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In August 2025, Suzhou IPSoar Microelectronics, a leading one-stop Foundation IP supplier in China, announced two major breakthroughs:

The company's Foundation IP development process system has officially passed the German TÜV Rheinland ISO 26262 Functional Safety Management System ASIL D certification. Simultaneously, its automotive-grade 40nm Memory Compiler product has successfully completed testing in multiple customers' automotive chips, with yield and performance metrics fully meeting requirements.

This marks Suzhou IPSoar Microelectronics as one of the few domestic enterprises possessing complete ASIL D-level development capabilities, achieving industrialization of Auto Grade 1 Foundation IP, and addressing the gap in domestic automotive-grade Foundation IP. It provides a solid foundation of domestic Foundation IP support for foundry automotive processes and automotive electronic chips.

Core Breakthrough 1: ISO 26262 ASIL D Certification — Building the Safety Foundation for Automotive IP

On August 20, 2025, the independent third-party testing, inspection, and certification organization German TÜV Rheinland Group (hereinafter referred to as "TÜV Rheinland") officially awarded Suzhou IPSoar Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "IPSoar ") the ISO 26262 Functional Safety Management System ASIL D certification certificate. This signifies that IPSoar has successfully established a system of product development and management processes that meet the highest automotive functional safety level "ASIL D," possessing the capability to provide safe and reliable Foundation IP products for automotive electronic chips.

Zhou Bin, Co-founder and COO of Suzhou IPSoar Microelectronics, and relevant personnel involved in the functional safety management system certification, along with Zhao Bin, General Manager of Industrial Services and Information Security at TÜV Rheinland, and Jiang Shiyi, Sales Director of Industrial Services and Information Security, attended the certification ceremony as representatives of both parties.

Under the wave of automotive electrification and intelligence, chips have become the "digital heart" of automobiles. As the core foundational component of chip design, the quality, reliability, and functional safety compliance of Foundation IP directly affect the performance, safety level, and time-to-market of final automotive chips. This certification brings the following core values to customers:

Provides the Highest Level of Safety Foundation: The ASIL D process certification ensures that IPSoar's automotive Foundation IP has systematically identified, prevented, and managed failure risks that could lead to hazards during the design and development process, providing the highest level of functional safety assurance for customers' SoC chips from the bottom-level IP.

Accelerates Customer Chip Certification: When integrating IPSoar's licensed Foundation IP, customers can directly inherit the complete safety documentation (such as Safety Manual) provided by us, which meets ISO 26262 requirements. This greatly simplifies the complexity and workload of customer chip-level functional safety certification, helping customers shorten development cycles and time-to-market.

Reduces Customer Compliance Risks and Costs: Customers no longer need to invest substantial resources in independently verifying the safety of the foundational IP, reducing the risks and costs associated with project delays or certification failures due to IP-level safety issues.

Enhances Supply Chain Trust and Confidence: The authoritative certification from TÜV Rheinland gives customers strong confidence in choosing IPSoar as an automotive IP supplier, proving our ability and commitment to continuously deliver solutions that meet the highest automotive safety standards.

Meets Stringent Automotive Process Requirements: This ISO-26262 functional safety process certification, combined with IPSoar's ISO-9001 (Quality Management System Certification) and ISO-27001 (Information Security Management System Certification), along with our existing automotive IP R&D system and reliability testing system, constitutes the core pillars for Foundation IP to meet the requirements of complete automotive processes (Automotive Grade), ensuring comprehensive compliance in performance, reliability, lifespan, and safety.

Representatives' Speeches

Zhou Bin, Co-founder and COO of Suzhou IPSoar Microelectronics, stated at the certification ceremony: "Achieving the ISO 26262 ASIL D certification is an important milestone for us in the automotive electronics field. It is not only a high recognition of our existing R&D strength and management level but will also help us further serve domestic foundry automotive processes and automotive chip companies, providing customers with more competitive products and services and accelerating their automotive chip certification."

Zhao Bin, General Manager of Industrial Information and Security Services at TÜV Rheinland, said: "ISO 26262 is a globally recognized automotive functional safety standard, covering functional safety requirement planning, design, implementation, integration, verification, confirmation, configuration, and other aspects. It aims to reduce the risk of failures in automotive electrical or electronic systems through a perfect development process and officially released the latest version on December 12, 2018. Currently, ISO 26262 functional safety certification has become one of the entry thresholds for electronic component suppliers entering the automotive industry."

Core Breakthrough 2: Customer Chip Testing Success of 40nm Auto Grade 1 Memory Compiler IP — Market Validation of Product Performance

In addition to system certification, IPSoar's self-developed automotive-grade Auto Grade 1 Memory Compiler IP has achieved success in customer chip testing, further validating its practical capabilities. This IP product is specifically designed for the harsh environment of automotive electronics, possessing advantages such as high performance, low power consumption, and high reliability, meeting the stringent requirements of the automotive industry for Memory Compiler IP. Passing customer tests means that the product's performance and stability in actual application scenarios have been validated by the market, earning the company customer trust.

To ensure that this IP product meets automotive requirements, the company's R&D team has invested a great deal of effort, adopting advanced design concepts and technical means to deeply optimize key indicators such as speed, power consumption, area, and reliability, effectively enhancing the overall performance and reliability of automotive chips.

Domestication Breakthrough Assists Full-Chain Autonomous Control of Automotive Chips

Currently, the domestication of automotive chips has become a national strategic focus, and as the "foundation" of chip design, the autonomy and controllability of Foundation IP directly affect industrial chain security. Through the above breakthroughs, IPSoar not only fills the technological gap in domestic high-end automotive process Foundation IP but also demonstrates unique value in deep collaboration with domestic foundries and automotive chip design companies:

Optimal Adaptation to Foundry Processes in Development Design

More Effective Support for Foundry Process Iteration and Maturation through Yield Analysis and Precise Positioning of Test Chips

More Effective Support for Automotive Chip Companies in Better Utilizing IP through Process and IP Test Data

"Domestication of automotive Foundation IP is not a single-point breakthrough but a result of industrial chain collaboration," emphasized Zhou Bin. "IPSoar will continue to take technological innovation as the core, co-building an autonomous and controllable automotive chip ecosystem with foundries and automotive chip enterprises, injecting 'chip power' into the high-quality development of China's automotive electronics industry."

About IPSoar:

Suzhou IPSoar Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (founded in 2018, headquartered in Suzhou) is a leading one-stop Foundation IP and Memory IP supplier in China, specializing in providing high-reliability, high-PPA competitive IP solutions. Its product line comprehensively covers core IPs such as Memory Compiler, Standard Cell Library, GPIO, TCAM Compiler, and OTP, supporting process nodes from 0.18μm to 28nm and advanced process platforms.

As an officially certified partner of 12 mainstream domestic Foundries, the company not only ranks among the few manufacturers capable of providing full-chain IP support from mature processes to advanced nodes but has also been honored with outstanding supplier awards from multiple Foundries due to its stable delivery capabilities and high-quality Foundation IP products and services. In 40nm/28nm and advanced nodes, the PPA (Power/Performance/Area) metrics of its IP products are 5%-20% better than the industry average. The company focuses on the reliability of Foundation IP, relying on a comprehensive quality inspection process. It has now passed ISO 9001 quality system certification, ISO 27001 information security certification, and ISO 26262 functional safety management system ASIL D certification, ensuring a 100% tape-out success rate.

IPSoar consistently adheres to the mission of "Empowering Customers with High-Quality Foundation IP." Through continuous technological iteration and customer collaboration, it helps partners achieve full-cycle value enhancement from IP selection and chip design innovation to successful mass production.

Company Email: sales@ipsoar-tech.com

Company Website: www.ipsoar-tech.com