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1st Silicon

Technology:
The Company offers volume semiconductor production in a world-class 200mm wafer fabrication spanning 13,750 sq. meters of manufacturing clean-room area with SMIF environment. The facility is designed to cater up to more than 45,000 wafers per month at full ramp-up capacity for 0.25 um down to 0.13 um geometries. 1st Silicon started production of 0.25 um in Q1 2001 and 0.18 um qualification in Q1 2003. 0.15 um technology went into produclion in Q3 2005.0.13 um flash is currently in final qualification. The company also focuses on niche markets by offering reliable and cost-effective embedded nonvolatile, high voltage, CMOS image sensor and CCD processes.

www.1si.com

CHARTERED SEMICONDUCTOR MFG.

Chartered Services
Description:
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, one of the world's top three dedicated silicon foundries, is forging a customized approach to outsourced semiconductor manufacturing by building lasting and collaborative partnerships with its customers, Charterer's focus on enabling system-level technologies facilitates the convergence of communications, computing and consumer electronics. We operate with our customers' overall objectives in mind by providing complete solutions enabling them to deliver better, faster and cheaper products lo market.
Technology expertise is key to success in our industry. At Chartered we are helping to accelerate the technology convergence taking place in the electronics industry, by anticipating the changing needs for our customers. Whether our customers are integrated device manufacturers, fabless, or system companies, they need the fundamental building blocks in silicon to address the cost-effective system solutions that today's and tomorrow's convergence applications require.

http://www.charteredsemi.com

ARM Connected Community

 
  • CodeSourcery Joins ARM Connected Community
    CodeSourcery provides bi-annual releases of the GNU Toolchain for ARM (including the GNU C and C++ compilers, the GNU Binary Utilities, and other tools) for “bare metal” and for GNU/Linux.CodeSourcery’s releases include support for the ABI for all versions of the ARM instruction set architecture (ISA) a, up to and including the ARMv6 architecture.

HDTV

 
  • Advanced 3D graphics aims HDTV
    > ST has licensed the technology from ARM to integrate further enhanced HD resolution graphics capabilities into next-generation STB and TV processors by providing acceleration for full 'immersive' polygonal 3D and vector graphics to deliver the seamless composition of graphics and video for the best possible user experience from the next wave of Web-based interactive services.

OMAP 4 processor

 
  • TI escalates ARM (chip) race
    > The OMAP 4 processor is based on the dual-core ARM Cortex A9 MPCore supporting symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and capable of speeds of more than 1GHz per core, according to TI. Basic ARM processor designs are licensed by U.K.-based ARM Holdings to companies like Texas Instruments and Qualcomm that tweak the design and then manufacture the chip.
  • Texas Instruments extends OMAP™ 3 family with 45 nm products to address a broad ...
    > Advanced 45 nm CMOS process technology dramatically boosts performance while reducing power consumption in Smartphones and Mobile Internet Devices

Interfaces

 
  • High Speed Interface
    > DFI compliant PHY
    > Multiple DDR standards supported
    > Seamless interoperability between IP
    > Low noise, high signal integrity
    > Robust ESD enabling full speed designs

BackEnd

 
  • Industry's First Low Power Verification Methodology Manual, Authored by ARM, Re...
    > "The task of verifying low power designs presents a significant challenge for today's verification engineers, as most are not yet well-trained on low power concepts," said Jianfeng Liu, senior low power verification methodology engineer at Samsung Electronics. "The Verification Methodology Manual for Low Power is a timely and valuable resource that addresses all aspects of low power verification, providing detailed rules and guidelines."

Artisan Advantage Library

 

BackEnd Synopsys

 
  • Hierarchical Implementation of Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ Multicore ...
  • UK scientists, ARM, Synopsys work on reliable low power computing systems
    > Researchers at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) have received a $578,623 funding to develop reliable low power computing systems.
  • Eclypse Low Power Solution
    > "ARM has always been at the forefront enabling low power electronic products. Our innovative collaborations with Synopsys have helped advance the state of the art in power management techniques, resulting in enhancements to IP, tools and methodologies that enable mainstream designers to achieve their targets," said John Goodenough, director of Design Technology, ARM. "Synopsys' Eclypse Low Power Solution, together with ARM physical and processor IP, can significantly reduce consumer product power consumption as proven through our numerous silicon technology demonstrators described in the Low Power Methodology Manual [Springer]."

OptimoDE (VLIW for HDTV)

 
  • Plato Networks Adopts Tensilica's Diamond Standard 108Mini for Upcoming 10Gigab...
    > ARM OptimoDE is a highly configurable Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW)-style processor architecture targeted at high-performance embedded signal processing applications. The processor’s compute and address generation architecture, the memory and I/O bandwidth, and the associated instruction sets can be infinitely varied to obtain an optimal balance of performance, power consumption and area. By using OptimoDE technology, Toshiba Microelectronics will be able to rapidly design and configure embedded data engines for SoCs that will ultimately deliver longer battery life in mobile devices for the consumer.
  • LG Electronics selects ARM Optimode DSP for HDTV
    > Optimode is a configurable VLIW-styled architecture intended for embedded signal processing applications with an associated tool chain. The tool environment enables the designer to configure and extend the type and number of data path resource units. The size and topology of local storage and the level of interconnect are also configurable. The Optimode configuration is programmed in either C or C++ and is provided with a C compiler and profiling analysis tools
  • NEON and OptimoDE Technologies

ARM Mali GPU

 

Amba3

AMBA 3 AXI

 
  • Assertions speed adoption of Amba3 AXI
    > "ARM and Synopsys have built on more than 10 years of collaboration to validate and optimise the Amba 3 AXI assertions".
    > "We support ARM's release of the Amba 3 AXI protocol rules as publicly available OVL and SVA assertions", added Ramin Hojati, president of Averant, ARM's development Partner for the AXI assertion specification and capture process.
  • Synopsys Introduces Lower Power, High-Performance Architecture for AMBA 3 AXI On...
    > New DesignWare IP Hybrid Architecture Reduces Area, Power Consumption and Routing Congestion for High-Performance AMBA Interconnect-Based Designs
  • Designing Using the AMBA (TM) 3 AXI (TM) Protocol
    > Easing the Design Challenges and Putting the Verification Task on a Fast Track to Success
    > The new AMBA 3 AXI protocol builds on the many benefits of the AMBA 2 standard by greatly extending the performance and flexibility of the systems based on AMBA technology. Based on the industry’s needs, and created in collaboration with more than 30 companies, the AMBA 3 AXI protocol is available now and addresses the needs of the coming generation of designs.

ARM Ultra High Density Standard Cell Library

 

ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore

 
  • ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore
    > Industry leading performance with over 2.0 DMIPS/MHz for unprecedented peak performance while also maintaining low power for extended battery life and lower cost packaging and operation.

PA Semi

 

Synopsys Professional Services

 

Android Laptop

 
  • Google needs to help officially port Android to ARM laptops
    > Google needs to help officially port Android to ARM laptops, call it Android Laptop edition or something and have it be a goal that it should run Google Chrome type of browser with all Google Gears and necessary multimedia perfectly. This is basically all that people need. You can add support for Adobe Air and Microsoft Silverlight if you want. The basic idea is to make sure that there is a perfect platform for the most basic Internet Applications access.

Cortex-A8 development team

 
  • Product of the Year Story Behind the Story: The ARM Cortex-A8 Processor IP
    > Here are the team members we talked with: Kerry McGuire - Product Manager, Mike Debner - Program and Projects Manager, Ken Reimer - Director, ARM Austin Design Center, Gerard Williams - Chief Technologist, Steve Hill - High Level Model Design Lead, Dave Williamson - Microarchitecture Design Lead, Ann Chin – Neon High Level Model Design Lead, Marlin Frederick - Global Circuits and Library Design Lead, Raney Southerland - Implementation Design Lead, Dermot O'Driscoll - Design Methodology Manager.

Qualcomm® Snapdragon 8250

 

Snapdragon


ETM Fifo-Full

 

Processor Licensees

 

CriticalBlue

 
  • Prism Overview
    > “Prism enables our Partners to realize the full benefits of the MPCore architecture, while minimizing changes to their existing software.”
    > John Goodacre, director, Program Management, ARM.

ARMCommunity

 

CoWare

ESL Design

 
  • Carbonized ARM Processor Models for CoWare Platform
    > The models and model kits will include implementation-accurate solutions for the ARM Cortex-A9 processor, AMBA3 Interconnect (PL301) matrix, and more.
    > The Carbonized ARM processor models for the CoWare environment will be integrated and delivered as CoWare Processor Support Packages (PSPs) to customers without the need to have access to ARM RTL code. For AXI 3 Interconnect models, CoWare will distribute a special version of Carbon Model Studio to be used with RTL generated by ARM AMBA Designer enabling the use of PL301r1 interconnect configurations in the CoWare environment. ARM Cortex-A9 Processor Support Package (PSP), Carbon Model Studio AMBA Designer, PL310 L2 Cache Controller, and PL340 DDR Memory Controller for CoWare Platform Architect will be available from CoWare in Q2 2009.
  • CoWare, Carbon team for ARM IP models
    > The models and model kits will include solutions for the ARM Cortex-A9 processor, AMBA3 Interconnect (PL301) matrix, and others.

Access

 
  • DesignStart
  • Support Programs
    > These options include ARM’s AccessFirst™ support program, AccessBasic™, a baseline support program and AccessCustom™, a program that expands on the support offered through AccessFirst to address the specific and often unique needs of some customers.
  • RealView Development Suite Evaluation
    > To evaluate ARM RealView Development Suite 4.0 Professional

Design Services

 
  • SiliconXpress, Inc
    > SiliconXpress is a Fabless ASIC Company providing turn-key services from RTL development to production silicon.

EVE

 
  • ZeBu
    > RTL (Front End) Tools
    > ZeBu-UF also offers two in-circuit emulation interfaces to connect the DUT to a target system and/or software debugger. The in-circuit emulation interface, called DirectICE, is used to connect the emulated design under test to a target system via a maximum of 360 single-ended I/O pins and 26 differential LVDS I/O pins. Another interface, called SmartICE, is used to connect ZeBu-UF to any peripheral with a maximum of 32 I/O pins. Both interfaces can operate concurrently. The DirectICE interface can also be used to accomodate hard cores, such as ARM logic tiles embedded in the DUT.
  • ZeBu-XL System Emulator
  • ZeBu-XXL

UEFI

 
  • ARM Included in Latest UEFI Specification
    > The UEFI Forum, which ARM joined in April 2008, is a non-profit collaborative trade organization formed as an industry-wide effort to modernize the boot process. The forum develops, manages and promotes the UEFI specification. It is an evolving specification driven by contributions and support from member companies. The UEFI specification details an interface that helps hand off control of the low level system from a pre-boot environment to an Operating System. UEFI provides a clean interface between Operating System and platform firmware at boot time, and supports an architecture-independent mechanism for initializing add-in cards.

ST-Ericsson

 
  • ST-Ericsson Collaborates With ARM
    > "In anticipation of the growing demand for faster, feature-rich phones, ST-Ericsson has provided a highly optimized platform that can fully exploit the benefits offered by multi processing," said Monica De Virgiliis, Vice President Wireless Multimedia, ST-Ericsson. The overall system performance is optimized by balancing the applications across the number of instantiated CPU's and their operating frequencies for the best achievable MIPS/mW.
    > "The result of ST-Ericsson and ARM's collaboration is increased performance for media-rich content and applications, such as fast web browsing, imaging, games and location based services, without compromising battery life," said Lee Williams, Executive Director, Symbian Foundation. "We value the commitment shown by ST-Ericsson and ARM to mobile innovation. This announcement signals exciting developments for the Symbian platform."
    > "This endorsement of the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor by ST-Ericsson demonstrates the rapid adoption of SMP by our partners, paving the way for a new category of mobile devices that deliver significantly more processing performance on demand," said Ian Drew, EVP Marketing, ARM. "This milestone has been reached by close co-operation with our partners and it now offers the potential for device manufacturers to continue the trend of delivering a more personal mobile internet experience."

32nm

Common Platform ******

 
  • ARM hits 32nm
    > The core from the Cortex processor line is built on an IBM Common Platform test chip in IBMs High-K metal gate (HKMG) process. ARM stated its partners will receive specs and samples some time this year, whereas the chip itself will be available for full-scale production in the first few months of 2010.
    > Common Platform is a working group established between IBM, Chartered Semiconductor and Samsung Electronics which jointly develops common process technologies, which are set up at chip production facilites of all three companies.

Arteris

 

power management kit

 
  • ARM offers industry's broadest 40nm G Physical IP Platform
    > The ARM DesignStart online access program claims to offer the most comprehensive online IP library in the industry. DesignStart contains over 10,000 standard cells, memories and interconnect libraries accessible online. Several of the libraries are sponsored by the foundries and accessible free of charge.

Intelligent Energy Manager

 

LP5550, PowerWise

 
  • LP5550 PowerWise Technology Compliant Energy Management Unit
  • Samsung To Benefit From ARM And National Semiconductor Power Management Collabor...
    > The APC communicates to an external Power Management Unit (PMU) through the open-standard PWI interface® (PWI) (www.pwistandard.org). The PMU then delivers the lowest level of required voltage to the SoC, minimizing active and static system power and energy consumption.
    > The APC forms an integral part of the ARM IEM technology, which includes ARM Artisan® Physical IP, AMBA 3 AXI™ interconnect, IEM software and IEC hardware.
    > “Today’s leading portable device manufacturers need to ensure that consumers are able to enjoy high-data rate features and extended battery life,” said Ravi Ambatipudi, director of advanced power management products, National Semiconductor. “By combining PowerWise technology and PWI, Samsung will be able to deliver the benefits of extremely power and energy-efficient SoC semiconductor integrated circuits to the mobile phone market.”
  • PowerWise Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS)
    > In order to address tomorrow's energy-saving needs, National Semiconductor introduces Adaptive Voltage Scaling Technology. AVS is suited to power constrained applications such as portable devices, USB powered peripherals, consumer electronics, and high volume systems such as data centers and cellular base stations. Anywhere that an ASIC, processor, SoC or is used, AVS can be implemented.

picoChip

 
  • PC202
    > The standard device integrates a 248-element picoArray and 280MHz ARM926EJ-S processor with application accelerators for forward error correction, FFT/IFT, security and encryption.

Cadence

 
  • Silicon-Ready Reference Methodologies
    > Cadence Delivers Silicon-Ready Reference Methodologies for ARM Cortex-A9 Processor
    > The flows are available for three configurations of the ARM Cortex-A9 processor: single core, dual Cortex-A9 MPCore™ multicore processor and quad Cortex-A9 MPCore™ multicore processor.

Finance

 
  • ARM Reports Q1 Results
    > ARM remains cautious about the near-term outlook but said that order visibility seems to have improved in the past few months. On the earnings call, the firm reaffirmed its 2009 full-year revenue forecast of $460 million, or GBP 288 million in its reporting currency using today’s exchange rate.
  • ARM Holdings Plc - Results For The Third Quarter And Nine Months Ended 30 Septem...
    > Tim Score, Chief Financial Officer, added:
    "Record royalty revenues and unit shipments illustrate the market leadership of ARM technologies across a broad spectrum of digital products. Operating margins are consistently above 30% and our cash generation is strong, enabling us both to invest in the innovative technologies that drive revenue growth and to return cash to shareholders via dividends and share buybacks."
  • average selling price
    > This trend is expected to have a positive impact on the overall average royalty rate earned by ARM as the average selling price of products based on ARM926 technology is higher than the weighted average selling price of all other products shipped.
  • Royalty
    > ARM’s royalties are typically based on a percentage of the selling price of the semiconductor chip, the overall average royalty per ARM microprocessor increased from 5.9c in Q4 2007 to 6.2c in Q1 2008.
  • Development Systems and Service revenues
    > Sales of development systems in Q1 2008 were $14.2 million, representing 11% of group revenues, compared to $13.5 million in Q1 2007. Service revenues in Q1 2008 were $8.1 million, representing 6% of group revenues, compared to $8.0 million in Q1 2007.
  • Q2 2008
  • UPDATE 1-ARM Q2 dollar revenue falls; outlook brightening
    > Arm posted second-quarter revenue of $105.5 million, which translated to 64.8 million pounds, broadly in line with a year earlier thanks to the stronger dollar, and just short of expectations.

eASIC

 
  • ARM Utilizes eASIC Devices to Validate Cortex-A9 MPCore Multicore Processor-Base...
    > “We were able to develop our eASIC device in a reduced time and cost of a standard cell ASIC and with development costs that were even lower than an FPGA approach and the eASIC device worked right first time on our PBX-A9 validation and development board,” said John Goodacre, Director, Program Management of ARM Processor Division. “We see the 90nm Nextreme eASIC technology as a very cost effective way of validating and demonstrating new products to our customer base and getting them to market much earlier.”

Cavium Networks

 
  • Cavium Networks Introduces Integrated Econa ARM
    > The CNS2135 is available as a stand-alone processor and in a network module form-factor called the CNS2135-TK. The network module consists of a 2-layer PCB design with a small form-factor of 74x40x19mm. The module hosts an Econa CNS2135 ARM processor with embedded 4Mx16-Mbyte SDRAM, 1-MByte Serial NOR flash, integrated Ethernet port and a USB 2.0 host connector in a ready-to-use compact dongle form factor.

Embedded Linux

 
  • Embedded Linux Learning Kit
    Set up boot parameters and boot Linux

    Configure and build the Linux kernel

    Access peripheral devices with and without device drivers

John Goodacre

 
  • The Design Dilemma: Multiprocessing using Multiprocessors and Multithreading
    > Intel was the first to move with an MT technology known as ‘Hyper-Threading’, AMD more reservedly positioned themselves for what clearly became the dual core race, with both seeking to be the first to offer a true MP solution to the home computing market. What has caused this paradigm shift from two prominent semiconductor companies towards MP?

IEM Software

 

OpenSynergy

 

CoreSight™ Design Kits

 

Caravel Info Systems Private Limited

 
  • Caravel Info Systems
    > Caravel info Systems (100% Subsidary of Cranes Software International) CMM level 5 company at Bangalore. Caravel info systems has a large team of 70 engineers (both H/W and S/W) working in product development focusing on indigenous solutions.

NXP

 
  • NXP Successfully Deploys Integrated CoWare and ARM Cortex Processor-based Soluti...
    > VPE is NXP’s internal development environment utilizing the virtualized representation of an electronic system. It removes the dependency on the availability of expensive hardware prototypes and development test benches and provides cost-effective software development capabilities for debugging and analysis. NXP’s VPE is based on CoWare’s technology. Using their VPE with the ARM® Cortex-A9 processor-based Fast Model, NXP ported Linux in record time, ahead of RTL availability and faster than with traditional emulation based development methods.

Common Platform Foundry Process

 
  • Companies Combine Low-Power Processor Architecture, Integrated Design Flow and S...
    > ARM brings a robust portfolio of logic, memory and interface IP, as well as its widely adopted Cortex(TM) processor family that is used in a broad array of mobile applications. ARM Physical IP optimized for the Common Platform 32/28nm process delivers valuable low-power and system cost benefits. The intention of this agreement is to ensure the IP is fully optimized with the Synopsys design flow.

VMM-LP

 
  • Industry's First Low Power Verification Methodology Manual, Authored by ARM, Re...
    > The VMM-LP book documents the common causes of low power bugs, provides rules and guidelines for low power verification, specifies a SystemVerilog base class library facilitating the setup of a reusable verification environment, and recommends assertions and coverage techniques to accomplish comprehensive low power verification.

Fast Models

 
  • Leading EDA Companies Join New ARM Fast Models Enablement Program
    > “We are seeing a growing demand for high-performance models in the industry,” said John Cornish, EVP and general manager, System Design Division, ARM. “The TLM-2.0 interface enables our customers to combine our processor Fast Models with models of their other IP to create complete virtual platforms in the design environment of their choice.”

ENEA

 

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