UMC to Use Virtual Silicon's Design Rules

Staff -- Semiconductor International, 5/1/1998

Virtual Silicon Technology (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC, Hsinchu, Taiwan) entered into a multiyear joint marketing and technology development agreement. The agreement calls for UMC to endorse Virtual Silicon's Diplomat-25 design rules. Chip designers utilizing UMC's 0.25 µm (250 nm) manufacturing processes will be able to embed large intellectual property (IP) cores into their system-on-silicon designs using the Diplomat-25 standard cell libraries.

To ensure working silicon, the two companies will collaborate on developing test chips to derive key reliability data, establish timing correlation and verify IP cores. This partnership assures continuous optimal library implementation and consistent silicon processes in current and future technologies.