UMC Selects Silicon Canvas' Laker-T1 as Its Test Chip Development Platform
SAN JOSE, CALIF. - April 19, 2004 - Silicon Canvas, Inc. (SCI), an EDA company that provides automated test chip development platform and next-generation custom layout solutions, today announced that UMC (NYSE: UMC; TSE: 2303), a world leading semiconductor foundry, has selected Laker-T1 as its unified test chip development platform. UMC will use Laker-T1 to develop cutting-edge foundry technologies enabling sophisticated system-on-chip (SOC) designs, including advanced logic, copper, and mixed signal/RFCMOS.
S.C Chien, director of the Central Research and Development division at UMC, said, "Test chip development is an increasingly complex and vital task in successfully bringing today's advanced SoCs technologies to volume production readiness. Laker-T1's ability to parameterize, standardize, protect, manage and reuse UMC's test chip intellectual property allows us to continue to lead the forefront in providing the latest market-driven and customer-focused design solutions. We believe our customers will benefit greatly from this enabling technology."
"We are very pleased to partner with UMC", says Dr. Hau-Yung Chen, President at Silicon Canvas, Inc., "Through Laker-T1, Silicon Canvas offers automation and correct by construction test chip layout implementation resulting not only in huge time savings, but, just as importantly, a solid and verifiable test chip development platform. Our innovative R&D efforts have again extended the performance to keep pace with our customers' demanding requirements."
About Laker-T1:
Laker-T1 delivers at least ten-fold productivity gain in test chip development through reusable, transferable and manageable architecture with centralized access control. Laker-T1 provides an intuitive user interface to define parameterized test structures and test lines, which speed up technology time to market while allowing last-minute test chip specification change.
Laker-T1 is available now for both UNIX and Linux machines.
About UMC:
UMC (NYSE: UMC, TSE: 2303) is a leading global semiconductor foundry that manufactures advanced process ICs for applications spanning every major sector of the semiconductor industry. UMC delivers cutting-edge foundry technologies that enable sophisticated system-on-chip (SOC) designs, including 90nm copper, 0.13um copper, embedded DRAM, and mixed signal/RFCMOS. UMC is also a leader in 300mm manufacturing; Fab 12A in Taiwan is currently in volume production for a variety of customer products, while Singapore-based UMCi has just entered volume production. UMC employs over 8,500 people worldwide and has offices in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Europe, and the United States. UMC can be found on the web at http://www.umc.com.
About Silicon Canvas:
Silicon Canvas is the technology leader in providing full custom layout solutions. The company develops a modern, updated, and capable custom layout tool, Laker, to address the growing needs for nanometer designs ranging from analog, mixed signal, large complex IC, ASIC, SoC, and test chip designs. Silicon Canvas' custom layout solutions provide more automation and high performance capabilities to any design projects requiring the use of a more effective full custom layout solution. Customers' applications include processors, computing systems, networking, telecommunication and graphics.
Silicon Canvas, Inc. is located in San Jose, California. For more information, you can visit our website at http://www.sicanvas.com, send an email to info@sicanvas.com or call us at 408-321-0888.
For more information, please contact:
Silicon Canvas, Inc.
Hau-Yung Chen
Phone: +1 (408) 321-0888
FAX: +1 (408) 321-0880
E-mail: hchen@sicanvas.com
