Ittiam Systems

Ittiam Systems is singularly focused on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Systems and its mission is to be the world's best DSP Software and Systems Company. It has competencies in multiple end equipment domains, covering Wireless, Wireline, Speech/Audio and Imaging/Video, and capabilities in all aspects of DSP application development, including algorithm development, processor benchmarking and selection, optimized software implementation and reference board design.

Ittiam Systems achieved profitability in its third year of operation and has been ranked as the world’s most preferred DSP IP supplier by Forward Concepts for three successive years in 2004, 2005 and 2006. The company was also a Red Herring 100 Asia Winner in 2005 and the recipient of the NASSCOM India IT Innovation Award in 2006.

Ittiam Systems is headquartered in Bangalore, India, with offices in the US, UK and Taiwan and representation through Authorized Associates in the US, Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Singapore

Microchip

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 55,000 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.

IBM Rational Software

Rational software from IBM helps organizations create business value by improving their software development capability. Rational tools and best practices power the IBM Rational Software Development Platform, the premier platform for teams who build, extend, modernize, integrate, and deploy software in business applications, embedded systems, and software products. This cross-platform solution offers IBM customers and Business Partners an integrated application development environment that is based on open standards, including the universal Eclipse framework. With it, organizations thrive in an on demand world by being more responsive, resilient, and focused. 98 of the Fortune 100 rely on Rational tools to build better software, faster. Additional information is available at www.ibm.com/rational and www.therationaledge.com, the monthly e-zine for the Rational community.

Tektronix

Tektronix, Inc. is a test, measurement and monitoring company providing measurement solutions to the communications, computer and semiconductor industries worldwide. With more than 55 years of experience, Tektronix enables its customers to design, build, deploy and manage next-generation global communications networks and advanced technologies. Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, Tektronix has operations in 19 countries worldwide. Tektronix India is headquartered in Bangalore with a direct presence in other major Indian cities of New Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Tektronix India is responsible for marketing, sales distribution and service support of Tektronix products in the South-Asian markets of India, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Wind River

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).