The design of today's complex integrated circuits requires state-of-the-art electronic design automation (EDA) software tools, design intellectual property (IP), and design services. Chartered supports customers in achieving successful designs by partnering with leading providers in the EDA, IP, and design services areas. This enables our customers to integrate system-level functionality in their products with accelerated time to market along with reduced design and manufacturing risks. We work with our partners very closely on technical and business aspects, providing our customers an advantage of having the best technical solutions available in a seamless fashion.

Chartered has an active alliance program to validate our partners' EDA tools, libraries and design IP with our silicon process technologies to insure that they meet the highest standards.

TSMC offers the industry's largest catalog of third party, silicon-verified, production proven foundry specific intellectual property. Provider cores are validated in TSMC silicon to ensure the best possible design experience, easiest design reuse and the fastest integration into the overall design system.

UMC is helping designers and system developers overcome system-on-chip (SOC) and time-to-market hurdles by providing easy access to third party IP blocks ready for integration into customer designs. The third party IP included in our IP catalog is characterized according to the following guidelines: Bronze - Synthesizable IP: Softcore Available; Bronze* - Non-synthesizable IP: GDSII Available & DRC Clean; Silver - Test Chip on UMC Silicon Shuttle already; Silver* - Silicon Proven; Gold - Mass Production in UMC; Gold* - Mass Production Customer Reference Available at Vendors. To help ensure Interoperability, UMC encourages the adoption of standard interfaces such as OCP, AMBA, and CoreConnect.