CISC Semiconductor

CISC Semiconductor GmbH

Company type	Private
Industry	Electronics
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Klagenfurt, Austria
Key people	Dr. Markus Pistauer, CEO
Products	Semiconductors, Automotive, RFID
Website	www.cisc.at

CISC Semiconductor GmbH is a semiconductor company founded in 1999 focused on the automotive branch and radio frequency technology (RFID).

The main office is at the Lakeside Science & Technology Park in Klagenfurt, Austria, near the University of Klagenfurt. A branch office is located in Graz, Austria, enabling a close cooperation with the Graz University of Technology. In the U.S.A the company has a subsidy in Mountain View, California.

History

• CISC Semiconductor Design+Consulting GmbH was founded in 1999 as an R&D focused and 100% privately owned business by CEO Dr. Markus Pistauer in Klagenfurt, Austria.
• Between 2000 and 2002 CISC was part of two international R&D <s: “High Quality Design in Deep Submicron Technology” and “Technology Driven Design and Test”. ^[1]
• In 2002 CISC opened an R&D center in Graz, Austria with the purpose of enabling a closer cooperation with the Institute for Technical Informatics at Graz University of Technology.
• In 2003 CISC Semiconductor expanded its business towards radio frequency identification (RFID) and radio frequency (RF) communication, laying the foundation for its current activity in various standardization processes.
• Getting further into RFID technology, CISC became a member of EPCglobal™ and started participating in RFID standardization work for the first time in 2004.
• In 2004 CISC launched its product SyAD (System Architect Designer) and won an Austrian Innovation and Research Prize Award (Province Carinthia). ^[2]
• Since 2004 CISC has been organized into three business units: Automotive (AT), RFID+RFComm (RF) and Tools+Methodology (TM).
• CISC joined two European R&D projects: “Robust Design for Efficient Use of Nanometer Technologies” (ROBIN) ^[3] and “Wireless Technologies for small area Networks with Embedded Security and Safety” (Witness), ^[4] starting in 2004.
• In 2006 CISC won a special economy prize ^[5] on high innovative products (by Privatstiftung Kärntner Sparkasse, Austria) for its RFID Application and System Design Toolset (CISC RFID ASD Kit+Library), which was brought to the market in the same year, as well as another RF product: The CISC RFID Field Recorder.
• From 2006 onwards, CISC started providing expert training on RFID via the European EPC Competence Center.
• In the year 2007 CISC launched products in all its three business units: AT (Automotive Bus System Lib and Automotive Core Lib), RF (Tag Emulator and MeETS), as well as TM (SyAD V2.0).
• Furthermore, in 2007 CISC and its products were present at four continents: Europe, Asia, Africa and America, further extending the company's export efforts.
• In 2007 CISC joined the Open SystemC initiative and became certified Alliance Partner of National Instruments.
• In January 2007 CISC opened its R&D branch office in Graz, Austria.
• Two new research projects were started in 2008: “SR2 – Short Range Radio” and “TEODACS – Test, Evaluation and Optimization of Dependable Automotive Communication Systems” at the Virtual Vehicle Competence Center. ^[6] Another one followed in 2009: “e3car” via the ENIAC Joint Undertaking, ^[7] which was meant to push the development of hybrid and electrical vehicles.
• In 2010 CISC pushed product development in the business units RF and TM, improving MeETS to achieve measurement sensitivities of UHF RFID tag performance measurements beyond -100dBm ^[8] and releasing SyAD’s 3rd generation – SyAD 2010.
• From 2010 onwards, CISC Semiconductor is official industry partner of the Technical University of Munich joining their RFID AZM (RFID User Center Munich).
• The international research project: “Process Oriented Electronic Control Units for Electric Vehicles Developed on a Multi-System Real-Time Embedded Platform” (POLLUX) ^[9] under the umbrella of ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking ^[10] started in 2010.
• In 2011 the company's name was changed to CISC Semiconductor GmbH, eliminating the phrase “Design+Consulting” to better fit the current field of business.
• In Spring 2012 CISC Semiconductor decided to adapt and change its logo to visualize the development that the company has gone through since its foundation in 1999.
• The Company's new product - RFID Xplorer - was successfully launched in April and presented at the Euro ID trade fair in Berlin.

References

1. TechnoDat Project Profile. CARTENE. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
2. Innovationspreis des Landes Kärnten CISC Semiconductor. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
3. Our History https://www.cisc.at/who-we-are/our-history/
4. Information about the Witness research project. ^{[ permanent dead link ‍]} CISC Semiconductor. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
5. Wirtschaftspreis 2006 CISC Semiconductor. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
6. TEODACS Project Description and Overview Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine .Kompetenzzentrum Das virtuelle Fahrzeug Forschungsgesellschaft GmbH. Retrieved 13 September 2011
7. e3car Project Profile Archived 2012-03-26 at the Wayback Machine . ENIAC Joint Undertaking. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
8. Derbek/Preishuber-Pfluegl/Pistauer/Holtstiege (2010): Method of Receiver Sensitivity Improvement for RFID Measurement and Test Instruments. Cartagena: IEEE, S. 39-42.
9. POLLUX Project Page. Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
10. ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking. Retrieved 13 September 2011.