Artisan Components' Libraries Tapped by Centillium Communications For High-Speed Voice over Packet and Digital Subscriber Line Processors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2002 Artisan Components, Inc. (Nasdaq:ARTI), a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP), and Centillium Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTLM CTLM Imaging Computed tomography laser mammography A diagnostic technique using lasers to produce a 3-D cross-sectional image of the breast without x-rays. See Mammography. ), innovator of broadband communications technology, today announced that Artisan's industry-standard library products were used in Centillium's Entropia(TM) and CopperFlite(TM) families of products. Centillium's design challenge was to develop high-density products utilizing TSMC's 0.18-micron low-voltage process. Artisan fulfilled Centillium's requirements by providing its TSMC TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation TSMC Traffic Systems Management Center TSMC Toll Station Management Controller TSMC Transportation Supply Maintenance Command TSMC Technical Services Manager Code process-optimized memory generators and SAGE-X Standard Cell Library. With Artisan's libraries integrated into Centillium's Entropia and CopperFlite products, Centillium can provide innovative products optimized for speed and density to its customers. "Artisan's business model effectively offered a low barrier to entry for our new products," said Roy Batruni, vice president of engineering, Access Business Unit, Centillium Communications. "With Artisan's alignment with TSMC and its free access of libraries for licensed customers, Centillium was able to concentrate on reaching key benchmarks without the worry of up-front costs." Artisan provided Centillium with early access to its new technologies, allowing Centillium ample time to design its next generation ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line and VoP products. Additionally, Artisan's excellent customer service combined with early access to its products allowed Centillium an early time-to-market. "Centillium's market-leading Entropia VoP family of products enable manufacturers to transmit voice over data networks and the company's CopperFlite technologies allow use of pre-existing copper telephone lines to transmit and receive data of up to 100 times faster than today's fastest analog modems," said Neal Carney, vice president of marketing at Artisan Components. "Artisan's quality memory and standard cell library products are well suited to meet customers' requirements for speed, density and high-manufacturing yield." About Centillium Communications Centillium Communications, Inc. is combining technical innovation and customer commitment to make broadband communications a market reality. Centillium consistently delivers value to its customers by providing broadband networking systems for applications across all market segments. The company designs and markets communications chipset solutions for central office equipment, digital loop carrier In telephone communications, a technology that increases the number of channels in the local loop by converting analog signals to digital and multiplexing them back to the end office. (DLC (1) (Data Link Control) See data link and OSI. (2) (Data Link Control) The data link layer protocol (layer 2) that is used in IBM's SNA networking. See SNA, data link protocol and Microsoft DLC. ) line cards, and customer premises equipment See CPE. for Digital Subscriber Line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary ), Voice over Packet (VoP) and Premises Networking. The Centillium Communications headquarters are located at 47211 Lakeview Blvd., Fremont, CA 94538. Additional information is available at www.centillium.com. About Artisan Components Artisan Components, Inc. (Nasdaq:ARTI), is a world leader in intellectual property (IP) components, providing high-quality solutions for many of the world's leading semiconductor foundries, fabless IC companies, integrated device manufacturers and 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. vendors. Artisan's Process-Perfect(TM) memory generators, standard cell and 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 libraries are optimized to achieve the full-speed, density and power potential of each semiconductor process and are delivered as full solutions, ready to use with industry-standard design environments. Artisan's headquarters are located at 141 Caspian Court, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1201. Note to Editors: Artisan Components is a registered trademark and Artisan, Process-Perfect and SAGE-X trademarks of Artisan Components, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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