Renesas Technology Corp. is one of the world’s leading semiconductor system solutions providers for mobile, automotive and PC/AV (Audio Visual) markets and the world’s No.1 supplier of microcontrollers. It is also a leading provider of LCD Driver ICs, Smart Card microcontrollers, RF-ICs, High Power Amplifiers, Mixed Signal ICs, System-on-Chip (SoC), System-in-Package (SiP) and more. Established in 2003 as a joint venture between Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501, NYSE:HIT) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TSE:6503), Renesas Technology achieved consolidated revenue of 1002.4 billion JPY in FY2004 (end of March 2005). Renesas Technology is based in Tokyo, Japan and has a global network of manufacturing, design and sales operations in around 20 countries with about 26,000 employees worldwide. For more information, log on to www.sg.renesas.com
For 30 years, National Instruments (www.ni.com) has been a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation – a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control and design applications through easy-to-integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI, PCI Express, USB and Ethernet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,900 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past seven years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
Agilent Technologies is the world's premier measurement company. Agilent provides core electronic and bio-analytical measurement tools to advance the electronics, communications, life science research, environmental and petrochemical industries.
About two-thirds of Agilent's revenue was generated from outside of the United States in fiscal 2005. With 19,000 employees, our global presence offers a competitive advantage. Agilent's manufacturing, R&D, sales and support capabilities around the world give customers the flexibility they need in today's competitive environment.
Around the World
Agilent has facilities in about 30 countries and develops products at manufacturing sites in the U.S., China, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and the U.K. Agilent Labs has its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, with additional sites in South Queensferry, Scotland and Beijing, China.
Heritage
Agilent's pioneering spirit was kindled more than 60 years ago, when two engineers - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard - invented the future in their garage. In 1999, Agilent was spun off from Hewlett-Packard Company, and we have continued to support the values so important to the two visionary founders. We have also continued to innovate in territory that matters, blazing trails in the fields that are shaping the modern world.
Identity and Culture
While, physically, we have outgrown HP's garage, we continue to live the values handed down from Bill and Dave: uncompromising integrity; trust, respect and teamwork; and innovation that makes a difference.
Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, providing low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide.The Company offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality.
Microchip serves more than 50,000 customers who are designing high-volume embedded control applications in the consumer, automotive, office automation, communications and industrial control markets worldwide.
The Company offers 8- and 16-bit PIC® microcontrollers, dsPIC® digital signal controllers, analog & interface products, secure data products, memory & microperipheral products and development systems. For more information, visit the Microchip website at www.microchip.com
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). We enable companies to develop and run device software better, faster, at lower cost, and more reliably. Wind River technology is currently deployed in more than 300 million devices worldwide by industry leaders like Apple, Hewlett Packard, Boeing, Motorola, NASA, and Mitsubishi. Wind River Professional Services enable leading electronics vendors like Philips, Siemens, Nortel, and Samsung to design, develop, and deploy innovative products on or ahead of schedule, at or below budget.
DSO is a holistic, enterprise-wide solution to the challenges generated by increasing complexity in developing and running device software. Key tenets of the DSO solution include standardization of technologies and processes across projects, teams, and sites, and the embrace of open standards to provide companies with the broadest possible choice of tools, technologies, and architectures. Wind River’s DSO solution is built on a choice of operating systems, an ecosystem of validated and integrated partner technologies, and expert services and support available around the world, around the clock.
Founded in 1981, Wind River is a publicly held company headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide. Wind River stock is traded on NASDAQ (WIND).
High-Tech with History
Hitex can look back on more than 30 years of company history. Hitex started with the manufacture of emulators for the Z80. Soon, tools for 8051 followed. After the success of the first in-circuit emulators, Hitex began marketing worldwide: the company founded branches in Great Britain, the USA and Asia and is represented by sales partners in all other important regions of the globe.
In 1997, Hitex acquired the development tools branch of Kontron, thereby strengthening its position in the market.
Since the beginning of 2003, Hitex Development Tools belongs to Infineon Technologies AG. This connection guarantees Hitex a solid and secure future. At the same time, Hitex is still acting as an independent company, and able to maintain and extend its existing partnerships with other semiconductor manufacturers.
With a stable position in the market of 8- and 16-bit controllers, Hitex has begun the promising entry in the 32-bit world. Here Hitex has taken into account the rapidly growing popularity and now offers a comprehensive tool range for ARM core microprocessors.
Now, the Hitex product palette includes – in addition to emulators – bus and protocol analysers, as well as software tools! Hitex has invested considerable effort in establishing and expanding the market for embedded software testing tools, and can count on almost all European 1st and 2nd tier suppliers to the automotive industry as its customers. And last but not least, what makes us stand out is our service, support, and the complete product-oriented training programs we offer.
