Kilopass Corporate Facts

Overview

Kilopass Technology, Inc. designs, develops and delivers innovative, embedded, non-volatile memory (NVM) silicon intellectual property (IP) for SOC applications. Highly reliable, secure, flexible and cost-effective, its one-time programmable, extra-permanent XPM™ memory family ranges up to 1Mb and is manufactured in standard logic CMOS processes from 180nm to 40nm. More than 70 customers rely on Kilopass IP to safeguard their firmware and security code storage, calibration data, and other application-critical information. A dozen foundries and integrated device manufacturers have proven the value of Kilopass IP in more than half a million shipped wafers.

History

2001:

Founded with fundamental patents for anti-fuse technology

2005:

Completes qualification for TSMC, SMIC, and Tower 180nm CMOS process

2006:

  • Closes third round of VC funding
  • Company split into FPGA and IP
  • Partnership with TSMC on 130nm to 40nm enablement
  • Delivers logic NVM family for 130nm process

2007:

  • Delivers logic NVM family for 90nm processes
  • XPM becomes available for 65nm low power and general purpose processes
  • XPM becomes first high-density embedded NVM to complete qualification for 80nm and 90nm processes

2008:

  • XPM passes15 million mark for production units
  • XPM becomes available for Dongbu HiTek customers at 180nm

2009:

  • SnapXPM offering; off-the-shelf customer-proven silicon
  • Expansion of XPM into IDMs and all foundries
  • Becomes SMIC’s lead embedded OTP NVM partner for 65nm/45nm processes

Technology

Kilopass is the pioneer of NVM antifuse technology in a standard CMOS process with no additional processing steps. Its 2T bit cell architecture is compatible with standard CMOS logic, has the same reliability as the foundry’s process, scales easily with the process technology, and reduces overall SoC product cost. Data programming is shorter than for other NVM technologies, and data is impervious to detection because no voltage, electronic or magnetic fields are stored.

Management

Charlie Cheng – Chief Executive Officer
Jeff Ball – VP of Corporate Development
Lee Cleveland – Vice President of Engineering
Harry Luan – CTO
Juan Chapa – VP of Worldwide Sales
Linh Hong – VP of Marketing

Headquarters

3333 Octavius Drive, Suite 101
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Website: www.kilopass.com
(408) 980-8808