Dolphin Integration receives Open-Silicon’s Award

23rd January 2017

Enaie Azambuja

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The industry’s focus on battery-powered devices sets expectations in terms of energy saving for a wide range of applications such as IoT, wearables and wireless MCUs. Meeting the underlying low-power challenge requires a new class of silicon IPs to enable unmatched power consumption figures and new IoT SoC architectures leveraging operating modes with reduced power consumption. In addition, advanced techniques are needed for SoC integration to secure and facilitate physical implementation of power domains.

Dolphin Integration is the first silicon IP vendor to provide a complete offering for minimisation of the power consumption of IoT SoCs, both in sleep and active modes. Its consistent low-power and high-density offering covers:

• Foundation IPs – embedded memories and standard cell libraries, some of them being dedicated to the always-on domain,
• Feature IPs – uLP 32 kHz oscillators, wake-up triggers…
• IoT SoC Fabric IPs for:
o safe implementation of power islands,
o robust embedding of the voltage regulation network
o flexible assembly of the associated activity control network

Open-Silicon is a provider of turnkey custom SoC design and manufacturing solutions, with a solid track record of successful silicon IP integration from diverse IP vendors. Through this collaboration, Open-Silicon typically sources foundation IPs, possibly with some fabric IPs as well, and the end-customer sources relevant feature IPs and fabric IPs to meet the low-power architectural design challenges. Open-Silicon then performs the SoC integration of the of the whole design, physical design, and delivers fully tested silicon parts to the end-customer.