Agilent delivers technologies, solutions, and services to a wide range of customers in communications, electronics, life sciences, and chemical analysis. It offers solutions across its customers' entire product life cycle from research and development to manufacturing, to installation and management.

Rambus Inc. provides chip and system companies with chip-to-chip interface solutions that enable higher performance and system bandwidth for a broad range of consumer electronic, computing, and networking applications. Rambus interface solutions provide the connection from chip-to-chip, system-to-system, and person-to-person.

BERTScope™ is a registered trademark of SyntheSys Research, Inc., a privately held California corporation founded in 1989 with the mission to develop advanced test instruments for high-speed serial data communications. The BERTScope offers the vision of a scope and the confidence of a BERT. The new BERTScope CR clock recovery instrument pairs with the BERTScope analyzer for complete jitter compliance testing. For further information, call (650) 364-1853 or visit our website www.BERTScope.com.

CST - Computer Simulation Technology develops and markets software tools for the simulation of electromagnetic fields in all frequency bands. The simulators CST MICROWAVE STUDIO®, CST DESIGN STUDIO^TM, CST EM STUDIO^TM and MAFIA 4 have benefited from over 20 years experience in the area of numerical field calculation, and are used worldwide by market leaders such as Lucent, Nokia, Raytheon, RFS, Siemens, and Sony. CST markets its products worldwide through a network of distribution and support centers which also provide comprehensive customer support and training.

As a world-leading semiconductor manufacturer, NEC Electronics provides a competitive advantage with its customer-driven advanced technology solutions that optimizes your needs.

Rambus Inc. provides chip and system companies with chip-to-chip interface solutions that enable higher performance and system bandwidth for a broad range of consumer electronic, computing, and networking applications. Rambus interface solutions provide the connection from chip-to-chip, system-to-system, and person-to-person.

Sigrity provides power and signal integrity analysis tools for integrated circuits (ICs), IC packages, and printed circuit boards (PCBs). Its breakthrough software solutions, based on patented and proprietary technologies, help companies overcome design challenges associated with ever-increasing circuit speed.

Tektronix, Inc. is a test, measurement, and monitoring company providing measurement solutions to the communications, computer, and semiconductor industries. 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 more than 20 countries worldwide. www.tektronix.com

Ansoft, the leading provider of circuit-, system-, and component-level EM simulation software for high-performance RF design, delivers 10X improvements in RF design complexity and design time with the newly released HFSS v10 and Nexxim v3 in a dynamically linked Ansoft Designer environment. HFSS v10 features distributed computing, fault-tolerant geometry processing, and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux v3. Nexxim v3 adds phase noise and time-varying noise analysis, oscillator analysis, native support for Cadence Spectre, model encryption, and load-pull analysis. Ansoft Designer v3 includes a new dynamic link with HFSS and script-based DRC checking.

BERTScope™ is a registered trademark of SyntheSys Research, Inc., a privately held California corporation founded in 1989 with the mission to develop advanced test instruments for high-speed serial data communications. The BERTScope offers the vision of a scope and the confidence of a BERT. The new BERTScope CR clock recovery instrument pairs with the BERTScope analyzer for complete jitter compliance testing. For further information, call (650) 364-1853 or visit our website www.BERTScope.com.

Cinch Connectors is a multinational manufacturer of a broad range of interconnect products. With facilities in North America and Europe, Cinch satisfies the needs of customers the world over. In operation since 1917, Cinch is part of the Safran Group of companies.

Denali Software Inc. is the world's leading provider of engineering design automation (EDA) tools and intellectual property (IP) solutions for chip interface design, integration, and verification. Its Databahn™ IP products offer fully configurable controllers for Flash, DRAM, and hard-disk drives. Dataplex™ is an integrated subsystem of Databahn IP cores that provides optimal dataflow from external memory and storage to system designs. Denali's PureSpec™ and MMAV™ verification IP support all complex interfaces, including DRAM, Flash, PCI Express, ASI, AMBA, USB, Ethernet, CE-ATA, and serial ATA. Denali's Blueprint product is an ESL product for on-chip register design and management.

Fujitsu Microelectronics America provides high-quality, reliable semiconductor products and services for the networking (metro, enterprise, access and wireless), automotive, consumer, industrial, security and other markets throughout the Americas.

To meet customer requirements of the complexities of deep sub-100nm process technology and compressed time-to-market schedules, Fujitsu has developed an Integrated Device Manufacturing business model. IDM provides specific services - ranging from flexible design methodologies to a comprehensive set of IPs - as part of development alliances tailored to customer needs.

MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS) is a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer and business applications. The company drives the broadest architectural alliance that is delivering 32- and 64-bit embedded RISC solutions. The company licenses its intellectual property to semiconductor companies, ASIC developers, and system OEMs. MIPS Technologies and its licensees offer the widest range of robust, scalable processors in standard, custom, semi-custom, and application-specific products. The company is based in Mountain View, California, and can be reached at +1-650-567-5000 or www.mips.com.

Rambus Inc. provides chip and system companies with chip-to-chip interface solutions that enable higher performance and system bandwidth for a broad range of consumer electronic, computing, and networking applications. Rambus interface solutions provide the connection from chip-to-chip, system-to-system, and person-to-person.

Samtec manufactures board-level interfaces. Its worldwide revenue in 2004 was greater than $235 million. Samtec is a QS-9000 registered company with ISO 14001 and TS 16949 certifications in process. Samtec provides "sudden service" with high-speed/high-density, micro, rugged/power, RF, and I/O connectors and cable assemblies; one- to three-day lead times; its Signal Integrity group; and its Sudden Information and Connector Wizard Web sites. Samtec has 17 locations worldwide.

System Design Frontier Journal, published by Hardware Software World, a monthly technical publication with exclusive coverage of both IC design and software engineering. www.hwswworld.com

Xilinx leads one of the fastest growing segments of the semiconductor industry - Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) - with over 50 percent market share. PLDs represent an exciting growth potential in the chip market thanks to their flexible nature and ability to change functionality even after being manufactured. Named 2004 Product of the Year by Electronic Products Magazine, Xilinx Virtex™-4 FPGAs deliver more options, higher performance and lower power than any other FPGA family available today.

Agilent delivers technologies, solutions, and services to a wide range of customers in communications, electronics, life sciences, and chemical analysis. It offers solutions across its customers' entire product life cycle from research and development to manufacturing, to installation and management.

Rambus Inc. provides chip and system companies with chip-to-chip interface solutions that enable higher performance and system bandwidth for a broad range of consumer electronic, computing, and networking applications. Rambus interface solutions provide the connection from chip-to-chip, system-to-system, and person-to-person.

Samtec manufactures board-level interfaces. Its worldwide revenue in 2004 was greater than $235 million. Samtec is a QS-9000 registered company with ISO 14001 and TS 16949 certifications in process. Samtec provides "sudden service" with high-speed/high-density, micro, rugged/power, RF, and I/O connectors and cable assemblies; one- to three-day lead times; its Signal Integrity group; and its Sudden Information and Connector Wizard Web sites. Samtec has 17 locations worldwide.

Reed Electronics Group is the electronics industry's largest global information provider, making information work for both buyers and sellers around the world. Reed Electronics Group is the only industry resource structured to meet the information needs of the global electronics product development process-all the way from need identification through research, concept development, design development, purchasing, and manufacturing and test to distribution. In addition to providing electronics industry engineers and managers with critical market information, Reed's global sales and marketing team works closely with electronics industry marketers to develop personalized and unique integrated marketing solutions. Reed Electronics Group helps its customers identify, target, and communicate with their key audiences on a global, regional, or local basis, and take full advantage of its worldwide network of database, publishing, electronic/Web, research, and event development resources. For more information, visit www.reed-electronics.com.

Virtual Press Office is a leading on-line news management company offering innovative services to facilitate the communications process between high-tech firms and the media. Information is centralized under one roof to ensure that journalists, analysts, and industry consultants have the fastest and easiest access to the latest press releases, company backgrounders, white papers, and graphics from the world's premier high-tech companies. In addition to accessing thousands of new press releases posted to the virtualpressoffice.com Web site each day, VPO members may customize an e-mail delivery service to meet specific news-gathering requirements. Documents are retrieved either via standard industry categories or personalized keyword searches and delivered straight to the inbox at regular intervals.

Cayenne Communications is a consulting company specializing in strategic, integrated corporate and marketing communications for emerging technology companies. For more information, see www.cayennecom.com.

Chip Design, Chip Design Resource Catalog, EDA Nation and www.chipdesignmag.com provide design engineers and managers with the tools, technologies, methodologies, news and analysis they need to create more complex designs with increased performance and greater capabilities. To subscribe, visit www.chipdesignmag.com.

When we say that Circuit Cellar is by engineers, for engineers, we don't mean just the content of the magazine. Because Circuit Cellar has always been a community affair, we often implement ideas based on reader feedback and several of the products and services that you'll find here have been influenced by input from readers. So, whether you're looking for a particular back issue, the entire collection of Circuit Cellar on CD-ROM, or just a way to renew your subscription online, you'll find it all here, as recommended by engineers like yourself. For more information, visit http://www.circuitcellar.com

Reaching over 33,000 engineers, designers, researchers, purchasing agents, and corporate and technical managers worldwide who are the key decision makers who buy specify, and/or recommend connector and interconnections products, Connector Specifier is a shopper, where suppliers and distributors present the latest in manufacturing and test equipment, materials, and connector and interconnection components technology. For more information visit cs.pennnet.com

ConnectorSupplier.com, a bimonthly e-newsletter and Web site, is the source of communication between the worldwide connector suppliers and their customers. CS.com provides the OEM buyer and engineer with information that includes technology updates, new products, industry news, industry facts and figures, a supplier-product matrix, a price and lead time index, and in-depth profiles of connector manufacturers. The Web site expands on this coverage and also includes the most extensive industry links to distribution, contract manufacturers, and associations that are the electronics industry. Plan your year with the event calendar of trade shows, conferences, and seminars that keep you in touch with your peers around the world. The subscription is free to industry professionals; visit www.connectorsupplier.com

Focused on technology, business, and industry events since 1999, PCB007 has published more than 14,000 news articles for the industry, making it the industry's most comprehensive electronic news magazine. News and information, columns, and exclusive interviews are published in real-time. PCB007 is itself a technology leader, also offering readers and advertisers information in audio and video formats. With circulation divided between Europe, North America, and Asia and with more than 100,000 visits per month, PCB007 is your best and most comprehensive industry resource. Sign up for the daily e-newsletter at www.PCB007.com.

Portable Design magazine, a business-to-business publication, is 100% focused to the design and development challenges of portable, handheld, mobile, and wireless devices. Portable Design offers monthly publications in North America and China, e-news North America, e-news Asia, interactive web site and design contests. For more information please visit pd.pennnet.com

Accellera's mission is to drive worldwide development and use of standards required by systems, semiconductor and design tools companies, which enhance a language-based design automation process. Its Board of Directors guides all the operations and activities of the organization and is comprised of representatives from ASIC manufacturers, systems companies and design tool vendors.

The IBIS Open Forum is the industry organization responsible for the management of the IBIS specification. The Open Forum meets every three weeks by teleconference. Membership is open to all interested companies. The Open Forum also holds IBIS summits several times per year around the world, to give its members an opportunity to meet face-to-face and exchange technical information and elect officers. Summit announcements and presentations are posted on IBIS's Web site; summit activities are also financed through member dues and sponsorships. For more information, visit www.eigroup.org/IBIS.

The mission of Ethernet Alliance is to promote industry awareness, acceptance, and advancement of technology and products based on existing and emerging IEEE 802 Ethernet standards and their management. Ethernet Alliance will provide resources to establish and demonstrate multivendor interoperability of IEEE 802 Ethernet products and their management. The Alliance is open to all constituencies and stakeholders of IEEE 802 Ethernet. For IT professionals, Ethernet Alliance members work toward equipment interoperability across vendors. Component and system vendors gain efficient product development and decreased time to market. To learn more about the benefits of membership and what it means to be a member of Ethernet Alliance, visit www.ethernetalliance.org.

MEPTEC (Microelectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council) is a trade association of over 600 semiconductor suppliers, manufacturers and individuals committed to enhancing the competitiveness of the back-end portion of the semiconductor business. MEPTEC is concerned exclusively with assembly, packaging and test issues and is dedicated to the advancement of that segment of the industry. For more information visit www.meptec.org.

The mission of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is to foster the development and deployment of interoperable products and services for data switching and routing using optical networking technologies. The OIF will encourage cooperation among telecom industry participants, including equipment manufacturers, telecom service providers, and end users; promote global development of optical internetworking products; promote nationwide and worldwide compatibility and interoperability; encourage input to appropriate national and international standards bodies; and identify, select, and augment as appropriate and publish optical internetworking specifications drawn from national and international standards. For more information, visit www.oiforum.org.

The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) is an independent not-for-profit organization composed of a broad range of companies, universities, and individuals dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC as an open-source standard for system-level design. OSCI is committed to fostering the rapid growth of a global community of system, semiconductor, IP, embedded software, and EDA companies. Each of these groups benefits from the availability of innovative new system-level design solutions based on SystemC. Semiconductor companies and systems companies use SystemC for design and verification. EDA vendors use SystemC as a platform upon which to create interoperable tools. IP vendors use SystemC as a way of delivering high-performance interoperable models of their hardware blocks at various levels of abstraction. For more information, visit http://www.systemc.org.

Si2 is a not-for-profit organization of industry-leading semiconductor and EDA tool companies focused on improving productivity and reducing cost in creating and producing integrated silicon systems. We believe that through collaborative efforts, the industry can achieve higher levels of systems-on-silicon integration while reducing the cost and complexity of integrating future design systems. Si2 represents members throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information visit www.si2.org

The SPIRIT (Structure for Packaging, Integrating, and Reusing IP within Tool Flows) Consortium comprises a group of companies dedicated to the adoption of a unified set of standards for importing complex IP bundles into system on chip (SoC) design tool sets. SPIRIT members are focused on delivering two standards: an IP meta-data description that will enable companies to efficiently integrate industry-available IP with SPIRIT-compliant tools and an IP tool plug-in API, which will enable a more flexible, optimized development environment. The Consortium is composed of leading EDA, IP, system, and semiconductor companies, including steering committee members ARM, Cadence Design Systems Inc., Mentor Graphics, Royal Philips Electronics, STMicroelectronics, and Synopsys, Inc. For more information on the SPIRIT Consortium and its goals, please visit www.spiritconsortium.org.

The VSI Alliance (VSIA) is an open, international organization that includes representatives from all segments of the SoC industry: System houses, Semiconductor vendors, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) companies, and Intellectual Property (IP) providers. VSIA's mission is to dramatically enhance the productivity of the SoC design community by providing leading-edge commercial and technical solutions and insight into the development, integration, and reuse of IP. For more information, visit the VSIA web site at www.vsi.org or email to info@vsi.org