Sonics and AlphaChips Collaborate to Develop Advanced SoC Design Platforms

Korean Design Service Company to Use SonicsGN NoC for IP Integration and the ICE-Grain™ Power Architecture for SoC Power Management

Milpitas, Calif., Jul. 07, 2015 – 

Sonics, Inc., the world?s foremost supplier of on-chip network (NoC) technologies and services, today announced that it is collaborating with AlphaChips, a Korean semiconductor design services company, on the development of advanced SoC design platforms. Sonics will provide the SonicsGN® NoC for integration of semiconductor IP and consult with AlphaChips on the front-end RTL design flow for the SoC platforms. In addition, Sonics will work closely with AlphaChips on power management specification and implementation for the SoC platforms based on its recently introduced ICE-Grain™ Power Architecture.

"We are excited to be working with AlphaChips, one of the leading semiconductor design services firms in Korea," said Grant Pierce, CEO of Sonics. "AlphaChips has strong business and technical relationships with key system and semiconductor customers. Our collaboration on these new SoC design platforms will give Sonics? NoC and power management technologies greater exposure in the region."

"As semiconductor process technology advances rapidly, we are integrating various applications into a single system semiconductor," said Kyoung Ro Yun, Vice President of SoC Solution at AlphaChips. "The two most important considerations in SoC development are time-to-market and optimizing competitiveness. AlphaChips builds SoC platforms with on-chip network architecture and power management technologies from Sonics because this IP accelerates the SoC development process. Customers using AlphaChips? platforms can expect to enter the market as soon as possible and ensure a competitive edge. Leveraging Sonics? IP in our SoC platform implementation enables AlphaChips to focus on providing a complete and a total solution to our customers."

About AlphaChips
AlphaChips is a Korean provider of semiconductor solutions that owns multiple IPs and products, such as MHL and HDMI, that have been created based on knowledge of high speed data transmission. High speed data transmission between devices is becoming ever more important as high quality audio and high definition video content becomes readily available. AlphaChips delivers to customers the most optimized solutions based on maintaining cutting-edge SoC design technologies. For more information, visit http://www.alphachips.com/eng/index.html.

About Sonics, Inc.

Sonics, Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.) is the global leader in trusted on-chip network (NoC) technologies used by the industry's top semiconductor and electronics product companies. Sonics was the first company to develop and commercialize NoCs, accelerating volume production of complex systems-on-chip (SoC) that contain multiple processor cores. Our comprehensive NoC portfolio delivers the communication performance required by today's most advanced consumer digital, communications and information technology devices. Sonics NoCs are integral to the success of SoC design platforms that innovators such as Broadcom®, Intel®, Marvell®, MediaTek, and Microchip® rely on to meet their most demanding SoC integration and time-to-market requirements. Sonics holds more than 138 patent properties supporting products created by a global customer list that have shipped more than two billion SoCs. For more information, visit sonicsinc.com, and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/sonicsinc.

 Back