Oki's µPLAT® Joins UMC's Gold IP™ Program
Tokyo, Japan, August 24, 2004 -- Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TSE: 6703) today announced that three of its system LSI integrated platforms from its µPLAT® series have joined the Gold IP™ program(*1) at world leading semiconductor foundry UMC. The certified platforms include two hard IPs(*2): the 0.15µm µPLAT-7B, currently rated as ready-for-production Silver IP status, and the µPLAT-7D with Bronze IP status. The third platform is the soft IP(*3) µPLAT-946, also in Bronze IP status.
"Now that we have joined the Gold IP Program, Oki and UMC customers can easily use µPLAT, an IP with a long, successful track record, to develop their system LSIs," said Akira Kamo, President of the Silicon Solutions Company at Oki Electric. "By adding circuits and IPs to the platform, customers can develop customized system LSIs in a short period of time to take advantage of UMC's state of the art process and manufacturing capabilities."
The certification provides viable solutions to customers who desire a performance improvement from 0.18µm but may not yet be ready to migrate to 0.13µm. By providing a development environment to a wide range of customers, Oki will accelerate the implementation of system LSIs based on µPLAT, and has set a sales target of 34 billion yen for µPLAT-based system LSIs in the fiscal year ending March 2007.
[Glossary]
- *1 Gold IP Program:
- UMC's program that provides a broad range of IP cores and standard cell libraries to customers through alliances with IP platform, design service, and EDA companies.
Bronze = Softcore or GDS2, Silver = Hardcore available and silicon verified, and Gold = Production.
- *2 Hard IP:
- A circuit block that combines multiple cells at the final layout layer.
- *3 Soft IP:
- A circuit block that combines multiple cells and is synthesizable.
About Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
Founded more than a century ago in 1881, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. is Japan's first telecommunications manufacturer, with its headquarter in Tokyo, Japan. With the corporate vision, "Oki, Network Solutions for a Global Society," Oki Electric provides top-quality products, technologies and solutions to its customers through its telecommunications systems, information systems and electronic devices segments. All three segments are integrated into one effective organization that functions as a collective force to create exciting new products and technologies, including information and telecom converged solutions. Through its business activities, Oki Electric satisfies a spectrum of customer needs in various markets.
About UMC
UMC (NYSE: UMC, TSE: 2303) is a leading global semiconductor foundry that manufactures advanced process ICs for applications spanning every major sector of the semiconductor industry. UMC delivers cutting-edge foundry technologies that enable sophisticated system-on-chip (SOC) designs, including 90nm copper, 0.13µm copper, and mixed signal/RFCMOS. UMC is also a leader in 300mm manufacturing; Fab 12A in Taiwan and Singapore-based UMCi are both in volume production for a variety of customer products. UMC employs over 9,000 people worldwide and has offices in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Europe, and the United States. UMC can be found on the web at http://www.umc.com.
Notes:
- Gold IP is a trademark of United Microelectronics Corp.
- ARM is a registered trademarks of ARM Limited. Any other trademarks or trade names are the property of their respective owners. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc (LSE: ARM and Nasdaq: ARMHY); its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; and ARM Belgium N.V.
- µPLAT is a registered trademark of Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. in Japan, Germany and the UK.
- Names of companies and products are trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective companies.
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