Date: 10/04/2011

Sidense' OTP NV memory meet the assessment requirements of TSMC's IP9000

Sidense Corp. has announced that the its SLP and ULP OTP product families have met the Assessment requirements of TSMC's rigorous IP9000 program.
Sidense says it has many customers license their OTP macros at several process nodes and node variants, ranging from 180nm to 40nm. Completion of IP9000 Assessment of the 180nm SLP and ULP products represent only a small portion of the IP9000 evaluations Sidense products are currently undergoing; several more products at various process nodes are scheduled for the IP9000 Assessment evaluation later this year.

"Passing IP9000 acceptance criteria is recognized within the semiconductor IP industry as a demonstration of very high IP quality," said Rhéal Gervais, Vice President of Operations at Sidense. "Meeting IP9000 Assessment gives our customers who use TSMC's foundry services confidence that our 1T-Fuse-based SLP and ULP OTP will meet their quality requirements."

"We are pleased that these Sidense non-volatile memory IP products have passed TSMC's IP9000 Assessment requirements," said Dan Kochpatcharin, Deputy Director of IP Portfolio Marketing at TSMC. "During our IP9000 audit this past November, we found Sidense to be very well-prepared in terms of both QC and design methodology."