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Grenoble, France, June 8, 2015: CEA-Leti announced today that seven partners have joined its new FD-SOI IC development program, Silicon Impulse, launched to provide a comprehensive IC technology platform that offers IC design, advanced intellectual property, emulator and test services along with industrial multi-project wafer (MPW) shuttles.
The collaborative design platform for advanced processes includes a network of design services and facilities focused on accelerating development of products for today’s and tomorrow’s devices that require low-power use. These include energy-efficient computing systems, Ultra-Low-Power (ULP) Internet of Things (IoT) devices and robust and reliable applications in harsh environments. The platform leverages the competencies and expertise of the CEA-Leti and CEA-List institutes and Leti’s industrial partners, which comprise a wide spectrum of technical and application knowledge.
Silicon ImpulseTM partners are major industrial players in the semiconductor ecosystem, world-class research centers and technology providers. Based on this strong foundation, Silicon ImpulseTM will significantly reduce development time and speed industrialization, thus putting innovative companies at the cutting edge of energy-efficient system development and implementation. It will do this through a network of FD-SOI experts and access to a strong industrial supply chain.
Silicon Impulse partners:
CEA-Leti (coordinator)
CEA-List
STMicroelectronics
Dolphin Integration
CMP
Mentor Graphics
Cortus
Presto Engineering
In addition, CEA-Leti is planning to use its research & development license from ARM to demonstrate various energy-efficient processor implementations in FD-SOI for its IoT development platform. The FD-SOI ecosystem also includes Synopsys, with its rich portfolio of proven DesignWare® IP products and EDA tools for the FD-SOI design community. Silicon Impulse is in discussion with Synopsys to join the program in order to further extend the program’s reach.
Launched by Leti in 2015, Silicon ImpulseTM is designed to help innovative companies deal with the challenge of switching to new technologies and markets by augmenting both their knowledge of the supply chain and their skills to master the entire design process from ideas to products. To that end, Silicon ImpulseTM will provide technical expertise, knowhow and access to advanced industrial, energy-efficient solutions to get innovators up to speed on the ecosystem of energy-efficient products by facilitating access to FD-SOI technology and manufacturing facilities.
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