South Korean fabless company TLi launches semiconductors using Arasan products.

TLi (www.tli.co.kr), a leading fabless semiconductor company in Korea that has licensed Arasan's UFS Device Controller IP and MPHY supporting up to Gear 3 speeds, is launching semiconductors utilizing Arasan's UFS product line. TLi recently successfully integrated Arasan's UFS total IP solution into its silicon chips.

Arasan is a leading supplier of JEDEC UFS IP and MIPI MPHY analog IP cores. Arasan's UFS host, device, and MPHY IP are jointly licensed and produced by top global vendors of UFS-based memory and application processors. Arasan's UFS solutions are currently featured in some of the most advanced smartphones on the market.

“This allows us to more efficiently provide technology links across the UFS ecosystem, with AP suppliers and virtually all UFS memory vendors licensing Arasan’s UFS host/device IP combined with MIPI MPHY IP cores,” said Prakash Kamath, CTO of Arasan.

“We further solidify our position as the first memory controller vendor to offer UFS controller semiconductor solutions up to 5.8Gbps in Gear 3 Rate a and b operations,” said Song Yoon-seok, Vice President of TLi. “TLi has a diverse portfolio of flash controller devices, including eMMC, and we plan to further diversify our product lineup with UFS,” he said.



Arasan participates in interoperability with other leading UFS solution providers, ensuring the technical compliance of its UFS IP solutions, including the UFS 2.1 standard and MIPI MPHY 3.1 standard. Building on this, Arasan collaborates with compliance test companies such as Agilent to test currently available UFS memory devices. UFS compliance and production testers at leading vendors utilize Arasan's UFS IP, adhering to a quality-first principle.

Arasan's UFS 2.1 total IP solution, currently available for licensing, includes UFS host controller IP, UFS device controller IP, Verilog UVM-based verification IP, and software stacks for UFS device and host controller IP and MIPI M-PHY V3.1 GDSII, along with HDK, providing all the necessary coverage and conformance.

M-PHY supports all Gears 1, 2, and 3 at Rates A and B (up to 5.9 Gbps) and is currently shipping for 40 nm and 28 nm nodes, with a 16 nm version coming soon. MPHY supporting 12 Gbps Gear 4 speeds is planned for 16 nm and 14 nm foundry nodes in 2016.