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Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (Nasdaq: SLAB) is a mixed signal fabless semiconductor company based in Austin, Texas.

The company was founded in 1996 by three veterans from the former Crystal Semiconductor – Nav Sooch, Dave Welland and Jeff Scott[citation needed]. The company's CEO is Necip Sayiner[1]. Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ: SLAB) designs mixed-signal ICs[2].

The company has three main product business lines:

  • Wireline - led by Carlos Garcia[3]
  • Broadcast - led by David Bresemann
  • Microcontrollers or MCU - led by Mark Thompson[citation needed].

Silicon Laboratories has about 725 employees worldwide and research and development offices located throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. Silicon Labs' customers include Samsung, Sony, LG, and Thomson.

Microcontrollers (MCUs)

With the acquisition of Cygnal Integrated Products, Silicon Laboratories marked their entry into the multi-billion dollar general-purpose analog and MCU markets. Silicon Labs’ 8-bit MCUs are based on a patented implementation of the 8051 instruction set architecture that is ‘hard wired’ implementation of the 8051 microcontroller CPU, as opposed to the original micro-coded version. The instruction set is mapped to a basic two-stage pipeline to increase throughput while maintaining an 8-bit program memory width.[4]

Acquisitions

  • 2003 December, Silicon Labs acquired Cygnal Integrated Products, an Austin-based innovator of analog-intensive, highly integrated 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs).
  • 2007-02-08, NXP Semiconductors announced that it is to acquire Silicon Labs' Cellular Communications Business. [5]
  • 2010, Silicon Laboratories announced acquisition of limrick based 'ChipSensors' in an all-cash deal understood to be worth about €10 million.[6]

References

  1. ^ https://www.silabs.com/about/Pages/Management.aspx
  2. ^ https://www.silabs.com/about/Pages/default.aspx
  3. ^ https://www.silabs.com/about/Pages/Management.aspx
  4. ^ 8051 Microcontroller
  5. ^ NXP Semiconductors
  6. ^ "Silicon Laboratories buys Limerick chip sensor company in cash deal". Irish Times. 15 October 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
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