Exar Corporation designs, develops, and markets high performance analog mixed-signal integrated circuits and sub-system solutions for the industrial and embedded systems, high-end consumer, and infrastructure markets worldwide. The company offers connectivity products, including bridging products for bus interfaces, such as universal serial bus, Ethernet, and peripheral interconnect express, as well as universal asynchronous receiver/transmitters and serial transceiver devices. It also provides power management components; low voltage AC step drivers that are used in LED lighting applications; flat panel displays; and communications products for the transmission of digital data. In addition, the company offers instrumentation, low noise, high speed, and hybrid amplifiers; and high speed analog-to-digital converters and digital-to-analog converters. Further, it provides integrated semiconductors, board level products, and system solutions that enable original equipment manufacturers to develop high performance computing, storage, and networking equipment; and chip- and board-level solutions for various surveillance products. The company sells its products through direct sales force, independent sales representatives, non-exclusive distributors, and catalog distributors; and distributors and manufacturers representatives. Exar Corporation was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.