Cypress earns trusted foundry accreditation from US Department of Defense

SAN JOSE, USA: Cypress Semiconductor Corp. announced that its Fab 4 manufacturing facility in Bloomington, Minnesota has been accredited by the US Department of Defense (DoD) as a Category 1A ‘Trusted Foundry.’

The accreditation applies to design, wafer foundry, and test operations, and expands Cypress’s ability to make and sell defense products in the fab by authorizing fabrication of material for classified and unclassified programs requiring Trusted Suppliers.

Accreditation through the DoD’s Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) requires enacting stringent security policies and procedures which are safeguards against supply chain interruption, modification or tampering with devices.

Fab 4 fabricates microelectronics on 8-inch wafers using a wide variety of 90- to 350-nm production process baselines. The facility also performs on-site wafer-level sort and device functionality test. Accreditation applies to all processes in the fab, spanning CMOS, embedded non-volatile memory, CMOS image sensor, high voltage, and BiCMOS.

“We’re pleased and proud to have achieved this accreditation,” said Shahin Sharifzadeh, executive vice president of worldwide manufacturing for Cypress. “With this accreditation Cypress has joined the elite ranks of Trusted IC Suppliers to the US Defense market. Our unique capabilities in this arena include our 130-nm SONOS process that enables embedded non-volatile memory and programmable analog circuits, as well as 90-nm CMOS for radiation-hardened memories.”