Chipidea
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Chipidea is since 2007 a fully integrated division, and a brand, of US-based company MIPS Technologies. It was a Portuguese analog semiconductor IP design center, headquarterd in Oeiras, Greater Lisbon subregion, and had been founded in 1997.
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In 1997 Chipidea Microelectronica S.A. was founded as the first Portuguese Analog semiconductor IP design center. The company evolved into a broadline, one-stop-shop supplier of high performance Analog and Mixed-Signal IP on leading edge manufacturing processes.
From basic building blocks to complete systems, Chipidea's IP portfolio included ADCs, DACs, PLLs and Synthesizers, Baseband Transmit and Receive Ports, RF front-ends, Analog and Digital Filters, Oversampling Modulators and Codec Analog Front-Ends, DC-DC Converters, Regulators, Digital Transceivers, Line Drivers and other Physical Interfaces. Chipidea's application drivers were in Communications, Multimedia and Consumer Electronics Applications.
Throughout its existence, Chipidea experienced robust growth and continuous profitability making it one of the world's leading, independent suppliers of analog and mixed-signal IP. Chipidea become the working place for almost 300 people involved in IP research and development, CAD and technology support and test and characterization. They were located at the main building in Oeiras, Lisbon, as well as in other sites: Maia - Porto, Portugal; Gdansk, Poland; Leuven, Belgium; Macau; Suzhou, China; Caen, France and Trondheim, Norway. Sales and marketing offices are located in the USA, Europe and Asia.
On February 2007 Chipidea acquired Nordic Semiconductor ASA's Data Conversion business unit, thus strengthening the company's offer in Analog IP.
In late August 2007 Chipidea was acquired by US based company MIPS Technologies Inc.. As a consequence of this, Chipidea became a newly-formed business group inside MIPS Technologies, yet keeping its Portuguese workforce and facilities, as well as its complete product portfolio that continues to be sold under the Chipidea brand.
