SiliconIndia and Mentor Graphics presents Leadership Award to Cosmic Circuits

Recognized for outstanding contribution in driving the Semiconductor Industry

Bangalore, India and Campbell, California, 14th December 2010: Cosmic Circuits, a leading provider of differentiated Analog & Mixed Signal IP cores, today announced that it received the leadership award in the category of Best VLSI/ Embedded Design Startup from SiliconIndia and Mentor Graphics. The leadership awards recognize the contribution of various companies/individuals in driving the semiconductor industry.

Speaking about the awards, Walden C. Rhines, CEO & Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mentor Graphics said, “This award will inspire future leaders to tread a path of success and triumph. It will celebrate the success stories and honor companies/ individuals who have transformed stumbling blocks into stepping stones driven by their passion, determination and undying spirit of entrepreneurship. The award will salute the business leaders of tomorrow within the Embedded/ VLSI industry”.

Harvi Sachar, Founder & CEO, SiliconIndia said, “Being a media company focused on technology & business, over the last decade we have been regularly talking to corporate leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals in the semiconductor industry. We have brought out several stories on how India has evolved in this space and profiled companies/ individuals contributing to this ecosystem. The awards that we have instituted is one more step in our endeavor to strengthen the ecosystem by recognizing companies/ individuals who have made it happen”.

The winners of these prestigious awards were chosen by a panel of jury consisting of eminent leaders; Guru Ganeshan, Managing Director, ARM-India Operations; Vivek Sharma, Vice-President Asia Pacific & India Operation, Director India Research Centers, STMicroelectronics; Srini Rajam, Chairman and CEO, Ittiam Systems; Dr. Satyanarayan Gupta, CEO, Concept2Silicon Systems; Pravin Desale, Vice President, Milpitas CA (Storage Components Division), LSI; Santhanakrishnan Raman, Managing Director, LSI India R&D and Rajiv Kapur, Managing Director, Broadcom India.

“We are pleased to have been awarded the leadership award in the category of Best VLSI/ Embedded Design Startup and consider this recognition for our efforts and contribution in the semiconductor industry.” said Ganapathy Subramaniam, CEO of Cosmic Circuits.

About Cosmic Circuits:

Cosmic Circuits is a leading provider of differentiated Analog and Mixed-Signal silicon IP cores. Cosmic offers a strong portfolio of 250+ cores in nanometer process nodes of leading foundries. By leveraging its silicon-proven cores spanning data-converters, wireless analog, audio, MIPI, power-management, Clocking, LVDS and Auxiliary functions, Cosmic provides single-stop access to customized IP solutions, bringing certainty in time-to-market with mixed-signal SOCs. A large team of expert designers continually keep pace with technology nodes, standards and applications, bringing certainty to customer product continuity and differentiation. Adherence to Design-For-Manufacturing, Design-For-Test, a customer-centric approach to support that includes silicon-validation of Cosmic IP in customer SOC, backed by the experience of successfully catering to 50+ world-wide customers, brings certainty to volume production.