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| ABOUT COMPANY |
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| Founded in 1996, Palmchip Corporation is a privately held venture funded company headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. Palmchip’s offshore arm, Palmchip Pakistan Pvt. Limited has offices in Lahore and Islamabad. Palmchip offers outsourced software and hardware design services to its clients in US, Europe and worldwide. Palmchip is also a leader in the development and licensing of Market Specific Standard Platform (MSSP), a System-on-a-Chip software and hardware technology. More than 30 consumer products on the market today use our patented CoreFrame® IP Palmchip’s technology in PDAs, mobile phones, wireless modems, digital cameras, Bluetooth, Digital Media Adapters, home gateways, smartcards, DVD players, optical networking equipment, print servers, Network Attached Storage, HDD and FDD devices. |
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| Our Customers |
| Palmchip has more than 80 customers and the list is rapidly growing. Following is a sampling of our customers |
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- Actel Corporation
- Adaptec
- Advance Micro Devices
- Altera Corporation
- ARM Ltd
- Atmel Corporation
- Broadcom
- Cadence Design Systems
- Calix Networks
- Dialogic corporation
- Electronics For Imaging
- eSilicon Corporation
- Faraday Technology Corporation
- Flextronics Corporation
- Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc.
- GE Fanuc Embedded Systems
- Hewlett Packard
- IBM
- LSI Logic Corporation
- Lucent Technologies, Inc.
- Maxtor Corporation
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- inSilicon
- Seagate Technology LLC
- MediaWorks Integrated Systems, Inc.
- Mentor Graphics Corp.
- Quantum Corporation
- Motorola Smartcard
- NuCore Technology, Inc.
- Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd.
- Philips Semiconductors, Inc.
- FreeScale Semiconductor
- Proxim Corporation
- Ralink Technology Corp.
- Samsung
- STMicroelectronics, Inc.
- Telogy Networks
- Texas Instruments
- Thompson Consumer Electronics
- Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.
- Xircom
- Clarity Telecom
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| Our People |
| Palmchip’s management team has many years of experience in senior leadership positions in Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley startups. Palmchip distinguishes itself by the quality of its engineering talent. Products of some of the most well-regarded institutions in the world such as UCLA, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania and some of the top schools in the Indo-Pak subcontinent, our engineers have accumulated experience working with major US companies and leading startups in their fields. Our people come from companies such as Intel, Sun Microsystems, Quantum, UniSys, Hitachi, Oracle, Qwest Communications, Veraz Networks, FirstData and Nationwide Financials. This distinguishes Palmchip from many providers of offshore design services and ensures that our clients experience a work culture with which they feel at home. |
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| Target Market |
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- Technology companies seeking to license Palmchip’s SoC IP
- Companies developing software or hardware based products requiring outsourcing of design, development and testing
- Telecom carriers requiring system integration and custom software or hardware
- Banks and financial institutions requiring securing of online transactions
- Enterprises requiring communication solutions and Web based applications
- Surveillance, entry and exit control of parking areas, buildings and campuses
- Call centers requiring call recorders, IP PBXs and other communication solutions
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| Outsourced Software and Hardware Design Services |
Palmchip offers optimal distribution of work between onshore and offshore resources to achieve top quality deliverables in a highly cost-effective manner within aggressive delivery timeframes. Palmchip has built a successful track record in its design services practice and includes leading Silicon Valley startups and Fortune 500 companies among its clients. |
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| Agile Development with Excellent Quality |
| Our extensive experience in working with Silicon Valley startups and Fortune 500 companies has given us deep appreciation of the importance of agility without compromising quality. Our startup clients find us in tune with their drive to reach the market quickly and benefit from our best practices for outsourced development to ensure that speed does not compromise quality. |
| Our Fortune 500 clients appreciate our readiness to conform to their defined processes, augmented wherever needed by Palmchip’s best practices. |
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| Software Areas of Expertise |
Palmchip has expertise in a broad spectrum of software technology and skill areas. These include:
- Embedded systems development and systems programming
- Networking and distributed systems
- Mobile and handheld applications
- Microsoft .NET based n-tiered applications
- Java/J2EE based n-tiered applications
- Web 2.0 applications
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
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Palmchip specializes in the following application domains:
- Security
- Storage
- VoIP and Multimedia Networking
- Telecom Applications and OSS
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| Hardware Areas of Expertise |
| Palmchip’s hardware design expertise ranges from SoC IP to board and system level design. Our areas of expertise include: |
- ARM System-on-Chip Design
- MIPS System-on-Chip Design
- Wireless Chip Design
- Mobile Phone Design
- Network Attached Storage
- VoIP Board Design
- Security Chip Design
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- Embedded Controller Design
- Flash Disk Design
- Hard Disk Drive Design
- Telecom System Design
- PC Board Design
- FPGA System Design
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| Products & Technologies |
| Palmchip offers several products and technologies in both hardware and software. These include: |
- CoreFrame Architecture
- System on Chip Platform
- Security Cores AES, HASH
- Memory Subsystem DDR2
- 8051 CPU Core
- UART, SPI, I2C, PCI
- Network Attached Storage SDK
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- Telephony Card
- VoIP PBX
- VoIP Recording Appliance
- Video Codec
- Parking Area Safety and Theft Protection
- Biometric Access Control
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| Alliances |
| Palmchip has formed the following alliances with hardware and software technology providers: |
- Faraday SoC Services Alliance
- Monta Vista Linux Software
- Microsoft Development Partner
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