Dolphin Integration SA, Cortus SA and Raisonance SA have formed a partnership related to the cores of price-sensitive high-performance SoC chips.  The trip hopes to make the design and use of these cores more painless in price-sensitive electronic products.

Montpellier-based Cortus S.A. is a privately owned French company developing compact, ultra low power 32-bit RISC processors for embedded applications. Its soft core IPs come with a set of peripherals and a customized version of the GNU C and C++ compiler and tool chain running on Linux, Windows XP and many Unix varieties. The company is based in Montpellier, France with offices in Redwood City, Calif.

Founded in 1988, Raisonance S.A. is based near Grenoble in the French Alps. The company is a specialist developer of tools for microcontrollers and SoCs.  Its range of tools cover C Compilers to real-time emulators.

Dolphin Integration, which calls itself "the enabler of mixed-signal systems-on-chip, was founded in 1985 with venture capital, as an independent custom IC design house.  The company specializes in embedded memory, microcontrollers and audio core IPs.  The company also offers custom IC design along with fab supply management, as well as some specialized EDA software.  The current fiscal year sales which ended September 30, 2007 were about $16 million.  The firm's headquarters are located in Meylan, France with satellites in Duisburg, Germany and Laval, Quebec, Canada.

• Dolphin targets the following market segments:
• Original equipment makers (OEMs) for electronic systems,
• Integrated device makers (IDMs) for ICs
• Fabless suppliers of ICs
• Silicon foundries delivering silicon wafers or IC's, third-party integrators for SoCs
• other providers of silicon intellectual property (SIPs)

Contact:
Michel Depeyrot, executive chairman, Dolphin Integration, myd@dolphin.fr, www.dolphin.fr