Dallas Semiconductor Corporation. The Company designs, manufactures and markets electronic chips and chip-based sub-systems. The company develops high performance complementary metal oxide silicon integrated circuits and semiconductor based systems that provide innovative and cost-effective solutions to electronic design problems. Products of the company include communications protocols required for transmitting multiple channels, network computing products and mixed signal products to process information. Mixed signal accounted for 63% of 2000 revenues; communications, 20% and i-wire & network computing, 17%.