foundry partners

TakeCharge Maintenance

Focus: The TakeCharge Basic and Premium Support Packages focus respectively on providing implementation and customization engineering support, based on 1IC/1month support packages.

Value add:

  • Easy, fast product IC implementation and/or customization support
  • Immediate access to the core engineering team for trained customer engineers
  • Continuous education on ESD design through TDK training of your selected engineers

Key deliverables:
Basic Support Package:

  • Included in the purchase of the TDK and the TDS
  • For TDK Basic Support Package :
    • Training of customer design/layout engineers in the use of all TDK tools (calculation tools, decision tree, scaling of solutions to specific customer requirements…).
    • 1 IC/1 month implementation support and review
    • Continuous access to Q&A database through Sarnoff Europe website
  • For TDS Basic Support Package :
    • Support on implementation of black-box solution
    • Review of full IC ESD strategy after implementation of the ESD solution

Premium Support Package for TDK:

  • Can be optionally purchased by TDK customers.
    • Provide support delivered by Sarnoff Europe for customization of reference ESD solutions, tools etc… to specific customer requirements and performance
    • Provide additional training in the use of the TDK.

Business model: The Support Packages for standard foundry CMOS processes are available in 1 IC/1 month packages for fixed price.
Support on proprietary custom project TDK development includes basic support for 2 IC’s..

The commercial use of the Support Package deliverables requires purchase of either TDK or TDS and the execution of a License Agreement