Openedges Technology 12nm LPDDR5/4x/4 PHY Ready for Mass Production by Novachips

Openedges Technology, Inc. announced that its silicon-proven LPDDR5/4x/4 PHY IP at 12nm, licensed in February 2022, has been brought up in the Novachips Co, Ltd..’ newest SSD controller SoC and is about to begin with mass production.

Novachips SSD controller SoC with Openedges IP applied

This LPDDR5/4x/4 combo PHY IP, which is capable of data rates of up to 6,400Mb/s, provides improved configurability, and reliability for high-speed memory interfaces in SSD controllers, with power, performance, and area (PPA) advantages. It achieved area savings and demonstrated the company’s commitment to efficient and effective IP solutions. Moreover, the firmware-based PHY independent training through an embedded processor optimizes the boot-time memory training for the highest data reliability and margin at the system level.

Novachips, in flash storage processors and storage modules, has been impressed with the performance of Openedges’ IP and its technical support.

“Our experience with Openedges’ team has been outstanding, enabling seamless silicon bring-up, which can be quite complicated,” said Daniel Kim, CEO, Novachips. “We are excited that the released SoC has met and even exceeded our expectations, reaching our required maximum data rates with only half the footprint of other solutions, and we are now looking forward to mass production within a short time. This combination LPDDR5/4x/4 IP solution support all required features of the LPDDR specifications, enabling our team to achieve the necessary functionality and flexibility in our SoC.”

The company’s LPDDR5/4x/4 PHY IP at 12nm was designed to meet the requirements of high-speed memory interfaces with quad-rank support in SSD controllers, offering performance.

“We are thrilled to have our IP incorporated into Novachips’ newest SSD controller, the mission-critical application,” said Sean Lee, CEO, Openedges. “Our team across multiple regions is proud to contribute to the efforts in delivering cutting-edge DDR PHY solutions.”

“I am proud of how our Applications Engineering and Design teams have closely collaborated with Novachips to bring-up this combo PHY in a variety of configurations,” said Ron Choi, senior manager, applications engineering, The Six Semiconductor, Inc. (TSS), wholly-owned subsidiary Openedges. “We have successfully proven full-speed PHY operation on Novachips’ LPDDR5, LPDDR4x, and LPDDR4 platforms, and look forward to continued partnership as they fully validate their memory subsystems.”

About Openedges Technology, Inc.
It is a provider of memory subsystem IPs for the semiconductor industry, offering a range of  solutions, including DDR memory controllers, DDR PHY, NoC interconnect, and NPU IPs that are widely adopted by customers WW. Its IPs comply with JEDEC standards, including LPDDR5x/5/4x/4/3, DDR5/4/3, GDDR6, and HBM3, ensuring their compatibility with the latest DDR technology trends. In 2019, they acquired The Six Semiconductor, Inc. (TSS), specializing in high-speed memory PHYs across multiple technologies. As a publicly listed company on the Korean Stock Exchange Market (394280. KQ), Openedges is well-positioned to continue its growth and maintain its leadership in the memory subsystem IPs market.

About The Six Semiconductor, Inc. (TSS)
It is a Canadian technology company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Openedges, which specializes in developing advanced high-speed DDR PHY IP solutions that cater to a range of applications such as AI/ML, HPC, mobile devices, and automotive. Its product portfolio includes PHY IPs for various memory standards, including LPDDR5x/5/4x/4, GDDR6, and HBM3, that are optimized for power and area. TSS’s solutions are designed to be compatible with multiple technologies, foundries, and process nodes. The company’s team of experts has experience in the field and is dedicated to providing the industry with high-quality and reliable DDR PHY IP solutions.

About Novachips
It is a provider of a range of flash storage processors and storage drives with capacity and scalability. It re-imagined flash storage from the inside out and offer the SSD advanced capabilities with high storage capacity for enterprise-class storage applications.