Founded in 1985, the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS has achieved worldwide recognition for development of the MP3 audio coding method and decisive contributions to the MPEG AAC standard.
Frontier Silicon works closely with the Fraunhofer Institute, and uses several of its codecs in Frontier Silicon products.
Fraunhofer IIS provides research services on a contract basis and licenses technology in the areas of audio and video source coding, multimedia real-time systems, digital radio broadcasting and digital cinema systems, integrated circuits and sensor systems, design automation, wireless, wired and optical networks, localization and navigation, imaging systems and nanofocus X-ray technology, high-speed cameras, medical sensor solutions, and communications technology in transport and logistics.
Its budget of 58 million Euro is financed primarily by projects from industry and public institutions, with less than 20 percent subsidized by state and federal funds.
