Novocell Semiconductor

As the temperature drops and the bright red maple leaves have begun to pile up, so has the stack of projects at Novocell. If you are expecting to utilize their high reliability, easy-to-integrate OTP in a project taping out in late Q4 or early Q1, NOW is the time to contact them.

Novocell and global IP partner, ChipStart, will host an informational ...

When a company develops chip for the military industry, I would prefer these chips to be using a 100% reliable technology. I am sure that you too! For certain application, 99%, or even 99.99% rate of confidence is not enough. Would you accept to fly in ...

The concept of Non Volatile Memory (NVM) block which could be integrated into an ASIC is relatively recent, Novocell for example has been created in 2001. NVM IP integration into an ASIC is a pretty smart technology: integrating from a few bytes to up to Mbits into a SoC can help reducing the number of chips in a system, increase security and allow for Digital Right Management (DRM) for video and TV applications, or provides encryption capability.

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Novocell Semiconductor, core antifuse-based OTP Smartbit™ technology was first patented in 2001 and 2002, and created a solid foundation for the first ten years,” stated Walt Novosel, President and CTO, “Since then, our customer-driven focus has led to numerous innovations in our original high reliability Smartbit-based NVM IP to best service specific system on chip (SoC) market segments. Our announcement today unveils our full line of NVM products to fully serve our customers’ needs, from 8bit register OTP, to specialty trimming and calibration OTP, to 4Mbit ultra-high density code storage and configuration OTP, to 1000x multi-time write hybrid OTP/MTP.”
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NVM IP offering from NovocellSemiconductor is based on SmartBit, an antifuse, One Time Programmable (OTP) technology, and the OTP block are embedded in standard Logic CMOS without any additional process or post process steps and can be programmed at the wafer level, in package, or in the field, as end user requires. What makes SmartBit technology unique is the “breakdown detector”, ...

Since most of you have not heard of Novocell this is more of an introduction but they have been around for 10+ years and are NVM (non-volitile memory) pioneers. NVM has evolved into a critical part of the semiconductor ecosystem which is why I sought them out. While SiDense and Kilopass bury each other in legal fees Novocell is doing some very clever things. ...

In this pretty shaky NVM IP market, where articles frequently mention legal battles rather than product features, it seems interesting to look at Novocell Semiconductor and their NVM IP product offering, and try to figure out what makes these products specific, what are the differentiators. Before looking at SmartBit cell into details, let’s just have a quick look about the market size of the NVM IP market. The NVM as a technology is not ...