Faraday Expands Free Library Offerings for
UMC's 130nm (0.13um) Logic Process
Long-term cooperative program will also develop
a full portfolio of comprehensive IPs optimized for UMC's 90-nanometer
process and beyond
HSINCHU, TAIWAN and MILPITAS, CA, April 25, 2002 - Faraday Technology
Corporation (5404.TW), a leader in silicon Intellectual Properties
(IP), and UMC (NYSE: UMC), a world leading semiconductor foundry,
today announced the introduction of free low power and "Fusion"
cell libraries for UMC's 130-nanometer (0.13-micron) logic process.
The low power cell libraries are available immediately while the Fusion
libraries, which enable compatibility between high-performance cell
libraries and low-power cell libraries, will be available in the coming
months. The two companies have also formed a cooperative program to
develop a comprehensive set of IP elements optimized for UMC's 90nm
process to give customers a wide range of resources ready for integration
into complex system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs.
Each of Faraday's new 130nm
IP and cell libraries will fully comply with UMC's design rules
that include models that support the industry's leading design tools,
such as those from Synopsys, Cadence, and Avant!.
The availability of these
resources help reduce design times, giving customers a competitive
edge by minimizing time to tape-out. In addition to the IP and free
library program, the long-term cooperative effort will focus on
the development of a full range of IPs for both 130nm and 90nm generations.
"The cooperation with
Faraday is designed to help customers reduce their time-to-market,
allowing them to quickly adopt and design into the latest technology,"
said Dr. Fu Tai Liou, chief officer of worldwide sales and marketing
for UMC. "We have a long working history with Faraday, and
the introduction of Fusion libraries and IPs for our 130nm process
demonstrates the productive relationship between our two companies.
Now, SoC designers have a valuable design resource to maximize the
performance potential and power consumption of their 130nm IC designs."
"Faraday's long-term
relationship with UMC has distinguished our jointly developed process-dependent
IPs as the industry's best choices," said H.P. Lin, President
of Faraday. "We look forward to extending this relationship
and to our continuing goal of providing an ever improving range
of IPs and services to our growing base of clients."
For more information, please
visit UMC's or Faraday's website, or directly contact Faraday's
Roger Cheng (USA) at +1-408-935-0888.
About Faraday Technology Corporation
Faraday Technology Corporation has been providing remarkable ASIC
design services and valuable IPs (Intellectual Properties) for customers
ranging from small start-ups to large multinational IC design houses
and system houses. With more than 350 employees and annual revenue
of 2.4 billion NT Dollars in 2001, Faraday is the largest organization
of its type in the Asia-Pacific area. Headquartered in Hsinchu,
Taiwan, Faraday has branch offices around the world, including the
U.S.A., Japan and Europe. More information on Faraday is available
at http://www.faraday.com.tw
Contacts:
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UMC
KJ Communications
Eileen Elam
(650) -917-1488
kjcome@cs.com
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Faraday
Selina Ko
(886) 3-578-7888 ext. 8048
selina@faraday.com.tw
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In Taiwan
UMC
Alex Hinnawi
(886) -2-2700-6999 ext. 6958
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