
Elonics has secured a further $1.1m in investment funding.
The new investment comes as the specialist in CMOS RF ICs is building its international sales operation.
This top–up investment comes from the same investor group involved in Elonics series A funding round for £2.5m ($5m) in February and June 2008.
Key investors include Braveheart Investment Group, Scottish Venture Fund and a number of private investors.
"Early customer feed-back for our first product, the E4000 CMOS RF TV tuner device is very encouraging. In response to demand, we have just opened our first office in Taiwan to service the Greater China Region," said David Srodzinski, chief executive of Elonics.
Livingston-based Elonics has based its RF tuner technology on a patented DigitalTune radio tuner chip technology platform designed in CMOS which brings cost and power benefits.
The digitally programmable multi-band architecture is used in the E4000 tuner family to cover the complete spectrum from VHF 2 to L Band (76MHz to 1.70GHz) for mobile broadcast applications.
It is based on a direct conversion zero IF architecture which is designed to save power and lower system cost. "It eliminates the requirement for expensive and bulky external components such as SAW filters and RF baluns," said Srodzinski.
The Scottish firm is targeting its E4000 TV tuner on mobile phone and home consumer electronics.
“Elonics has a differentiating product in terms of cost, power and performance, and one which has real potential to satisfy market need," said Geoffrey Thomson, chief executive of Braveheart Investment Group.
In September, David Milne, founder of Wolfson, became chairman of Elonics.