embedded Java CPU Lightfoot. Following the UK DTI investment, DCT closed two funding rounds with MTI, a global, early-stage Venture Capital investor and set up offices in California and Taiwan. DCT also developed the Bigfoot Java Accelerator IP that found application in video processor ICs. The company was incorporated in 1996 and is currently based in Egham, UK and Shanghai, China. It is presently developing an exciting new version of its Lightfoot architecture, LF v3, that will deliver new performance levels to resource-limited embedded ASSPs.