sigm industry semiconductor founded 1982 ; 34 years ago 1982 headquarters fremont california united states products system on a chip website sigmadesigns.com sigma designs is an american public corporation that designs and builds high performance system on a chip semiconductor technologies for internet based set top boxes dvd players recorders high definition televisions media processors digital media adapters portable media players and home connectivity products . in addition to platform processing and home network hardware sigma designs also offers engineering support services and customized integrated circuit development . the company develops products for the following connected media platforms iptv video over ip set top boxes tv media players such as blu ray hdtvs multimedia players digital media adapters portable media players and home networking products such as homeplug av homepna and g.hn . sigma designs owns the intellectual property and is one of two chip makers for the z wave home control technology . 1 sigma has alliances with other technology companies including microsoft 2 and their products are found in stand alone full hd multimedia players . 3 4 contents 1 history 2 acquisitions 3 product divisions 3.1 media and video processing 3.2 home av networking 3.3 home control 4 xvid controversy 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit sigma designs was founded in 1982 and is based in fremont california with locations in canada denmark france israel japan netherlands and singapore . in september 2002 sigma designs and thirdspace the broadband tv enablement company announced that they were combining technologies to improve the quality of streaming video solutions over broadband internet protocol ip networks . 5 sigma designs began making boards for computers such as the reelmagic mpeg decoder . 6 its products were used in many of the first blu ray players since 2005 . 7 sigma media processors also have more than ten year history in the iptv market . in late 2007 sigma designs released the first 1080p capable media player chipset the smp863x . it spawned a series of stand alone media players from early 2008 onwards . 3 4 sigma designs products are sold worldwide through a direct sales force and distributors . sigma s common stock publicly traded since 1986 is listed on the nasdaq national market under the symbol sigm . acquisitions edit on february 8 2008 sigma designs completed its acquisition of canadian manufacturer gennum s vxp image processing business . 8 this technology was used in video projectors . in january 2011 sigma announced it was adding the vxp technology to its smp8910 system on a chip . 9 on december 18 2008 sigma designs announced the acquisition of california based zensys a company that provides the wireless mesh networking technology z wave . 10 on october 14 2009 sigma purchased israeli home networking chip maker coppergate for 160 million in cash and stock . 11 coppergate technologies included homepna and homeplug av networking technologies . sigma has since updated homeplug av to include clearpath an award winning technology which significantly increases throughput . 12 on march 21 2012 sigma announced that it has signed an asset purchase agreement to serve as the stalking horse bidder to acquire certain assets of trident microsystems inc. s digital television dtv business which includes certain products licensed intellectual property software and leased facilities for 21 million in cash plus assumption of specified liabilities . 13 product divisions edit sigma designs provides system on a chip soc products to deliver entertainment and control to consumers media and video processing edit on july 9 2010 sigma designs announced its media processors were used by french company free inc. to deliver the first 3d broadcasts of the world cup as well as europe s first ongoing 3d content . 14 sigma designs offers media and video processing technology with the smp8910 and smp8670 processors introduced at the 2011 consumer electronics show . 15 the 2011 technology offered vxp video processing to clean up artifacts and picture quality on high definition and 3d content . although the 8910 chipset was announced at ces january 2011 no implementations of this chipset seemed imminent until september 2012 . in september 2012 syabas demonstrated their new popcorn hour a 400 media player using the 8911 non macromedia version of the 8910 chipset at ifa 2012 and cedia 2012 . it is expected to start shipping november 2012 . http www.anandtech.com show 6235 syabas launches popcorn hour a400 http www.missingremote.com syabas home av networking edit sigma designs av network products include homepna and homeplug av products use existing wires in homes coaxial cable phone lines or ac power lines and deliver as much as 200 mbit s of throughput . these are marketed with what the company calls clearpath technology which avoids noise on typical power lines . 16 as of november 2010 sigma designs shipped more than 20 million homepna chipsets . 17 sigma announced g.hn products in october 2010 claimed to be capable of delivering up to 3 gbit s. 18 these were marketed under the name clearpath extreme . 19 in june 2011 sigma announced an ultra thin set top box reference platform named skini that provides over the top content along with over the air and cable functionality . 20 21 home control edit sigma designs develops and markets the z wave protocol for home control . z wave is a wireless radio frequency communications technology designed for control and status reading applications in residential and light commercial environments . z wave has an alliance and more than 1 500 22 interoperable products in a certification program . on may 23 2011 sigma announced japanese manufacturer mitsumi as a licensed second source for z wave technology . 1 the company secured verizon as a partner with the telecom giant expected to roll out home control and security services through z wave in the fall of 2011 . 23 xvid controversy edit in july 2002 sigma designs released an mpeg 4 video codec called the realmagic mpeg 4 video codec . before long people testing this new codec found that it contained considerable portions of xvid code . sigma designs was contacted and confirmed that a programmer had based realmagic on xvid but assured that all gpl code would be replaced to avoid copyright infringement . when sigma designs released the supposedly rewritten realmagic codec the xvid developers immediately disassembled it and concluded that it still contained xvid code only rearranged in an attempt to disguise its presence . the xvid developers decided to stop work and go public to force sigma designs to respect the terms of the gpl . after articles were published in slashdot 24 and the inquirer 25 in august 2002 sigma designs agreed to publish their source code . 26 see also edit system on a chip g.hn home network media processor iptv home pna homeplug av z wave references edit a b sigma designs licenses mitsumi as second source for z wave technology . news release . marketwire . may 23 2011 . retrieved august 1 2011 . antone gonsalves april 15 2008 . microsoft sigma designs collaborate on set top box technology . informationweek . retrieved august 1 2011 . a b popbox to be the first consumer hd player with stereo 3d support . 3d vision blog . may 28 2010 . retrieved october 12 2011 . a b media player chipsets . website . iboum.com future entertainment technology . retrieved october 12 2011 . sigma designs and thirdspace combine technologies . tired of tiny video try reel magic . retrieved 28 november 2012 . sigma designs is collaborating with pioneer on blu ray . akihabara news . december 13 2005 . retrieved august 1 2011 . darren murph february 14 2008 . sigma designs acquires gennum s vxp image processing business . engadget . retrieved august 1 2011 . sigma designs takes smp8910 media processor to ces 2011 . connected home world . january 4 2011 . retrieved august 1 2011 . david ehrlich december 18 2008 . sigma designs buying smart network chipmaker zensys . gigaom . retrieved august 1 201 . check date values in access date help dean takahashi october 14 2009 . sigma designs buys home networking chip maker coppergate for 160m . venturebeat . retrieved august 1 2011 . sigma designs homeplug av with clearpath wins tv innovation award . news release . december 14 2010 . retrieved august 1 2011 . sigma designs signs agreement to purchase trident s digital television business . news release . march 21 2012 . retrieved march 21 2012 . sigma designs delivers the world cup in 3d . news release . july 9 2010 . retrieved august 1 2011 . richard lawler january 4 2011 . sigma finally brings professional grade vxp video scaling to consumer boxes . engadget . retrieved august 1 2011 . michael weissman september 17 2010 . clearpath technology from sigma designs takes homeplug av to new levels of performance . video from fiber to the home conference . retrieved august 1 2011 . sigma designs ships 20 million homepna chipsets . news release . november 30 2010 . retrieved october 12 2011 . october 25 2010 pdf . news release . sigma designs . retrieved august 1 2011 . sigma designs unveils industry s first g.hn chipset . news release . october 25 2010 . retrieved august 1 2011 . jon healey june 20 2011 . the skini on set top boxes . los angeles times . retrieved august 1 2011 . ganesh t s june 20 2011 . sigma designs skini platform home convergence using hybrid stbs . anandtech . retrieved august 1 2011 . sigma designs releases z wave interoperability layer into the public domain . katie fehrenbacher january 10 2011 . z wave makes headway in home energy via verizon . gigaom . retrieved august 1 2011 . slashdot sigma designs accused of copyright infringement xvid asks sigma to stop copyright breach the inquirer sigma makes source code available for its mpeg 4 video codec archived pdf external links edit official website 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