STARC Standardizes On Artisan's Memories For IC Designs Targeted At 90-Nanometer Process Technologies

Business Wire,  May 18, 2003  

• E-mail
• Print
• Link

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2003

Artisan Components, Inc., (Nasdaq:ARTI)

Agreement Provides Consortium of Japan's Leading Semi Companies

With Full Suite of Artisan's High-Speed, High-Density and

Low-Power Memory Generators

Artisan Components, Inc., (Nasdaq:ARTI), a leading provider of physical intellectual property (IP), today announced that its high-speed, high-density and low-power memory generators have been adopted by the Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC). A consortium comprised of Japan's leading semiconductor companies, STARC will standardize on Artisan's memory products for IC designs targeted at 90-nanometer processes. The designs will be produced at Advanced SoC Platform Corporation (ASPLA), which is a common fabrication facility established by Japan's leading integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) that have jointly developed mainstream and low-power process technologies.

Artisan expects to deliver a comprehensive offering of its memory generators for single- and dual-port SRAM, single- and two-port register files and diffusion programmable ROM. The suite of products will be optimized for ASPLA's 90-nanometer process technologies' design rules and characterized using ASPLA's latest electrical models. The Artisan memory generators will include support for Artisan's extensive set of views and models of the industry's leading EDA tools.

"STARC's mission is to create an infrastructure of common IP components and process technologies to make SoC design more efficient, manufacturable and affordable," said Tadahiko Nakamura, vice president and general manager of IP Development Department at STARC. "Artisan's widely used memory products have a reputation for quality and first-right silicon, and meet our criteria for building a common design standard for our path to silicon."

STARC and ASPLA are comprised of Fujitsu Ltd., Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd., NEC Corporation, OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd, Renesas Technology Corporation (a joint venture of Hitachi Ltd. & Mitsubishi Electric Corporation), Rohm Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation. The twelve member companies are working together to offer a standardization of IP components for SoC design and establish manufacturing technology platform to drive the fabrication of these devices in 90-nanometer and lower process technologies.

"STARC's initiative is in step with Artisan's focus on providing a common design foundation to address design-for-manufacturability solutions," said Mark Templeton, president and chief executive officer of Artisan. "We are pleased that this consortium of Japan's leading semiconductor manufacturers have selected Artisan's memory products as their design standard."

About Artisan Components

Artisan Components, Inc. is a leading provider of physical intellectual property (IP) components for the design and manufacture of complex system-on-a-chip integrated circuits. Artisan's products include embedded memory, standard cell, input/output, analog, mixed-signal and communications components, which are designed to achieve the best combination of performance, density, power and yield for a given manufacturing process. Artisan has licensed its IP components to over 1,000 companies involved in integrated circuit design. Artisan is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. More information about Artisan Components, including free library access can be found at: http://www.artisan.com.

Artisan Components, Artisan and Process-Perfect are registered trademarks of Artisan Components, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

COPYRIGHT 2003 Business Wire
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning