Press Release
DANA POINT, USA and GRENOBLE, FRANCE, October 4th, 2011 – The silicon Intellectual Property (IP) provider, Obsidian Technology and CMP (Circuits Multi Projects®), today announced their collaboration and development of an educational program by including the distribution of the portfolio of Obsidian Intellectual Property (IP) for Universities and Research Laboratories and companies.
CMP is Multi-Projects Wafers service supporting several technologies. CMP will now license Obsidian Technology IPs to ease the access and shorten the time of designs’ development.
Obsidian Technology is an Intellectual Property and consulting company is focused on fast-turn Mixed-Signal CMOS technology. Established in 1995 it has a wide customer base in the fabless semiconductor industry. The licensing of its basic Mixed-Signal IP blocks through CMP will allow experimental and prototype devices to be developed more rapidly and at a low cost.
Obsidian's VP of Engineering Robert Heaton stated, "We believe the combining of custom silicon access, with low cost Mixed-Signal IP, offers significant new opportunities for the MPW customer."
This agreement allows Universities, Research Laboratories and companies to access IP cores easily; it targets the universities’ requirements and budget constraints.
According to CMP, this offer opens up new opportunities for the University Educational program and adds new features to its actual IC’s manufacturing service. Obsidian IPs will be available in several technology processes supported by CMP, listed in http://cmp.imag.fr/products/ic
About Obsidian Technology
Obsidian Technology offers Intellectual Property and Design Services in the areas of Mixed-Signal CMOS, low cost device development, and EDA services based on Tanner EDA Tools. These services include layout, script, and PDK development. Technology focus is typically in 180nm and above. Obsidian also offers architecture development for networking physical level devices. Examples include 100Base-TX, 1000Base-T, 10GBase-T, and RF over power line devices. Obsidian's service for fast turn, Mixed-Signal silicon offers a cost effective alternative to complex Mixed Signal board development for special applications. Form more information see ot1.com.
About CMP
CMP is a service organization in ICs and MEMS for prototyping and low volume production. Circuits are fabricated for Universities, Research Laboratories and Industrial Companies. Advanced industrial technologies are available in CMOS, BiCmos, SiGe BiCMOS, P-HEMT E/D GaAs and MEMS etc. CMP distributes and supports several CAD software tools for both Industrial Companies and Universities. Since 1981, more than 1000 institutions from 70 countries have been served, more than 6000 projects have been prototyped through 700 runs, and 56 different technologies have been interfaced. More information on CMP is available at http://cmp.imag.fr
