Palmchip

Palmchip corporation is a technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company is best known for its system on chip platforms, although it also designs, licenses and sells software.

History

The Company was founded in 1996 as 'Palmchip Corporation'. The word 'Palm' in 'Palmchip' is an acroynm for "(integrated) Processor, Analog (interface), Logic, and Memory".

The Company's Silicon Valley offices were opened in 1996 while its Colorado, Boston, and Austin offices opened in 1998. Palmchip Corporation also has offices in Lahore, Pakistan.

Palmchip Corporation holds at least 6 patents in the area of System-on-Chip. More precisely, the company holds the following patents:

1-Design tool for systems-on-a-chip.(US Patent number 7124376)

2-On-the-fly error detection and correction buffer processor.(US Patent number 5978954)

3-Chip-core framework for systems-on-a-chip.(US Patent number 6601126)

4-Unidirectional bus architecture for SoC applications.(US Patent number 7062587)

5-Integrated circuit including interrupt controller with shared preamble execution and global-disable control bit.(US Patent number 6917997)

6-System-resource router.(US Patent number 6769046)

Operations

The company has offices and design centers in a few places outside the silicon valley, including Santa Clara, California; Austin, Texas; Loveland, Colorado; Lahore, Pakistan; and Islamabad, Pakistan A characteristic feature of Palmchip platforms is their low electric power consumption and high performance, which makes them particularly suitable for use in portable devices. Palmchip platforms are used in mobile phones, including some articles manufactured by Panasonic and Motorola and many others. Palmchip platforms are also used extensively in current DVD players.