Cosmic Circuits announces silicon-proven 40nm wireless analog IP

BANGALORE, INDIA & CAMPBELL, USA: Cosmic Circuits, a leading provider of differentiated analog and mixed-signal IP cores, announced the availability of a silicon-proven platform of mixed-signal IP cores in TSMC 40nm for wireless communications applications, resulting from its collaboration with TSMC.

Cosmic Circuits is a company offering a broad portfolio of nanometer Analog IP cores covering Data-Converters, Analog-Front-End platforms for Wireless and Audio, Power-Management, Clocking and MIPI Interfaces.

Cosmic and TSMC entered into a technology collaboration to make available differentiated and silicon-proven mixed-signal IP cores in the advanced 40nm process node for wireless applications such as MIMO LTE, WiMax and WLAN.

The collaboration has successfully resulted in several mixed-signal IP cores comprising of a dual matched analog-to-digital converter, dual matched digital-to-analog converter, a monitoring a/d converter, a control d/a converter, a low-jitter PLL, and a voltage regulator, being proven successfully on 40nm silicon test-chip.

TSMC’s Deputy Director of IP Portfolio Marketing, Dan Kochpatcharin, commented: “We have always believed in ensuring early availability of proven IP cores that our customers can leverage while adopting the advanced technology node.” He added, “Cosmic Circuits’ experience and strong capability in analog IP led us to collaborate with them. The 40nm test-chip was fully functional with the first silicon.”

Ganapathy Subramaniam, CEO, Cosmic Circuits, said: “We value TSMC’s strong adherence to quality standards and processes. With our emphasis on providing analog IP cores that bring certainty to our customers, collaborating with the leading foundry known for its proven path to success was natural.”

He added: “We are happy to offer silicon-proven Wireless Analog cores in 40nm. And the first-time right silicon in a complex test-chip in 40nm with differentiated analog IP, is a testimony to the success of our technology collaboration with TSMC and our emphasis on bringing certainty to analog.”

Cosmic Circuits constantly endeavors to bring differentiated and silicon-proven Analog and Mixed-Signal IP cores to the design-community for integration on system-on-Chips. A majority of the nanometer cores available from Cosmic are suited for portable and fixed consumer, wireless, and convergence applications, among others, that have benefited from using Cosmic’s silicon IP.

Cosmic’s WiMo platform of mixed-signal IP cores for wireless applications is silicon-proven in TSMC 40nm and available today for integration into system-on-chips. Cosmic undertakes customization of the cores for MIMO configurations and other application requirements.