TSMC, Virage team for embedded memories, logic libraries

The companies believe this work will allow each company to more quickly meet customers' shifting and stringent application-specific requirements.

By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor -- Electronic News, 9/30/2008

To provide end-market process optimized intellectual property (IP) for SoC designs for mainstream and advanced process technologies, Hsinchu, Taiwan-based foundry giant TSMC and Fremont, Calif-based semiconductor IP company Virage Logic Corp have extended a collaboration agreement to include the development of physical IP, such as embedded memories and logic libraries, for new as well as optimized processes ranging 180- to 40-nm.

The companies believe this work will allow each company to more quickly meet customers’ shifting and stringent application-specific requirements.

“TSMC and Virage Logic are responding to the global semiconductor industry’s need to have optimized IP available concurrently with optimized process availability,” commented Brani Buric, executive VP of marketing at Virage, in a statement.

Both companies recently participated in a panel on IP quality and yield at the GSA’s recent IP conference.