Talking About the TSMC IP Alliance Program

Feb. 12, 2024

The TSMC IP Alliance Program helps companies develop better processors by ensuring that the needed IP is made available in an accessible silicon-verified, production-proven, and foundry-specific manner.

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Related To: Electronic Design

The TSMC IP Alliance Program provides the semiconductor industry's largest catalog of silicon-verified, production-proven, and foundry-specific intellectual property (IP). A key component of the TSMC Open Innovation Platform, the program offers TSMC technical data and/or libraries to design processor IP, with dedicated account managers and support from TSMC IP technical support teams.

We talked with Chris Morrison, Director of Product Marketing at Agile Analog about the company’s recent action regarding the alliance. Agile Analog specializes in analog IP, which is an essential part of every IC or SoC but often overlooked until late in the development schedule as it often provides system control and management functions.

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An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

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