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News Release from: Virage Logic | Subject: NOVeA
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 December 2004
Nonvolatile memory available on 180nm
process
Virage Logic's patented NOVeA nonvolatile electrically alterable embedded memories are now available for production on Tower Semiconductor's 180nm CMOS logic process.
Virage Logic's patented NOVeA nonvolatile electrically alterable embedded memories are now available for production on Tower Semiconductor's 180nm CMOS logic process NOVeA is the industry's first embedded reprogrammable nonvolatile memory to be manufactured on a standard CMOS logic process without any additional masks or process steps
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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To support the low cost and high performance requirements of today's consumer and secure applications, Virage Logic has introduced its next generation embedded nonvolatile product.
Tower Semiconductor has selected and qualified NOVeA memories for its 180nm CMOS logic process in order to help its customers meet their application requirements for cost-effective embedded nonvolatile memory for security, encryption, unique device identification, analogue trimming, silicon repair and flexible program storage.
Building on its success with Virage Logic's Area, Speed and Power (ASAP) Memory and ASAP Logic product lines, Tower Semiconductor will be offering NOVeA to its foundry customers.
"Encryption for design and application security, copy protection, digital rights management and RFID all share the common requirement of small amounts of embedded reprogrammable nonvolatile memory on a standard CMOS logic process", according to Joel Rosenberg, Senior Director of Marketing for Virage Logic.
"NOVeA is the only technology available today that meets all of the requirements of these applications: ultra-low power, small size, fast data access, low cost, design compiler and foundry-qualified silicon".
NOVeA addresses the requirement for embedded encryption, digital rights management and other secure applications where factory and/or remote updates may be required.
This technology is more optimised for hardware encryption than external memory, electrical fuses (eFuse) or laser fuse technology in that it uses a single poly floating gate (Flash) technology that makes it impossible to visually identify the state of the encryption bits or data as they cross pin boundaries inside or outside a packaged IC.
"Tower Semiconductor has recognised the need to provide low cost embedded NVM solutions to our growing base of security conscious customers", said Ishai Naveh, Vice President of NVM marketing for Tower USA.
"We are very pleased to expand our partnership with Virage Logic to include NOVeA.
They worked closely with our development team to ensure that our requirements for embedding NVM were met and that effort ultimately resulted in a fully qualified, commercially available solution".
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