Virage Logic | DAC 2008

SiWare™ Memory & SiWare™ Logic
The SiWare Memory product line provides a powerful dashboard of capabilities to enable tradeoffs between performance, area, power and statistical yield to generate optimal memory configurations. This capability is key at 65nm and critical at 40nm where design and process complexities require sophisticated management of the various tradeoffs in order to effectively meet stringent end-product requirements and increasingly narrow market windows.

The SiWare Logic product line includes yield-optimized, design for manufacturability (DFM) compliant standard cells for a wide variety of design applications at the advanced nodes. SiWare Logic libraries are offered using three separate architectures to optimize circuits for High-Density, Ultra-High-Density or High-Speed for area, speed, and power tradeoffs.

NOVeA® – Embedded Flash on Standard CMOS Process for Secure Military, Encryption, Digital Rights Management, RFID & Code Storage Applications
NOVeA provides ultra-secure embedded Flash technology and is manufactured on a standard CMOS process, eliminating the need for additional mask or process steps. NOVeA provides low-power NVM storage for RFID, encryption, digital rights management and code storage in consumer, industrial, automotive and military applications where factory and/or remote updates may be required. This technology is better suited for hardware encryption than external memory, electrical fuses (eFuse), or laser fuse technology because it utilizes a patented differential storage element, and is manufactured utilizing a single poly floating gate (Flash) technology, making it virtually impossible to physically identify the state of the encryption bits. Today, NOVeA is available on more than seven different foundry and process nodes ranging from 180nm to 90nm, with more advanced nodes planned in the near future.

Intelli™ DDR Memory Controllers
Virage Logic’s Intelli DDR solution is the first DRAM interface IP specifically architected to address high-efficiency and low latency for high-performance applications in a wide variety of market segments. To meet the most critical memory controller requirements, the Intelli interface IP solution includes an arbiter, controller, and PHY/DLL to deliver high-efficiency and enable high-performance at any frequency with the lowest power for any given data throughput.

The Intelli interface IP is optimized to offer the largest amount of flexibility in feature selection, and delivers the smallest area and lowest power for mobile market segments.

STAR™ Memory System
Virage Logic’s unique solution combines soft IP test and repair, design automation and manufacturing tools to help designers transition from the RTL design phase to a fast yield ramp up. As SoCs on advanced technology nodes become more dominated by embedded memories, attention must be paid to the test and repair strategy of the embedded memory IP, and selecting the right solution helps result in higher reliability and yield with lower costs.

Foundry Collaboration & Business Model Options
Virage Logic works in collaboration with a broad range of foundry partners to deliver a selection of advanced process technologies offering comprehensive and seamless solutions to meet our mutual customers' needs.

To accelerate silicon success, Virage Logic offers traditional IP business models, as well as scalable IP business models for pre-paid foundry options.