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News Release from: Oki Electric | Subject: MG7xK family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 March 2003
Collaboration brings speedy route to
150nm ASICs
Oki Electric and UMC have developed an all-new family of ASICs based on UMC's 0.15-micron process.
Oki Electric and UMC have developed an all-new family of ASICs based on UMC's 0.15-micron process "The agreement is essential for Oki in that it enables us to offer 0.15um SoC (system-on-chip) products to customers more quickly, in response to high-performance design requirements
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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This is made possible by the continuing joint efforts between the two companies to port Oki's intellectual property (IP) cores to UMC's libraries and process technology", said Katsuhiko Sano, President of the Silicon Solutions Company at Oki Electric.
"We believe our new ASIC is a welcome result of the partnership, delivering major benefits to our customers".
John Hsuan, UMC Vice Chairman and CEO, said, "We have achieved many positive results from our productive relationship with Oki, and are pleased our co-operative efforts have led to the introduction of their MG7xK ASIC product family based on UMC's 0.15um process.
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UMC is committed to building mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with our foundry customers, and we look forward to accomplishing many more new milestones with Oki".
Under the alliance with UMC, Oki Electric will provide its entire portfolio of strategic IP for use in the foundry's Gold IP programme.
Customers can access various Oki IP offerings through UMC's Gold IP programme, including the licensed ARM MPU cores and its uPLAT design platform, as well as standard Gold IP offerings such as high-performance ADCs and DACs, serdes, and high-speed I/Os.
The partnership allows Oki customers to reduce the cost and time of their design efforts by giving them proven IP solutions with UMC's qualified silicon cores, which are already in volume production.
By integrating design rules and process parameters with UMC under the partnership, Oki's new ASICs, the MG7xK family (MG74K/75K/76K), benefits Oki's customers, cutting the time to production to less than six months for development and release of a fully tested, production-ready 0.15um less than half the industry norm of 12-18 months.
This shortened time-to-production is achieved by using UMC's proven 0.15um manufacturing process which allows Oki to bypass the production ramp-up stage and the learning curve typically needed during the transition to smaller geometries.
The new MG7xK family improves speed per gate for more than 30 and 20% higher integration.
It also offers a 25% reduction in power consumption.
This system ASIC is ideal for use in network equipment, PC peripherals, and general electronic appliances.
For dramatically shorter development times, it supports the uPLAT, Oki's integrated platform solution for system LSI development, which is based on ARM7TDMI and ARM946E-S.
Oki will begin marketing the new MG7xK family in April 2003.
As an added benefit of the foundry relationship, Oki plans to migrate to 0.13um ASIC products within the next year.
Characteristics of Oki's MG7xK family include: power supply voltages of 1.5V (core) and 3.3V (I/O); four, five or six metal layers; up to 10 million gates; up to 868 I/O pads; memory options including synchronous single/dual port SRAM and ROM; interfaces including SSTL-2, 5V tolerant, USB, PCI and PLL; IP including ARM7TDMI, AMR946E-S, ADC/DAC, USB2.0, JPEG and SSCG; and package options of QFP, TQFP, LQFP, BGA, LFBGA and LGA.
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