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Product category: Electronics Manufacturing Services
News Release from: TSMC | Subject: Power Trim Service
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 April 2008

Manufacturing service cuts IC power
leaks

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The Power Trim Service provides significant leakage power reduction while maintaining chip performance and area.

TSMC has signed an exclusive agreement with Blaze DFM to offer a new service combining a patented Blaze power optimisation technology with special variations of its own advanced manufacturing process Under the terms of the agreement, TSMC will make available to its customers the Power Trim Service which provides significant leakage power reduction while maintaining chip performance and area

In addition to delivering substantial reductions in leakage power above and beyond existing techniques already employed in the chip, the Power Trim Service also significantly reduces leakage power variability, a critical power issue to overcome in next g