Cypress Signs Innopower to Enable SONOS-Based Embedded Flash Solutions for 130-nm and 65-nm Technology Nodes
February 17 2011 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ:CY) today announced that it
has licensed 130-nm and 65-nm SONOS (Silicon Oxide Nitride Oxide
Silicon) embedded nonvolatile memory technology IP to Innopower
Technology Corporation. Under the licensing agreement, Innopower
will combine Cypress’s technology with its technical support
services and other IP elements to help designers of next-generation
SOCs and ASICs integrate non-volatile memory (NVM) solutions within
their new ICs.
Cypress’s NVM solutions are built using SONOS technology and are
compatible with available logic technology. The NVM solutions are
scalable alternatives to one-time-programmable (OTP) and
multiple-time-programmable (MTP) technologies, and include macros
and a compiler. Innopower is experienced in memory IP design and
development, including maintenance and support of IP. The company
offers leading SRAM memory compilers that provide designers with a
variety of embedded memory in the form of reusable IP for ASIC and
SoC designs. With the Cypress technology, Innopower will be able to
offer embedded flash solutions to customers in communication and
consumer electronics markets, an important addition to its product
portfolio that brings complete memory solutions to customers.
"The agreement with Innopower will be mutually beneficial," said
Babak Taheri, Vice President of Corporate Third-Party IP at
Cypress. "Innopower’s solid experiences in memory IP development
and excellent technical support will accelerate the growth of our
SONOS embedded flash IP in the emerging SoC market."
"We are pleased to work with Cypress to bring a highly reliable
embedded flash solution to our customers," said Lee Chu, VP of
Business Development at Innopower. "Cypress's embedded flash
technology has been used in hundreds of millions of SoC devices
around the world. The combination of Innopower's SoC IP and
Cypress’s NVM IP will bring powerful capabilities to our
customers."
Availability
Cypress’s embedded flash IP has been shipping in high volumes at
130-nm at several foundries. It has also been verified on a 65-nm
LL process. Design kits are available for customers upon request.
For more information on licensing options and pricing, please
contact: IP_Sales@innopower-tech.com.
About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable
solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and
exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship
PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as
PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting
applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for
touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers,
including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances
connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is
also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing
devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile
handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial
and military. Cypress trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market
under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at
www.cypress.com.
About Innopower Technology Corporation
Innopower is a wholly owned subsidiary of Faraday Technology
Corporation. As a separate legal entity, it leverages Faraday's
past development experience, extensive automation capabilities and
acquired patent portfolio to offer competitive semiconductor
intellectual properties (IP) for foundries, IDM's and fabless
design companies. The product offering focuses on the fundamental
libraries (standard cells, memory compilers and I/O's), special I/O
and functional IPs (such as USB, PCI Express, Ethernet). Innopower
holds a significant market share in the Silicon IP market as it
inherited Faraday's years of experience in Silicon IP field. The
company continually launches more competitive products, like
miniLib+ (ultra high density library) and USB3.0 IP etc., to meet
diversified customer requirements. For more information, please
visit: www.innopower-tech.com .
Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West
Bridge are registered trademarks and TrueTouch and S8 are
trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are
property of their owners.
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