SiliconGate Awarded First Prize at IP-SOC 2011

“The Best Paper Award goes to SiliconGate for its Incredible Work on Power Management IP”

Lisbon, Portugal, December 12, 2011 – SILICONGATE LDA, a specialized supplier of Power Management IP for ASIC/SoC, announced that It received the Best Paper Award at IP-SOC 2011 for its high performance Power Management IP. SiliconGate brought to the exhibition two of its high performance IPs, allowing conference participants to see the performance and to change the test setup conditions.

The two IPs presented were the SGC67 buck DC/DC, with below 0.5 µs transient response time, and the SCG21510 32 kHz crystal oscillator for RTC, consuming under 25 nA.

"It was incredibly rewarding to come to IP-SOC 2011 and show our IP. For this type of performance you need to see it to believe it. Once we showed it, the positive feedback was immediate.” said Floriberto Lima, CEO of SiliconGate. "Currently our clients are high-end chip manufacturers, but I expect that given de advantages of using high performance IP, smaller external devices, improved robustness and better overall system performance, the use of high performance power management IP will spread quickly. The Best Paper Award was the cherry on top of the cake at the end of two very rewarding conference days.”

“D&R is delighted to see the ongoing innovation from new dynamic IP providers of its community. Such a contribution make us believe in a bright future of the IP business as a catalyst of the whole Electronic System Industry development» added Gabriele Saucier CEO of D&R .

SiliconGate set up at IP-SOC 2011 for monitor and test of IP cores

About SiliconGate

SILICONGATE LDA, a specialized supplier of High Performance Power Management IP for ASIC/SoC, supplying the global electronics market with intellectual property (IP) used in semiconductor design. SiliconGate's IP solutions address the key Power Management challenges faced by designers today, such as efficiency, power consumption, total solution area, system verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading IP solutions help give SiliconGate’s customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. SiliconGate is headquartered in Portugal. (http://www.silicongate.com)