Chartered, Chipidea Team Up for 65nm Node

Staff Reporter -- Electronic News, 7/18/2006

Intellectual property company Chipidea Microelectronica SA has extended the breadth of its existing relationship with Singapore-based foundry Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing to offer analog/mixed-signal IP on common platform technology at 65nm.

Lisbon, Portugal-based Chipidea said today that the company is now working on 65nm high-speed data converters, serving the system-on-chip (SoC) integration trend, that will be submitted to Chartered during Q3.

Additionally, Chipidea's USB 2.0 high-speed OTG physical layer mixed-signal IP in 65nm is in design at the 65nm level. This will be the fourth generation of Chipidea's USB 2.0s available on Chartered processes.

A complement of Chipidea-designed DACs and ADCs are available now for Chartered customers at 90nm. Some are already in silicon, while others have been released to Chartered for fabrication.

"Both Chartered and Chipidea understand that it is paramount for enabling continuous process evolution to have early access to advanced technology and be ready when the most aggressive customers need silicon-proven results," Jose-Maria Moniz, Chipidea's VP of customer services and communications, said in a statement. "The expansion of our working relationship helps both companies' customers reduce time to market by having important IP blocks ready for system-on-chip integration."