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November 18th, 2024

Silicon Creations Collaborates with Interex Semiconductor to Distribute High-Performance IPs in India

Silicon Creations, a global leader in high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Interex Semiconductor. Through this collaboration, Interex Semiconductor will serve as the sales representative for Silicon Creations' full portfolio of IP solutions across India, providing semiconductor companies with access to high-quality technology to drive faster product innovation.

November 12th, 2024

Silicon Creations Celebrates Milestone with Delivery of 1,000th Production License for Fractional-N PLL

Silicon Creations proudly announces the achievement of over 1,000 production licenses for its cutting-edge Fractional-N Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) IP family.

September 25th, 2024

Silicon Creations Awarded TSMC’s 2024 Open Innovation Platform Partner of the Year for Mixed Signal IP

Silicon Creations, a leading provider of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), is proud to announce that it has been named a 2024 TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) Partner of the Year for Mixed Signal IP. This prestigious recognition highlights Silicon Creations’ continuous commitment to delivering innovative PLL, SerDes, and general-purpose mixed-signal IP solutions in advanced technology nodes.

April 22nd, 2024

Silicon Creations Reaches Milestone of 10 Million Wafers in Production with TSMC

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), announced a significant milestone: surpassing 10 million wafers in production containing Silicon Creations IP in collaboration with TSMC, the world's leading dedicated semiconductor foundry.

October 16th, 2023

Silicon Creations Named 2023 TSMC OIP Partner of the Year for Analog / Mixed-Signal IP

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), has been recognized by TSMC as the recipient of the 2023 OIP Partner of the Year Award for Analog/Mixed Signal IP. The OIP Partner of the Year award honors TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) ecosystem partners’ pursuit of excellence in next-generation design enablement over the past year.

November 2nd, 2022

Silicon Creations Named 2022 TSMC OIP Partner of the Year for Analog and Mixed-Signal IP

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), has been recognized by TSMC as the recipient of the 2022 Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) Partner of the Year Award for Analog and Mixed Signal IP. The OIP Partner of the Year award honors TSMC OIP ecosystem partners’ pursuit of excellence in next-generation design enablement over the past year.

October 27th, 2022

Silicon Creations joins TSMC launch of OIP 3DFabric Alliance

Silicon Creations is proud to join other top silicon IP providers as founding members of TSMC’s 3DFabric Alliance

May 10th, 2022

Silicon Creations and Achronix Semiconductor Partner to Drive More Performance, Flexibility into High-Speed Trading

The partnership is designed to optimize the data path from the SerDes interface to and from Achronix eFPGA IP, adding flexibility and performance in algorithmic trading applications.

April 5th, 2022

Silicon Creations’ Engineering Team Completes Training for Automotive Quality Certification

Silicon Creations announced today that ten members of their engineering staff have been certified as Semiconductor Automotive Functional Safety Professionals under the personal qualification program for ISO26262 semiconductor development from SGS-TÜV Saar. This engineering certification will enhance the company’s support of automotive customers and augment previously certified engineering staff.

February 7th, 2022

Silicon Creations Joins Intel Foundry Services Accelerator - IP Alliance Program Aiming to Reducing Design Barriers, Accelerating Time-to-Market

November 3rd, 2021

Silicon Creations Named 2021 TSMC Partner of the Year for Analog / Mixed-Signal IP

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), has been recognized by TSMC as a recipient of the 2021 OIP Partner of the Year award for Analog/Mixed Signal IP. The OIP Partner of the Year awards honor TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) ecosystem partners like Silicon Creations demonstrating excellence in next-generation system-on-chip (SoC) and 3DIC design enablement over the past year.

June 29th, 2021

Silicon Creations Selects Diakopto’s ParagonX™ IC Debugging Platform

Diakopto announced today that Silicon Creations® has selected ParagonXTM to improve the design quality, productivity, and time-to-market for their industry-leading portfolio of analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP).

October 20th, 2020

Silicon Creations Named 2020 TSMC OIP Partner of the Year for Analog / Mixed-Signal IP

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), has been recognized by TSMC as a recipient of the 2020 OIP Partner of the Year award for Analog/Mixed Signal IP. The OIP Partner of the Year awards honor TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) ecosystem partners like Silicon Creations demonstrating excellence in next-generation system-on-chip (SoC) and 3DIC design enablement over the past year.

August 20th, 2020

Silicon Creations’ Achieves ISO 9001 Certification for World-Class Silicon IP Development Process

Lawrenceville, GA, USA – August 20, 2020 – Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), announced today that the company has achieved ISO 9001 Quality Management System certification by the British Standards Institute (BSI), one of the world's largest certification bodies.

August 13th, 2020

Silicon Creations’ SerDes Technology Designed into Novatek 8K TV SoC on TSMC 12nm Process

In addition to Silicon Creations providing the Deserializer PMA and supporting Novatek’s SoC production tape-out, Silicon Creations and Novatek collaborated on a test chip. Novatek provided test chips containing the quad Rx/Tx multiprotocol PMA IP which was validated by Silicon Creations engineers at their state-of-the-art test lab in Lawrenceville, including specific measurements related to supporting the V-by-One® HS standard and operation to 16Gbps. The V-by-One HS standard, developed by THine Electronics in 2007, is a digital signaling standard that can run at faster speeds over twisted pair lines than LVDS.

October 2nd, 2019

Silicon Creations Named 2019 TSMC Partner of the Year for Analog / Mixed-Signal IP

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), was awarded the 2019 TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) Partner of the Year Award for Analog / Mixed-Signal IP for the third consecutive year at the recent TSMC 2019 Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) Ecosystem Forum.

September 23rd, 2019

Silicon Creations to Showcase PLL Developments on 22nm to 5nm Processes at TSMC 2019 Open Innovation Platform® Ecosystem Forum

Silicon Creations will showcase the company’s IP offerings including the “one-size-fits-all” Fractional-N PLL at TSMC 2019 Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) Ecosystem Forum in Santa Clara, Calif., September 26, 2019.

July 1st, 2019

Silicon Creations provides its leading PCIe SerDes & PLLs to SiFive expansion of its DesignShare Ecosystem

Signature third-party IP ecosystem allows low-cost, rapid prototyping and innovative IP licensing for AI, edge computing

February 12th, 2019

Silicon Creations PLL Technology Contributes to the First 7nm Mass Production Mining Chip

“Silicon Creations provided high quality verified PLL IP on the dates promised and with excellent customer support,” said Mark Wu, VP of Technology at Canaan Creative.

January 28th, 2019

Silicon Creations Relies on Silvaco Custom Design Flow for New Advanced FinFET Designs

Silicon Creations, a supplier of high-performance semi-custom analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), and Silvaco Inc., a leading supplier of EDA software and design IP, today announced that Silvaco's EDA tools have been successfully integrated into Silicon Creations most advanced FinFET design flow for IC designs

October 29th, 2018

Silicon Creations’ Fractional-N PLL Technology Leveraged at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University SoC Lab

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), today announced that the SoC Lab at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University as part of the HiPer Consortium project has successfully integrated Silicon Creations’ LC and ring PLLs (phase lock loop) intellectual property (IP) in its SoC1 chip implemented in TSMC 28HPC process node.

October 17th, 2018

Silicon Creations Named TSMC Partner of the Year 2018 for Analog / Mixed-Signal IP

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), was awarded the 2018 TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) Partner of the Year Award for Analog / Mixed Signal IP for the second consecutive year at the recent TSMC OIP Symposium.

October 1st, 2018

Silicon Creations Highlights PLL Developments in 22nm, 12nm, 7nm, and 5nm at TSMC OIP™ Ecosystem Forum Variety of PLLs supported in multiple TSMC process nodes

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), announced a wide variety of IP offerings in TSMC’s 5FF, 7FF, 7FF+, 12FFC, and 22ULP/ULL process nodes, designed to support customer’s SoC timing demands.

June 25th, 2018

Silicon Creations’ SerDes technology helps power leading-edge 8K TV

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), announced today that its SerDes (Serializer/Deserializer) receive and transmit PMA (Physical Media Attachment) technology has been deployed in an SoC that powers a leading 8k (UHD) flat-panel television.

April 25th, 2018

Silicon Creations Showcases Latest IP Portfolio at TSMC Technology Symposium

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), will showcase a number of technology advances in its industry-leading IP portfolios on TSMC process technologies.

March 15th, 2018

Silicon Creations’ PMA Technology Part of Microsemi Award-Winning FPGA

Silicon Creations announced that its multi-protocol serializer/deserializer (SerDes) transceiver Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) intellectual property (IP) was part of Microsemi Corporation’s PolarFire field programmable gate array (FPGA), named 2017 “Product of the Year” by Electronics Products magazine, as well as the Electronic Products China/21ic.com 2017 “Product of the Year.”

October 3rd, 2017

Silicon Creations Named 2017 TSMC Partner of the Year for Analog Mixed Signal IP

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), was awarded the 2017 TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) Partner of the Year Award for Analog/Mixed Signal IP at the recent TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum in Santa Clara, Calif.

September 11th, 2017

Silicon Creations Celebrates 100th Tape-Out of Its PLL in TSMC 28nm Process Technology

Silicon Creations today announced its general-purpose fractional phase-locked loop (PLL) IP has surpassed 100 mass production tape-outs on TSMC’s 28nm process node.

March 13th, 2017

Silicon Creations Delivers 12.7G SERDES PMA for TSMC 40LP Process and PLL IP for TSMC 7nm Process

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), today announced availability of several industry leading IPs for advanced TSMC processes including a 40LP 0.25Gb/s to 12.7Gb/s multiprotocol SerDes Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) and multiple 7nm PLL products.

May 25th, 2016

Silicon Creations Taps Silvaco's Custom Design Flow for 10nm FinFET Designs

Silicon Creations, a supplier of high-performance semi-custom analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), and Silvaco, Inc., a leading supplier of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software, today announced that Silvaco's Custom Design Flow has been successfully deployed for 10nm silicon node designs. Silicon Creations utilized a number of Silvaco's products, including Gateway schematic editor, Expert hierarchical IC layout editor, and SmartSpice analog circuit simulator.

September 14th, 2015

SMIC Names Silicon Creations 2015 Best IP Vendor for Customer Support

Silicon Creations is proud to announce that it has won a “Best of” IP provider award from SMIC for the third year in a row.

March 18th, 2015

Valens Selects Silicon Creations' SerDes IP for the Colligo Chipsets

Valens, the developer of HDBaseT™ technology, has integrated Silicon Creations’ custom Digital Interface (HDI) SerDes Intellectual Property (IP) into the VS2310 and VS2110 chipsets, part of the Valens’ Colligo family of HDBaseT Spec 2.0-compliant chipsets.

October 16th, 2014

TSMC Names Silicon Creations Emerging IP Vendor for 2014

Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance semi-custom analog and mixed-signal Intellectual Property (IP), today announced that it received TSMC’s Emerging IP Partner of the Year Award for 2014.

September 29th, 2014

SMIC Gives 2014 "Best IP Partner Award" of the Year

SMIC selected the Top 8 Best IP Partners of 2014 and also gave them the “Best IP Partner Award” to express its recognition and appreciation to IP partners’ support and trust. SMIC hopes to cooperate with all the partners more closely to make further achievements in the future.

July 21st, 2014

Faraday Selects Silicon Creations PLL Silicon IP for SoC Design

Silicon Creations, today announced that Faraday Technology Corp., a fabless ASIC and Silicon IP provider based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, has selected the UMC 55nm SP Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) IP...

May 28th, 2014

Silicon Creations Provides CERN with High-Performance SerDes IP

Silicon Creations, supplier of high-performance semi-custom analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), today announced that CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, selected its SerDes interface IP for use in the next-generation detector in the Large Hadron Collider.

January 29th, 2013

Berkeley Design Automation and Silicon Creations Receive TSMC OIP Forum 2012 Customers’ Choice Award

Berkeley Design Automation, Inc., today announced that its joint paper with Silicon Creations, “Silicon-Accurate Mixed-Signal Fractional-N PLL IP Design,”

April 23rd, 2009

Silicon Creations Successfully Tapes Out Complex RF Chip Using Simucad's Complete RF Tool Flow

Silicon Creations, a company that specializes in high performance analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, has successfully taped out their fourth high performance chipset using an all-Simucad tool flow.