Mips Technologies has acquired First Silicon Solutions (FS2), a Oregon company as a wholly-owned subsidiary. FS2 specializes in silicon IP, design services and OCI (On-Chip Instrumentation) development tools for programming, testing, debug and trace of embedded systems in SoC, SOPC, FPGA, ASSP and ASIC devices. FS2 has been working closely with MIPS Technologies and its customers since 1999 to develop leading-edge system-level debug and trace technologies for MIPS-Based cores. Financial terms were not disclosed.