Analogue semiconductor designer Anadigm has secured GBP10 million of second-round funding led by 3i, with co-investment from Quester and NIF

Analogue semiconductor designer Anadigm has secured GBP10 million of second round funding led by 3i, with co-investment from Quester and NIF. The investment will provide the joint European and USA company with the capital to develop its organisation following the successful launch of its first field programmable analogue silicon, and the establishment of a global distribution network.

This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 March 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company has developed a novel technology which addresses a critical issue for the electronics industry, as the demand for analogue circuitry design skills to deal with increasingly complex products is fast outstripping supply.

Anadigm's technology recreates the functionality of analogue components - such as resistors, capacitors, amplifiers and so on - on a single user-definable chip called a field-programmable analogue array (FPAA).

Using software, engineers simply 'drag-and-drop' the analogue function blocks they need into place, and with the click of a button the configuration data is downloaded to the FPAA - producing the required solution.

"We have already built our core team and delivered commercial silicon to customers", says Anadigm's CEO Mike Kay.

"This large funding injection gives us the working capital to develop our organisation fully for international commercial operations, and to implement the next phases of our strategy".