Global Foundries, Santa Clara, Calif., announces the availability of FX-14, an application-specific integrated circuit development built on the company’s next-generation 14-nm FinFET process technology. It is an ideal solution for customers seeking to strike a balance between high bandwidth, low power, and cost for cloud networking, wireless base station, computing, and storage applications.
With the recent acquisition of IBM’s Microelectronics Division, the FX-14 ASIC offering combines Global Foundries manufacturing scale and process technology leadership with a legacy of ASIC expertise that has helped customers bring some of the industry’s most complex ASICs to market. FX-14 leverages the production-proven 14-nm FinFET platform from the company’s Fab 8 facility in Saratoga County, N.Y.
FX-14 ASIC includes an enhanced, optimized intellectual property portfolio, featuring leading-edge ARM cores and ARM Artisan physical IP. The broad lineup of cores for system-on-chip designs include 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 and ARM Cortex-A53 processors.
Global Foundries embedded memory solutions include ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM), capable of billions of searches per second, as well as high-density and high-performance memory compilers. These memory compilers exploit the industry’s smallest memory cell to achieve outstanding SRAM density as well as take advantage of a performance-tuned memory cell to achieve the best in class performance.
Global Foundries 14LPP technology offering was qualified in the third quarter of 2015 and is on track for volume production in 2016. FX-14 design kits are available to customers now.
