Northwest Logic Named Best Overall Supplier by ChipStart for 2013

Leading semiconductor IP developer, integrator and aggregator awards its inaugural Partner of the Year Award to a leader in the semiconductor interface market

February 27, 2014 – Beaverton, Oregon and Palo Alto, California - ChipStart LLC, a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (SIP), recently honored Northwest Logic, a global leader in high-performance interface solutions for the semiconductor industry, with its inaugural Partner of the Year award for 2013.

“Northwest Logic was one of our original partners when we launched ChipStart over 5 years ago. During this time, we have proven our value by increasing our partner design starts and revenue year to year. Our focus on ensuring excellence in supply chain management has enabled us to achieve this success”, said Howard Pakosh, President & CEO of ChipStart.

Mr. Pakosh further stated, “We’re pleased to present this inaugural partner of the year award to Northwest Logic. Northwest Logic met the stringent criteria for this award, including delivering top performance IP, helping ChipStart deliver a superior customer experience and achieving consistently high marks as measured by ChipStart’s own supplier rating system. This system measures on-time delivery, price competitiveness, innovation, quality and evidence of contributions to unique and differentiated solutions, adding value to our customers.”

“ChipStart and Northwest Logic work together to identify and build relationships with a variety of customers. They understand the value our products bring to the market and have a deep set of industry contacts. We have had a fruitful collaboration over the last 5 years and look forward to this collaboration continuing in the future,” said Brian Daellenbach, President of Northwest Logic.

ChipStart promotes Northwest Logic’s high performance memory interface solutions (DDR4, DDR3, …) and high-performance PCI Express solutions (PCIe 3.0, DMA, Bridging, …) to system houses and semiconductor communities throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.

About ChipStart

ChipStart is a semiconductor intellectual property solution company based in Palo Alto, California. ChipStart provides sales, marketing, and support engagement solutions for companies that commerce third party semiconductor intellectual property, high quality pre-verified subsystem solutions, and support design services for ASIC and fabless semiconductor companies. ChipStart solutions are used as critical components in communications, consumer and computing products including switches, routers, modems, cellular phones, set-top boxes, HDTVs, DVD players and PCs. For more information, see www.chip-start.com.

About Northwest Logic

Northwest Logic, founded in 1995 and located in Beaverton, Oregon, provides high-performance, silicon-proven, easy-to-use IP cores including high-performance Memory Interface Solution (DDR4/3/2, LPDDR3/2/1, RLDRAM 3/II), Expresso Solution (PCI Express 3.0/2.1/1.1 cores and drivers including DMA support), and MIPI Solution (CSI-2, DSI). These solutions support a full range of platforms including ASICs, Structured ASICs and FPGAs. For additional information, visit www.nwlogic.com or contact info@nwlogic.com.