Sofics ESD solutions are product proven in 0.5um to 40nm low voltage processes, and are used today in more than 600 ICs in high volume production across many proprietary fabs and foundries like TSMC, UMC and Chartered.

Our customers include IDM, fabless and foundries:

"state-of-the-art ESD protection"

"'first time right' design"

2008: Actel Licenses TakeCharge solutions (pdf 12kB)

Altera

"effectively manage both ESD protection and IO area"

2004: TakeCharge Design Approach Delivers Chip I/O Size Reduction for Altera FPGAs (pdf 17kB)

AMIS

Amis

"Specialized ESD design solutions"

"Easy-to-use, easy-to-integrate"

"Bringing products to customers quickly and cost effectively"

2007: AMI Semiconductor Medical Business Unit Implements TakeCharge ESD (pdf 14kB)

CamSemi

Cissoid

Decawave

Energy Micro

"Increase our confidence to exceed customer's specialized requirements"

2008: Low Threshold Consulting And TLP/HBM Testing services (pdf 12kB)

Fujitsu

"Fujitsu selected TakeCharge to provide customers with highly reliable high-performance products"

2006: 65nm CMOS TakeCharge ESD Solution licensed to Fujitsu (pdf 14kB)

Gennum

Icera

Infineon

Inphi

Inside Contactless

"Measurement data to convince our customer of the IC ESD performance"

2008: Low Threshold Consulting And TLP/HBM Testing services (pdf 12kB)

M4S

Nanotech

Netlogic

NJR

"Smaller ICs can help LCD display manufacturers meet the cost pressures they face."

"breakthrough IC design just 8 months after we implemented the new technology, with no redesigns required"

2002: New Japan Radio Achieves Significantly Smaller Die Sizes For LCD Driver ICs With New Design Technology (pdf 17kB)

OKI

"Substantial added value for Oki and its customers"

2005: OKI Implements TakeCharge On-Chip ESD Protection In High-Voltage ICs (pdf 20kB)

ON-Semi

Panasonic

"TakeCharge technology can reduce the capacitance of the input and output (I/O) pins of HV-CMOS IC's."

2004: Sarnoff Licenses TakeCharge ESD Design Solution IP To Matsushita (pdf 14kB)

PMC-Sierra

RedMere

"Truly demonstrated the ease-of-use and scalability of their solutions"

"HDMI: 8kV HBM without compromising the 3.4Gbps data channel"

2008: RedMere Technology Implements TakeCharge 8kV-HBM ESD Protection Solution for HDMI application (pdf 38kB)

Renesas

"The TakeCharge® ESD protection technology will enable the design of optimized ESD protection circuitry in a short period It provides a high level of ESD protection in a smaller surface area, which allows the development of smaller chips. Finally, it has low parasitic capacitance, making it ideal for use in high-speed applications. "

2004: Renesas Technology to Introduce TakeCharge ESD Protection Technology (pdf 33kB)

Ricoh

"Ricoh is committed to delivering high-performance, cost-effective products to our customers. We are reinforcing that commitment by adding TakeCharge technology to our extensive IC design resources. "

2004: Ricoh Will Use TakeCharge Design Approach In Analog CMOS Process Families (pdf 20kB)

Seiko Epson

"First-time-right"

"New ICs with improved capabilities even faster than before"

"Epson achieved such great results with TakeCharge that we decided to extend its use to our foundry customers"

"products to market cheaper and faster"

2006: Epson Extends Sarnoff's TakeCharge ESD Solution To Its Customers (pdf 26kB)

2005: Epson Licenses Sarnoff's TakeCharge ESD Design IP For High-Voltage Driver ICs Used In LCD Panels (pdf 18kB)

Sharp

Silicon Image

Sony

THine