World Leading IP Licensees:

Customer testimony

IDM

Shoji Ichino, general manager, Technology Development Division, Electronics Devices Business Unit of Fujitsu Limited

"Fujitsu selected Sarnoff's TakeCharge to help continue our tradition of providing customers with highly reliable high-performance products and services based on powerful technologies"   [read more]

Naoyuki Shigyo, chief specialist in the analog CAD Engineering Department of Toshiba's Semiconductor Company

 "System manufacturers are increasingly asking IC suppliers for CDM-protected devices. Based on our previous success with TakeCharge, Sarnoff's CDM protection solution will help us meet that challenge and further solidify Toshiba's competitive position."

 "We've had consistent success in designing more compact, higher-performance ESD protection into our ICs with TakeCharge. We will continue to collaborate with Sarnoff to develop solutions for our future processes such as 45nm and 32nm.   [read more]

Shiratori, Deputy General Manager, Display Driver Division of Oki's Silicon Solution Company.

"We have implemented these TakeCharge devices in our various high volume products, such as LCD and OLED driver devices, where they deliver substantial added value for Oki and its customers."   [read more]

Akira Nakamura, General Manager, Ricoh

"Ricoh is commited to delivering high-performance, cost-effective products to our customers. We are reinforcing that commitment by adding TakeCharge technology to our extensive IC design resources."   [read more]

Ryo Ogura, Managing Director of New Japan Radio

"Smaller ICs can help LCD display manufacturers meet the cost pressures they face, and also offer an opportunity to develop even more compact designs. Our engineers achieved this breakthrough IC design for our customers just 8 months after we implemented the new technology, with no redesigns required."   [read more]

Yoshiyuki Miyayama, General Manager of IC Design Technology Department of Epson's Semiconductor Operations Division

"By utilizing TakeCharge in designing the I/O area of our HV-CMOS devices, we will be able to offer new ICs with improved capabilites even faster than before. We expect to achieve a substantial reduction of the on-chip I/O area, and the first-time-right feature means we can reduce our costs by saving time in engineering, and eliminating the need for additional masks."   [read more]

Fabless

Bradley Howe, vice president of IC Design at Altera

"We chose TakeCharge for our FPGA product families as part of Altera's commitment to deliver high-performance, cost-effective programmable products to our customers. TakeCharge has allowed us to effectively manage both ESD protection and IO area."   [read more]

Michel De Mey, Senior Director, Hearing and Audio Solutions AMI Semiconductor

"Sarnoff Europe provides specialized ESD design solutions within a very short turnaround time, and has truly demonstrated first-time-right delivery capabilities."

"With Sarnoff's easy-to-use, easy-to-integrate TakeCharge ESD protection solution, AMI Semiconductor can consistently focus on bringing our cutting-edge industry standard products to customers quickly and cost effectively."   [read more]

Dr. Esmat Hamdy, Senior Vice President of Technology and operations at Actel Corporation

"We chose the Sarnoff TakeCharge solution because it provides state-of-the-art ESD
protection while ensuring ‘first time right’ design. The implementation of
TakeCharge will allow us to effectively manage ESD protection while continuing to
quickly and cost-effectively deliver our next-generation, low-power programmable
products to market."   [read more]

Peter Smyth, CEO of RedMere Technology

"The Sarnoff TakeCharge Design Kit enabled RedMere to quickly and economically increase our IC ESD performance to a new HDMI industry standard of 8kV HBM without compromising the stringent operation requirements of a 3.4Gbps data channel. Sarnoff truly demonstrated the ease-of-use and scalability of their solutions"   [read more]

Foundry

Dani Ashkenazi, General Manager CMOS Product Line at Tower Semiconductor

"As a specialty foundry, it is important that we provide our fabless customers with a wide range of robust and efficient high-performance ESD protection solutions for all their logic and mixed-signal applications."

"Sarnoff Europe has consistently been a reliable and expert ESD protection IP partner to the semiconductor industry, making them the natural choice as our partner for these demanding applications."   [read more]

Ken Liou, director of the IP and Design Support Division at UMC

" With the addition of Sarnoff Europe's TakeCharge on-chip ESD protection design solutions to our IP Alliance Program, UMC customers will have easy access to superior ESD design solutions from an industry wide recognized leader in its field."   [read more]

Shinya Kamiyama, General Manager of Epson's Foundry Business Division

"Epson achieved such great results with Sarnoff's TakeCharge that we decided to extend its use to our foundry customers. Thanks to Sarnoff's technology, we are pleased to provide our foundry customers with further improved ESD support and this means that we are able to get our customer's products to market cheaper and faster - a key advantage in such a fast moving and highly competitive market."   [read more]