Yamaha extends IP licensing agreement

Yamaha Corporation has licensed components of Virage Logic's IPrima platform, including embedded memories and standard cells.

Yamaha Corporation has licensed components of Virage Logic's IPrima platform, including embedded memories and standard cells.

Yamaha, a global leader in several businesses including musical instruments and consumer audio, will employ Virage Logic's Area, Speed and Power (ASAP) Memory, High-Density (HD) and Ultra-Low-Power (ULP) memories and ASAP Logic Ultra-High-Density (UHD) standard cell libraries for its next-generation sound chip for multimedia phones (AudioEngine).

Using a combination of several low-power and very efficient density techniques, Virage Logic's silicon-proven intellectual property (IP) will provide Yamaha with significant power savings, a necessity for next-generation, battery-operated mobile phone applications.

"After an extended evaluation of commercially available semiconductor IP, we chose Virage Logic specifically because of their IP's quality, reliability and the fact that their components are silicon-proven in over hundreds of high-volume consumer designs", said Yukichi Ono, Group Leader at Yamaha's Semiconductor Division's LSI Development Department.

"The results of the ASAP Ultra-Low-Power memory evaluation provided us with outstanding power savings".

"In addition, our IP selection criteria included access to superior technical support which Virage Logic has consistently provided us with".

"We are very pleased to see Yamaha extend its ASAP Logic technology licensing agreement to incorporate several of our ASAP High-Density and Ultra-Low-Power memories", said Jim Ensell, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Virage Logic.

"We are confident that the IPrima platform components that Yamaha has selected will provide them with the significant power and area savings they need to extend their leadership with their next-generation mobile platform product line".

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