Editor’s note: Arm and Samsung Foundry are extending their collaboration on FD-SOI, which they’ll be highlighting at the SOI Consortium’s Silicon Valley Symposium April 9th. In the meantime, Arm Senior Product Marketing Manager Umang Doshi described the range of projects in a recent Arm Community / Developer physical IP blog. We thank Arm for sharing […]
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FD-SOI for RF & mmWave: Free Workshop, 4 April ’19, Grenoble
FD-SOI for RF and mmWave communications is a hot topic. In high-data rate communications like RF and millimeter-wave devices in particular, FD-SOI delivers high-performance with numerous unique advantages, making it most likely the fastest RF-CMOS technology on the market. If you’d like to take a deep dive and learn more about it, Soitec and Incize […]
Synopsys IP for 22FDX Automotive – Why It Matters (Courtesy: D. Nenni, semiwiki)
Note to our readers: Semiwiki Founder Dan Nenni recently wrote an excellent piece on the importance of the Synopsys investment in automotive IP for GlobalFoundries’ 22FDX (FD-SOI) technology. He graciously has given us permission to reprint it here in ASN. By Dan Nenni, CEO & Founder, SemiWiki.com IP vendors have always had the inside track […]
SOI Wafers on the Move – News from Soitec with Samsung, Simgui, China Mobile, Renesas & More
The world’s SOI wafer leader, Soitec is posting strong sales and issuing a steady stream of compelling announcements. This is clearly good news for everyone in the SOI ecosystem, as the outlook for the various families of SOI wafers is excellent. Soitec CEO Paul Boudre told ASN, “I’m excited because of the fundamentals behind the […]
GF-Dolphin 22FDX Turnkey Adaptive Body Bias Solutions Offer Big Energy Savings, Faster TTM. Design Kits Q2/19.
GlobalFoundries and Dolphin Integration are collaborating on the development of a series of adaptive body bias (ABB) solutions to improve the energy efficiency and reliability of SoCs on GF’s 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX®) process technology for a wide range of high-growth applications such as 5G, IoT and automotive. The goal of the IP is to accelerate […]
World 1st and It’s on 28nm FD-SOI: ST Sampling ePCM (eNVM) for Automotive MCUs
STMicroelectronics is now sampling 28nm FD-SOI microcontrollers (MCUs) with embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) based on ePCM to alpha customers. Field trials meeting the requirements of automotive applications and full technology qualification are expected in 2020. These MCUs—the world’s first to use ePCM, which stands for embedded Phase-Change Memory—will target powertrain systems, advanced and secure gateways, […]
2019 Greetings for the Start of an Exciting Year in SOI
Welcome to our first post for 2019 here at the SOI Consortium’s Advanced Substrate News. First and foremost, may we wish you and yours a safe, happy, healthy and prosperous year. It should be a good year across the SOI ecosystem, with new products, players, IP, technologies and tools — and high volumes. What’s new? […]
India & Industry 1st Next Gen TV SoCs on Samsung 28nm FD-SOI (Demo at CES ’19)
Going to CES? Check out the demo by Saankhya Labs. They just announced the launch of their latest next-gen digital terrestrial TV demodulator chipsets, SL3000 and SL4000. As reported by The Times of India and many other media outlets, the chipset is part of the Pruthvi-3 series, and it’s being manufactured on Samsung Foundry’s 28nm […]
FD-SOI Training: Over 220 Attend 1st SOI Academy in Shanghai
There were over 220 participants at the recent SOI Academy FD-SOI Training event organized in Shanghai. The event extended over two days, with the first day covering a basic introduction to the technology as well as the ecosystem worldwide and in China. The second day was hands-on professional training. Attendees got a comprehensive understanding of […]
EuroSOI-ULIS (April 2019, Grenoble) + Free FD-SOI RF Technology Workshop for 5G
If you’ve never been, you should put it on your list. EuroSOI is one of those seminal conferences where you get a front-row seat to emerging technologies. It provides an interactive forum for scientists and engineers working in the field of new materials and advanced nanoscale devices. In fact, some of the leading technologies enabled […]