Dolphin Integration Receives 2011 TSMC IP Partner Award for Analog/Mixed-Signal IP

San Jose, USA – November 4, 2011 - Dolphin Integration, provider of mixed-signal IP, has received the 2011 TSMC IP Partner Award for Analog/Mixed-Signal IP. The award is based on customer feedback, TSMC 9000 compliance, support and success of the IP.

“We are pleased to present this award to Dolphin Integration based on their TSMC9000 compliance and good feedback from customers,” said Suk Lee, TSMC director of Design Infrastructure Marketing.

Dolphin Integration offers high quality audio converters with SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) up to 95 dB with ultra low power consumption, which pass TSMC9000 at TSMC 65 nm low power process for the Helium2 architecture. The next Xenon architecture is now under TSMC9000 verification at TSMC 40 nm low power process. Thanks to the innovations in such architectures, Dolphin offers with flexibility the specific configurations of audio converters wanted by customers. The architecture further includes an embedded regulator for best performance and ease of SoC Integration.

“Our technical team appreciates the rigorous work with TSMC for each step of the TSMC9000 verification. This is a strong symbol of our common objective: offering robust products with quality, fitting our customers’ needs,” said Jean-François Pollet, co-founder of Dolphin Integration.

About Dolphin Integration

Dolphin Integration (www.dolphin-integration.com) is up to their charter as the most adaptive and lasting creator in the Microelectronics Design Industry to "enable mixed signal Systems-on-Chip". It stars a quality management stimulating reactivity for innovation as well as independence and partnerships with Foundries. Their current mission is to supply worldwide customers with fault-free, high-yield and reliable sets of CMOS Virtual Components. The strategy is to follow product launches with evolutions addressing future needs, emphasizing resilience to noise and drastic reductions of power-consumption at SoC level, thanks to their own missing EDA solutions enabling Support Engineering with Application Hardware Modeling as well as early Power and Noise assessment, plus engineering assistance for Risk Control.