Easics was founded in Leuven, Belgium, in July 1991 by Dirk Callaerts, Jan Decaluwe, Ivo Vandeweerd and Jan Zegers, to provide semiconductor design services for telecommunications and signal processing applications.

Easics is a spin-off from IMEC and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (ESAT department).

In the following years, Easics designed multiple innovative and successful ASICs, ASSPs, Gate Arrays and FPGAs, including embedded software, for our customers throughout Europe and the USA, including Alcatel, Philips (now NXP), Motorola (now Freescale Semiconductor) and TranSwitch. Applications include telecommunications, digital signal processing, industrial, and consumer electronics.

In 2000, Easics was acquired by TranSwitch, headquartered in Shelton (Connecticut, USA).

From 2000 till 2004, Easics was a wholly owned research and development center of TranSwitch, designing world-class telecommunication chips and IP cores, and working closely together with teams in the USA, India, Switzerland, France and Israel.

In December 2004, a Management Buy-out took place, initiated by Ramses Valvekens and Steven Coenen, both technical managers during the TranSwitch years.

In this transaction, TranSwitch (previously 100% owner of Easics) has sold all shares of Easics.

Since then, Easics is again an independent and privately owned company.

Tim Morlion and Bart Gybels, Easics project leaders, stayed on board.

Two of the company founders, Jan Decaluwe and Jan Zegers, and its former chairman of the board, André Oosterlinck, rejoined the board of directors in 2005.

Easics is based in the high-tech region of Leuven, Belgium.