TSMC9000™ Program Expansion Through Increase of IP

Partnership TSMC9000™ Program Expansion Through Increase of IP Validation Capability and Capacity

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TSMC and GRL

TSMC IP Validation Center and Granite River Labs (GRL) partnership expands the TSMC9000™ IP validation ecosystem through test capacity expansion, test auditing and posting of IP validation results onto TSMC-online

Expanding the TSMC9000 IP Validation Ecosystem

Offers chip developers confidence in integrating IP in SoCs, and significant reductions in debug and potential re-spin time without the use of the actual silicon as an IP validation platform

Can be viewed on TSMC Online as part of the TSMC 9000IP Validation Center Program

Assures GRL Foundry customers that these IP can be used with high confidence in the TSMC manufacturing process

SOC customers focus on expediting their product development instead of spending overhead to qualify IP

Delivers third-party IP test results that will give SoC developers a high level of confidence on the design quality of the IP and provide an accelerated path to SoC design success

Help SoC developers identify and choose high-quality, silicon proven IP that is backed by actual test results and ready for implementation in TSMC’s leading process technologies


GRL will serve as IP validation technical partner to TSMC and support TSMC IP ecosystem

TSMC will financially cover test methodology development work, correlation, and performing TSMC 9000 IP Compliance tests on IP vendors


TSMC9000 Model

TSMC9000 Ecosystem


GRL TSMC

TSMC SOC / IP Customers

TSMC contracts GRL to create TSMC9000 test methodology for specific PHY IP

GRL Hsinchu

GRL Bangalore

GRL SC

SOC / IP Vendors run TSMC9000 tests

For test methodology development / correlation

Perform the majority of the test

GRL report test results to TSMC

GRL IP Validation Program Deliverables Determine what test setup is needed at SOC / IP vendor to

support testing of specific protocol

Setup tests, debug, and determine optimal SERDES settings needed to pass protocol standards with IP vendor’s support

Manage and complete IP validation testing at GRL

Provide test plans, methodology, and report documentation


Granite River Labs Company Overview


New Interface Technologies Driving Higher Speeds in All Application Classes


Enterprise

Consumer

Memory

Enterprise/ Pro-Consumer


The Growing Challenges in Adopting High Speed Interfaces

GRL

Test Equipment & Methodology

Customer

Interface Standards

Complex Measurements Increases Stress Testing High Equipment Costs

Standards Diversity Interoperability Issues Cross Technology Reuse

GRL is Your Trusted Partner with the Expertise to Address these

Challenges

Signal Integrity GRL Engineering

Services

GRL Test Solutions

Test Software Application

GRL Expertise

Design Challenges Modeling & Simulation Jitter & Noise Sensitivity

Lack of Solutions Hard to Use Poor Integration

Multi-Disciplinary Approach

GRL Company Snapshot Company Mission: Help customers adopt latest high speed

interfaces through engineering services and test solutions

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GRL Extension Lab

GRL Test Software Solutions

Customer Validation

Lab

GRL Compliance Certification

Full Suite of Test Equipment •High Speed scopes, BERT’s, AWG’s and VNA/TDR’s •Protocol exercisers & analyzers •Interoperability test beds

Test Solutions Compliance Test Automation Software Protocol Exerciser & Analyzer Software Custom System Integration

Engineering Services Signal Integrity Modeling & Consulting Bring-up & Debug Characterization & Stress Testing

Authorized Test Center •Wide range of standards approved for certification •Convenient test locations •Debug & Consulting


Connectivity Standards Covered High Definition Video

First ATC

PHY I/F SGMII. XAUI,

XFI-SFP+

3G/HD-SDI

V-By-One HS

Data Bus & Storage

Networking Chip-to-Chip / Backplane

USB 3.0/10G

SATA Gen3

PCIe Gen3/4

DP 1.2, MyDP MHL 1.2/2.0

HDMI 1.4/2.0 SAS Gen2/3

D-PHY/M-PHY

CEI 6G/11G DDR3/eMMC

16GFC

External Ethernet 1.25G

3.125G 10.31

ATC ATC ATC

ATC

SONET STM-16 STM-64 ODU-2

Memory Card

UHS-2 ATC

Planned 2014

CFast, XQD ATC

Planned 2014

UFS SDR DDR QDR FDR

ATC

Planned 2014

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GRL Convenient Locations

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GRL WW HQ & Lab Santa Clara, CA

Partner Lab Boeblingen, Germany

GRL Taiwan Labs Hsinchu &Taipei

GRL India Lab Bangalore

GRL Asia Pacific HQ Singapore

GRL US R&D Beaverton, OR

GRL Malaysia Lab Penang

GRL Japan R&D Yokohama

Test Software & Solutions

Development

SI Model Simulation & Validation

IC Bring-Up, Debug Testing, &

SERDES tuning

Electrical Characterization & Protocol Stress

Testing

Standards Compliance Certification

Manufacturing Test Systems

Development

Test Spec & Methodology Development

GRL Engineering Services for IC’s


GRL Electrical Test Solutions


•Multi-Vendor Support

•Easy Integration and Customization

•Full Automation to Test Specific Interfaces •Error Injection & Stress Testing

•Easy Reporting

Electrical Automation

Scope

BERT/AWG

VNA/TDR

Manufacturing & SMV

GRL Protocol Test Solutions


Protocol Test Solutions

Scope Protocol Decode

Protocol Exerciser Automation

Test Hardware Solutions

Custom Automation

•Multi-Vendor Support

•Easy Integration and Customization

•Full Automation to Test Specific Interfaces •Error Injection & Stress Testing

•Easy Reporting

Full Test Equipment & Software Suite


High

Spe

ed S

cope

s •32Ghz Agilent DSOX93204A

•20Ghz Tek DSA72004B

•20Ghz Tek MSO72004C

•20Ghz LeCroy SDA820Zi-A

•20Ghz Agilent DCA-J 86100C

•16Ghz Agilent DSOX91604A

•16Ghz Tektronix DSA71604C

•13Ghz Agilent DSA91304A

•12Ghz Agilent DSO81204B

Bit E

rror R

ate

Test

ers •N4903B 12.5 J-BERT

B •81250A PARBERT •BSA125C 12.5

BertScope •BSA125B 12.5

BertScope •Tek AWG7122B

TDR

& V

NA

•E5071C 20 GHz 4 port ENA

•DCA-J 86100C with TDR

•Tek DSA8300 with TDR

Prot

ocol

& F

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l Tes

ters

•LeCroy USB/SATA/SAS/PCIe

•Ellisys USB •SerialTek SATA/SAS •Oakgate SATA/SAS •Unigraf DP •QD DP/HDMI/MHL •Agilent HDMI •Simplay Labs MHL •USB3 CV & Interop

Tree •USB3 EMI •USB3 LPM •USB2 CV & Interop

Tree •MQP PET •TBT Functional •SATA Interop •DP Interop

PVT

Equi

pmen

t •Silicon Thermal Direct to Chip Temperature Controllers

•Agilent Power Supplies with Sensing

SI S

oftw

are •Agilent ADS

•Agilent SystemView •Agilent Momentum •Ansoft HFSS

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Importance of Ecosystem IP Quality

The dramatic increase of complexity of SoCs has led to IP usage estimated at 80-100 IPs per 40nm/28nm SoC in the 2013/2014 timeframe

The quality of these IPs is paramount for successful SoC products. A systematic IP quality standard is needed

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TSMC9000™ - ONLY TSMC C

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Assessment Level

1) QC (design kits) review 2) Design review

1) TO review 2) Silicon reports review

1) Split lot TO review 2) Silicon reports review

1) Customer product quantity 2) Customer product yield tracing

Sub-phases

1) DRC, LVS, ERC & Antenna checks (QA) 2) IP tag

Split Lot Silicon Assessment

Typical Silicon Assessment

Pre-silicon Assessment

Physical Review

Volume Production

DFM Compliance 1) DFM-LPE, LPC, Dummy Insertion (Mandatory for advanced tech nodes) 2) VCMP (recommended)

IP validation Center 1) Audit IP testing result byTSMC test lab

Silicon

Pre-Si

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TSMC9000™ IP Validation Center

IP Validation Center extends TSMC9000™ to audit IP testing results and posted IP validation result onto TSMC-online

Partner with 3rd party testing lab to extend IP validation capability and capacity – Granite River Labs

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Key Advantage - TSMC 9000 IP Quality 1. Click “Design Portal” 2. Click “IP Center” then “IP Search”

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IP Center Search

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Summary

TSMC provides a diversified portfolio of processes to cover most semiconductor applications, from Power Management in 0.18u, to the most advanced Application Processor in 16FF+

TSMC leadership position is maintained by its investment on the Open Innovation Platform (OIP), and its focus on IP Quality

TSMC9000™ is an comprehensive IP quality standard that includes audits, assessments and IP validation

TSMC9000™ is a quality standard that benefits all parties involved: SoC design customers, IP partners and TSMC

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TSMC9000™ Program Expansion Through Increase of IP