Our story starts over 20 years ago when a small team of entrepreneurial engineers formed TTPCom. We built this into the largest provider of intellectual property in the cellular world and built a reputation for supplying world class semiconductor designs and software to many of the largest companies in the field. As a consequence of the consolidation in our industry our company was acquired by Motorola in 2006 and eventually we found ourselves in a position to build a new business that would address the needs of the industry in the next decade.

We realised that a technology shift is occurring as increasing complexity of the air interface meets the growing power of the next generation of processor technology. We decided to build a business around a component we call the software defined modem. Our search for the processor technology for this led us to ARM who were addressing this opportunity from the silicon perspective – we were approaching from the software and tools side. We agreed jointly that the best way to bring our visions together was under one roof and in October 2009 ARM transferred its Vector Signal Processor technology and the core engineering team to Cognovo in return for an equity stake.

We are excited about the future of our technology and so it seems are many others in the industry. Our aim is to be the best technical solution. Our licensing model will ensure that we are also the most accessible.