cambridge uk 2002 with a round funding 2002 with a round funding headquarters cambridge united kingdom number of locations taipei taiwan 2007 shenzhen china 2008 hong kong 2011 products power management ics website camsemi.com cambridge semiconductor limited camsemi is a fabless semiconductor business based in cambridge england that was acquired by us based competitor power integrations inc. in january 2015 . 1 the company specializes in power management integrated circuits and was spun out of cambridge university in august 2000 with seed investment from the cambridge university challenge fund as a commercial venture arising out of the research conducted by professors gehan amarantunga and florin udrea at the cambridge university engineering department . 2 camsemi is developing a range of new ics for use in power conversion products such as mains power supplies and lighting . the company s products are enabling power supply manufacturers to develop low cost products that comply with energy star the european code of conduct and related energy efficiency regulations . all camsemi products are based on a proprietary portfolio of technologies and topologies including advanced control architectures rdfc and powerbrane . the company s venture capital investors included dfj esprit scottish equity partners and cleantech investors the carbon trust and nes partners . contents 1 launched products 2 development milestones 3 references 4 external links launched products edit c2470 mixed signal controllers and rdfc resonant discontinuous forward converter topology for switched mode power supplies smps c2140 c2150 c2183 and c2283 primary side sensing pss flyback controllers for smps c2160 and c2170 pss flyback controller families targeting 5 star rated mobile phone chargers with 30 mw no load c5183 pss flyback controller with active start up for smps c3120 c3183 and c3682 led drivers ics for solid state lighting development milestones edit sales and application design centre in neihu district taipei . 2002 camsemi secured series a funding led by 3i to raise 6.1 million . 2004 announced powerbrane a new technology to integrate igbts and controllers onto the same die . 3 2007 launched rdfc controller family 4 company announcement . opened sales office and application design centre in taiwan . 2008 closed series c funding to raise 34 million ; 5 6 introduced first primary side sensing controllers 7 and named start up of the year by national microelectronics institute company announcement 2009 named as university spin out of the year in new energy awards 8 company announcement launched c2160 family of pss controllers to help manufacturers develop power supplies with 30 mw no load power 2011 awarded business weekly s east of england international trade award 9 company announcement 2012 listed in 29th position in 2012 sunday times hiscox tech track 100 report . 10 also company announcement 2013 awarded nmi low power design innovation award for c2172 pss controller with features to reduce no load power consumption . 11 also company announcement references edit 1 profile gehan amaratunga cambridge semiconductor how to spinout from university udrea f. trajkovic t. and amaratunga g.a.j. 2004 . high voltage devices a milestone concept in power ics . electron devices meeting 2004 . iedm technical digest . ieee international . pages 451 454 . peter clarke camsemi unveils power supply control ic . eetimes europe 8 oct 2007 . page 1 . also eetimes website . checked 14 jun 2009 . camsemi signs second clean technology investor in c round extension powerpulse.net 21 may 2008 . checked 14 jun 2009 . peter purton uk pumps funding into camsemi . 24 oct 2007 . red herring.com . checked 14 jun 2009 . steve bush novel design lifts power efficiency . electronics weekly 5 dec 2008 . page 5 barber m. time for a change . business xl apr 2009 . pages 22 26 . also growth business . checked 14 jun 2009 . international trade award for camsemi . business weekly 24 31 march 2011 . also 2 checked 16 sept 2011 . camsemi energy saving chip developer fasttrack.co.uk website checked 24 sept 2012 . kate sweeney camsemi innovation is rewarded business weekly website checked 29 nov 2013 . external links edit camsemi retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cambridge semiconductor limited & oldid 650924582 categories fabless semiconductor companiescompanies based in cambridge3i group companieshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 march 2015 at 17 03 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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