Sarnoff Europe Reaches Agreement with ETesiAN Semiconductors for TakeCharge® ESD Solutions

GISTEL, BELGIUM (May 11, 2009) – Sarnoff Europe today announced that it has reached an agreement with Israeli Rep company ETesiAN Semiconductor to provide TakeCharge® electrostatic discharge (ESD) solutions in ETesiAN’s fabless semiconductor offerings.

“We partner with world leaders in their domain and Sarnoff Europe perfectly matches that criterion,” said Elie Toledano, CEO of ETesiAN Semiconductor. “By representing Sarnoff Europe in Israel, we add another important element to our portfolio. We intend to offer Sarnoff Europe’s supreme portfolio to our existing customers in Europe via our local presence in France, Germany and the UK.”

Sarnoff Europe provides ESD solutions that are complementary to public, foundry or partner-owned solutions. These silicon proven solutions are available for various process nodes and foundries under the TakeCharge brand name

“We’re excited that we have found a solid business partner to tackle the promising Israeli market,” said Koen Verhaege, executive director of Sarnoff Europe.“This agreement will expand our business by offering professional ESD service to both Israeli start-up and established companies.”

ETesiAN customers can now benefit from low threshold access to silicon-proven design solutions for custom requirements, including low capacitance, low leakage, small area, and high ESD performance. Customers can cost-effectively buy or license the specific cell they need to complete the ESD protection of their IC.

Sarnoff Europe also offers consultancy services based on its extended knowledge of ESD and performs ESD testing via its in-house fully equipped laboratory.

About ETesiAN Semiconductor
ETesiAN Semiconductor is a foundry, IP, EDA and design services Rep company serving as a one stop shop for the semiconductor community in Israel and Europe. ETesiAN’s offering includes advanced foundries manufacturing services, turn key services, IPs, design tools, design services, test development and production, Reliability, Failure analysis, packaging houses and financial VCs support. Having its main office in Israel with local presence in  France Germany and the UK, ETesiAN has Direct and local access to the majority of the fabless, IDM and design service companies in the EMEA semiconductor market.

About Sarnoff Corporation
Sarnoff Corporation (www.sarnoff.com) delivers vision, video and semiconductor technology innovations that empower government and commercial clients to see/sense, understand and control complex environments. Founded in 1942 as RCA Laboratories, Sarnoff makes continuous breakthroughs in real-time video processing for defense, security and surveillance; ICs, lasers, imaging and sensing devices; end to end video solutions. Sarnoff is a subsidiary of SRI International.

About Sarnoff Europe
Sarnoff Europe bvba headquartered in Gistel, Belgium, is a subsidiary company of Sarnoff Corporation. Sarnoff Europe assumes worldwide responsibility for the development and commercialization of Sarnoff’s TakeCharge® on-chip ESD protection IP.

Contact:

For Sarnoff Europe    
Brugse Baan 188 a                            
8470 Gistel, Belgium                            
Tel +32 59 275 915                            
Fax +32 59 275 916                                    

For ETesiAN Semiconductor
POB 203, Aloney Aba
36005,Israel
Tel: +972524209665
Fax: +972774209664
e-mail: e@etesiansemi.com