Gennum Corp., acquired by Semtech in March, 2012, designs, manufactures and markets ICs, modules and thin-film hybrid microcircuit components for a variety of applications in three target markets: video products (analog video processing, serial digital video transmission, video format conversion and image processing for both standard and high definition TV and display applications); hearing instrument products (analog and digital signal processing); data communications (Gennum is developing high-performance ICs for very high-speed serial backplane applications and optical transceivers for future broadband infrastructure data networking equipment).