Gennum Corp.

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Gennum Corporation
Type	Public TSX: GND
Founded	1973
Headquarters	Burlington, Ontario
Key people	H. Patrick Thode (Chairman), Franz Fink (President and CEO)
Industry	Semiconductors
Products	semiconductors and semiconductor-based products
Revenue	▲$110 million CAD ^[1]
Employees	390
Subsidiaries	Gennum Japan Kabushiki Kaisha Gennum UK Limited
Website	www.gennum.com

Gennum Corporation (TSX: GND) designs innovative semiconductor solutions and intellectual property (IP) cores for the world’s most advanced consumer connectivity, enterprise, video broadcast and data communications products. Leveraging the company’s proven optical, analog and mixed-signal products and IP, Gennum enables multimedia and data communications products to send and receive information without compromising the signal integrity.

A winner of a Technical Emmy award for advances in high definition (HD) broadcasting, Gennum is headquartered in Burlington, Canada, and has global design, research and development and sales offices in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Germany, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. www.gennum.com

Markets

Video Broadcast - Delivers HDTV components for professional and broadcast video markets. Gennum's award-winning portfolio includes SDI equalizers, reclockers, cable drivers, serializer/deserializers (SERDES), timing and clock conditioning solutions. As a key contributor to the SMPTE, the company continues to pioneer transport technologies that deliver advance the video broadcast market.

Data Communications – Gennum offers a comprehensive suite of backplane interconnect and optical transceiver ICs including laser drivers, equalizers, SERDES, clock and data recovery (CDRs) and transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) for high-speed data communication and telecommunication applications in order to meet increasing demands for a higher bandwidth Internet.

Consumer Connectivity – Gennum offers transmitter and receiver solutions that enable consumers to stream HDMI content, via low-cost cable, at distances that are an order of magnitude greater than previously available cables.

IP - Gennum offers a broad range of IP cores and design services, all of which are developed and licensed in order to reduce the technical risk and time-to-market associated with the analog and mixed signal components of their semiconductor and system-on-chip products. Company IP product offerings include standards-based IP cores, such as PCI Express and SATA PHY macros, multi-standard SerDes, and high-performance, non-standard analog cores, such as high-speed data converters, low-jitter PLLs, and power management circuits.

Milestones: 2006/2007

• First to demonstrate 12Gb/s-SDI over optical
• Introduced world’s first 3Gbps video transmission solution
• Showcased unprecedented 10Gbps SFP+ performance using Gennum’s proprietary clock and data recovery (CDR) solution
• Launched industry’s first multimedia connectivity solution to deliver HDMI/DVI multimedia interface up to 120 metres
• Awarded a technical Emmy for HD digital broadcasting innovation
• Delivered industry’s first HD/SD-SDI serializer with integrated audio multiplexer for “prosumer” applications
• Established new offices in Germany, Korea, Taiwan and the United States