Silterra Launches IP Initiative
Company Collaborates With Artisan to Develop Design Libraries
KULIM, Malaysia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2002--Silterra Malaysia
Sdn. Bhd., a premier semiconductor-manufacturing foundry, today
announced that it has launched a silicon intellectual property (IP)
initiative. The company will kick-off the program by offering free
industry standard design libraries to its customers through Artisan
Components.
Artisan will custom-develop a comprehensive set of its popular
libraries for Silterra's 0.18-micron CMOS18 process, which has been in
production since October 2001. The libraries include the SAGE-X
standard cells, five memory generators and two I/O libraries. In
addition to the foundation libraries, Silterra's initiative includes
high-speed I/Os, specialty memories, analog components, processor
cores and others from leading IP providers.
"Artisan is the leading library provider in the industry and they
fit in nicely with our strategy for providing application-focused,
industry standard solutions to our customers," said Victor Kwong, vice
president of marketing for Silterra. "Customers prefer to work with
familiar technologies and IP platforms. Our topologically and
electrically xSMC-compatible family of process technologies has been
very well received. Now we are working diligently to add the pieces
that are also important to our customers' applications."
The Artisan libraries will be available from Silterra beginning in
September 2002, with preliminary front-end models available shortly
for customers to start their designs. Additional silicon IP
components, especially high-speed interfaces such as LVDS and USB 2.0,
will be certified during the third and fourth quarters of this year.
"Our goal is to extend our compatibility beyond process
technologies and offer our customers IP blocks they are already
familiar with, thus increasing their design productivity," added
Kwong.
About Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.:
Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. is a premier semiconductor
manufacturing service provider that offers customers leading-edge CMOS
process technologies. The company was a winner of Semiconductor
International's 2002 Top Fab Award. Silterra's wafer fab will reach
its planned capacity of 40,000 eight-inch wafers per month in 2003.
The company's headquarters and factory are located in Kulim, Malaysia,
and has a worldwide sales and marketing office in Sunnyvale, Calif.
For more information on Silterra or its services, please visit
www.silterra.com.
Contact:
Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.
Steve Della Rocchetta, 408/530-0885
sdr@silterra.com
or
Media contact:
Katie Olivier, 972/774-9850
kolivier@dvscommunications.com
