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Sidense Secure Embedded OTP Enables Encrypted USB Drive
Faraday Technology Uses Sidense Memory IP to Develop Secure Bridge Chip
| Source: Sidense
OTTAWA--(Marketwire - September 24, 2009) - Sidense Corp., a leading developer of Logic
Non-Volatile Memory (LNVM) IP cores, today announced that Faraday
Technology Corp. (Faraday), a leader in the USB market, selected Sidense's
1T-Fuse™ single-transistor bit cell, one-time programmable (OTP) macros
for use in a USB secure drive application. The 16Kbit Sidense macro
provides a highly secure storage medium for protecting data, applications
and IDs on the drive.
"Sidense OTP macros offer our customers an easy-to-implement and reliable
means of protecting data and code on chips used in a wide variety of
applications," said Xerxes Wania, President and CEO of Sidense. "Since
memory integrity can be compromised by knowledgeable hackers, encrypting
sensitive storage data with Sidense OTP is a good way of defending against
piracy or malicious modification."
As an ASIC full service provider, Faraday provides one-stop shop service to
its customers in IP development, IP acquisition as well as all the details
of integrated circuit implementation and production. This model allows
Faraday's customers to focus on the successful implementation of their
products.
"While Faraday was able to supply most of the IP cores needed to implement
a bridge chip for our customer's encrypted USB drive, we turned to Sidense
to provide a secure OTP macro," said Joseph Hong, USA general manager at
Faraday. "The cooperative efforts of Faraday and Sidense gave our customer
what they needed to successfully bring their encrypted USB drives to
market."
About Sidense
Sidense Corp., the only logic non-volatile memory provider listed on EE
Times 60 Emerging Startups list for 2009, provides secure, dense and
reliable non-volatile, one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP for use in
standard-logic CMOS processes, with no additional masks or process steps
required. Sidense's patented one-transistor 1T-Fuse™ architecture (U.S.
Patent #7,402,855 and others) provides the industry's smallest footprint,
most reliable and lowest power Logic Non-Volatile Memory IP solution and
offers an alternative solution to Flash, mask ROM and eFuse in many
applications.
Sidense OTP memory is available at 180nm, 130nm, 110nm, 90nm, 65nm, and
55nm and is scalable to 40nm and below. The IP is available at all
top-tier semiconductor foundries and selected IDMs. Customers are using
Sidense OTP for analog trimming, code storage, encryption keys such as
HDCP, RFID and Chip ID, medical, automotive, and configurable processors
and logic. For more information, please visit www.sidense.com.
About Faraday Technology
Faraday Technology Corporation is a leading fabless ASIC and silicon IP
provider. The company's broad silicon IP portfolio includes Cell Library,
Memory Compiler, ARM-compliant CPUs, DDRI/II/III, MPEG4, H.264, USB
2.0/3.0, 10/100 Ethernet, Serial ATA, and PCI Express. With 2008 revenue of
US$ 149 million, Faraday is one of the largest fabless ASIC companies in
the Asia-Pacific region, and it also has a significant presence in other
world-wide markets. Headquartered in Taiwan, Faraday has service and
support offices around the world, including the U.S., Japan, Europe, and
China. For more information, please visit: www.faraday-tech.com.