Handshake Solutions is a Line of Business within the Philips Technology Incubator, a program committed to turning promising technologies into successful business entities. As a dynamic organization, Handshake Solutions is dedicated to developing innovative IC design solutions that meet changing market needs. We are the first to offer a highly disciplined methodology for designing self-timed circuitry that allows commercial exploitation of some of the key benefits of clockless technology – low power consumption, low electromagnetic emissions and low ground bounce. What’s more, our self-timed designs are easily integrated into complete systems.

A brief history

Handshake Solutions started life as a Philips Research project in 1986. Once the project reached maturity, Handshake Solutions was set up as an internal department to offer the design technology and a full design service to customers within Philips. Over the last ten years we have worked with Philips Semiconductors (now NXP Semiconductors) to solve difficult yet important issues such as Design-for-Test and prototyping, tailoring the methodology to a commercial IC design environment and bringing numerous successful products to market. Now, with the launch of the Handshake Solutions as a dedicated Line of Business we are offering our technology, expertise and services to the wider IC design community.

 

Philips Technology Incubator

The Philips Technology Incubator creates new businesses based on world-class technologies invented by Philips Corporate Research & Development. It identifies opportunities and helps research teams transform their projects into successful businesses. The formation of business structures around these promising technologies allows a faster take-up by customers and strategic partners. It also creates an excellent opportunity to establish strategic partnerships with leading companies in relevant markets.


The Technology Incubator only invests in new business initiatives with staff and technologies originating from Philips' Corporate laboratories. It does not invest in external ventures.