Snowbush Microelectronics

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Snowbush Microelectronics is one of the world's largest dedicated suppliers of analog integrated circuit design services and customized silicon intellectual property. Snowbush specializes in SerDes for standards such as SATA, PCIe, GPON, SAS, Fibre Channel and XAUI, analog-to-digital converters for 802.11n and MIMO, and high performance analog front ends for wired and wireless commnication systems including Homeplug.

Snowbush was founded by University of Toronto professors David Johns and Ken Martin, as an analog design services company and was incorporated in Toronto, Ontario in December, 1998. In October 2007, Snowbush Microelectronics was acquired by Gennum Corporation and renamed Snowbush IP, a division of Gennum, to reflect its primary focus going forward.

[edit] External links

• Snowbush Microelectronics website
• Gennum Corporation website
• David Johns website at the University of Toronto
• Ken Martin's website at the University of Toronto
• EETimes.com - Gennum acquires Snowbush