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MIPS Technologies and Chartered Semiconductor
Complete
Architecture Verification of MIPS-Based Cores in
Silicon
YOKOHAMA -- IP JAPAN CONFERENCE -- May 31, 2000 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ:MIPS) and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (NASDAQ:CHRT;
SGX-ST:Chartered) have announced the completion of key milestones necessary
for customers to use "drop-in" MIPS Technologies intellectual property (IP)
processor cores directly through the foundry.
- Chartered's silicon implementation of the MIPS32 4Kc™ 32-bit processor
core has successfully passed architecture verification testing, which
demonstrates compatibility with the MIPS32 architecture standard. This
milestone ensures that the hard core design methodology has been fully
validated by Chartered's design services team. With this advantage, designers
can shorten time to market by using the MIPS® processor cores as drop-in
blocks that are pre-proven for manufacturability in Chartered's fabs. An
additional advantage includes compatibility with the large body of third-party
development tools and software available for the MIPS processor architecture.
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- The two companies have produced a design kit that contains the models and
documentation necessary for implementing the MIPS32 4Kc core within a system
on a chip to be manufactured at Chartered. The kit includes sample boot code
developed by MIPS Technologies and a hard-core integration guide; timing,
simulation and synthesis models; verification test vectors and scripts;
physical design, production test and back-end design methodologies, and data
sheets. Engineers can use the design kit as a reference for both 0.25- and
0.18-micron designs. The kit is available now from Chartered.
- Ana Hunter, vice president of worldwide EDA services for Chartered, said,
"With a corporate strategy to enable systems on silicon, we continue to expand
the services that verify, validate and qualify IP for a seamless path from
design to silicon to market entry. As a result of creating a design kit with
MIPS Technologies, our mutual customers get the best of both companies'
expertise: the system architecture knowledge with software from MIPS
Technologies and the manufacturing implementation support from Chartered."
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- "We are delighted to be working with Chartered on developing new tools
that speed time to market for users of MIPS Technologies' processor
cores,"said James MacHale, director of semiconductor licensee marketing at
MIPS Technologies. "We chose to work with Chartered because of their
commitment to providing value-added services for their customers as well as
the final silicon. Our licensees, especially those in the communications and
network markets, must meet stringent time to market requirements or they miss
narrow market windows. These new design kits will help them get to market
faster."
- About Chartered
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing
(Nasdaq:CHRT and SGX-ST:Chartered) is one of the world's leading independent
foundries providing wafer fabrication services. Guided by the tenets of trust,
service, partnership, advanced technology and stability, the Company aims to
provide world-class semiconductor foundry services that enable customers to
create and deliver market-leading system-level solutions. Chartered operates
five fabrication facilities that serve high-growth, technologically advanced
applications such as communications and networking. Headquartered in
Singapore, Chartered employs approximately 3400 people at its 11 locations in
North America, Asia and Europe. The Company reported 1999 revenues of US
$694.3 million.
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About MIPS Technologies, Inc.
- MIPS Technologies, Inc. is one of the world's primary architects of
embedded 32- and 64-bit RISC processors. The company drives the broadest
architectural alliance that is delivering 32- and 64-bit embedded RISC
solutions. The company licenses its intellectual property to semiconductor
companies, ASIC developers, and system OEMs. MIPS Technologies, Inc. and its
licensees offer the widest range of robust, scalable processors in standard,
custom, semi-custom and application-specific products.
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- Licensees currently include: Alchemy Semiconductor, Inc.; ATI
Technologies, Inc.; Broadcom Corporation; Centillium Communications, Inc.;
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing; CommQuest (IBM); ESS Technology, Inc.;
Excess Bandwidth; General Instrument Corporation; Integrated Device
Technology, Inc. (IDT); Lara Networks, Inc.; LSI Logic Corporation; Macronix;
Metalink Ltd.; NEC Corporation; NKK Corporation; Philips Semiconductors;
Quantum Effect Devices, Inc. (QED); QuickLogic Corporation, Sandcraft, Inc.;
SiByte, Inc.; Sony Corporation; Synova; Texas Instruments Incorporated;
Toshiba Corporation; and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).
Numerous companies utilize MIPS-based™ intellectual property. MIPS
Technologies, Inc. is based in Mountain View, California, and can be reached
at 650-567-5000 or http://www.mips.com/.
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- MIPS is a registered trademark and MIPS32, 4Kc, and MIPS-based are
trademarks of MIPS Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective companies. All press materials are available on the World
Wide Web via: http://www.mips.com/.
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