News from: MoSys
Edited by: Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 5 April 2002
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MoSys claims its licensee's production of 1T-SRAM embedded memory technology has passed 20 million units with over 20 products currently in production.
The shipped devices represent a total of over one billion megabits of 1T-SRAM embedded memory now in use, for products such as video games, communications switches, flat panel display controllers, digital still cameras and camcorders.
"We have achieved many significant milestones since our founding in 1991, but this production milestone for licensees using 1T-SRAM memory in their products is particularly significant", stated Mark-Eric Jones, the company's vice president and general manager of intellectual property.
"Memory, on average, already occupies the largest portion of the SoC die area, and its use continues to grow rapidly.
As a result, it has the single greatest influence on SoC cost, power, performance and quality, and this production milestone documents the importance of 1T-SRAM in delivering value to our licensees in these parameters".
To facilitate designers estimating the cost savings that they can achieve on their own SoC designs, MoSys has added a die cost and savings estimator to its newly updated website.
Users can enter the data about their planned SoC designs and estimate die size, good die cost and dramatic savings that they can realise by using the extra density of 1T-SRAM memory technology.
The updated website also includes downloadable datasheets for the range of 1T-SRAM standard macros that are available for rapid delivery as well as information regarding generation of custom 1T-SRAM memory macros and MoSys Design Service Alliance (DSA) partners.
