As of February 3, 2004, Cicada Semiconductor, Inc. was acquired by Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. Cicada Semiconductor Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets digital signal processors (DSPs) and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for the communications industry. The company offers local area network (LAN) ICs, wide area network (WAN) ICs, Internet access, and physical layer solutions. It offers transceivers and advanced system-on-chip solutions for gigabit Ethernet and T3/E3 and DSL transceivers and chipsets. Cicada was founded in 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas.
