Aeluros Inc was a semiconductor company developing

integrated circuit An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Large numbers of tiny ...

s for wireline communications - for

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operating at 10 Gigabits per second. The company was founded in 2001, and produced

physical layer In the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking, the physical layer or layer 1 is the first and lowest layer; The layer most closely associated with the physical connection between devices. This layer may be implemented by a PHY chip. The ...

ICs used in 10GE line cards and optical modules (such as XENPAK,

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XFP The XFP (10 gigabit small form-factor pluggable) is a standard for transceivers for high-speed computer network and telecommunication links that use optical fiber. It was defined by an industry group in 2002, along with its interface to other e ...

). Aeluros was the first to produce a XAUI transceiver dissipating less than 1

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of power, a transceiver that can drive directly a 10 Gbit/s

VCSEL The vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, or VCSEL , is a type of semiconductor laser diode with laser beam emission perpendicular from the top surface, contrary to conventional edge-emitting semiconductor lasers (also ''in-plane'' lasers) which ...

, and a transceiver with integrated Electronic Dispersion Compensation for 10GE using Multi-mode optical fiber. Aeluros merged with

NetLogic Microsystems NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. was a fabless semiconductor company that developed high performance products for data center, enterprise, wireless and wireline infrastructure networks. The company was founded in 1995 by Norman Godinho and Varad Srin ...

in October 2007 in a deal exceeding $70M.{{cite web, url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20071024006246/en/NetLogic-Microsystems-Acquire-Aeluros-Leading-Provider-Low-Power/, title=NetLogic Microsystems to Acquire Aeluros, Inc., a Leading Provider of Low-Power 10-Gigabit Interface Technologies and Products Netlogic Microsystems was subsequently acquired by Broadcom in February 2012 for $3.7B.

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Manufacturing companies established in 2001 Electronics companies of the United States Companies based in Mountain View, California Companies established in 2001 2001 establishments in California