Title: Enhancing 90nm MCU Competitiveness | Suzhou IPSoar Microelectronics Launches High-Performance Foundation IP Based on 90nm eFlash Process
2025-09-11
Body: Recently, Suzhou IPSoar Microelectronics, a leading one-stop Foundation IP supplier in China, announced the successful launch of a complete Foundation IP solution based on the domestic Foundry's 90nm eFlash process. This solution includes a high-performance Memory Compiler and a 14T Standard Cell library, providing a solid Foundation IP foundation for MCU-class chips to achieve highly competitive product development on the 90nm eFlash process platform.
The newly released Foundation IP solution boasts several core advantages:
Empowering High-Frequency MCU Design: The solution has successfully enabled customer MCU chips to achieve high-frequency operation of approximately 100MHz on the 90nm eFlash process platform. Achieving such high frequency at this process node typically involves significant challenges, requiring trade-offs in area, power consumption, timing, and other aspects. IPSoar's Foundation IP solution provides an effective pathway, offering a critical IP solution for MCU chips seeking higher competitiveness.
Leading Area and Speed Optimization: Suzhou IPSoar Microelectronics has optimally optimized the Memory Compiler for the characteristics of the 90nm process. Under the premise of ensuring high reliability, it has achieved industry-leading reductions in chip area and improvements in speed. This not only more easily meets the frequency requirements of chips but also enhances cost competitiveness through optimized area.
High-Frequency Adapted 14T StdCell: The accompanying 14T Standard Cell library is specifically customized and optimized for high-frequency design needs, providing strong performance support for customers' timing-critical path designs and serving as one of the core foundations for achieving hundred-megahertz high-frequency operation.
Industrial-Grade High Reliability Assurance: The solution deeply integrates a high-reliability architecture from the design stage. Through rigorous HTOL (High-Temperature Operating Life) testing and verification, it fully meets the stringent requirements of applications such as industrial control, which demand high chip lifespan and stability.
Mass Production Validation, Mature and Reliable: The solution has been successfully applied to chip design projects of multiple MCU enterprises and has passed mass production testing and verification, fully demonstrating its maturity in stability, yield, and manufacturability.
Zhou Bin, Co-founder and COO of Suzhou IPSoar Microelectronics, stated: "We are proud of this Foundation IP solution based on domestic process. It not only meets the customer's requirements for hundred-megahertz high-frequency performance and industrial-grade reliability in parameters but has also passed the stringent test of mass production verification—marking that this Foundation IP series is fully capable of supporting high-performance, high-reliability chip design and mass production. On mature and distinctive process nodes like 90nm eFlash, achieving extreme optimization in area and speed while balancing low power consumption and high reliability requires profound technical accumulation and deep understanding of process details. The IPSoar team has overcome multiple technical challenges and ultimately delivered this IP product with significant competitive advantages in the industry. We believe that this IP will help MCU chip manufacturers comprehensively enhance product performance, reliability, and cost competitiveness, accelerating their application in key markets such as industrial control and the Internet of Things. This is also an important practice of Suzhou IPSoar Microelectronics in fulfilling its mission of 'empowering customer innovation with high-quality Foundation IP.'"
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

