Integrated Silicon Systems Ltd. (ISS) is a leading supplier of application-specific virtual components (ASVCs) - semiconductor "IP cores" - for multimedia and communications system-on-a-chip (SOC) and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and programmable logic devices (FPGA, CPLD, PLD).
Using proprietary techniques for direct-mapped implementations of digital signal processing functions and algorithms in hardware, ISS delivers solutions for wireless and wired communications, digital video and dital imaging applications that realize 10X to 1000X improvements in performance compared to conventional implementations using software-programmable DSP microprocessors.

Prime:		Design
Subsidiary:		Consulting
Employees:		<40

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	PLD		FPGA		Masked ASIC
	Microcontroller		Other

Image compression (JPEG), Forward Error Correction (FEC: Reed Solomon, Viterbi), channel coding (eg, ADPCM), digital filtering (FIR, IIR) and transforms (DCT, FFT), etc.

PC Based:	YES	Other:	YES
Details:	Synopsys, Cadence, Model Tech, and programmable logic design tools for devices from Altera, Lucent, Quicklogic and Xilinx.