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LOS ALTOS, California - True Circuits, Inc. (TCI), a leading
provider of analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) for the
semiconductor, systems and electronics industries today announced that
multiple instances of its Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) hard macros have
been used by fabless semiconductor company, Icera, in the
Livanto™ ICE8020 wireless soft modem IC for 3G mobile phone and
wireless devices.
Based on the world's highest performance generic wireless
processor, Icera's Deep eXecution Processor (DXP™), Livanto is
fabricated in TSMC's 90nm process technology. The True Circuits PLLs
are being used as part of the processors' central-clocking system to
provide frequency modulation and high frequency resolution with low
long-term jitter.
"The Livanto wireless-soft modem is targeted at next
generation mobile phones and high performance wireless applications,
plus it is fabricated in a 90nm process, so we spent a fair amount of
time selecting suitable IP and designing the best clocking system
possible," said Peter Hughes, Vice President of Silicon
Operations. "True Circuits' IP gave us high implementation
flexibility and provided us with the functionality we required, while
meeting our strict power, area and cost targets."
"We are pleased to be working with companies like Icera, who
are developing innovative technologies for high performance wireless
applications," said Stephen Maneatis, True Circuits'
CEO. "Their selection of our popular clock-generator PLL is
another validation of our IP's suitability for high performance, high
volume applications."
About True Circuits PLLs and DLLs
True Circuits offers a complete family of standardized clock
generator, deskew, low bandwidth, high resolution and spread spectrum
PLLs and DDR DLLs that spans nearly all performance points and
features typically requested by ASIC, FPGA and SoC designers. These
high-quality, low-jitter, silicon proven hard macros are available for
immediate delivery in a range of frequencies, multiplication factors,
sizes and functions in 0.25um to 65nm CMOS processes from the world's
leading silicon fabrication vendors. For more information about True
Circuits products, visit www.truecircuits.com/tci_technology.html.
About Icera
Icera is a fabless semiconductor company delivering wireless soft
modems with the highest performance HSDPA and multimode functionality
(GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCMDA) to mobile phone and datacard manufacturers
through a range of platform solutions. Founded in 2002, Icera is
headquartered in the UK, with design locations in the UK and France,
sales offices in Europe and Japan and representative support in
Korea. For more information about Icera, visit www.icerasemi.com.
About True Circuits
True Circuits develops and markets a broad range of award-winning
PLLs, DLLs and other mixed-signal hard macros for ICs for the
semiconductor, systems and electronics industries. TCI's robust
state-of-the-art circuits, methodical and proven design strategy and
its close association with the world's leading silicon fabrication
vendors allow the company to quickly and reliably create new and
innovative designs in a variety of advanced process technologies.
True Circuits is headquartered at 4300 El Camino Real, Suite 200,
Los Altos, California 94022 and can be found on the web at
www.truecircuits.com. Product inquiries can be made by calling the
company directly at (650) 949-3400 or via e-mail at
sales@truecircuits.com.
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