Virage Logic Corporation provides semiconductor intellectual property (IP) platforms based on memory, logic, and input/output interface components (I/Os) primarily in the United States. Its various forms of IPs are used in the design and manufacture of system-on-a-chip integrated circuits for communications and networking, and handheld and portable devices, as well as computer, graphics, automotive, and defense applications. The company’s semiconductor IP offerings consist of embedded memories; compilers that allows chip designers to configure its memories into different sizes and shapes on a single silicon chip; IP and development infrastructure for embedded test and repair of on-chip memory instances; software development tools that can be used to build memory compilers; embedded nonvolatile memory instances; logic cell libraries; I/Os; and DDR memory controller components. Virage Logic also provides custom design services to the semiconductor industry. The company sells its products and services directly and through distributors to fabless semiconductor companies, integrated device manufacturers, and third-party foundries. It operates in Taiwan, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Virage Logic has strategic commercial relationships with semiconductor foundries, such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company; Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing; Dongbu HiTek, Ltd.; Grace Semiconductor; HeJian; IBM Corporation; MagnaChip; SilTerra Malaysia Sdn. Dhd.; Silicon Manufacturing International Corporation; Tower Semiconductor, Ltd.; and United Microelectronics Company. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Fremont, California.