Customers benefit from Common platform collaboration

Foundry customers have access to a large library provided by SAMSUNG and the Common Platform ecosystem that includes standard cell, memory compilers and an I/O library.

Flexibility through low-power, generic and high-speed options

The SAMSUNG Semiconductor Foundry offers customers a broad standard-cell library featuring internal designs from SAMSUNG as well as Common Platform Technology libraries from the ARM Foundry Program. These competitive libraries help customers reduce chip size and offers increased performance through a high-speed option. For example, the gate density trend shows greater than 440K gates/mm 2 for 90nm low power and greater than 850K/mm 2 gates for 65nm low power. Also helping customers lower power consumption for their mobile applications are multi-Vth and multi-VDD libraries for ultra-low-power consumption.

Standard-cell library offerings

Customers can choose generic or low power

A broad selection of memory compilers is available from SAMSUNG 's internal library and through ARM. This offering includes dual-Vth architectures for 90nm and 65nm and a triple-gate option for 45nm. Multiple Vth options enable enhanced power management. In memory blocks, for example, higher Vth may be used in bit-cell arrays while lower Vth transistors can be implemented in memory peripheries. Additional low-power-focused options such as sleep mode are enabled.

Customers can choose generic or low power

Customers have access to a broad I/O library through SAMSUNG and the ARM Foundry Program that can play a significant role in developing competitive products. This includes offerings at various geometries, such as fine-pitch I/O. Also included are a wide range of voltage interfaces for mobile design - from 1.8 to 3.3V. In addition, f oundry customers can choose between several application-specific power-down control I/O offerings including:

• Gated I/O - to keep PAD state Hi-Z under power-off mode
• Bypass I/O - to facilitate board designs even in power-off mode
• Retention I/O - to retain PAD state under power-off mode

I/O library