The FD-SOI ecosystem is strong. This was made clear at the recent Tokyo SOI Workshop, organized by the SOI Consortium. The event was spread out over two days, and most of the presentations are now posted (click here to access them). To cover the full scope of the workshop will take (at least) a couple […]
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$100M+ investment for FDX™ FD-SOI Chengdu design center of excellence
GlobalFoundries and the Chengdu municipality plan to build a world-class FD-SOI ecosystem including multiple design centers in Chengdu and university programs across China. They’ve announced an investment of more than $100 million, which is expected to attract leading semiconductor companies to Chengdu, making it a center of excellence for designing next-generation chips in mobile, IoT, […]
Body Biasing: It’s Not an Obligation, It’s an Opportunity. And Other Take-Aways from the FD-SOI Design Tutorial Day.
Over a hundred chip designers packed the room for the SOI Consortium’s recent FD-SOI Design Techniques Tutorial Day. Five professors and scientists from top institutions covered design techniques with real examples in digital, mixed-signal, analog, RF, mmW and ULV memory. Although it was in Silicon Valley, people actually flew in from all over the world […]
Upcoming SOI/FD-SOI Workshop in Tokyo – Great Line-Up, Registration Still Open
Looking for insight into the state of SOI and FD-SOI in Japan? Want to find out who’s doing IP and design support? Wondering about the major drivers? If you’re in the region, you can find out – and network with the top players in the ecosystem – at the 3rd Annual SOI Tokyo Workshop. The […]
ARM Steps Up! And More Good News From Consortium’s FD-SOI Symposium in Silicon Valley
ARM is stepping up its effort to support the FD-SOI ecosystem. “Yes, we’re back,” confirmed Ron Moore, VP of ARM’s physical design group. This and much more good news came out of the recent FD-SOI Symposium organized in Silicon Valley by the SOI Consortium. The full-day Symposium played to a packed room, and was followed […]
Quick Preview of (Great!) FD-SOI Design Tutorial Day (14 April ’17, Silicon Valley)
Would you like to better understand FDSOI-based chip design? If you’re in Silicon Valley, you’re in luck. On April 14th, the SOI Consortium is organizing a full day of FDSOI tutorials for chip designers. This is not a sales day. This is a learning day. On the agenda are FD-SOI specific design techniques for: analog […]
New Advanced NV Memory IP for FDSOI – Attopsemi Joins GF’s FDXcelerator Program
There’s a new memory IP specialist on board for the FDSOI ecosystem. Attopsemi Technology has joined GlobalFoundries’ FDXcelerator™ Partner Program (read the press release here). Attopsemi is ensuring that its scalable, non-volatile one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP is compatible with GF’s 22FDX® technology. Their leading-edge I-fuse™ OTP IP is a fuse-based OTP technology that can […]
GF: 45nm RF-SOI PDKs for 5G
GlobalFoundries has announced availability of its 45nm RF-SOI technology (read the press release here). Dubbed 45RFSOI, the company says it’s the first 300mm RF solution for next-gen mmWave beamforming applications in future 5G base stations and smart phones. The technology supports mmWave spectrum operation from 24GHz to 100GHz band, 5x more than 4G operating frequencies. […]
GF FD-SOI: Fab for China, Expansion in Europe
SOI Consortium member GlobalFoundries is teaming up with the Chengdu municipality to build a fab in western China offering FD-SOI (see press release here). The partners plan to establish a 300mm fab to support the growth of the Chinese semiconductor market and to meet accelerating global customer demand for 22FDX®, GF’s 22nm FD-SOI process technology. […]
FD-SOI/Shanghai Forum – Panel Sees Great Things Coming
The panel discussion rounding out the day at the recent FD-SOI Forum in Shanghai ended an exciting week (GF’s 12nm FD-SOI & ecosys, Sony’s FD-SOI GPS in the Huami watch) on a decidedly optimistic note. Here’s a quick rundown of some of what was said. (As soon as the presentations given earlier in the day […]