Monday, March 15, 2010

Samsung licenses Kilopass' embedded non-volatile memory for its foundry business

SANTA CLARA, USA: Kilopass Technology Inc., a provider of semiconductor logic non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), announced that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will support Kilopass’ one-time programmable (OTP) antifuse memory, XPM, in its foundry business’ advanced logic processes. With this licensing agreement, Samsung Foundry’s customers now have access to Kilopass’ scalable, cost-effective embedded NVM IP solutions for advanced logic processes.

“Access to proven IP is extremely important as the industry moves to more advanced technologies and higher levels of SoC integration for our foundry customers,” said Jay Min, vice president, Samsung Electronics’ Foundry business.

“Our strategy is to build a comprehensive partner ecosystem that supports the growing need for optimized SoC solutions. This partnership with Kilopass is one such effort. Kilopass offers critical NVM IP required in a wide spectrum of applications. We plan to expand our customer base to a diverse scope of fabless companies as well, while we are successfully expanding the partnership with our world-leading customers, including those targeting our 32/28nm HKMG logic process technology.”

“We’re extremely pleased to partner with a flagship customer such as Samsung Foundry,” said Kilopass CEO Charlie Cheng. “Samsung Foundry is an established foundry supplier with deep expertise in semiconductor manufacturing. Attracting a high-caliber semiconductor manufacturer gives our customers even more supply options. It’s yet one more example of steady adoption of our OTP technology.”

Due to its compact size, Kilopass’ XPM IP is uniquely suited for a rapidly growing number of small-to-medium-capacity applications that require high reliability and security. XPM is implemented in standard logic CMOS without any modifications to the foundry processing steps.

Being designed with standard devices supplied by the foundry and following foundry DFM design rules has enabled faster time to market of XPM to a large variety of processes and foundries. The portability of Kilopass’ technology, coupled with streamlined porting and qualification methodology, has enabled Samsung Foundry’s customers to use Kilopass’ OTP NVM for its advanced logic processes.

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