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Exhibit 3.1
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
CONEXANT SYSTEMS, INC.
ARTICLE ONE
     The name of the company (the “Company”) is Conexant Systems, Inc.
ARTICLE TWO
     The registered office of the Company in the State of Delaware is located at 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19801, and the name of the registered agent whose office address will be the same as the registered office is The Corporation Trust Company.
ARTICLE THREE
     The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the Delaware General Corporation Law.
ARTICLE FOUR
     The total number of shares of capital stock that the Company has authority to issue is two hundred million (200,000,000) shares, which will be designated Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share.
ARTICLE FIVE
     Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the Bylaws of the Company (the “Bylaws”) may provide. The books of the corporation may be kept outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the board of directors or in the Bylaws. Unless, and except to the extent that, the Bylaws so require, the election of directors need not be by written ballot.
ARTICLE SIX
     The board of directors of the Company (the “Board of Directors”) may from time to time adopt, amend or repeal the Bylaws, subject to the power of the stockholders to adopt any Bylaws or to amend or repeal any Bylaws adopted, amended or repealed by the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE SEVEN
     To the fullest extent that the Delaware General Corporation Law as it exists on the date hereof or as it may hereafter be amended permits the limitation or elimination of the liability of directors, no director of the Company will be liable to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damage for breach of fiduciary duty as a director. Any repeal or amendment of this Article will not adversely affect

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any limitation on the personal liability or alleged liability of a director arising from an act or omission of that director occurring prior to the time of such repeal or amendment.
ARTICLE EIGHT
     The directors shall have powers without the assent or vote of the stockholders to fix and vary the amount to be reserved for any proper purpose; to authorize and cause to be executed mortgages and liens upon all or any part of the property of the Company; to determine the use and disposition of any surplus or net profits; and to fix the times for the declaration and payment of dividends.
ARTICLE NINE
     The directors in their discretion may submit any contract or act for approval or ratification at any annual meeting of the stockholders or at any meeting of the stockholders called for the purpose of considering any such act or contract, and any contract or act that shall be approved or be ratified by the vote of the holders of a majority of the stock of the Company which is represented in person or by proxy at such meeting and entitled to vote thereat (provided that a lawful quorum of stockholders be there represented in person or by proxy) shall be as valid and as binding upon the Company and upon all the stockholders as though it had been approved or ratified by every stockholder of the Company, whether or not the contract or act would otherwise be open to legal attack because of directors’ interest, or for any other reason.
ARTICLE TEN
     In addition to the powers and authorities hereinbefore or by statute expressly conferred upon them, the directors are hereby empowered to exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done by the Company; subject, nevertheless, to the provisions of the statutes of Delaware, of this certificate, and to any bylaws from time to time made by the stockholders; provided, however, that no bylaws so made shall invalidate any prior act of the directors which would have been valid if such bylaw had not been made.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
     The Company shall, to the full extent permitted by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended from time to time, indemnify all persons whom it may indemnify pursuant thereto.
ARTICLE TWELVE
     Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended from time to time, shall not apply to the Company.

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