Design Solutions
The design of today's complex integrated circuits requires state-of-the-art electronic design automation (EDA) software tools, design intellectual property (IP), design services, mask services, and assembly solutions. GLOBALFOUNDRIES supports customers in achieving successful designs by partnering with leading providers in these areas.
GLOBALSOLUTIONS is the sum of GLOBALFOUNDRIES' internal resources and ecosystem partners, combined to efficiently enable the fastest time-to-volume for GLOBALFOUNDRIES' customers. The GLOBALSOLUTIONS ecosystem includes partners in all aspects of design enablement and turnkey services, OPC and mask operations, and advanced capabilities in assembly solutions.
Serving all aspects of design enablement and turnkey services, OPC/mask operations and assembly solutions.
The GLOBALFOUNDRIES' Design Enablement team validates our partners' services and solutions with our silicon process technologies to ensure that they meet the highest standards.
In collaboration with select partners, GLOBALSOLUTIONS include:
Design Tools
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Cadence enables global electronic-design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today’s integrated circuits and electronics. Customers use Cadence software and hardware, methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. Cadence reported 2007 revenues of approximately $1.6 billion, and has approximately 5,100 employees. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry. |
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The Magma Reference Flow for the GLOBALFOUNDRIES 90-nm and 65-nm CMOS Processes provides a unified platform for the design and manufacture of high performance SoCs. |
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Mentor Graphics is a world leader in EDA products, consulting services and award-winning support for electronics and semiconductor companies. Mentor offers solutions that meet the demand for short design
cycle time, improved productivity, and acceptable yield, including tools for IC physical design, physical signoff, yield enhancement and testing of sub-nanometer ICs. Products include the Olympus-SoC place and route system with parallel timer and multi-corner multimode closure, the Calibre physical verification suite with equation-based DRC, Calibre DFM solutions for random, systematic, and parametric issues affecting yield,
and comprehensive DFT tools for production test, failure diagnosis and accelerated yield learning.
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Synopsys is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, IP and services used in semiconductor design and manufacturing. Synopsys' comprehensive, integrated portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and FPGA solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, system-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. |
Library Solutions
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ARM Logic IP solutions include a broad array of Standard Cell Libraries coupled with Power Management Kit and ECO Kit extensions delivering optimal performance, power and area when building ARM Processors, Graphics and Fabric IP along with general SoC subsystem implementation. Designed to deliver highest yield thru extensive DFM optimization, ARM Logic solutions make the ideal choice for today’s advanced, deep submicron SoC designs. |
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Aragio Solutions is a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) and integrated design service provider with a focus on quality ESD designs for IO pad sets. The company's IP and design expertise have been utilized by design teams at companies worldwide. Aragio deliverables provide IC designers with a uniform IO pad set for a wide range of process technologies. Aragio's designs can be customized to a specific client’s needs, or can be implemented as an entire library with the I/O library architecture specified by Aragio. Aragio's solutions have an eleven year track record of success with technology solutions ranging from 0.6 um “old linear” CMOS technology to the Common Platform 65nm process node.
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Synopsys offers a broad portfolio of high-quality, silicon-proven digital, mixed-signal and verification IP for system-on-chip designs. As the leading provider of connectivity IP, Synopsys delivers the industry’s most complete solutions for widely used protocols such as USB, PCI Express®, DDR, SATA, Ethernet and AMBA®. In addition to connectivity IP, Synopsys offers SystemC transaction-level models to build virtual platforms for rapid, pre-silicon development of software. When combined with a robust IP development methodology, reuse tools, extensive investment in quality and comprehensive technical support, DesignWare® IP enables designers to accelerate time-to-market and reduce integration risk. |
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Virage Logic is a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) for the design of complex integrated circuits. The company’s highly differentiated product portfolio includes embedded SRAMs, embedded NVMs, embedded test and repair, logic libraries, memory development software and DDR memory controller subsystems. As the industry’s trusted semiconductor IP partner, foundries, IDMs and fabless customers rely on Virage Logic to achieve higher performance, lower power, higher density and optimal yield, as well as shorten time-to-market and time-to-volume. |
IP Solutions
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ARM® Physical IP Platforms deliver process optimized IP, for best-in-class processor implementations. These platforms are comprised of logic libraries, memory compilers and interface IP. Collectively, they provide a powerful suite of design alternatives, offering System-on-Chip (SoC) designers the ability to balance performance, power, area and manufacturability throughout the design process. ARM leadership in microprocessor architectures, coupled with its Physical IP Platform, delivers optimal SoC designs and reduces time-to-market. |
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Analog Bits, Inc. specializes in designing transistor level IP components fully customized for easy and reliable integration into digital chips designed on modern CMOS logic processes. Products include precision clocking IP macros such as PLLs, DLLs, and programmable interconnect solutions such as multi-protocol SerDes. With over 500 designs in mass production across a variety of processes, Analog Bits a premier clocking IP supplier with a solid track record of first time working silicon at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. |
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The ChipEstimate.com chip planning portal is an ecosystem comprised of over 200 of the world's largest IP suppliers and foundries. These companies all share in the common vision of helping the worldwide electronics design community achieve greater profitability and success. To date, a diverse global audience of over 20,000 users has joined the ChipEstimate.com community and has collectively performed over 80,000 chip estimations. ChipEstimate.com is a property of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic-design innovation.
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Cosmic Circuits
Cosmic Circuits is a leading provider of differentiated analog and mixed-signal silicon IP, single-mindedly focused on analog, with a large team of expert analog designers architecting solutions for the nanometer era. Cosmic Circuits provides some of the industrys leading solutions in all the participating technology areas and offers a broad spectrum of analog IP cores under one roof, including power regulators, A/D and D/A converters, analog base-band solutions, analog audio CODECs, specialty PLL cores, and sub-LVDS chip-to-chip interfaces. Cosmic Circuits offers flexible customization options and complete support for IP integration and characterization. The companys mission is one of ensuring "customer success through quality and differentiation." Cosmic Circuits collaborates actively with the Common Platform technology foundries on cutting-edge technology nodes.
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eMemory Technology Inc. founded in August of 2000, is a technology based company focused on the development of logic embedded non-volatile memory(NVM) such as OTP, MTP, and Flash. We have published 186 patents. There are over 158 companies who have implemented our technologies and intellectual properties (IP) worldwide. With over 550 products customers designed, more than 330 have been manufactured. To date, 560,000 wafers have been fabricated with 95% covered by worldwide foundries. Our product line covers Neobit Fuse, Neobit MTP, Neobit RFID, and NeoFlash. |
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MoSys develops, markets and licenses innovative embedded memory and analog/mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) technologies for advanced SoCs used in a variety of home entertainment, mobile consumer, networking and storage applications. MoSys' patented 1T-SRAM and 1T-FLASH technologies offer a combination of high density, low power, high speed and low cost unmatched by other available memory technologies. MoSys' advanced analog/mixed-signal technologies include highly integrated Blu-ray DVD, Gibabit Ethernet, Serial ATA, and a range of high speed phase lock loop and analog-to-digital converter IP. MoSys' IP has been included in more than 160 million devices demonstrating silicon-proven manufacturability in a wide range of processes and applications. MoSys is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. |
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Synopsys offers a broad portfolio of high-quality, silicon-proven digital, mixed-signal and verification IP for system-on-chip designs. As the leading provider of connectivity IP, Synopsys delivers the industry’s most complete solutions for widely used protocols such as USB, PCI Express®, DDR, SATA, Ethernet and AMBA®. In addition to connectivity IP, Synopsys offers SystemC transaction-level models to build virtual platforms for rapid, pre-silicon development of software. When combined with a robust IP development methodology, reuse tools, extensive investment in quality and comprehensive technical support, DesignWare® IP enables designers to accelerate time-to-market and reduce integration risk. |
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True Circuits develops and markets a broad range of Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs), Delay-Locked Loops (DLLs), and other mixed-signal designs for integrated circuits for the semiconductor, systems and electronics industries. TCI's reputation for reliability and timing excellence is unmatched. TCI's PLL and DLL jitter performance is among the best in the industry. Its leading-edge designs are both versatile and highly process tolerant. |
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Kilopass Technology, Inc. designs, develops and delivers innovative, embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) silicon intellectual property (IP) for SOC applications. Highly reliable, secure, flexible and cost-effective, its one-time programmable(OTP), extra-permanent XPMâ„¢ memory family ranges up to 1Mb and is manufactured in standard logic CMOS processes from 180nm to 40nm. |
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Sidense develops industry-leading Logic NVM (Non-Volatile Memory) that helps SoC designers achieve extraordinary results in cost, density, reliability, security and power using standard-logic CMOS processes. Sidense Logic NVM IP is broadly applied in: digital consumer, mobile, wireless, RFID, code storage, analog trimming, automotive, industrial, configurable processors & logic, and medical applications. |
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Denali Software is a world-leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) tools, intellectual property (IP), software and design platforms for system-on-chip (SoC) design and verification. We deliver the industry's most widely-used solutions for deploying PCI Express, USB, NAND Flash and DDR SDRAM subsystems in electronic designs. Developers use Denali's EDA, IP products and services to simplify design, reduce risk, and accelerate time-to-market for their complex SoC designs. |
SoC Design Services
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eSilicon is an innovative fabless semiconductor company that has pioneered a new business model called Value Chain Producer(VCP). The company provides an extensive suite of ASIC services and solutions aimed at delivering a flexible, low-cost and lower-risk path to volume chip production. |
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Open-Silicon is a SoC and ASIC design company that provides customers with proven, low-risk access to the world's best IP, foundry, test, and packaging technologies. At the core of Open-Silicon is a focus on customer service, low costs, design schedules (predictability), and first time correct silicon (reliability).. |
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Socle is well-recognized in the design and implementation of large SoCs and as an architect for building up more complicated SoC design technology in advanced process nodes, 90nm, 65nm. 40nm, and beyond. ARM-embedded and ultra-deep submicron SoC solutions and services are Socle’s specialties as well. Since 2004 Socle has been the ARM11MP-S®, ARM1176-S®, ARM926EJ-S® and ARM7EJ-S® source licensee of ARM Limited and provides ARM SoC total solutions to meet customer application needs in MID, multimedia handheld communication, integrated connection, consumer, and storage matters. |
Mask Services
Assembly and Test Services
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Amkor is one of the world’s largest providers of contract semiconductor assembly and test services. Founded in 1968, Amkor pioneered the outsourcing of IC assembly and test and is now a strategic manufacturing partner for more than 200 of the world’s leading semiconductor companies and electronics OEMs. Amkor’s operational base encompasses more than 5 million square feet of floor space with production facilities, product development centers and sales & support offices located in key electronics manufacturing regions in Asia, Europe and the United States. |
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The ASE Group is the world's largest provider of independent semiconductor manufacturing services in assembly and test. As a global leader geared towards meeting the industry’s ever growing needs for faster, smaller and higher performance chips, the Group develops and offers a wide portfolio of technology and solutions including IC test program design, front-end engineering test, wafer probe, wafer bump, substrate design and supply, wafer level package, flip chip, system-in-package, final test and design manufacturing services through Universal Scientific Industrial Co Ltd, a member of the ASE Group. |
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A trusted partner and supplier to leading semiconductor companies worldwide, STATS ChipPAC provides fully integrated, multi-site, end-to-end packaging and testing solutions that bring products to the market faster. STATS ChipPAC Ltd. is a leading service provider of semiconductor packaging design, bump, probe, assembly, test and distribution solutions. We have the scale to provide a comprehensive range of semiconductor packaging and test solutions to a diversified global customer base servicing the computing, communications, consumer, automotive and industrial markets. |
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United Test & Assembly Center Ltd ("UTAC") is a leading independent provider of test and assembly services for a wide range of semiconductor devices that includes memory, mixed signal/RF and logic integrated circuits. UTAC offers full turnkey services from wafer sort / laser repair, assembly, test, burn-in, mark-scan-pack, and drop shipment. As value-added services, UTAC also offers services such as package design and simulation, test solutions development and device characterization, failure analysis, and full reliability tests. |
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