Systems engineering spans the globe

Spansion has expanded its system engineering capabilities across seven global locations, in line with its strategy to bring higher value to the marketplace and to its customers.

Spansion has expanded its system engineering capabilities across seven global locations, in line with its strategy to bring higher value to the marketplace and to its customers.

New and expanded design centres include sites in: Paris, France; Dresden, Germany; and Seoul, Korea.

The expansion of the company's system engineering capabilities provides customers and infrastructure partners in the Asia Pacific, Europe and North America regions with significant system-level hardware and software expertise.

"As a leading memory solutions provider, our mission is to provide higher value to our customers to help them succeed with their business objectives", said Steve Lapinski, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Systems Engineering and Strategic Alliances at Spansion.

"The memory subsystem in cell phones today is as much a strategic element as the processor".

"Our partners want us to work with them at the system level to help ensure all of a phone's subsystems can use the combined power of the processor and our memory to their fullest potential".

"The benefit for consumers is more powerful communications devices that incorporate truly dazzling next-generation features".

To reinforce this strategic transformation, Spansion's newly announced Paris headquarters will become the company's global centre of excellence for security, supported by the global system engineering organisation.

Worldwide systems engineering sites now include the following locations.

Austin, Texas, is also the location of one of Spansion's flagship manufacturing plants, Fab 25.

The design team in Texas focuses on driver and platform software development.

Beijing is home to some of the world's largest handset makers, and Spansion's China design team assists partners in developing system reference designs.

At Dresden, a newly expanded staff of designers in Germany works with partners and customers throughout the region on system level architecture development.

In Paris, Spansion's European headquarters will also serve as the company's global centre of excellence for developing security standards and technologies.

In Seoul, Spansion's recently opened centre in Korea works with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) to optimise subsystem performance using Spansion Flash memory.

In Sunnyvale, California, the company's primary headquarters in Silicon Valley includes a team dedicated to hardware and software verification at the system level.

And in Tokyo, the home of Spansion's Asia Pacific headquarters, the engineering team here conducts system level engineering and develops custom hardware and software for platform designers.

One of the many benefits to emerge from Spansion's systems engineering collaboration with partners is a hardware tool, dubbed the Pismo module, that provides those partners with a standard board-level interface so they can test and verify memory products from different vendors.

"The Pismo module will allow platform designers to test and verify a variety of memory products easily and quickly", Lapinski said.

"Whereas before, system designers had to custom build a memory interface for each product they wanted to test, the Pismo module will help make this a simple plug-and-play task".

"This means our partners will be able to pre-qualify and validate any memory product, allowing them to offer turnkey solutions more quickly and cost-effectively".

"Securing this information from unauthorised access is an important priority for Spansion, our industry colleagues and local standards bodies".

"Ultimately, it's good for the customer and it's good for business".

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