1st Silicon Partners with Virtual IP Group; Design Service and IP Provider to Accelerate 1st Silicon Customers' Time-to-Market.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers KUCHING, Sarawak, Malaysia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2001 1st Silicon (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. announced a partnership agreement with Virtual IP Group Inc., a design foundry providing intellectual property (IP) cores and deep-submicron Integrated Circuit (IC) design services. With design center locations in Sunnyvale, California and Hyderabad, India, Virtual IP Group is able to provide round-the-clock coverage to customers targeting designs for 1st Silicon's semiconductor fabrication. Earlier this year, Virtual IP Group validated a front-to-back design flow with three different designs and completed a successful tapeout using 1st Silicon's foundry-specific I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output library, cell library and SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory compiler. The partnership enables customer access to proven COT tapeout resources using 1st Silicon's libraries and semiconductor processes. Mr. Claudio G. Loddo, 1st Silicon CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , remarked, "1st Silicon is a pure play foundry that focuses on core competency in wafer manufacturing. We partner with IP and design service experts to best serve current and future customers in their product design and development. Principal among these, are the services resulting from our relationship with Virtual IP Group. Virtual IP Group's superior design services and IP solutions with 1st Silicon's dedicated application engineering support, will help our customers see their circuit ideas and innovations materialize into working silicon with ease. " "Virtual IP Group allows our customers to access expert design development help as well as embedded core solutions compliant with many of the popular open standard bus architectures. Virtual IP Group can provide seamless interfaces and a family of IP peripherals that include USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. , PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) The electronic circuit that makes up the serial port. Also known as "universal serial asynchronous receiver transmitter" (USART), it converts parallel bytes from the CPU into serial bits for transmission, and vice , Ethernet and memory controller functions plus other important elements for system-on-chip (SOC) development." Virtual IP Group COO, Mr. Joseph Hong, added, "We value our partnership with 1st Silicon, a leading silicon foundry. With a portfolio of 80+ IP cores and logic as well as physical design teams covering two major continents, our joint customers have access to a proven SOC solution. Both 1st Silicon and Virtual IP Group are dedicated totally to customer service and support. Neither company sell chips. The proprietary nature of our customers' designs remain un-compromised," Hong concluded. About Virtual IP Group. Virtual IP Group was established in 1994. It is a leading design foundry providing intellectual property (IP) development, licensing and integration services as well as front end and back end design services. The company offers a comprehensive library of silicon-proven, synthesizable intellectual property cores for implementation in FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. , ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. and COT design platforms. In March 2000, ZiLOG Inc. purchased a 20-percent equity stake in Virtual IP Group and QualCore Logic Ltd., an affiliate of Virtual IP Group located in Hyderabad, India. For additional information, visit www.virtualipgroup.com or call 408/733-3344. About 1st Silicon (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. 1st Silicon is a dedicated semiconductor foundry founded in 1998 by the Malaysian State of Sarawak. 1stSilicon's 200mm wafer fab has a capacity in excess of 30,000 wafers per month when fully ramped. The Company has started volume production with 0.25um digital and mixed signal CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. technology in Q1 2001, and has introduced its 0.18um process. 1st Silicon's customers include Integrated Device Manufacturers and Fabless Semiconductor companies from the US, Japan, and Asia. The Company has its headquarters in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, and a US registered subsidiary corporation located in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . Please visit 1st Silicon's homepage at www.1stsilicon.com for more information. NOTE: "1st Silicon" and the 1st Silicon logo are trademarks belonging to 1st Silicon (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. |
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