Monday, October 30, 2006
Soitec SA and ARM Ltd. have signed a cooperation agreement that make Soitec's silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology available for ARM's microprocessor intellectual-property (IP).
Thus, SOI performance benefit becomes available for developers using ARM processors. According to the agreement, ARM will support the future development of SOI libraries for fabless and foundry-oriented chip vendors. ARM will provide designers with tools, resources and standards required to enable SOI adoption.
SOI technology developed by Soitec is said to offer speed and power consumption advantages for logic, system-on-chip, mixed-signal and low-power devices. Major chip vendors and foundries including AMD, Chartered, Freescale, IBM and NXP, the former Philips semiconductor division, use SOI wafers in their manufacturing processes.
The SOI technology will complement ARMs existing CMOS-based physical IP, explained ARM CTO Mike Muller. "It is intended to offer additional choices for improving performance, while conserving power, as semiconductor processes migrate to ever-smaller geometries," Muller said.
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