Date: 10/05/2019

Samsung launches SAFE foundry program

Samsung launched Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE) program for ensuring first time silicon pass.

“We are very excited to provide the comprehensive, collaborative, and qualified Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem to our customers to enable faster and more reliable SoC design success”, said Jong Shik Yoon, executive vice president of Foundry Technology Development at Samsung Electronics. “Together with our SAFE partners, Samsung Foundry will provide certified design enablement solutions to existing strategic customers as well as innovative, new start-up customers. We welcome all current and future Ecosystem partners to join the new SAFE program.”

Samsung says its SAFE program is based on these below three pillars :

EDA/DM : Provides extensively tested PDKs and reference flows (with design methodologies) that are backed by Samsung Foundry’s certification.

IP : Provides a full set of silicon qualified, application specific IP offerings from the early stage of process technology development. Customers can view a full list of IP solutions offered through SAFE by accessing Samsung Foundry’s B2B site, CONNECT(https://www.samsungfoundry.com).

Design Services : Connects mid- to small-sized companies with qualified ASIC design services and support. Using design service partners of SAFE, customers will benefit from easy access to process technology information, competitive price conditions, and committed resources for their SoC design success.

For more information about Samsung Foundry visit https://www.samsungfoundry.com