SAN FRANCISCO, March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- CMP Technology's Electronics Group today announced the seven companies participating in the Disruption Zone, a forum for electronics companies to showcase their latest innovations in technology. Making its West Coast debut at Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley (http://www.embedded.com/esc/sv/dzone/) at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, April 1-5, 2007, the Disruption Zone will feature start-ups seeking to forever change the embedded systems industry.

"The Disruption Zone is the ideal forum for Encirq to gain visibility with investors and key industry thought leaders," commented Jan Liband, director of marketing for Encirq. "It also provides an excellent way for the largest gathering of the best and brightest brains in the engineering community to take note of breakthrough technologies."

The forum consists of a specially created exhibition area on the ESC Silicon Valley trade show floor, along with an exclusive, invitation-only breakfast for industry influencers -- venture capitalists, analysts and media. The companies participating in the first-ever ESC SV Disruption Zone include:

-- eASIC Corporation (http://www.easic.com/) has developed a breakthrough technology allowing electronic designers to significantly cut costs, shorten turnaround time and achieve high performance while using conventional design flow and standard manufacturing process. -- Encirq (http://www.encirq.com/) delivers DeviceSQL, a breakthrough software technology that radically simplifies and shortens application development while enabling engineers to optimize how data is processed and managed in their designs. -- Quickfilter Technologies (http://www.quickfiltertech.com/) has a family of mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for signal conditioning and digital signal processing / filtering for sensor based applications including industrial control and monitoring, medical patient monitoring and diagnostic equipment, wireless sensor networks, and many more. -- Innovative Silicon (http://www.innovativesilicon.com/) develops and licenses innovative memory technology for SoC/MPU applications. -- TimeSys (http://www.timesys.com/) empowers "roll-your-own" developers to rapidly and efficiently create their own commercial-grade custom Linux platform. The continuously updated components, information and systems offered through LinuxLink subscriptions are aggregated from the open source community, semiconductor manufacturers -- Sidense (http://www.sidense.com/) designs and develops the future of field-programmable, high density and secure, non-volatile memories using deep sub-micron Logic CMOS technologies. -- StackableUSB (http://www.stackableusb.com/) maintains the point-to-point connections and star topology required by USB and at the same time allows the connections to be routed up the stack to the next peripheral in line. The result is a rugged, industrial system using USB protocol.

"The Disruption Zone is unlike any other industry event, since it only focuses on truly revolutionary technologies," said David Blaza, publisher of Embedded System Design. "We look forward to hosting this innovative set of companies, and look forward to continued achievements from them in the future."

For more information, please contact David Blaza, publisher of Embedded System Design at (415) 947-6929 or dblaza@cmp.com for more information.

About the CMP Technology Electronics Group

The CMP Technology Electronics Group is the premier technology and business media brand serving the information needs of the creators of technology worldwide. Offering a full suite of products and services to reach electronics technology professionals throughout the world, the CMP Technology Electronics Group delivers the most targeted audience and actionable information to marketers in the electronics technology community. Each month, the CMP Technology Electronics Group delivers more than 1 million copies of its print publications, including EE Times, to subscribers in more than 23 countries and online visitors from 100 countries view more than 8 million pages on its Web sites in seven languages including EETimes.com and TechOnline. More than 40,000 decision makers attend its Embedded Systems Conferences each year in Boston, Silicon Valley, China and Taiwan.

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