cosmic Circuits offers a broad portfolio of differentiated Analog, mixed-signal (AMS) and Connectivity IP cores in nanometer technology nodes. The AMS IPs cover the areas of Data-Converters, Analog-Front-End platforms for Wireless and Audio, Power-Management and Clocking while the Connectivity solutions target the MIPI D-PHY and M-PHY based applications, USB 3.0, USB2.0, PCIe and HDMI.Cosmic Circuits has a portfolio of more than 300+ cores covering process technologies from 0.18u to 28nm.

Sundararajan Krishnan, theDirector of IP Business Unitcommented, “We are very happy to enable GainSpan with our solutions to meet their design requirements. Cosmic Circuits has more than 150 cores available in 65nm and below, many of which have gone through full silicon validation. Millions of ICs are shipped annually with our solutions”

Thai Nguyen, Vice President of Engineering of GainSpan commented that “We needed a partner with a wide-portfolio of Analog and Mixed Signal IP and at the same time flexible tosupport our needs. Flexibility, Customer support and availability of IP across multiple foundries make Cosmic Circuits a valuable partner for GainSpan as we continue our leadership in low power WIFI”

About Cosmic Circuits

Cosmic Circuits is a leading provider of differentiated Analog, Mixed-Signal silicon IP cores and Analog ASICs. Cosmic offers a strong portfolio of 300+ cores in nanometer process nodes of leading foundries. By leveraging its silicon-proven cores spanning data-converters, wireless analog, audio, MIPI, power-management, Clocking, LVDS and Auxiliary functions, Cosmic provides single-stop access to customized IP solutions for mixed-signal SOCs and custom Analog ASIC solutions and brings certainty in time-to-market. Cosmic also has enhanced its IP portfolio by offering connectivity IPs such as USB3, USB2, PCI Express and HDMI. A typical engagement with customer starts with a top level requirement document from customer based on which Cosmic Engineers define all the needed Analog IP and ASICs which will leads to an optimally partitioned analog sub-system. Cosmic Circuits has shipped many million units of ICs in production which are used in end equipment of leading brands. A large team of expert designers continually keep pace with technology nodes, standards and applications, bringing certainty to customer product continuity and differentiation. Adherence to Design-For-Manufacturing, Design-For-Test, a customer-centric approach to support that includes silicon-validation of cosmic solutions, backed by the experience of successfully catering to 50+ world-wide customers, brings certainty to volume production.