The seemingly insatiable demand for consumer products, particularly those targeting communications, information, and and entertainment applications, has been a primary driver of the semiconductor industry. Consumer products are becoming more complex and are increasingly designed to support a combination of voice, video and data streams. Digital media is gaining traction and is supported by home media centers and home multimedia networks. Other important consumer-electronics devices include video or digital-picture cell phones, PDAs, video games, and digital cameras. To be viable in the consumer market, devices must have rapid design and production cycles and be flexible enough to handle rapidly expanding feature sets.
Kilopass Advantages Low Cost : XPM is processed in a standard CMOS logic process and can be embedded on a logic chip with no additional masking or processing steps, thus adding no cost to a chip’s processing cost.
Flexible : XPM is field-programmable, which supports rapid development of derivative products with differing feature sets and, through analog trimming techniques, product “personalization” for audio and video applications
Dense : With rapidly increasing storage and program-code requirements, XPM has enough storage capcity for data and/or program code without significantly impacting chip size or cost.
Secure : Due to its inherently secure NVM technology, XPM is the most secure NVM IP in the market. Information programmed into the XPM memory is secure from reverse-engineering, modification and theft. Commercial security applications for XPM include: HDMI/HDCP, DRM (Digital Rights Management), Encryption, and ID Security.
Low Power : Power consumption of XPM memory is low, making it ideal for non-volatile storage in portable and other power-sensitive devices.
“Kilopass’ XPM memory technology makes it possible for us to reduce the number of parts in our designs,” - Gerard Yeh, VP of DTV VLSI Engineering at Zoran
"Our engineering team selected Kilopass over other non-standard CMOS technologies such as Flash due to its ease of integration and manufacturing, and low manufacturing cost."
- David Auld, VP Technology at Zoran
The seemingly insatiable demand for consumer products, particularly those targeting communications, information, and and entertainment applications, has been a primary driver of the semiconductor industry. Consumer products are becoming more complex and are increasingly designed to support a combination of voice, video and data streams. Digital media is gaining traction and is supported by home media centers and home multimedia networks. Other important consumer-electronics devices include video or digital-picture cell phones, PDAs, video games, and digital cameras. To be viable in the consumer market, devices must have rapid design and production cycles and be flexible enough to handle rapidly expanding feature sets.
