Low Power Solution

With today's proliferation of low power applications, lowering energy consumption without sacrificing performance has become a critical concern for designers of chips used to power today's digital economy. UMC is committed to providing customers with the latest low power solutions, including low power and low leakage transistor options for advanced technologies such as 0.13um and 90nm. UMC also provides silicon verified multi Vt reference flows for low power designs, providing customers with a streamlined path to silicon that allows our customers designing power efficient SoCs to capitalize on today's low power market opportunities.

In addition, UMC has worked with leading low power partners ARM - Artisan, National Semiconductor Corporation, and Synopsys to deliver the ULTRA 926, a UMC Low-power Technology demonstrator Reference design for the ARM926EJ-S core. The "ULTRA" technology demonstrator utilizes UMC's 130e Fusion process, a 0.13um process platform that allows the integration of high-speed and low-leakage transistors in a single CMOS process. The technology demonstrator includes a finished SoC, a demonstration printed circuit board (PCB), and software, and will show how each company's low-power capabilities contribute to a comprehensive low-power offering. A 50% reduction in power consumption has in fact been demonstrated on silicon.