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Cirrus Logic, the Glossary

Cirrus Logic Inc. is an American fabless semiconductor supplier that specializes in analog, mixed-signal, and audio DSP integrated circuits (ICs).^[1]

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1981 establishments in Utah
Electronics companies established in 1981

Agere Systems

Agere Systems, Inc. was an integrated circuit components company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Cirrus Logic and Agere Systems are fabless semiconductor companies.

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AirPods

AirPods are wireless Bluetooth earbuds designed by Apple.

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Alpha compositing

In computer graphics, alpha compositing or alpha blending is the process of combining one image with a background to create the appearance of partial or full transparency.

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Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. Cirrus Logic and Apple Inc. are American brands and companies listed on the Nasdaq.

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Arm Holdings

Arm Holdings plc (formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a British semiconductor and software design company based in Cambridge, England, whose primary business is the design of central processing unit (CPU) cores that implement the ARM architecture family of instruction sets. Cirrus Logic and arm Holdings are companies listed on the Nasdaq and fabless semiconductor companies.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Bilinear interpolation

In mathematics, bilinear interpolation is a method for interpolating functions of two variables (e.g., x and y) using repeated linear interpolation.

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Bit

The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication.

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Bit blit

Bit blit (also written BITBLT, BIT BLT, BitBLT, Bit BLT, Bit Blt etc., which stands for bit block transfer) is a data operation commonly used in computer graphics in which several bitmaps are combined into one using a boolean function.

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Bochs

Bochs (pronounced "box") is a portable IA-32 and x86-64 IBM PC compatible emulator and debugger mostly written in C++ and distributed as free software under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

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Chair (officer)

The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Class-T amplifier

Class T was a registered trademark for a switching (class-D) audio amplifier, used for Tripath's amplifier technologies (patent filed on Jun 20, 1996).

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Corporate spin-off

A corporate spin-off, also known as a spin-out, or starburst or hive-off, is a type of corporate action where a company "splits off" a section as a separate business or creates a second incarnation, even if the first is still active.

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Crystal Semiconductor

Crystal Semiconductor Corporation was an American computer company based in Austin, Texas, and active from 1984 to the early 2000s.

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DigiKey

DigiKey Corporation (formerly written as Digi-Key) is an American company based in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, that distributes electronic components.

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Digital signal processor

A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor chip, with its architecture optimized for the operational needs of digital signal processing.

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Fabless manufacturing

Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing their fabrication (or fab) to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry. Cirrus Logic and Fabless manufacturing are fabless semiconductor companies.

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Gouraud shading

Gouraud shading, named after Henri Gouraud, is an interpolation method used in computer graphics to produce continuous shading of surfaces represented by polygon meshes.

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Graphics card

A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a display device such as a monitor.

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Graphics Device Interface

The Graphics Device Interface (GDI) is a legacy component of Microsoft Windows responsible for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices such as monitors and printers.

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Graphics pipeline

The computer graphics pipeline, also known as the rendering pipeline or graphics pipeline, is a framework within computer graphics that outlines the necessary procedures for transforming a three-dimensional (3D) scene into a two-dimensional (2D) representation on a screen.

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Graphics processing unit

A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles.

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High color

High color graphics is a method of storing image information in a computer's memory such that each pixel is represented by two bytes.

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IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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Industry Standard Architecture

Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) is the 16-bit internal bus of IBM PC/AT and similar computers based on the Intel 80286 and its immediate successors during the 1980s.

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Intel740

The Intel740, or i740 (codenamed Auburn), is a 350 nm graphics processing unit using an AGP interface released by Intel on February 12, 1998.

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Kamran Elahian

Kamran Elahian (کامران الهیان) is an Iranian-American entrepreneur who is the chairman and founder of and advises various governments on the needed transition from fossil-based economies to sustainable innovation economies.

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Magnum Semiconductor

Magnum Semiconductor Inc. was a video compression technology company headquartered in Milpitas, California, and with an engineering branch at Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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Megabyte

The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Cirrus Logic and Microsoft are American brands and companies listed on the Nasdaq.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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MPEG-2

MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information".

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Oak Technology

Oak Technology (OAKT) was an American supplier of semiconductor chips for sound cards, graphics cards and optical storage devices such as CD-ROM, CD-RW and DVD. Cirrus Logic and Oak Technology are graphics hardware companies.

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Peripheral Component Interconnect

Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard.

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Public company

A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets.

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QEMU

QEMU (Quick Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator.

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Rambus

Rambus Inc. is an American technology company that designs, develops and licenses chip interface technologies and architectures that are used in digital electronics products. Cirrus Logic and Rambus are companies in the S&P 400, companies listed on the Nasdaq, fabless semiconductor companies and semiconductor companies of the United States.

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RAMDAC

A Brooktree RAMDAC A RAMDAC (random-access memory digital-to-analog converter) is a combination of three fast digital-to-analog converters (DACs) with a small static random-access memory (SRAM) used in computer graphics display controllers or video cards to store the color palette and to generate the analog signals (usually a voltage amplitude) to drive a color monitor.

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RDRAM

Rambus DRAM (RDRAM), and its successors Concurrent Rambus DRAM (CRDRAM) and Direct Rambus DRAM (DRDRAM), are types of synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) developed by Rambus from the 1990s through to the early 2000s.

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Rockwell International

Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate involved in aircraft, the space industry, defense and commercial electronics, components in the automotive industry, printing presses, avionics and industrial products.

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S&P 400

The S&P MidCap 400 Index, more commonly known as the S&P 400, is a stock market index from S&P Dow Jones Indices.

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S3 Graphics

S3 Graphics, Ltd. (commonly referred to as S3) was an American computer graphics company. Cirrus Logic and S3 Graphics are fabless semiconductor companies, graphics hardware companies and semiconductor companies of the United States.

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Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah.

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Semiconductor industry

The semiconductor industry is the aggregate of companies engaged in the design and fabrication of semiconductors and semiconductor devices, such as transistors and integrated circuits.

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Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation.

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Suhas Patil

Suhas S. Patil (born 1944) is an Indian-American entrepreneur, academic, and venture capitalist.

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Super VGA

Super VGA (SVGA) is a broad term that covers a wide range of computer display standards that extended IBM's VGA specification.

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Texture mapping

Texture mapping is a method for mapping a texture on a computer-generated graphic.

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Trident Microsystems

Trident Microsystems Inc. was a fabless semiconductor company that became in the 1990s a well-known supplier of integrated circuits (commonly called "chips") for video display controllers used in video cards and on motherboards for desktop PCs and laptops. Cirrus Logic and Trident Microsystems are graphics hardware companies.

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

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VESA Local Bus

The VESA Local Bus (usually abbreviated to VL-Bus or VLB) is a short-lived expansion bus introduced during the i486 generation of x86 IBM-compatible personal computers.

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Video Seven

Video Seven, Inc., also typeset as Video-7, later Headland Technology, Inc., was a public American computer hardware company independently active from 1984 to 1989. Cirrus Logic and Video Seven are graphics hardware companies.

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Virata Corporation

Virata Corporation is an inactive acquired company that was a major contributor to the "Cambridge Phenomenon" or Silicon Fen high-tech cluster in the United Kingdom. Cirrus Logic and Virata Corporation are fabless semiconductor companies.

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Western Digital

Western Digital Corporation (WDC, commonly known as Western Digital or WD) is an American computer drive manufacturer and data storage company, headquartered in San Jose, California. Cirrus Logic and Western Digital are American brands and companies listed on the Nasdaq.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Logic

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1981 establishments in Utah

Electronics companies established in 1981

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