Founded in 1984 in Silicon Valley, Cirrus Logic is a premier supplier of high-precision analog and digital signal processing components for audio and energy markets. Cirrus Logic excels at developing complex chip designs where feature integration and innovation is a premium. Cirrus Logic has more than 1,000 patents that are key to our more than 700 products serving more than 2,500 end customers globally, through both direct and distributor-based channel sales.
Our products are used in a wide array of consumer applications, including audio/video receivers, portable media players, soundbars, complete home theater systems, set-top boxes, gaming devices, sound cards and digital TVs. Applications for products within professional markets include digital mixing consoles, multitrack digital recorders and effects processors. Applications for products within automotive markets include amplifiers, satellite radio systems and multispeaker car audio systems.
In July 2007, Cirrus Logic bolstered its industrial products segment by acquiring Apex Microtechnology. Based in Tucson, Ariz., Apex has been a leading provider of high-power precision products for industrial and aerospace applications. Apex Precision Power products, which include hybrids, board solutions and integrated circuits, are widely recognized within the industry for superior high-power solutions. Cirrus also provides high-precision analog and mixed-signal ICs for industrial measurement applications, such as industrial process control, analytical instruments, consumer utility, power amplifiers, utility meters and seismic systems. We have more than 125 active proprietary products, including ADCs, DACs, successive approximation register (“SAR”) converters and modulator and amplifiers ICs.
In 2009, the SA306 from Cirrus Logic’s Apex Precision Power™ brand of products received the EDN Magazine Innovation Award for Top Motor Drive IC.
In 2008, Cirrus Logic’s CS5XXX family of industrial A/D converters was a finalist in the analog IC category of EDN Magazine’s annual Innovations Awards. Also, the CS4525 digital amplifier was a finalist among analog ICs in EE Times’ Annual Creative in Electronics (ACE) Awards.
In 2007, Cirrus Logic acquired Tucson, Ariz.-based Apex Microtechnology for $42 million. Founded in 1980, Apex Microtechnology is a leading innovator of integrated circuits, hybrids and modules used in a wide range of industrial and aerospace applications that require high-power precision analog products, such as PWM and power amplifiers. These precision amplifiers are used for driving motors, piezo electrics, programmable power supplies and other devices requiring high power and precision control.
In 2007, Cirrus Logic Fellow John Melanson joined an elite group of innovators when he passed the threshold of achieving 100 patents.
In 2006, Cirrus Logic’s CS3003 op amp IC was named to EDN Magazine’s list of Hot 100 Products. In 2005, Cirrus Logic’s CS495XX family of audio digital signal processors (DSPs) also received this award.
In 2005, Cirrus Logic shipped more than 175 million audio ICs.
In 2004, Cirrus Logic’s CobraNet Silicon Series and Intelligent Room Calibration™ audio software garnered honoree awards from the Consumer Electronics Association’s Innovations 2005 Design and Engineering Awards Program.
In 2004, Cirrus Logic Fellow John Melanson received an Academy Award for his contributions to the field of digital sound editing in motion pictures.
Cirrus Logic was named the global market leader in audio ICs for the fourth consecutive year in 2003 by Forward Concepts, a leading market research firm.
Bill Schnell
Manager, Public Relations
(512) 851-4084
2901 Via Fortuna
Austin, Texas 78746
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