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Note 8 - Borrowing and Installment Payment Arrangements
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
Notes to Financial Statements  
Debt Disclosure [Text Block]
8
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Borrowing and
Installment
Payment Arrangements
 
Bank of the West
 
On December 6, 2013, we entered into an Amended and Restated Credit Agreement with BOTW for a revolving line of credit of $50.0 million. All amounts owed under the credit agreement were due and payable on November 30, 2015.
 
On 
November 20, 2015, we entered into a Revolving Credit Agreement with a syndicate of banks for a revolving line of credit of $125.0 million. The agent for the banks is BOTW.
The obligations are guaranteed by four of our subsidiaries.
The loan is collateralized by a Contingent Collateral Agreement, under which the assets of the parent company and the four subsidiaries could be subject to security interests for the benefit of the banks in the event of a loan default.
The Revolving Credit Agreement expires on November 20, 2017.
 
The credit agreement provides different interest rate alternatives under which we may borrow funds. We may elect to borrow based on LIBOR plus a margin or an alternative base rate plus a margin
. The margin can range from 0.75% to 2.5%, depending on interest rate alternatives and on our leverage of liabilities to effective tangible net worth. The applicable interest rate as of March 31, 2016 was 2.44%. An unused commitment fee is also payable. It ranges from 0.25% to 0.625%, depending on leverage.
 
 
The terms of the facility impose restrictions on the Company’s ability to undertake certain transactions, to create liens on assets and to incur subsidiary indebtedness. In addition,
the credit agreement is subject to a set of financial covenants, including minimum effective tangible net worth, the ratio of cash, cash equivalents and accounts receivable to current liabilities, profitability, a leverage ratio and a minimum amount of U.S. domestic cash on hand. As of March 31, 2016 we complied with these financial covenants
, except the leverage ratio.  The banks waived a default under the Revolving Credit Agreement caused by the leverage ratio, which compared total funded indebtedness as of March 31, 2016 to EBITDA for the four fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2016. The leverage ratio minimally exceeded the contractually agreed ratio of 2:1. The waiver by the banks is a one-time waiver and is not deemed to be an amendment, waiver, consent, release or modification of any other term or condition of the credit agreement.
 
 
As of March 31, 2016, we borrowed $80.0 million under this credit facility and repaid
the outstanding principal balance from the previous agreement of $45.0 million.
 
 
In relation to the execution of the credit agreement, we incurred loan costs of $371,000. Those costs were deferred as debt issuance costs and amortized over the two-year life of the credit agreement. As of March 31, 2016, $6768,000 was recognized as interest expense and the unamortized balance of the debt issuance costs was $304,000.
The debt issuance costs are presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the debt liability rather than as an asset in our financial statements.
 
The credit agreement also includes a $10.0 million letter of credit subfacility. See Note 17, “Commitments and Contingencies” for further information regarding the terms of the subfacility.
 
IKB Deutsche Industriebank
 
On June 10, 2005, IXYS GmbH, our German subsidiary, borrowed €10.0 million, or about $12.2 million at the time, from IKB. This loan was collateralized by a security interest in our facility in Lampertheim, Germany and was to be paid in full by June 30, 2020.
 
In April 2015, we replaced the loan with a new loan from IKB. Under the new agreement, we borrowed €6.5 million, or about $7.2 million at the time. The loan has a term ending March 31, 2022 and bears a fixed annual interest rate of 1.75%. Each fiscal quarter a principal payment of €232,000, or $263,000, and a payment of accrued interest are required. Financial covenants for a ratio of indebtedness to cash flow, a ratio of equity to total assets and a minimum stockholders’ equity for the German subsidiary must be satisfied for the loan to remain in good standing. We were in compliance with all financial covenants as of March 31, 2016. The loan may be prepaid in whole or in part with a modest penalty. The loan is also collateralized by a security interest in the facility in Lampertheim, Germany. At March 31, 2016, the outstanding principal balance was
€5.6 million, or $6.3 million.
 
Loans Assumed from Business Acquisition
 
We assumed loans of approximately $2.4 million related to the acquisition of RadioPulse. These loans are primarily short-term facilities from financial institutions and carry a weighted average interest rate of 4.9%. The facilities have been partially secured by bank deposits, which were classified as restricted cash on our consolidated balance sheets. The outstanding principal on these loans was $684,000 as of March 31, 2016 and were paid off in April 2016.
 
We assumed loans of approximately $723,000 related to an acquisition completed during the quarter ended June 30, 2014. The assumed borrowings were non-interest loans from government agencies to support the research and development activities with maturity dates varying from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2021, other than a loan of $99,000 that we paid off during the quarter ended September 30, 2014.
 
Aggregate Debt Maturities
 
Aggregate debt maturities at March 31, 2016 were as follows (in thousands):
 
Fiscal Year Payable
 
Amount
 
2017
  $ 1,804  
2018
    81,120  
2019
    1,120  
2020
    1,133  
2021
    1,134  
Thereafter
    1,050  
Total
    87,361  
Less: current portion
    1,804  
Long-term portion (1)
  $ 85,557  
 
(1)
Includes approximately $304,000 of unamortized debt issuance cost.