Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing and sales operations around the world. www.freescale.com.
The company is engaged with more than 18,500 customers globally, has an heritage of innovation and product
leadership, spanning more than 50 years and has an extensive intellectual property portfolio, including approximately 6,100 patent families. At the end of 2011, Freescale had globally 19,000 employees in more than 20 countries and $4.57 billion in revenue.
Freescale Romania is a Research and Development Center of Excellence in Software, with ISO 9001:2000 certification, and currently employs more than 230 engineers and 30 customer support representatives.
Freescale Romania is one of the largest software centers in Freescale worldwide, generating concepts and patentable solutions for technologies that contribute to the development of Freescale's offering on the semiconductor market.
Freescale's priorities in research and development area in Romania include applications for telecomm equipment used in wireless and wire line networking, signal processing for wireless base stations, network security applications, low-power wireless connectivity, ZigBee stack profiles and application profiles, AUTOSAR related development, integrated development tools (debuggers, compilers and Performance Analysis tools) for company's processors. www.freescale.com/romania