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Samsung's (Very!) Good 28FDS News Just Keeps Coming

soiconsortium.org, Sept. 12, 2019 – 

Since the beginning of the year, there's been a steady stream of excellent news around Samsung Foundry's 28FDS, their highly successful 28nm FD-SOI offering. Let's take a look at what's been happening, as things do seem to be accelerating. By way of reminder, they announced the industry's first eMRAM (embedded MagnetoResistive RAM) testchip tape-out milestone on 28FDS in September 2017 (you can read the press release here) – which was just a year after they had announced mass production of 28FDS process technology.

At the end of 2018, Arm announced the industry's first Embedded MRAM (eMRAM) compiler IP built on Samsung Foundry's 28FDS process technology.

Follow that with this announcement at the beginning of 2019: Soitec Expands Collaboration with Samsung Foundry on FD-SOI Wafer Supply. The two companies announced that Samsung had secured a high-volume supply of FD-SOI technology to meet industry's current and future demands especially in consumer, IoT and automotive applications.

In March came two more big announcements. First: Samsung Electronics Starts Commercial Shipment of eMRAM Product Based on 28nm FD-SOI Process. As they noted in the PR, "Samsung's 28FDS-based eMRAM solution offers unprecedented power and speed advantages with lower cost. Since eMRAM does not require an erase cycle before writing data, its writing speed is approximately a thousand times faster than eFlash. Also, eMRAM uses lower voltages than eFlash, and does not consume electric power when in power-off mode, resulting in great power efficiency."

Hard on the heals of that came the news that Arm and Samsung Announce IP Platform including eMRAM for 18nm FD-SOI.

At the SOI Consortium's Silicon Valley Symposium in April, Tim Dry (he's Samsung's Director of Foundry Marketing for Edge and End Point), gave a terrific presentation. Entitled Samsung's FDS with MRAM: Enabling Today's Innovative Low Power Endpoint Products, it details the company's FDSOI roadmap for the IoT Endpoint Platform (and yes, you can download in its entirety).

Then in May at the big Samsung Foundry Forum in Silicon Valley, Arm, in collaboration with Samsung Foundry, Cadence, and Sondrel, demonstrated the first 28nm FD-SOI eMRAM IoT test chip and development board. The Musca-S1 test chip demonstrates a new choice in SoC design for IoT solutions, said Arm. (Sondrel, btw, is Europe's largest independent IC design consultancy.)

In parallel, Cadence announced: Cadence Custom/AMS Flow Certified for Samsung 28nm FD-SOI Process Technology. Especially aimed at digitally-assisted analog designs, what's new here is that the Cadence custom and analog/mixed-signal IC design flow is now Samsung Foundry certified for 28FDS. Samsung's 28FDS PDK techfile is Mixed-Signal OpenAccess ready, enabling customers to deploy OpenAccess-integrated, fully interoperable Virtuoso-Innovus implementation flows.

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