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Cologne Chip

Cologne Chip is a German semiconductor manufacturer offering telecommunications ICs, IP, and FPGAs, known for its GateMate FPGA family.

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Overview

Cologne Chip AG is a semiconductor manufacturer that offers telecommunications ICs, intellectual property (IP) as well as FPGAs. The GateMate FPGA family sets a new standard for small to mid-size FPGAs. The company has a history of more than 25 years and is 'Made in Germany'.

History

Cologne Chip AG is a semiconductor manufacturer that offers telecommunications ICs, intellectual property (IP) as well as FPGAs. The GateMate FPGA family sets a new standard for small to mid-size FPGAs. Since Cologne Chip AG can look back on a company history of more than 25 years, its customers benefit with GateMate FPGAs from an excellent industry knowledge and a design and manufacturing location 'Made in Germany'. In 1994 a group of German electronic engineers founds Cologne Chip Designs with the objective to develop and manufacture the ASICs required for ISDN equipment. Already two years later, Cologne Chip Designs attains the technological leadership with the world's first single-chip solution for ISDN add-on cards for Internet access: the 'HFC-S'. This chip development is succeeded by a series of innovations for PC applications: 1997 the first single-chip solution for PCMCIA, 1998 for PCI and 2000 for USB. By the end of 1998, the successful start-up exports its feature-rich ISDN transceivers Designed in Germany to over 20 countries in the world, among them China, Taiwan and the U.S. The following years, Cologne Chip Designs exceeds all expectations by a yearly growth rate of about 100% and millions of sold chips. Due to the continuous success, Cologne Chip Designs becomes a limited company by shares in May 2000 under the new firm Cologne Chip AG. The company gains additional strength by a significantly increased share capital. As a result of customer driven development, new chip families with additional line interface technologies are successfully launched on the market between 2002 and 2006: Now ICs with Primary Rate and ISDN Up0/UpN interfaces are available besides ICs for Basic R…

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