Creating Affordable Silicon John Tinson VP Sales Sondrel 2016 03/05/2016 Presentation Title 1
The IoT Challenge Existing OEM s and start ups would benefit from a custom ASIC to prove their application and generate VC or lead customer interest VC s are typically unwilling to lend to develop silicon, they invest in the viable application OEM s are afraid to develop a SoC as this is not their core business, even if it may be significantly cheaper than off-the-shelf multiple chips they buy today 03/05/2016 Presentation Title Page 2
Partnering To Support Your ASIC 03/05/2016 Presentation Title Page 3
Affordable Silicon Customer creates a specification Sondrel provides arichitect2gdsii services Use Sondrel offshore design teams to control costs Project management, Tanner IoT AMS EDA tool suite and flow all supplied Partnered with expert suppliers in areas such as custom analogue design or Chip security IMEC offer affordable Multi Project Wafer services Presto Engineering silicon validation and supply chain services 03/05/2016 Presentation Title Page 4
Supporting Sondrel Accredited Design Partner of IMEC, ARM (& TSMC) Post production engineering via Presto Engineering Chip security via Secure Thingz 03/05/2016 Presentation Title Page 5
Design Centers
About Sondrel Established in 2002, HQ in UK Design Centres in UK, France, Morocco, China 110 design, verification, DfT & Place and Route engineers in 5 design centres focussed on design2gdsii Project Management Successfully taped-out >250 designs in 12 years, ranging from 0.18µm to 14nm 03/05/2016 Page 7
Consultancy Services with a Market Focus Mobile Communications IoT Automotive A sensors based chip with some limited on-board processing that sends data to a base station or direct to to the cloud 03/05/2016 Presentation Title Page 8
ISO 27001 Design Centres Sondrel has 5 design center locations The new infrastructure will be based on the latest ISO 27001 security management standard required to ensure a secure environment for Information Security Management Systems and 03/05/2016 Page 9
Multi Project Wafer Multi Project Wafer shares the cost of masks and wafers among a number of customers The cost can be further reduced when creating a very small batch for test chips (proof of principle for your lead customers) EUROPRACTICE IC Services mini@sic (multiple fabs involved) Sub dividing the MPW even further for academia or start up s Lowering the mask cost to sub 20K! 03/05/2016 Presentation Title Page 11
90nm dedicated mask example 13mm 2 wireless camera Dedicated mask NRE costs Mask cost $476,000.00 Engineering lot (6 wafers) $22,680.00 Total dedicated mask NRE costs $498,680.00 Dedicated mask wafer processing costs Processing cost $3,000.00 Wafer area (cm 2 ) 730 Dies per wafer 5615 Processing cost per die $0.53
90 nm MPW example 13mm 2 wireless camera MPW NRE costs Minimum production cost (inc 1 wafer) $52,000.00 Dies per wafer 100 Minimum die area (mm 2 ) 16 Actual die area (mm 2 ) 13 Actual MPW cost $52,000.00 Processing cost per die (first wafer) $520.00 MPW wafer processing costs Additional wafer cost $6,100.00 Processing cost per additional die $61.00
180 nm MPW example 11mm 2 wireless sensor network chip MPW NRE costs Minimum production cost (inc 1 wafer) $25,000.00 Dies per wafer 40 Minimum die area (mm 2 ) 25 Actual die area (mm 2 ) 11 Actual MPW cost $25,000.00 Processing cost per die (first wafer) $625.00 MPW wafer processing costs Additional wafer cost $2,000.00 Processing cost per additional die $50.00 Dedicated mask NRE costs Mask cost $120,000.00 Engineering lot (12 wafers) $14,400.00 Total decicate dmask NRE costs $134,400.00 Dedicated mask wafer processing costs Processing cost $1,000.00 Wafer area (cm 2 ) 324 Dies per wafer 2945 Processing cost per die $0.34
Reducing EDA Costs Tanner (Mentor) IoT AMS Flow 03/05/2016 Presentation Title Page 16
Tanner IoT Design Flow A complete analog & digital IC Design environment providing a highly integrated end-to-end flow Flexible and custom flow integration Foundry compatible technology files & DRC files 03/05/2016 Presentation Title Page 17
IoT Security Secure Thingz Consultancy 03/05/2016 Presentation Title Page 18
Introduction to Secure.Thingz. Focus on the specific security issues in rapidly evolving IoT space Delivering secure platforms in IoT - from mobile to edge nodes Over 25 years experience in delivering security solutions for ARM Close partnership with ARM, IMG & Synopsys Secure.Thinking. - Consultancy Services Working closely with Renesas on Synergy Platform Threat Analysis Right-sizing security for your application System Definition From SoC to Solution to deliver holistic approach to security Architecture Hardware & software architecture generation and implementation Design Auditing & Self-Certification Methodologies Ensuring compliance Secure.Deploy. Manufacturing Secured High assurance & secure manufacturing framework Leveraging high security TPM to deliver key material into contract manufacturers 19
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