ARC International is fueling the multimedia revolution by enabling high-quality multimedia content to be captured, shared and played on a wide variety of consumer electronics devices. ARC licenses award-winning consumer intellectual property (IP) in the form of vertically integrated solutions, multimedia subsystems, configurable processors and related technologies to semiconductor and original equipment manufacturing (OEM) companies worldwide. These highly integrated products allow for lower development costs and accelerated time-to-market (TTM). ARC solutions also enable customers to create differentiated consumer electronic products that deliver an enhanced multimedia experience on a variety of products such as digital and mobile TVs, portable media players, PCs, laptops, Flash storage, digital cameras and music, and smartphones.
For additional information, contact:
Jonah McLeod
(T) 408-437-3477
(E) jonah.mcleod@arc.com
(W) www.arc.com
Chingis Technology released its pFusion™ embedded Flash (eFlash) memory IP for third-generation (3G) mobile phone and smartcard applications. With the highest endurance in the industry and 20 years of data retention after 200K program-and-erase cycles, pFusion provides long-term memory for portable products that are indispensable to today’s lifestyles. As well, pFusion serves real-world environments, boasting operation from -40˚C to +105˚C. pFusion IP is available at outstanding foundry partners such as Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and Hejian Technology.
For additional information, contact:
Mike Walach
(T) 408-452-1888 ext. 106
(E) mwalach@chingistek.com
(W) www.chingistek.com
Cosmic Circuits is a leading provider of differentiated analog/mixed-signal silicon IP for system-on-chip (SOC) integration. Quality is ensured through full silicon qualifications, and an evolved design methodology for flexible customization is in place. The company’s WiMo analog front-end platform for wireless multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) Wi-Fi/Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is now silicon-proven in multiple flavors of 65nm/90nm nodes from top-ranking foundries. Its Power-ON-SOC family (power regulators in 130nm/90nm) has been expanded to 65nm (silicon-tested switching/linear regulators). In addition, new Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) D-PHY mixed-signal core-on-silicon is now offered for both transmit and receive. Also, high-performance audio platforms including class-D amplifiers (90nm silicon) have recently been introduced.
For additional information, contact:
Krishnan Ramabadran
(T) 91-80-40526200
(E) krishnan@cosmiccircuits.com
(W) www.cosmiccircuits.com
Dolphin Integration focuses on the design of virtual components of IP to enable low-power SOCs for large-volume applications.
The development platform PRIDE™ for 8-, 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers not only serves to debug application software, but SOCs as well. In addition, Dolphin Integration’s SUCCESS™ enables a complete hardware/software (HW/SW) co-verification due to its emulation capabilities, including virtual prototyping of mixed-signal SOCs.
To form powerful platforms for debugging application programs embedded in random access memory (RAM)/read-only memory (ROM)/Flash on SOCs and printed circuit boards (PCBs), a complete array of instruments for hardware probing and software tracing at breakpoints is available.
For additional information, contact:
Aurélie Descombes
(E) logic@dolphin-integration.com
(W) www.dolphin-integration.com
As an IP-focused fabless company begins to achieve scalability, superior supply chain performance becomes a pre-requisite for achieving critical market share and profit margin goals. Successful companies develop competitive advantage operationally through great understanding of customers’ changing demands and rapid synchronization of global supply.
i2, the supply chain company, introduces Planning-On-Demand, an integrated demand and supply planning software-as-a-service (SaaS) for fabless companies. Available on an affordable monthly subscription basis, this fully hosted and managed solution can be deployed within eight weeks. i2’s solutions can help companies dramatically increase customer satisfaction while minimizing investments.
For additional information, contact:
Mark Bacon
(T) 469-357-1000
(E) mark_bacon@i2.com
(W) www.i2.com
ICsense is an IC design house offering state-of-the-art IC design services and supplying turnkey solutions for custom integrated wired or wireless transducer systems. The core business of ICsense is the design of low-voltage, high-voltage, analog and mixed-signal building blocks and systems for the automotive, industrial and medical markets. In particular, ICsense has key competence in the design of high-voltage power management, sensor-and-actuator interface and data acquisition application-specific ICs (ASICs). Through its extensive portfolio of analog and mixed-signal blocks, in combination with its Cadence-based design environment, ICsense supplies its customers with state-of-the-art custom blocks and full systems in short TTM.
For additional information, contact:
Wim Claes
(T) 32-16-589700
(E) sales@icsense.com
(W) www.icsense.com
By combining sophisticated fill analysis with full chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) simulation, Mentor Graphics now provides a complete three-dimensional (3D) variability solution that addresses density and thickness challenges. The SmartFill capability of Calibre® YieldEnhancer and the planarity analysis of Calibre CMPAnalyzer are fully integrated to enable automated fill driven by signoff-quality CMP simulation and analysis, providing a single solution for any technology environment. The Calibre tools can be used with third-party CMP models and simulators, or customers can use Calibre WORKbench™ to create and maintain their own CMP models, a capability that is unique in the industry.
For additional information, contact:
Jeff Wilson
(T) 503-685-1811
(E) jeff _wilson@mentor.com
(W) www.mentor.com
Oracle provides industry-leading business solutions for the semiconductor industry based on best-of-breed applications, middleware and open, standards-based technology. Oracle’s supply chain solution helps semiconductor companies achieve accurate consensus forecasts, optimized inventory leveling and postponement strategies, faster planning cycles and superior on-time delivery.
The company’s semiconductor solution can improve the predictability and timeliness of demand signals. It delivers a single holistic supply chain plan that provides both long-range aggregate planning across foundries, assembly and test, as well as short-term detailed scheduling. Oracle enables lead-time reduction while reducing inventory through the optimum use of die banking or other inventory postponement strategies, resulting in higher levels of customer responsiveness. Oracle delivers complete lot-based genealogy to track wafer and die through multiple suppliers across fabrication, sorting, assembly and test, enabling transparency across the extended semiconductor supply chain. The company enables new product introduction and release planning along with operational and financial performance management analytics, providing visibility across the entire enterprise to drive real bottom-line improvements.
For additional information, contact:
(T) 800-633-0738
(W) www.oracle.com/industries/semiconductor
At Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) 2009, Satin IP Technologies, the company that delivers design quality closure with fast return on investment, became the first company to demonstrate how current quality intellectual property (QIP) metrics are being used for accurate and on-the-fly design quality monitoring. Satin IP demonstrated how the metrics are imported into VIP Lane®, the company’s design quality closure software; how they are automated for self-assessment; and how they can be exported in different forms. Working within customers’ design flows, VIP Lane turns customers’ design practices for IP blocks or SOCs into a robust set of quality criteria, automating the implementation and documentation of design quality metrics at no extra cost in engineering time or resources.
For additional information, contact:
(T) 33-0-467-13-00-86
(W) www.satin-ip.com
Sidense provides secure, low-cost, dense and reliable one-time programmable (OTP) non-volatile memory (NVM) IP for use in standard logic CMOS processes with no additional masks or process steps. Sidense’s patented one-transistor 1T-Fuse™ architecture provides the industry’s smallest footprint and lowest power logic NVM solution.
Sidense’s foundry-friendly OTP memory IP is available from 180nm to 40nm, and is scalable to 32nm and below. The IP is available at TSMC, UMC, Chartered, SMIC, Fujitsu, IBM, Vanguard and Tower. Customers use Sidense’s OTP memory for analog trimming, code storage, encryption keys such as High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), radio frequency identification (RFID) and chip ID, medical, automotive, and configurable processors and logic.
For additional information, contact:
Jim Lipman
(T) 925-606-1370
(E) jim@sidense.com
(W) www.sidense.com
Solido Design Automation provides software for eliminating design loss caused by process variation in analog/mixed-signal and custom ICs. Solido recently announced the industry’s first scalable and extensible solution for meeting design challenges created by process variations at nanometer feature sizes. The new Variation Designer solution enables designers to eliminate design losses resulting from over and under design without sacrificing efficiency and productivity. Variation Designer allows designers to expand their capabilities by plugging in applications that are created to solve specific process variation problems, without the need for re-integration with the design environment.
For additional information, contact:
Michelle Clancy
(T) 252-940-0981
(E) michelle.clancy@cayennecom.com
(W) www.solidodesign.com
Symmid Semiconductor Technology is an ASIC design services firm headquartered in Silicon Valley and focused on helping customers successfully design and implement SOCs with the most stringent performance, power and area requirements. Symmid offers the complete spectrum of design services with experts in register transfer-level (RTL) design, automatic test pattern generation (ATPG), power- and performance-optimized synthesis, and all aspects of timing closure and verification in the physical domain. The company’s engineering team is comprised of experienced engineers from the networking, semiconductor and electronic design automation (EDA) industries with numerous successful tapeouts at 130nm, 90nm and 65nm process nodes. Symmid’s flexible engagement models include full-chip or block-level front-end and back-end implementation; augmenting customers’ existing engineering teams; or turnkey design and production of customer designs in partnership with its suppliers. Symmid places special emphasis on project management, communication and high-quality customer service.
For additional information, contact:
Alex Parshad
(T) 408-830-0980 ext. 100
(W) www.symmidsemi.com
Each year, spending by semiconductor companies increases, tying up valuable engineering resources for existing analog circuits moving from one silicon process technology to another. The large cycle time required to traditionally migrate analog circuits further increases costs (in terms of missed opportunities). To address this customer pain point, Wipro launched Port-on-Demand. This service, packaged around IN2FAB’s unique patented migration tools and methodology, offers a widely silicon-proven solution for migration of analog circuits with vastly reduced cycle times (in some cases, as little as two weeks).
Port-on-Demand successfully moves analog circuits to new geometries, including migrations from 65nm to 45nm technology. This service enhances Wipro’s highly competitive IC design services offering, where new business models help customers through the current market turmoil and sustain important strategic development programs.
For additional information, contact:
Anand Valavi
(T) 91-80-3029-5059
(E) vlsi@wipro.com
(W) www.wipro.com |
