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News Release from: Virage Logic
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Team on 25 January 2005
Foundries pay for front-end design kits
In response to emerging foundries' desire to increase their market share at 130nm, Virage Logic Corp has expanded its distribution model.
In response to emerging foundries' desire to increase their market share at 130nm, Virage Logic Corp has expanded its distribution model The new "Foundry Pays" model enables emerging foundries to license Virage Logic's IPrima Foundation IP platform and make it available free-of-charge to their customers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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To date, Virage Logic has signed on DongbuAnam, SilTerra, SMIC and Tower Semiconductor under the new Foundry Pays distribution model.
Long considered the physical IP (memories, logic and I/Os) technology leader, this move furthers Virage Logic's "first mover" status among emerging foundries and underscores the company's growing market leadership position at the advanced process technologies of 130nm and below.
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"The expansion of Virage Logic's business model from a customer-paid licensing and wafer-based royalty-bearing model to include an option for emerging foundries to license and provide its IPrima Foundation IP free-of-charge underscores the growing demand for the company's advanced process technology IP solutions", said Rich Wawrzyniak, Senior Analyst, ASICs Services, Semico Research Corporation.
"This is a win-win move in that it makes Virage Logic's technically advanced IP more broadly accessible and should provide the emerging foundries with key competitive advantages".
"We are pleased to expand our distribution model to enable our emerging foundry partners to better meet the needs of their global customers", said Adam Kablanian, Virage Logic's CEO and President.
"With an established customer base at 130nm, more than 45 90nm customers and already two 65nm customers, Virage Logic is clearly leading the way in offering IP solutions for advanced SoC designs and we look forward to making our IP more broadly accessible through our new Foundry Pays model".
Virage Logic's IPrima Foundation - comprising the Area, Speed and Power (ASAP) Memory High-Density (HD) Memories, ASAP Logic HD Standard Cells and Base I/O Libraries - is built to satisfy a wide range of design requirements.
IPrima Foundation users also have optional access to Virage Logic's rich portfolio of highly differentiated application-optimised IP, including the industry's only integrated embedded self-test-and-repair memory, the STAR Memory System, as well as the ASAP Memory High-Speed (HS) and Ultra-Low-Power (ULP) product lines, the ASAP Logic Ultra-High-Density (UHD) and ULP Standard Cell Libraries and the patented ASAP Logic HD and HS Metal Programmable Cell Libraries.
Virage Logic IPrima Foundation design kits for DongbuAnam, SMIC and Tower's 130nm processes are available today free-of-charge for download from Virage Logic's "Members" section of its website.
IPrima Foundation front-end design kits optimised for SilTerra's 130nm process will be available for download in late February 2005.
Production release for SilTerra's 130nm process will be in June 2005.
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