Q-Tran manufactures electronic components, such as toroidal transformers and power supply centers, for low-voltage lighting fixtures. It also makes ballasts, power units, lighting power supplies, and low-voltage power supplies. The company was established in 1993 and is owned by its officers. Founder and CEO John Tremaine started the business after entering his family's lighting business more than two decades earlier, establishing his own lighting design practice in 1980, and opening a lighting showroom in 1985.

Electrocomponents company's group of RS Components subsidiaries sells some 450,000 electronic, electrical, mechanical, and health and safety components, products, and tools. Through its well-known "RS Components" and "Radiospares" catalogs and CD-ROMs, dozens of Web sites, and trade counters (which offer free technical help), Electrocomponents reaches more than 1.6 million engineers and other customers worldwide. The company also offers same-day order processing, account management, and customized delivery services.

Silicon Laboratories Inc. company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Silicon Laboratories Inc. engages in the design and development of analog-intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs). It offers broadcast products, which include broadcast radio receivers and transmitters, video tuners and demodulators, satellite set-top box receivers, and satellite radio tuners; access products that comprise ISOmodem embedded modems, voice over IP products, and power over ethernet devices; broad-based products, including 8-bit microcontroller products, timing products, short-range wireless transceivers, isolators, current sensors and QuickSense portfolio of touch, and proximity and ambient light sensing devices; and mature products comprising silicon DAA for PC modems, DSL analog front end ICs, optical physical layer transceivers, and RF synthesizers. Silicon Laboratories company's products are used in a range of applications, including portable devices, satellite set top boxes, AM/FM radios and other consumer electronics, networking equipment, test and measurement equipment, industrial monitoring and control, central office telephone equipment, and customer premises equipment. Silicon Laboratories markets its products directly, as well as through a network of independent sales representatives, and distributors in the United States, Taiwan, China, South Korea, and the rest of world.

HunterLab's overall objective is to provide the most effective instruments and services available for the identification, measurement and control of the way things look. With over 55 years of experience, we are able to apply state-of-the-art technology to our systems to ensure their suitability for "real world applications." These systems are application driven and are geared to making the user's product measurement job simple, straightforward and successful. HunterLab instruments are used in a wide variety of industries including building material, chemical, food, paint, paper, pharmaceutical, plastic, textile and many others.HunterLab is an employee-owned, ISO 9001:2000 registered, U.S. company. Each of us has a stake in the company's future. As a result, our corporate philosophy is focused on total customer satisfaction. We are a global company that provides worldwide support through local representation in more than 65 countries. In fact, more than 50% of our business is from international markets.

Shell Hydrogen knows that you can fuel some of the people some of the time -- with alternative fuels. Founded in 1999, the company, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, promotes and markets the use of fuel cells as an alternative power source. Shell Hydrogen works in conjunction with partners such as General Motors (developing fuel cells for automobiles), California Fuel Cell Partnership (developing fuel cell technologies) and QuestAir Technologies (hydrogen purification).

Digital radio and Internet radio are the new frontier in radio technology, and Frontier Silicon is there with digital audio broadcast (DAB) semiconductors. Founded in 2001, the company designs chips for use in digital radios and mobile TV receivers. Frontier offers stand-alone chips and its Venice DAB modules for integration into various products. Its customer base includes such global bigwigs as Hitachi, Philips, Sharp, and Sony. Frontier Silicon has offices in China, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, the UK, and the US. Its key shareholders include ACT Venture Capital, Alta Berkeley, Apax Partners, BlueRun Ventures, Imagination Technologies, and Mitsui Private Equity.

Xelic was established in 2002 by several chip industry veterans to provide engineering services in the design of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and printed circuit boards. The company also offers intellectual property (IP) cores used in the design of networking products. Customers include Delphi, Lightwaves Systems, National Semiconductor, Qtera Corp. (acquired by Nortel Networks), and Xerox. Xelic is owned by its management team.

Somfy designs, produces, and markets automatic controls and motors for awnings, roller shutters, and interior blinds. Applications for Somfy's motors and control systems range from small home set-ups to industrial networks for large office buildings. Somfy's awnings can be operated via a remote control or automatically with the wind and solar control function, depending on weather conditions. Europe is by far the company's largest geographical segment, representing about 85% of sales. The family of management board chairman Paul-Georges Despature holds the majority of Somfy's shares and its voting rights through J.P.J. SCA.

ICx Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries engage in the development and integration of sensor technologies for homeland security, force protection, and commercial applications. The company operates through three segments: Detection, Surveillance, and Solutions. The Detection segment develops products, and conducts research and development in the areas of chemical, biological, radiation, nuclear, and explosives detection. Its products include Fido explosive detectors, IdentiFINDER and Interceptor radiation detectors, AirSentinel bioaerosol sensors, and cheMSense 600 line of products. The Surveillance segment provides products and services for perimeter security and wide area surveillance. Its products include Cerberus and SkyWatch towers; thermal imaging cameras, including DefendIR and Orion; and STS line of radar products. The Solutions segment integrates the company's technologies and products to provide single source solutions that address various customer specific security and surveillance needs. It designs, develops, and deploys security operating systems and video networking systems. This segment offers StarWatch software security operating systems, Cameleon video integration and command software, and PureActiv surveillance systems, as well as CohesionIF, an adaptable sensors integration framework; and SceneAnalyzer designed to transform basic surveillance cameras into intelligent sensors using advanced digital signal processing. The company sells its products through direct sales force, sales representatives, value added resellers, and system integrators to federal, state, and local government customers, as well as to the U.S. military, foreign militaries, and private sector businesses in the United States and internationally. ICx Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

Trident Microsystems, Inc. company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Trident) designs, develops and markets integrated circuits (ICs) for digital media applications, such as digital television and liquid crystal display (LCD). The Company’s system-on-a-chip (SoC), semiconductors provide the intelligence for these types of displays by processing and optimizing video and computer graphic signals to produce high-quality and realistic images. Trident’s discrete products include frame rate converter (FRC), demodulator (DRX) and audio decoder products. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009 (fiscal 2009), the digital media segment accounted for all of its revenues. In February 2010, the Company acquired NXP Semiconductor's television systems and set-top box business lines.

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