SMSC licenses Cosmic Circuits IP

BANGALORE, INDIA: Cosmic Circuits, a provider of Analog and Mixed-Signal Silicon IP Cores recently announced that SMSC, a semiconductor company enabling content rich connectivity systems, has licensed Cosmic Circuits IP for use in its product development.

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, said a press release.

Cosmic Circuits has a portfolio of more than 300+ cores covering process technologies from 0.18u to 28nm. Cosmic Circuits power management portfolio consists of DC/DC Buck, DC/DC Boost, DC/DC Buck Boost, Low Drop out regulators, Power—On-Reset, Capacitive charge pumps, USB battery chargers and High precision band-gap references, the release added.

Ganapathy Subramaniam, CEO of Cosmic Circuits, commented: “We are very happy to enable SMSC with our solutions to meet their aggressive design requirements. SMSC’s specification called for stringent requirements on leakage current as well as high-voltage tolerance.”

He added that using design techniques that they have perfected at Cosmic over several successful implementations, they were able to meet the system requirements on the first-pass silicon in a standard CMOS process.

Hemi Bhatnagar, VP of Engineering at SMSC added, “We needed a partner who had a proven track record in providing Analog/Mixed Signal solutions with a wide-portfolio and a willingness to customize to our needs. Cosmic Circuits along with strong technical expertise provided strong support and excellent project execution resulting in first pass working silicon.”