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News Release from: Faraday Technology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 April 2007
Fabless company chooses miniLib cell
library
A fabless IC design house focusing on DTV and communication fields, has chosen Faraday's miniLib cell library to develop digital TV ICs.
Afa Technologies, a fabless IC design house focusing on DTV and communication fields, has chosen Faraday's miniLib cell library to develop digital TV ICs The miniLib cell library, comprising more than 300 standard cells and 100 plus functions, is designed specifically for applications requiring small footprint and low power consumption
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 Feb 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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"To support the low-cost and low-power requirements of today's consumer-electronics applications, Faraday's miniLib is a perfect solution", says Philip Sun, Executive Vice President at Afatech.
"We are glad to co-operate with Faraday on this project and we appreciate their dedicated technical support and service in full spectrum, which is also a key to our on-time product delivery".
"We expect to work together for our next product development", Sun adds.
"In addition to developing cutting-edge cell libraries for 65 and 45nm processes, Faraday has been spending considerable efforts on improving speed, density and reducing power consumption for matured technologies", says Hsin Wang, Vice President of IP Business and Technology at Faraday.
"We are very pleased that Faraday's miniLib cell library is adopted by Afa Technologies, a DTV IC market leader, which also denotes a milestone for our IP market penetration into the hottest fields".
"Furthermore, with our highly competitive miniLib solutions, we are confident to see more successful engagements in the near future".
Faraday's miniLib cell library uses a series of new architectures that significantly reduce power while dramatically improve density and yield.
The raw gate density at UMC 0.18um process is 145K/mm2, 300K/mm2 for UMC 0.13um process, and 500K/mm2 for UMC 90nm process.
It is a high-density cell library with 20~30% reduction in core area and power consumption when compared with other standard cell libraries.
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