PLX Technology, Inc. (PLX) is engaged in designing, developing, manufacturing, and selling integrated circuits that perform critical system connectivity functions. The Company markets its products to customers that sell electronic systems in the enterprise, consumer, server, storage, communications, personal computer (PC) peripheral and embedded markets. PLX also provides a range of connectivity bridges that allow systems that conform to different standards communicate with each other, and to enable customer field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) with non-standard interfaces to connect up to the mainstream interconnects. PLX offers a solution consisting of semiconductor devices, software development kits, hardware design kits, software drivers and firmware solutions. In July 2012, Entropic Communications Inc. acquired specific direct broadcast satellite intellectual property and corresponding technologies from the Company.