FMS: Arasan Demos SD Card UHS-II PHY IP and eMMC 5.1 PHY IP for 12nm SoC Designs

Arasan Chip Systems, Inc., provider of mobile storage IP, demonstrated its Total IP Solution on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.’s 12nm process for the eMMC and SD Card standards.

The company demonstrated their latest products on TSMC’s 12nm process, the SD Card UHS-II PHY and eMMC 5.1 PHY on a test chip. The firm integrates PHY IP with SD Card Host IP and eMMC 5.1 Host IP, and demonstrated an end-to-end solution. The demo platform included the company’s software Stacks and HDK forming the Total IP solution for eMMC and SD Card standards.

The firm offers a portfolio of IP for mobile storage with UFS 3.0 + MPHY Gear 4 @11.6Gb for high speed storage requirements as well as NAND flash controller IP compliant with the ONFI 4.1 specs. The NAND flash PHY + IO IP is also available for customer’s silicon design.

The company joined as an executive member of the SD Association in 2001. The first IP product announced for the SD standards was the SDIO Device Controller IP followed by the Standard SD Host Controller IP. The SD/SDIO Card IP product line remains the firm’s successful product line to date.

The company has also been supporting the JEDEC eMMC standard since the time it, like the SD Card was the removable storage Multi Media Card (MMC). MMC was promoted by the Multimedia Card Association which then merged with JEDEC in 2008. eMMC has grown rapidly to become the preferred embedded storage standard for mobile applications including a majority of mobile phones in the market.

The SD Card UHS-II PHY and eMMC PHY IP are available for 12nm SoC designs.

About Arasan
Arasan Chip Systems, Inc., a contributing member of the MIPI Association since 2005 is a provider of IP for mobile storage and mobile connectivity interfaces. The company’s silicon-proven, Total IP Solutions include digital IP, AMS PHY IP, Verification IP, HDK and Software. The firm has a focused product portfolio targeting mobile SoC’s. The term Mobile has evolved over our two-decade history to include all things mobile – starting with PDA’s in the mid 90’s to smartphones and tablets of the 2000’s to today’s automobiles, drones and IoT’s. The company is at the forefront of this evolution of ‘Mobile’ with its standards-based IP at the heart of Mobile SoC’s. Over a billion chips have been shipped with the firm’s IP including all of the top ten semiconductor companies.