Chameleon Systems

Chameleon Systems is a privately held fabless semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. Since its founding in 1997, the company has been dedicated to designing, marketing, and selling programmable system-on-a-chip solutions for the communications electronics market. Their flagship product, the reconfigurable communications processor (RCP), has gained attention for its versatility in data-intensive Internet applications, DSP, wireless base stations, voice compression, and software-defined radio. This technology has attracted notable attention, leading to a $47.00M Series C investment on 05 February 2001, attracting support from various investors including Convergence Partners, Information Technology Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures, WK Technology Fund, Merrill Lynch, Dain Rauscher Wessels, GTG Ventures, Synopsys, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and Piper Jaffray. Chameleon Systems' RCP solution offers a significant value proposition, empowering data and telecom equipment vendors to create customized communications signal processors that enhance performance and channel capacity. This flexibility allows for swift adaptation to new requirements and standards, essential for the rapidly evolving communications industry. Notably, the reconfigurable nature of the processors has the potential to shorten time-to-market, lower development costs, and minimize risk for vendors. With a focus on high-performance embedded telecom and datacom uses, Chameleon Systems is poised to play a significant role in shaping the future of communications technology.