Silicon Harmony licenses PLL from Cosmic Circuits

Update: Cadence Completes Acquisition of Cosmic Circuits (May 23, 2013)

Bangalore, INDIA and Campbell, California, 16th January, 2012:-Cosmic Circuits, a leading provider of Analog and Mixed Signal IP Cores and ASICs today announced that Silicon Harmony, a leading supplier of ASIC solutions & services for the Korean market has licensed a clocking solution from Cosmic Circuits in 65nm technology.

Cosmic Circuits offers a broad portfolio of differentiated Analog IP cores in nanometer technology nodes covering Data-Converters, Analog-Front-End platforms for Wireless and Audio, Power-Management, Clocking and MIPI Interfaces.

Cosmic Circuits offers a complete matrix of clocking solutions which include system PLLs, specialty PLLs, crystal oscillators and silicon oscillators and has already taped-out designs in 28nm. As part of its specialty PLL offering, Cosmic provides low-jitter and Sigma Delta Fractional-N PLLs. Cosmic has PLL Solutions in most of the technology nodes starting from 0.18um to 28nm.

Sundararajan Krishnan, Director of IP at Cosmic Circuits, commented that “We are very excited to engage with Silicon Harmony with our silicon proven PLL in 65nm. We are committed to providing customers with extensive choice on our PLL portfolio. We are one of the few IP companies that have made significant investments in a silicon characterization lab and provide our customers with detailed test-chip characterization reports of PLL thereby increasing their confidence to adopt our solutions.”

JD Kim, CEO of Silicon Harmony commented that “We were looking for a Silicon proven PLL and found the right partner with Cosmic Circuits and were also happy to see their roadmap extending to 28nm. We are delighted with the support we have received and plan to engage with Cosmic for our future needs”

About Cosmic Circuits

Cosmic Circuits is a leading provider of differentiated Analog, Mixed-Signal silicon IP cores and Analog ASICs. Cosmic offers a strong portfolio of 300+ cores in nanometer process nodes of leading foundries. By leveraging its silicon-proven cores spanning data-converters, wireless analog, audio, MIPI, power-management, Clocking, LVDS and Auxiliary functions, Cosmic provides single-stop access to customized IP solutions for mixed-signal SOCs and custom Analog ASIC solutions and brings certainty in time-to-market. A typical engagement with customer starts with a top level requirement document from customer based on which Cosmic Engineers define all the needed Analog IP and ASICs which will leads to an optimally partitioned analog sub-system. Cosmic Circuits has shipped many million units of ICs in production which are used in end equipment of leading brands. A large team of expert designers continually keep pace with technology nodes, standards and applications, bringing certainty to customer product continuity and differentiation. Adherence to Design-For-Manufacturing, Design-For-Test, a customer-centric approach to support that includes silicon-validation of cosmic solutions, backed by the experience of successfully catering to 50+ world-wide customers, brings certainty to volume production.