Dolphin Integration selects LFoundry for defense and industrial markets

ROUSSET, FRANCE, June 11, 2012 – Dolphin Integration and LFoundry are happy to announce they are setting up a partnership for the fabrication of Dolphin’s products. These designs based on LFoundry LF 150 technology concern SOCs (Systems on Chip), ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) and FPGA to ASIC migration.

Based on LFoundry's Product Design Kit (PDK), and their technologies, Dolphin’s mixed signal circuits are dedicated to the European Defense industries as well as high-reliability markets, and are supported by Dolphin’s experience of more than 25 years in analog, logic and mixed-signal microelectronic design.

LFoundry brings to this partnership their LF150 technology, based on the 150 nm geometry. This long-standing technology has been thoroughly tested and validated by numerous LFoundry customers. Dolphin Integration has selected LFoundry for their ability to ensure the continuous delivery of their semiconductor solutions, with their flexibility to support customer needs. At LFoundry, Dolphin Integration will benefit from the company’s customer support ensuring reliable and perennial deliveries for small to large volumes.

“We are very happy to partner with LFoundry for our mixed-signal products targeting the defense and industrial markets”, said Louis Zangara, Vice-President of Dolphin Integration. “We have selected LFoundry to benefit from their experience and proximity, both factors being key for the European Defense equipment makers”.

“Our partnership with Dolphin Integration is a recognition of the quality of our services, both in terms of manufacturing and in terms of customer service. Our long-term commitment to support Dolphin’s needs has played a central role in setting up our partnership”, said Jean-Pierre Delesse, President LFoundry Rousset.

About LFoundry Rousset

With more than 650 employees, LFoundry Rousset, a semiconductor expert headquartered in Rousset, France, brings a new approach to semiconductor manufacturing. Thanks to its own expertise demonstrated by its LF 110 Flash process, combined with partnerships with the best experts in their domain, LFoundry Rousset is able to bring its customers proximity, reliability and security for their semiconductor manufacturing.

About Dolphin Integration

Dolphin Integration is up to their charter as the most adaptive and lasting creator in the Microelectronics Design Industry to "enable mixed signal Systems-on-Chip". It stars a quality management stimulating reactivity for innovation as well as independence and partnerships with Foundries. Their current mission is to supply worldwide customers with fault-free, high-yield and reliable sets of CMOS Virtual Components, such as mixed signal high-resolution converters for audio and measurement applications, libraries of memories and standard cells, Power management networks, Microcontrollers.

The strategy is to follow product launches with evolutions addressing future needs, emphasizing resilience to noise and drastic reductions of power-consumption at SoC level, thanks to their own missing electronic design solutions enabling Support Engineering with Application Hardware Modeling as well as early Power and Noise assessment, plus engineering assistance for Risk Control.

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