Design of Systems on Silicon, officially Diseño de Sistemas en Silicio S.A., (DS2), was a supplier of integrated circuits and software for power line communications. The company was founded in 1998, and went out of business in 2010 after trying to expand into other home network technologies.

Standards

DS2 developed products compliant with the 200 Mbit/s specification developed by the

Universal Powerline Association The Universal Powerline Association (UPA) was a trade association that covered power line communication (PLC) markets and applications. The UPA promoted and certified power line communication technology from 2004 to 2010. History An interest gr ...

(UPA). The products can be used to create a

local area network A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building. By contrast, a wide area network (WAN) not only covers a larger ...

, often called as a home network within a residence using existing electrical power wires. In December 2008, DS2 announced plans to develop the DSS9960 chip, which was to be a dual-mode device interoperable both with the

ITU-T The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three sectors (divisions or units) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). It is responsible for coordinating standards for telecommunications and Information Comm ...

G.hn G.hn is a specification for home networking with data rates up to 2 Gbit/s and operation over four types of legacy wires: telephone wiring, coaxial cables, power lines and plastic optical fiber. A single G.hn semiconductor device is able to n ...

standard and with the UPA specification. The UPA technology had been proposed (but not accepted) into the

IEEE 1901 The IEEE Std 1901-2010 is a standard for high speed (up to 500 Mbit/s at the physical layer) communication devices via electric power lines, often called broadband over power lines (BPL). The standard uses transmission frequencies below 100 ...

standard. DS2 demonstrated their G.hn development at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2010. Prototypes used the three medium types used by G.hn (coax, phoneline, and powerline).

History

DS2 was started in 1998 at the European Innovative Companies Center (CEEI) in the Paterna Technology Park. The company reported $20 million in sales in 2008, compared to $15 million in 2007 and $12 million in 2006. It had over 140 employees in 2008. Jorge Blasco, president and CEO of DS2, was nominated for the

European Inventor of the Year The European Inventor Award(formerly European Inventor of the Year Award, renamed in 2010), are presented annually by the European Patent Office, sometimes supported by the respective Presidency of the Council of the European Union and by the Euro ...

Award. The European Inventor of the Year Award ceremony was held in

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along with the European Patent Forum in April 2010. A video at the

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explains the nomination and the invention. On 5 March 2010, DS2 entered the Spanish equivalent of voluntary chapter 11 bankruptcy (''concurso de acreedores'', in Spanish). On 19 August 2010, Marvell Technology Group announced it acquired the intellectual property and assets of DS2.

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