Samsung Foundry
Advanced process technologies, manufacturing expertise, and first-class services
Learn why Samsung Foundry is a critical resource for competitive fabless and integrated device manufacturer semiconductor companies. Samsung Foundry offers deep expertise in advanced process and design technologies as well as an excellent track record in high-volume manufacturing. We offer a full range of foundry capabilities from design engagements to turnkey projects, with a focus on leading-edge process technologies from 90nm to 32/28nm on 300mm wafers and beyond.
Benefit from Samsung's optimized foundry solutions
By outsourcing some or all of the design and manufacturing details to Samsung, you can be confident of maintaining the highest possible product quality while saving time and cost. Samsung Foundry provides a full range of solutions including advanced process technology, design services, design intellectual property (IP), and manufacturing facilities. Customer support is available at every step, from the initial engagement to volume manufacturing. And customer IP is stringently protected.
Innovation meets inspiration in the Samsung 20nm low-power process. Learn more
Customers can take advantage of high-volume manufacturing capabilities at Samsung's manufacturing plant located in Giheung, South Korea. Our manufacturing facility maintains advanced 90nm, 65nm, 45nm, and 32/28nm production equipment.
Samsung Foundry offerings at a glance.
Advanced process technologies
- 90nm
- 65nm
- 45nm
- 32/28nm HKMG
- 20nm HKMG
- AMBA-based peripherals
- AMBA 2.0/3.0–based peripherals
- Memory controllers (SDRAM/SRAM/NOR/NAND)
- MultiMediaCard (MMC) interface for Secure Digital MMC and Secure Digital I/O (SDMMC/SDIO)
- ARM PrimeCell
CPU cores
- ARM Cortex-A9 and ARM Cortex-A15
- ARM7, ARM9, and ARM11 families
- ARM Cortex-M family
Digital signal processing (DSP) cores
- CEVA-TeakLite
- CEVA-Teak
General and special-purpose I/O
- LVCMOS (in-line, STG, CUP)
- SSTL2/SSTL18/SSTL15/SSTL12
High-speed interfaces
- SATA
- Ethernet
- UniPro
- PCI Bridge Device
- USB 2.0/3.0
- 8G Universal SerDes (SAS/SATA/PCI Express)
- 3G/6G Serial ATA
- DDR2, DDR3, mDDR, LPDDR2
- DDR3/DDR2 combo
- LVDS, sub-LVDS, mini-LVDS
- HDMI
- DisplayPort
- MIPI
Memory devices
- Single-port SRAM (HD, LP)
- Dual-port SRAM (HD, LP)
- Register File (1RW, 1R1W)
- Redundancy SRAM
- ROM
- OTP
Mixed signal cores
- ADC: 6 to 14 bits, up to 450MHz
- DAC: 8 to 16 bits, up to 300MHz
- PLL: Up to 2GHz, frequency synthesizer, deskew, pixel clock, dithered, clock
- Codec: 16-bit audio, 14-bit voice
- AFE
- Voltage regulator
Multimedia devices
- MPEG4/H.264
- 2D/3D engine
- JPEG codec
- NTSC/PAL encoder
Peripheral cores
- 10/100 MAC Ethernet controllers
- USB 2.0/3.0 function cores
- IEEE 1394 link controllers
- PCIe controllers
- SATA controllers
- IrDA
- UART
- Synchronous Serial Interface (SSI)
- Real-time clocks
- Keyboard/mouse interface
- General-purpose interface
- Smart card/SIM interface
- MultiMediaCard (MMC) interface
- Asynchronous static memory controllers (SRAM, flash, ROM)
- Universal memory controllers (SDRAM, Synch Flash, SRAM)
- DMA controllers
- LCD controllers
- Watch-dog timers
- Programmable interrupt controllers
Standard cell libraries
- High density
- High speed
- Multi Vt
- Power management
- Multichannel
Capitalize on Samsung's design and process ecosystem
Samsung Foundry customers can leverage Samsung's many joint research and development alliances, including the International Semiconductor Development Alliance (ISDA), to access the latest process technologies and help solve their most critical design issues. A broad ecosystem of services includes:
- Best-in-class reference flows from major electronic design automation (EDA) vendors
- An extensive IP portfolio including mixed-signal, peripheral, multimedia cores, and interfaces
- Comprehensive libraries of standard cells, memory compilers, and I/O interfaces
- Advanced packaging and testing
- Predictive design-for-manufacturing solutions to address yield upstream in the design flow
Additional support is available from Common Platform, a collaboration of Samsung, IBM, and Globalfoundries offering advanced digital CMOS process development. Customers benefit by having the flexibility to source a design at any of the three companies' synchronized 300mm facilities and by having the option to use multiple sites to meet capacity needs.
Take advantage of Samsung's world-class infrastructure
As an industry-leading semiconductor manufacturer, Samsung has spent billions of dollars on capacity expansion and advanced technology development, providing a world-class infrastructure to help our foundry customers achieve market* success. We are dedicated to providing customers with a complete and reliable path to product development and production – leading to shortened development time, reduced risk, and first-pass success.
