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eASIC

eASIC® is a fabless semiconductor company offering breakthrough NEW ASIC devices that significantly reduce the overall cost of ownership and time to production of customized silicon devices. Through employing a unique combination of FPGA like logic (look up tables) and a single via for routing, eASIC enables customers to develop NEW ASICs with low up-front costs, and deliver of tested prototypes in only 5 weeks from tape out. The NEW ASIC is offered awith a broad portfolio of soft IP including among many others Tensilica Diamond Cores, H.264, DDR2, PCI Express (Gen1 and Gen2), SATA, Fiber Channel and Ethernet MAC.

While the customization technology is innovative and protected by broad patents, the design implementation and device fabrication are performed using conventional electronic design flow and standard manufacturing processes.

The market for custom chips has traditionally been dominated by two technologies, namely FPGAs and standard cell ASICs.

FPGAs provide very low start up costs making them the platform of choice for many prototyping applications. SRAM FPGAs in particular, have gained the lion’s share of the overall market. Packed with SRAM cells and abundant routing, FPGAs provide the designer with a reprogrammable architecture that is well suited for development. However, the silicon overhead required for reprogrammability can be as much as 80% of the overall die size, thereby adding significantly to the device cost and power consumption of the device. Once prototyping is completed designers have sought to move to lower cost solutions such as standard cell ASICs.

Standard cell ASICs utilize two-input NAND gates as the fundamental building blocks. This, coupled with the ability for designers to customize all mask layers makes standard cell the preferred solution for very high volume applications. However, a number of factors have contributed to the rapid demise in the number of standard cell ASIC design starts over the last 10 years. These factors include: exponentially rising mask costs, high priced EDA tools, lengthy design cycles, long manufacturing cycles, expensive sub-micron design expertise and unpredictable ROI. These factors have combined to limit the use of standard cells for all but the highest volume market applications.

eASIC’s innovative architecture delivers a NEW generation of ASIC technology (dubbed NEW ASIC) that makes silicon customization for the masses affordable once more. By replacing SRAM based routing with a scheme that utilizes a single Via provides significant die size reduction over comparable density FPGAs. This in turn results in cost and power savings for designers. The single Via approach also significantly reduces up-front development cost, design and manufacturing time compared to standard cell ASICs. A single via layer requires much less time to validate and manufacture than an all layer standard cell design. With eASIC, designers also need not be concerned with many arduous tasks such as test insertion, clock balancing, ATPG, LVS/DRC, signal integrity analysis, power droop mesh design, tasks that are mandatory for standard cell ASIC design.

eASIC devices are being successfully used by customers all over the world in applications that span from wireless infrastructure to consumer handheld devices. eASIC NEW ASICs are fast becoming the preferred silicon customization solution for production volumes up to approximately one million units per year (depending on application).

Regen Energy

REGEN understands that escalating electricity costs and reliability have become increasingly critical issues facing consumers and grid operators alike. Consumers are looking for effective retrofit techniques to reduce energy costs but few practical solutions exist.

We realized early on that existing energy efficiency technologies and services are too inconvenient, too complex and too expensive, with high up-front costs, multi-year payback scenarios, and extensive ongoing effort to maintain.

REGEN is a Toronto based company that was founded in 2005 with the goal of automating electrical demand management using a patented approach that is affordable, easy to use, effective, and does not sacrifice occupant comfort. In 2005 the initial REGEN prototype was designed and trialed with various academic institutions; the results exceeded the expectations of REGEN’s engineers.

REGEN provides commercial, industrial, institutional, and multi-unit residential facilities with the ability to reduce their electrical demand charges by at least 25-30% using a practical, cost effective approach!

In 2007, REGEN commercially launched the REGEN Demand Management Controller using Toronto Hydro as its first facility. Today REGEN works with a network of resellers and engineering consulting firms to deliver industry leading solutions for demand management and demand response across Canada and the United States.

REGEN truly enables customers to plug into green savings!

Streamlogics

Streamlogics is a leading global provider of webcasting applications and services to more than 500 enterprises, government agencies and associations.
For almost a decade, Streamlogics has been a trusted provider of integrated webcasting and media portal solutions for businesses throughout North America and Europe. Hundreds of leading organizations including Research in Motion, Fidelity Investments, Barclay’s Global Investors, Hoffman LaRoche, and the World Trade Organization (WTO), along with many others, depend on Streamlogics to deliver their mission-critical web events and provide streaming media solutions.

The organization also supports a wide range of resellers. Successful members of the StreamPartner program include telecommunication firms, conferencing service providers, staging and production companies and interactive agencies.

Streamlogics’ service offerings include webcasting , web conferencing , portal development and streaming media hosting. Since its inception, our organization has successfully provisioned thousands of online presentations and has established a solid reputation for delivering unparalleled service levels and product excellence.

Founded in 1999, Streamlogics is majority-owned by the senior management team. The head office and international broadcast operations facility is located in Toronto, Canada supported by regional sales offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Nashville Tennessee.

RedWolf Security

In late 2005, John and Paul Sop were walking the RSA security conference floor, when a sweeping realization hit us: despite massive investments in security infrastructures, few organizations were confident that their overall security systems and programs could actually protect them against today’s real threats

Our first prototype was developed in 2006; it was used to test the security of a large number of internal and external organizations. The prototype simulated many types of security policy violations, many of the simplest kind. The results we found were shocking – of the 25 critical networks we tested, all but two were blind to even gross security violations that occurred from the inside. Despite spending millions on security infrastructures, these organizations were not properly protected. Even more of a surprise was that the vast majority of violations were easy and inexpensive to fix. All that was needed, was knowing what to block

The results sparked a research project that stretched for two years, finding out exactly how today’s security infrastructures fared when presented with inside-out threats. Or focus was on understanding how they ‘failed’, and on discovering innovative ways to mitigate these threats cost-effectively. When we decided to begin commercialization, our goals were simple:

◦Create a product that lets you truly prove your security effectiveness
◦Make it easy to use (no reason for it to be low-level or l/hard)
◦Produce GREAT reports (we hired a small army of CISA, CISM, CISSP’s, to load it with recommendations & research)
◦Simulate today’s real threats on your own networks safely (we modeled real behaviors and simulate convincing confidential data)<
Most importantly, we wanted the product to raise the bar in security testing from ‘element based security’, using tools like VA Scanners, or Pen-Test, where the object is determining ‘how secure an IP address is’, to system-effectiveness testing, where it is ‘THREAT vs. the SYSTEM’. Everyone’s security systems are different, but the threats are the same.

Enter 2008, and our first commercial release. We hope you appreciate our vision, and the spirit behind the product, and find the product enjoyable to use and useful in your security assessment efforts.

Signalink

Signalink designs, manufactures and sells networking technology that uses a building’s existing electrical wiring as its backbone. The products solve the lack of communication typical in buildings that prevent them from implementing energy management and modernizing infrastructure. Including fire detection and alarms, HVAC controls, lighting controls, presence detection, security monitoring and medical device monitoring.

Signalink’s true differentiator lies not in a particular product but in the comprehensive platform that delivers control of a building’s core infrastructure and systems. This cohesive platform allows the company to “capture” an entire building and sell a full range of products with minimal incremental cost to the building owner beyond new hardware.

By partnering with key service providers, energy management in the building can be extended to grid based Demand/Response, to reach loads never before accessible in more than 8 million buildings. Reducing energy in large number of buildings by up to 30% means millions of tons of green house gases never get produced. And the buildings save on energy cost and even get paid to shed load during peak demand.

The Company has spent two years field testing its designs and currently has 150+ installations of its initial product, Fire-Link®. The Company has developed several patents related to its networking technology and has an ongoing patent initiative with the goal of securing technological ownership of the low bandwidth powerline networking space.