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Samsung Strengthens Its Foundry Customer Support With New SAFE™ Foundry Ecosystem Program
Samsung (News - Alert) Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor
technology, has announced today its continued commitment to first-pass
silicon success for its foundry customers' chip designs by launching the
Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE™) program.
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Initial partners in Samsung Foundry's new ecosystem program. (Graphic: Business Wire)
The SAFE™ program ensures deep collaboration between the
Samsung Foundry, ecosystem partners, and customers to deliver
competitive and robust System on Chip (SoC) designs based on certified
key design components including Process Design Kit (PDK), reference
flows with Design Methodologies (DM), Intellectual Property (IP), and
ASIC design support.
"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."
The SAFE™ program is based on three pillars :
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EDA/DM: Provides extensively tested PDKs and reference flows (with
design methodologies) that are backed by Samsung Foundry's
certification.
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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).
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Design Services: Connects mid- to small-sized companies with qualified
ASIC design services and support. Using design service partners of SAFE™,
customers will benefi from easy access to process technology
information, competitive price conditions, and committed resources for
their SoC design success.
For more information about Samsung Foundry, please visit https://www.samsungfoundry.com
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Quotes from SAFE™ partner companies
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ARM, Gus Yeung, vice president and general manager of
Physical Design Group
"The Samsung Advanced Foundry
Ecosystem creates significant opportunities for the industry. Through
our ongoing collaboration with the Samsung Foundry, we are enabling
the ecosystem with access to leadership co-optimized physical IP
solutions for enhancing next-generation SoC designs."
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AlphaHoldings, Donggi Kim, CEO
"It's honor to
be one of the initial member of SAFE. As a Korean design service
partner, we are ready to support Samsung Foundry's ASIC customers more
effective way based on long-term collaboration with Samsung Foundry
and competencies - leading edge process experiences, customer specific
IP, high quality manpower, error free design capabilities, etc."
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Cadence, KT (News - Alert) Moore, vice president, product management
"We've
collaborated with Samsung Foundry for many years to enable our joint
customers to achieve their aggressive design goals. We believe that
the new SAFE foundry design program will facilitate innovation and
help customers deliver designs to market even faster. Our support for
Samsung Foundry's process technologies continues to expand with our
broadened IP portfolio and full EDA tool enablement with comprehensive
reference flows."
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eSilicon, Hugh Durdan, vice president, strategy and products
"Through
our Tier 1 ASIC work with Samsung Foundry, we understand Samsung
Foundry's advanced process technologies well. This allows us to offer
differentiating IP targeted at the high-bandwidth networking,
high-performance computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G
infrastructure markets using these advanced process technologies."
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Faraday, Steve Wang, President
"Samsung
Foundry provides the most competitive grand ecosystem for the leading
edge technologies. Since our establishment in 1993, Faraday has
successfully delivered more than 2,200 ASIC mass production projects.
Thus we are confident in our ability to leverage the SAFE program,
targeting next-generation applications now and beyond."
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Mentor, Joe Sawicki, vice president, Design to Silicon
"Mentor
is proud that it has been the signoff solution for Samsung's own
design efforts over the last two decades and Samsung Foundry since the
foundry was launched in 2005. We are pleased to be continuing our
close partnership with Samsung as it expands its ecosystem
interactions via the Samsung SAFE initiative."
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Rambus (News - Alert), Luc Seraphin, senior vice president and general
manager, Memory and Interfaces Division
"As ASIC and
SoC designs continue to increase in complexity, high-speed interfaces
are integral to successful design. This strong partnership between
Rambus and Samsung across multiple nodes, ensures that we are
providing a broad portfolio of high-quality solutions to our end
customers. We are pleased to collaborate with Samsung Foundry to
provide designers with leading high-speed SerDes and memory PHY IP
solutions for easy integration into their chip designs."
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Synopsys (News - Alert), Deirdre Hanford, co-general manager, Design Group
"Our
collaboration with Samsung Foundry since 2005 has enabled mutual
customers to deliver state-of-the-art designs across a wide range of
Samsung's process technologies. The SAFE program will help accelerate
adoption of Synopsys' high-quality IP, market-leading tools, and
comprehensive design services supporting Samsung Foundry for
development of their differentiated SoCs."
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VeriSilicon (News - Alert), Wayne Dai, President and CEO
"Our
experience in shipping high volume SoCs using Samsung 14nm and 10nm
FinFET, as well as 28nm FD-SOI process demonstrates that Samsung
Foundry has excellent potential for the China market. Now as a charter
member of SAFE, we will expand our partnership to a new level enabling
us to better support our mutual customers."
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